Mrs. Oldach's Class 2011-2012

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Tom and Jerry's "Rube Goldberg" Machine

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Cadyn's Dad Reads ...

... family favorites!

Hat's Off to a Good Book!

DEAR Day

Dr Seuss Day !

Carly's Mom Visits to Read

Cameron's Mom Reads ...

... some favorite Australian stories.

Math Update

We are wrapping up Unit 7, an extension of multiplication and division concepts that were introduced in Unit 4. Fraction fun is next in Unit 8 !

Mystery Reader

Riley's Mom !

Jake's Mom

... Valentine's Day Stories

Skyler's Mom ...

... surprise Mystery Reader !

Gear Exploration

Direction and Speed Changes

Jake's Nonna comes to read ...

... all the way from Auburn, NY!

Go Patriots!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ronnie is Front Page News!

Gaku's Mom Reads Frog and Toad

.. in Japanese and English!

Skyler and his Mom ...

... and Celine too!

Danielle is Front Page News!

Peter's Mom is Mystery Reader

Front Page News - Abraham!

Peter is Front Page News

Aiden's Mom Visits !

Lauren's Mom Comes to Read!

Billy Reads Pirate School !

Physics and Fidgits

Figits by PBS Kids is a class favorite for indoor recess. Applied physics with a fun twist!

Math Unit 6 - Geometry

We have started Unit 6 math ! This unit is very dense with vocabulary and concepts ...but a lot of fun because of the spatial nature of geometry.

Word Clouds

Word Clouds are a great way to express main idea and details on a topic! Here are two of our class favorite sites to create word clouds .... Wordle ... and ... Tagxedo !

Paige is Front Page News !

Andrew is ...

Front Page News!

Front Page News

Cameron

DEAR DAY - No "sweat", reading is fun!

Enjoying our favorite books and sweatshirts too!

Thank You ...

... for making my Birthday so Special!

Math Unit 5 Underway

In Unit 5 the children will read, write and compare numbers and decimals through analysis of population and the census.

Gaku's Haiku

Gaku shares his haiku in Japanese!

Cameron's Dad Reads to Us!

Sabine's Dad Comes to Visit

Front Page News

Imaan !

Cadyn's Mom Visits !

Spoonerisms !

Click here to find out more about the "Spoonerisms" tha Cadyn's mom introduced us to during Mystery Reader ! Fave Hun!

Every Day Math Unit 4

We are about to begin our next unit in math--Multiplication and Division . Word problems involving equal sharing and grouping are the most common uses for multiplication and division in this unit.

Simple Machines

In science, the class is wrapping up the Moon Unit and will be launching off to the Simple Machines unit in November. We will begin with the introductory topics of force and motion before learning how simple machines make work easier by trading distance for effort!

DEAR - Stripes

"Read in Between the Lines"

Mystery Reader -- Ronnie's Mom

Sabine's Mom Visits

Andrew and His Mom

Thank you for surprising us as Mystery Reader!

Mystery Reader ....

Danielle's Dad read us the newly found Seuss stories

Trade First Subtraction Practice

Virtual manipulatives are a very visual way to see trade first subtraction in action! Challenge yourself with more multi digit problems! Have fun!

Pumpkin Blowout October 28th

Bring in your pumpkin by Thursday!

Front Page News

Lauren!

Unit Two in Math Begins

We have wrapped up the review material from Unit 1 and are headed into Unit 2: Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers. Partial Sums and Trade First Subtraction are revisited and extended in this unit.

First Mystery Reader - Peter's Mom

Mr. Peabody's Apples

Constitution Day

All Dressed Up in Red, White and Blue

Room Parents

THANK YOU to Mrs. Stevens and Mr. DeMartino for agreeing to be our Room Parents for this school year. One of the first tasks they will help us with is distributing our Class Directory. Stay Tuned!

Give the Dog a Bone

Practice number grid locations using this timed game. How many bones can you find in 60 seconds?? Have fun! Click here to play Give the Dog a Bone.

Math Unit 1

The first weeks of school in Unit 1 we will be involved in a number of review activites to visit concepts from previous grades such as number grids, measurement, time, data and equivalent names for numbers. Click here to go to the
Family Letter for Unit 1.

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Tom and Jerry's "Rube Goldberg" Machine