McCarty Park Field Trip

We had a wonderful day at McCarty Park yesterday!

Project Recycle

This afternoon, we began our Earth Week celebration with Project Recycle. Each pod team created an outfit for Mrs. Wall. Mrs. Wall then modeled each outfit during this afternoon's fashion show. The winning ensemble will be worn at tonight's PTA Earth Day Dance.

Earth Week Program & Tree Planting Ceremony

On Friday, April 26th, Jefferson Elementary School will host the 30th anniversary of West Allis being designated with Tree City USA status. A 1:30pm program in the gym will be followed by a tree planting ceremony outside. Student inquiry work will be on display throughout the building following the ceremony.

Week of 4/8

Happy fourth quarter! We hope everyone had a wonderful Spring Break. As the new (and final) quarter begins, we begin many new projects in room 310. In math we have begun our final unit - Measurement & Data. We are learning about area, perimeter, best tools/units to use in a given situation, and converting between different units of measure. In addition, we continue to work on building our fact fluency, problem solving, and communication skills. In literacy, we are working on writing a good persuasive/argumentative writing piece. We are working on identifying important details, versus interesting details, when reading. We are also reviewing identifying cause and effect in a text. In inquiry, we are researching ways in which humans impact the water cycle.

 

4/9/13 Ms. Lee-Palmer from MMSD, taught us about water and how water is cleaned.

Week of 3/4

This week we celebrated "Cat in the Hat Week." It was a celebration of Dr. Seuss and his books. We read some special Dr. Seuss books. We had special dress days. Our favorite was definitely pajama day on Wednesday. On Wednesday afternoon, we had a special guest reader who read "Good Night iPad." We started a new unit on geometry in math. We worked with groups to research polygons. In reading we worked on inferring meaning from a story. We continued to work on our insect inquiry and studying our meal worms. Some of them have turned into pupae. We finished publishing our creative narratives. We learned about and used some cool music apps on Friday. Earlier in the week we played a music board game. In art we made a Dr. Seuss related piece of art. We used scooters to race in physical education. In SEL we began practicing relaxing. We listened to calming music and Mrs. Prekop gave us some various things to try with our bodies and our minds. On Friday afternoon we went to a kickoff assembly for the spring fundraiser. We can win some cool class prizes.



Special Notes:
March 18th will be our rescheduled Open House.

Dr. Seuss' Birthday Week - Read Across America Week!

It's a Celebration of Reading!

We will be celebrating Dr. Seuss's Birthday with several special activities next week.

Monday: Dress for Success...Oh the Places You'll Go! Jefferson students' futures are limitless!

Tuesday: Wear your POD Team color to celebrate The Many Colored Days!

Wednesday: Wear your Pajamas* to school. Get ready to hear a guest reader come to your classroom to read their favorite book! Pajamas must be acceptable to be worn at school. If girls wear a gown, they must wear pants under them. No tank tops. Slippers may be worn buy shoes must be sent so that students can go outside for recess.

Thursday: Wear your Hat to school day! It's Top Hat Thursday!

Friday: Wear red, black, and white like the Cat in the Hat!

Week in Review

This was another busy week in room 310. First of all, we can't believe that we had a snow day! Almost all of us were able to go outside and many of us built snowmen. Besides the snow day, we were busy in the classroom. We wrapped up math our unit on Algebraic Thinking and Operations. In writing, we worked on revising and editing the stories we wrote after reading "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs." We spent some time working on our insect inquiry projects with our groups. We also continued to work on inferring the meaning of words as we are reading. We used TenMarks to practice our math skills and we used Achieve3000 to become better readers. As a result of our hard work over the month of February, 13 of us were able to achieve a higher lexile score (reading level) on Achieve3000!