The Pilots have been working hard making an "AT BOOK". It took lots of hard work and listening. We started by stamping out AT family words on rainbow paper. Then we made sentences using these AT words. For example, our first sentence is: The BAT is red. We were sure to add a period at the end of each sentence! Last, we colored AT pictures and glued them after each sentence. Enjoy listening to a Pilot friend read his book- he does a wonderful job!

Today in Reading we became princes and princesses with the help of a crown! Our new names were on the crown as well (they just happened to be popcorn words). For example, one friend became Prince Walk, and another Princess Up. We introduced ourselves by our new names to our friends, and then practiced writing their names in our journals. It was a fun project! We took home our crowns today for practice at home!

We are working on our fluency in 7th Age Reading! With this in mind each student was given a short poem to take home in the beginning of the week. They practiced reading it to a friend in class, and then at home to a parent. We talked about ways to enhance our oral reading- adding inflection to our voice, looking at our audience when we speak, and making sure our voice is loud for all to hear. Today we held a poetry reading, and read these poems to our friends. We did a terrific job!!

We read our newest story, Dan's Pet. It is about a boy named Dan who has a pet chick named Jen. As Jen grows, she gets bigger, and bigger. Finally one day Jen has chicks of her own! We liked this story because we learned a lot about how a chick grows. Click on the video to hear us reading this story!

We estimated crayons last Friday. Can you guess how many?



There are 31 crayons in the jar!

Last Friday we estimated crayons. Can you guess how many??






The correct estimate is 35!! Nice work!

The mathematicians recently made a large clock, using marshmallows to showcase the minute marks. We used the larger marshmallows at 5 minute intervals, and the smaller marshmallows to show all the remaining minutes.

The marshmallows were such a temptation...we just had to try a few! This was a fun project :)