Our Iroquois Skits: Take Eight

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our eighth skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Seven

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our seventh skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Six

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our sixth skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Five

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our fifth skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Four

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our fourth skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Three

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our third skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take Two

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our second skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Our Iroquois Skits: Take One

As our culminating project for our Iroquois unit, we produced our own short skits and speeches that captured the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois. Here's our first skit.

What did you learn about the values, beliefs and traditions of the Iroquois from this skit? 

Math Cartoon

Two partners are having a conversation about multiplication problems in math class, and it's not going very well for them. What advice can you give the partners? What questions could they ask each other? How else could the partners respond? How could you improve the conversation? Leave your suggestions in the comments section! 

If you are interested, you can create your own math comic to feature on our blog!

Teaching our Partners All About the Iroquois

Since we're becoming experts on the Iroquois, we know we can't just keep what we've learned to ourselves. We're learning how to effectively teach our partner what we've learned. Here are some tricks we've already picked up:

1) Use a teaching voice. You've got to sound like an expert when you talk.
2) Have one main focus. Make sure you have lots of evidence to support your focus.
3) Use visuals to support your teaching. You can use visuals that you create in your Social Studies notebook or the visuals from books.

Click play to watch two students teach the class what they've learned about the Iroquois! What did you learn from the videos? What questions do you have for the presenters?

Math Congress: Sharing our Strategies (by Will and Asa)

We made posters in math that showed our thinking on the Teachers' Lounge problems. We showed our strategies on the ELMO, and we told our strategies to the class. We then let the class solve our problems the way we did it. We showed our work using math equations, and then we explained what we did. Everyone learned a lot by our presentations. We learned a new way to solve the problems, like instead of using Partial Products you could use division (Partial Quotients). We had a great time sharing!!!!! Here are some videos of us sharing our strategies.

The Teachers' Lounge

On Monday, we started a new unit called "The Teachers' Lounge." During this unit, we'll explore different situations and conversations that occur in the Teachers' Lounge. Here's our first one: 

Yesterday in the teacher’s lounge, I bumped into the woman that fills the vending machines.  One vending machine holds water, and the other vending machine holds juice.  I was curious about how many bottles the machines each held, and she told me that each machine holds 156 bottles!

The Water Machine

I noticed that there were a bunch of six packs next to the water vending machine—the woman had to tear the packs open in order to fill the machine.  That got me thinking.  I wonder how many six packs the machine will hold?

The Juice Machine

The other vending machine holds juice.  It also holds 156 bottles.  There are six different flavors of juice—apple, cranberry, lemonade, grapefruit, grape and orange.  The machine holds an equal amount of each kind of juice.  I was wondering how many bottles of each flavor fit in the juice machine when it is full?

 

The posters below show our work! Click on a poster to enlarge it!

Natalija and Kate

Wriley and Hadi

Parker and Aiden

Zora and Dante

Arya and Malinee

Jack and Hayden

Fabiano and AJ

Asia and Cheyanne

Josiah and Sofia

Freya and Louise

Greg and Gerrit

Will and Asa

Madison and Veronica

Special Read Aloud: Realistic Fiction Leads

In place of our normal read aloud today, we had a special read aloud period. Today, instead of hearing our normal book, WE had a chance to read the leads of OUR stories aloud! We studied the pros (our mentor texts) to get ideas for leads, and we wrote leads inspired by what they had done. Watch the videos, and enjoy! Be sure to leave us a comment and let us know what we did that hooked you!

These are some of the first videos! I'll upload more later!

Realistic Fiction Story Ideas

We loved having so many of you in the classroom on Friday to read our personal narratives! Thank you for your thoughtful comments. We really enjoyed reading all you wrote!

We're well into our second writing unit: realistic fiction! Here's just a sampling of the stories you'll be able to read. Click on any of the pictures to see the story ideas larger!

New Books!

Thank you for all the beautiful books that have already been donated to our classroom via our Amazon Wish List! It's been so much fun for us to get new books in the mail. These books will be so beneficial for our upcoming nonfiction studies!

Which books are you most excited about reading? Why?

Reading Marathon: Week One

We're sprinting fast toward our goal of reading 200 books as a class! We've already read 61 books! 

What's your favorite book that you've read so far this year? Tell the other readers a bit about it so they can decide if they'd like it too!