Winter Snowflakes!

 Today, we are going to make a project with a shoe box and a paper bag.Also, this whole month we are going to talking about poetry.This week, we also made... 3-D SNOWFLAKES! Here's the instructions: First,you take a square piece of paper and fold it in half.Next,you cut 3 lines toward the middle,but don't cut to the middle. Next,unfold it and tape the cut ends into a tube back and forth,back and forth,until you don't have any paper left.Next,repeat these steps 5 more times. Then, staple all of the ends together.Lastly, hang by a string somewhere and enjoy this fun winter project!
reported by: Kaden

Genre Tickets

Our classes latest project has been working on genre tickets. Genre tickets are little multi colored tickets with each genre on one of the tickets. two genres have been left out on accident so the class has not read all of the genres but we have read most of the genres. If you turn in five tickets tickets you get a McDonalds meal. If you turn all of the tickets you get a Sub Way meal! All of the tickets are due on Jan 31 if you want the prize!

Reported by Ryan

Books to read in 2012

This week ALA (American Library Assosiation) announced all sorts of book award winners! All of the books look good to me because I love to read but it looks like not all of them would be appealing to most people. 2012 Newbery Award winner "Dead End in Norvelt" looks very good. It's about a boy who is grounded until he helps his elderly neighbor by doing a very odd chore. Then of course, my favorite book "Wonderstruck" won the Schneider Family Award. It is a story about two people, a boy and a girl. The boy's story takes place in the present day and is told in words but the girl's story takes place fifty years ago and is told in pictures. They are both deaf and they have a connection. The boy is on a bus going to a childrens hospital but something happens and he gets lost in New York and eventually meets the older version of the girl and thats when the connection comes in! You can see many more award winning books here!


Reported by Catherine

What We Did This Week

This week we learned about topic and main idea in Reading and World War II in Social Studies. A highlight of this week was that we got to make comic strips.  Also, just to let you know, we are going to stop going to Social Studies and start going to Science in Mrs. C's class.  On Thursday, we had a man from the southern part of the state come and show us exotic animals.  There was a lemur, an owl, a monkey, a California King snake, a skunk, and a kangaroo.  My favorite was the monkey.  Its name was Peanut.  I wish he would have brought an alligator.  Maybe he will bring one next year.

Posted by, Tristan

What's New in Room 206?

This week we are learning about converting fractions into decimals, decimals into percents, and fractions into percents. We also talked and did a little work on graphs in Math. In Social Studies we talked about World War 2 and watched some videos on it. I wish we could do a few more projects and fun stuff  on Friday. I interviewed one of my friends and I asked her, "What would you change if you were the teacher?" She said, "I would change a couple of things like, more fun stuff in daily 5 and more art projects." We also had a person come in and teach us about animals. I think alot of people enjoyed the animal presentation.

Report by, Kenzie

An Exciting Week

This week in in Math we have been working on converting fractions to decimals, converting fractions to percents, and Bar and Circle Graphs. In Social Studies we learned about World War 1 and the 1920's and '30's. In Daily Five we wrote a sensory paragraph, comprehension cards, and journal entries.
 On Tuesday we went down to the computer lab and took a Star Reading Test, we took Accelerated Reader Tests, and we did Storybird. Story bird is an online site where you make up your own stories with pictures and words!
In Science-content Reading we finished our Solar Energy unit. We are doing "Genre Tickets", and if we read five differnt genre of books we get a free Mcdonald's meal, if we get all of our genre tickets done we get a free Subway meal!
The best part of this week is when a local professional artist named Mrs. S came in and we did an art project. She taught us how to paint an outdoor scene.
reported by: Joe

Back to School!

We are back to school in room 206 and excited for a fresh start to the year! One of those changes is starting our classroom blog! We will use this as a sort of "Classroom History," where the room 206 kiddos get to work on their writing skills as well as make history! I also will use the class blog to send updates and upload documents for parents to use! Thanks for dropping by!

here is a model of a classroom reporter post:

After a terrific holiday break, room 206 is back in action! We began the year by introducing our language arts theme of the month-Main Idea. In order to learn how to best find the main idea, we're using non-fiction text features to "steal" the main idea! We're sneaking in (previewing the book) and stealing as much information as possible using the acrostic T.H.I.E.V.E.S.

T-Title

H-Heading

I-Introduction

E-Every first sentence of a paragraph

V-Visuals and Vocabulary

E-End of chapter questions

S-Summary

We have added some work to our Daily 5 routine and next week we will try out a new reading log. With only a few short months until MCA testing, we really want to buckle down and practice our comprehension and vocabulary skills.

We also painted Winter Birch Trees to display down in the main entry bulletin boards. It was lots of fun to play with the painter's tape, watercolors, and "snow!"

Though we don't get to sleep in and wear PJ's until lunch, coming back to some fun things was a great welcome!