Gratitude

This morning we met with out 5th grade buddies.  We read All the World together and talked about what we are thankful for.   There are so many things in our world that we can be thankful for, sometimes it is a matter of stopping to notice those things.

Each pair or trio of buddies made a quilt square for our Brimhall Gratitude Quilt.  Buddies worked together to split the quilt paper piece and then designed their piece to represent something they are thankful for in hie/her life.

All of the pieces turned out really well!  They look so beautiful and really represent a variety of things!  Good work Buddies!

Owls in Room 109

Today we started researching and learning about owls.  We learned a little bit about them, ask your child what he/she remembers.   (They have talons, fluffy feathers that make them light so they can fly, they can turn their heads around because they can't turn their eyes and they have sharp beaks.)  We will continue learning about owls this week.

We made some of our very own owls.  It was a step by step process.  

Tear the brown paper and glue it down so it looks like feathers.

Cut eyes, a beak and feet.  Oh, cut a moon too!

Glue all these things down and a branch.

It was a great way to spend the afternoon!  Everyone did a great job!

Friday!

Today was a successful math lesson, much better than yesterday!  Everyone did a great job working hard to learn about regrouping ones to make a ten.  

Today we also wrote our entry in our Symbol Landmark books.  We wrote about The Golden Gate Bridge.  Ask your child what he/she remembers about our research.

Learning Today

Well, this was from yesterday but it is still interesting.

We went and learned about clouds from Miss Olson.  We made these Cloud books.  We still need to finish them.  Look for them to come home next week.

Today we did some research with Ms. Z in the library.  We learned about The Golden Gate Bridge.  We learned about citing our work and writing notes in our own words, not copying.  Everyone did a great job taking notes and working together.

Today's math was quite something!  It was a new way to add two digit numbers.  We worked and worked on it.  The idea is to break one of the addends into two parts and one of those parts will be used to make a ten with the other addend.  I gave students the option of taking home the homework.   We will be working on it again tomorrow.

Two ways to add!

Today for Science we got to learn about how air can be used to move things.  We  did balloon rockets with Ms. Kath.  Ask your child about this experiment!

Parachutes!

Today we experimented with air by building parachutes and launching them!

We had to follow step by step directions for how to build the parachutes.  We did three or four steps at a time and worked together.

The second part of the directions worked better if we helped each other.  It took more than two hands.

Then, we got to launch them!  That was the best part!  They all worked well and none of them became too tangled or ripped.