READING: Our story this week will be about baseball great, Lou Gehrig and how he heroically faced the disease that ended his life. Kids will get to hear a recording of the amazing speech he gave announcing his retirement.
MATH: Having successfully completed our algebra unit, we’re moving on to the study of statistics, including the [...]
There was apparently an accident… or an explosion involving pick-up sticks during an in-door recess earlier this week. Luckily, everyone had fun with it and there were no injuries.
This week, we read a play that is a fractured fairy tale based on The Three Little Pigs. It’s totally goofy! On Thursday, I assigned parts and the actors read it all the way through like a real play. They loved it! On Friday, I brought SIX different Three Little Pigs fractured fairy tales (there [...]
Several 4B students have been working in a small group on increasing their reading fluency or the smoothness of their reading. This is a good skill for children to have. Fluency helps with their comprehension and helps them enjoy reading more. These children read a short Thanksgiving play to Kindergarteners, first graders and their own [...]
Small groups of kids made giant comic strips retelling the story they read this week. Retelling is a very important skill that helps with reading comprehension. As such, it is included on the Kansas State Reading Assessment that students will take this Spring. Students got to draw pictures then write a couple of sentences explaining [...]
SPELLING: This week’s list features words with consonant blends like sh, and ch. You might like to visit www.mrbrownsroom for the weekly spelling list and ideas for different ways to study spelling words.
SPELLING: This week’s list features words with vowels in their final syllable. www.mrbrownsroom for the weekly spelling list and ideas for different ways to study spelling words.
READING: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a long lived story by beloved children’s author, Rudyard Kipling from his collection of stories, The Jungle Book. Set in India over a century ago, it [...]
The Halloween parade and party was a big hit. Everyone had a wonderful time walking downtown and back, then ingesting lots of sugar. Be sure to click on these photos to see the full picture.
At the top of this page you’ll find three “tabs”; Home, About, and Kids Say The Funniest Things. Home is where you are now, About is a link to a short bio about your child’s teacher, and the last one is a new arrival. It’s actually been there for a while, but was not working [...]
ELMO is new piece of instructional technology equipment popping up around our school district. Room 4B just used one for the first time today. As document camera and projector, ELMO has lots of classroom uses.
As students completed a writing assignment today, ELMO projected the assignment onto the screen for everyone to see. The author got [...]
