Writing for April Fools Day

Today we read the book April Foolishness and wrote about a trick we would play on someone. 

April Foolishness

Today we read the book April Foolishness and wrote about a trick we could play on someone. 

April Fool's Writing

Today we listened to the story April Foolishness and then wrote about jokes we would play on our family! 

Using our Knowledge of Nonfiction

We have been reason nonfiction text and learning about text features. We researched an animal, wrote about what we learned, and showed our knowledge of text features! 

Making riddles

Today we read a riddle boom and then wrote our own! Can you guess what our animal is?

Reindeer Facts

We researched facts about reindeers and then drew our own reindeer!

Practicing our Fluency

Students read the poem "Flutter, Flutter Little Bat" to help them with their expression and rate of reading.

Audrey

Jackson

Trey

Chris

Alissa

Micheal

Corey

William

Dimitriy

Ellison

Rereading our Books

Ruvim reading

Gracie reading

Jake reading

Reader's Theater

Watch Jake, Carter, Robert, and Shiann perform some of The Five Little Pumpkins. 

https://youtu.be/T-VYJJN5zMQ

Watch Yeva, Alex, Alexsandra, Colton, and Kayden perform some of The Five Little Pumpkins.. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUu_SbwwjEU

Writing about our books today!

Hayden's writing

Ruvim's writing

Gracie's writing

Ivy's writing 

Shiann's writing 

Jake's writing 

Carter's writing

Robert's writing

We "Arrrr" readers

Our pirate selfie after a great time reading! 

Jake and Carter earned pirate tattoos today from doing their homework!

Beginning sounds with Chase

This is a chart Chase made showing the beginning letters of these picture cards! He worked hard today!

Classic Tales

This is what Michael, Corey, Elizabeth, and William read today. We had a great discussion about what happened in the book! 

Elizabeth said it started off that the coyote said he was faster than the rabbit. 

Corey then told us that the rabbit wanted to race but wanted to trick the coyote.

Then William said that the rabbit went to his brothers for help. 

Michael told us that the rabbit kept going underground and being ahead of the coyote. In which, William said that coyote was really confused!

We won't reveal the ending but it was a great story about tricksters! 

Reading My Family

Hunter reading a page in My Family.

Katrina reading a page in My Family.

LJ reading a page in My Family.

Reading our Writing

Hayden reading his writing! 

Alexsandra reading her writing about Making Soup. 

Yeva reading her writing about her favorite book.

26 Fairmount Avenue Book Trailer

Here is the final groups's book trailer! Everyone did an amazing job, especially since it was our first time using iMovie.

https://youtu.be/FKdV-VhDeJ4

Another Book Trailer

Here is another group's book trailer!

The Winter Room
https://youtu.be/RMkhqoSG76E

Book Trailers

For our second PBL, we learned perspective through books. There were four different groups that met each day in their "book club" and discussed what they had learned from reading the night before. To get other students excited for reading over the summer we made book trailers. Here are some of the trailers we have so far! We hope you enjoy. 

The Junkyard Wonders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsaqfG9rVk0

Bluish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKHB33FHkkY

Finished Products

Here are their final products!

THE WINNER IS.....

This model held the most weight and used ALL of the jelly beans! Congratulations William, Alex, and Evan. 

This house held TWO SOCIAL STUDIES BOOKS! Unfortunately, they didn't use all of the jelly beans so they were not allowed to win. I was still impressed though! The inventors of this group were Jake, Kristopher, and Joshua. 

Jelly Bean Domes

We are completing a STEM activity today. The boys are making Jelly Bean Domes and we are going to see whose will hold the most weight. They are practicing their engineering skills! They made sure to make their blueprint first.