Dear Parents,  We will be quadblogging with 3 other classes this year.  This week we are all introducing ourselves to one another and commenting on each class’s blog.  We are excited about this opportunity to share our learning with others and to learn about what their school day is like.

Welcome quadbloggers! We are from Holmes Elementary School in Spring Lake, Michigan.  If you hold up your right hand, palm facing you and point to the area right below your pinkie, that is where we are located in Michigan! We are lucky to live close to Lake Michigan! We are a 1-1 iPad classroom. Each student has their own iPad, and we use them often to transform our learning. Each student also has their own blog that they blog on every Friday, you can access these through the Student Blog Tab on this site.

We recently took a field trip to a planetarium to learn about what causes the seasons and to learn about the phases of the moon. We were very excited to see the total lunar eclipse on Wednesday! Check out our daily schedule below:

8:45 ~ Doors open
8:45-8:55 ~ Planners, lunch check in
8:55-9:45 ~ SPECIAL ( We have four GYM, ART, MUSIC and STEM)
9:45-9:55 ~ Snack and Bathroom break
9:55-10:40 ~ Writing Workshop
10:40-11:00 ~ Making Meaning (Reading Comprehension Strategies) (Library on Friday)
11:00-12:05 ~ Math
12:05-12:45 ~ Recess/Lunch
12:45-1:40 ~ Reading Workshop
1:40 -2:15 ~ Science or Social Studies
2:15-2:30 ~ Recess
2:30-3:00 ~ Word Study and Vocabulary
3:00-3:05 ~ Jobs
3:05-3:35 ~ iTime (intervention groups and enrichment)
3:35-3:45 ~ Teacher Read
3:45 Dismissal

We are currently reading The Tiger Rising in Reading Workshop.  In Writing Workshop we are working on our fiction stories, we are currently editing and revising. In Science we are learning about moon phases and the seasons (check out our previous blog posts!) In math we are learning the area model for multiplication and will be blogging about that today on our student blogs!

We also have a hedgehog for a class pet!

 

We can’t wait to hear from you!