It was a great week!

this week miss young made new bookbins made of cereal boxes for us.-pati 

On tuesday we wrote storys about pictures with a starter sentence. - Jules 

 this week we went to the art museum .-ella

We got to write in the art museum for writers eye. - Venetia

some of us wrote a story or poem of a piece of artwork and we will enter it in a contest called writers eye. - Lucas

we collected leaves to identify the leaves for our field guide-heming

The Last Day of Summer!

This week we classified animals like Linnaeus did. -Sasha

this week we also got covers for our keyboards in technology. -Ella

This week we got to look at the violin and cello in my second favorite class,music-Jules

This week we got to learn a bunch of diffrent math strategies-pati

This week we made our brains including our fun brains and our school brains for back to school night-Knox

We matched beany babys with real animals Cole

we learned the four things a story needs - Heming

It's Friday!

We have been  learning about vertebrates and invertebrates so we got different kinds of worms and filled out a worksheet about them. That is a picture of the planarian in the microscope.

Also We got to meet 2 UVA volunteers! They helped us in math and played games with us in math.

Sound safari

We went to different places in the school and outside of the school and we listened to things and we wrote them down in our writer's notebook. We did that because Kate Dicamillo and other writers that we read they observed all those things and we want to be great writers like them. (McKenzie)

here are some of the things we heard:

the air vent sounded like a big ghost   -mack.

the pages of our notebooks flutered it sounded like butter fly wings flapping-pati.

feet stomping loudly like ogre feet-ella

a water fountain that sounded like you were listening into a seashell-Lucas

 A heater that sounded like a fast & long intake of breath. -Knox

frogs ribbit  loudly like  a special  gun -loick

Car zooming loudly it reminds me of cars raceing -cole

the air vent sounded like when your in a plane -heming

Music chiming like a bomb going off! - james

The weekend is wrapped up

Today was a crazy day.we read two chapters in because of Winn Dixie. And we adventured to kindergarten         and Ms. Young said it was really eighth grade. It was like Christopher Columbus when he was gonna sail to india and he bumped into America.

Intro to Invertebrates

A note from Ms. Young:

Today the kids tried their hands at classifying invertebrates into specific categories. 

Here are some snippets of conversation that I eavesdropped as kids worked in groups to categorize their animals.

"I think earthworms are annelids!"

"Is a sponge a porifera?"

"Well, a flatworm is a parasite, and planarian is a parasite, so they must be the same."

"A starfish must be an echinoderm because it's kinda spiky."

"You called a sea urchin cute???"

"Squids and octopus are definitely both mollusks."

Wow! It's always a pleasure to listen in on Peabody kids :)

Learning a new math skill

This is a rek-n-rek. We used it today in math. Ms. Young moved some beads to the other side and showed it to us for one or two seconds. Then she hid it. Then we had to tell how many beads there were by remembering. It used addition and multiplication. People had different ways to figure it out.