Welcome to room 67's website!
We have had a fantastic educational journey the first trimester...time flies
when your day is full of many wonderful adventures and challenges. We begin
trimester two with great anticipation!
Our reading series, Trophies, will provide our classroom selections for the
remainder of the school year.
We continue to learn our Writing Traits; Ideas, Organization, Voice, Sentence
Fluency, and Conventions. We have completed our Ideas and Organization traits
and have moved on to learn Word Choice.
Additionally, we are writing friendly letters to our Trucker Buddy, Trucker
Robert, on a monthly basis. He is currently traveling around the country with
the Shrek tour, delivering the massive equipment needed to put on such a
musical show.
We took our seventh & eighth challenge math test on the topic of Division
Understanding and Facts on Wednesday, January 25, 2012. A special thanks to
the many students that were up to the challenge. Congratulations to Robert,
Kate, Michaela, Hannah, Savanna, Julianna, Jillianne, Derek, Kelsey,
Nefertiti, Brendan, Nate, and Serena for receiving 80% or higher on the test.
They will be completing challenge work throughout this topic unit. Challenge
work is work that is based on the same mathematical topics completed in the
classroom but presented and assessed at a higher level. Additionally, Diesel,
Lambdin, Jayden, and Rylee received between 70%-79% on the challenge test and
will have the opportunity to choose to complete challenge work or not.
In science, we have begun learning about the Human body and it's organs' major
functions. Once we have learned the major organs and their systems, we will
glue those paper organs to a life-sized replica of ourselves!
In social studies, our current unit of study is Pioneers.