This month we used lots of the math skills we have been learning to build our own kites. This is part of a project we are participating in called Kites Around The World. Schools from around the world have shared their experiences making and flying kites. Now it’s our turn! Before April vacation, Mr. Avery’s [...]

On Tuesday, April 12th we had a visit from best-selling children’s book author Brian Lies! He has written lots of books, but his most popular ones are about the adventures of bats doing common human activities. We loved reading: Bats at the Ballgame, Bats at the Library, and Bats at the Beach. Be sure to [...]

In science we have been learning about Properties of Matter. Properties of matter are the ways that we can describe matter. Some physical properties of matter are: weight, texture, color, buoyancy, transparency, and many others. Last week we did an experiment to learn more about absorbency – the ability to soak up liquid. We compared four types [...]

Our Poetry Madness tournament is over and we have a new champion for 2011… The mighty Jabberwocky! In the final four competition last week, Jabberwocky got 61 of the 101 votes. The poem also won our in-class tournament, defeating Monster Mothers in the final by a vote of 16 to 4. Sam L. did a [...]

The other day we created our first Wordle. A wordle is a bunch of text that is arranged in different colors to make a design. The more times a word appears in the text, the bigger the word gets in a wordle. * We decided to experiment with wordles by combining our names with the [...]

The results are in from round 4 of our poetry tournament, and the winner last week was… Smart by Shel Silverstein! So we now have our Final Four poems to decide which will be the champion of the whole tournament. The final poems are: Monster Mothers read by Maggie, Jabberwocky read by Sam L., Smart [...]