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!

Family Science Night

Join us for Science Night!

March 13, 2013 from 6:00-  7:00 pm at Jefferson Elementary School
Mad Science will present FIRE and ICE from 6:15 - 6:45.
Children will be dazzled and entertained as Mad Science will interact with the audience. This event uses dry ice to make a foggy storm, will demonstrate how a giant beach ball floats, and some lucky volunteers get to try a "burp" potion.
Following the Mad Science presentation, the Jefferson Science Club will host several stations for children to make and take home science projects.

Hope to see you there!

Bring Your Family to School Day

We are looking forward to another "Bring Your Family to School Day" on Thursday, February 21st. The day will begin with breakfast snacks in the Multi-Purpose Room provided by the PTA. Classroom activities will begin at 8:45am. Team Brilliance will have 3 rotations. Mrs. Bahl and Mrs. Rivest will be showing you how to check out ebooks from our school library (you can do this at home!). Mr. Bagurdes will be showing off an interactive National Geographic magazine we have subscribed to and demonstrating some of the literacy skills we are working on in class. In room 310, we will be making a digital book on iPads. It should be a lot of fun and we look forward to seeing everyone!

Friday, February 8, 2013

Despite the snow, we continue to work extremely hard in room 310.

Reading: We continue to work on monitoring our comprehension, jotting down our thoughts, questions, inferences, background knowledge, new learning, etc. as we read.

Writing: We wrote a personal narrative about a time we spent with someone special.

Math: We worked on multiplication and division strategies.

Inquiry: We are learning all about insects and how they are helpful/harmful to people.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Today was a weird weather day outside, but inside we worked as hard as normal. In math we have been working on Operations & Algebraic Thinking. We have been working on different multiplication strategies. Students have been divided into different classes - some students are staying in room 310, while others are going with Mr. Bagurdes and Mrs. Bahl. In literacy, we have begun our inquiry into insects. We are trying to learn how insects are helpful and/or harmful to humans and our environment.

Special Notes:
 MAP TestingMAP Testing begins tomorrow! Following is our testing schedule

• Wednesday, January 30, 9am - 10am Language
• Wednesday, February 6, 9am - 10am Reading
• Wednesday, February 13, 9am - 10am Math

Multiplication
As part of our multiplication unit, we will be sending home multiplication worksheets for homework. They should be coming home 2-3 times per week for the next couple of weeks. The goal is that the worksheets will help students become more fluent with multiplication facts.

Debbie Sullivan, the "Olympic Champ" by Hannah & Morgan

Debbie was an Olympic speed walker. She came to our school today. It was so cool! She taught us how to speed walk if we were in the Olympics. She came here to talk about living our dreams. It was fun because she gave us dream rocks. She said they are a symbol of chasing our dreams. She said that no matter what happens you should believe in yourself and follow your dreams. She taught us a lot and we were sad to see her go.

Chuck E. Cheese Night!

Come to Chuck E. Cheese for dinner! Your child will receive a sticker for 10 free tokens! It is at  Chuck E. Cheese on Highway 100 from 3:00 to 9:00pm on January 17th. 15% of the money you spend will go back to Jefferson School!

Teachers, if you bring your ID, you will get a free one topping pizza or an all-you-can-eat salad bar and a soft drink.

Written by Seeraj & Landin

TGIF

Today's blog was written by our whole class.

Math: We worked on solving problems using different operations.

Reading: We worked on asking questions and paying attention to when we find or can infer the answer.

Writing: We are editing and revising our personal narratives.

Joke
Question: What do you get with black and white, black and white, green, black and white?
Answer: Two zebras fighting over a pickle
Joke is compliments of Landin.

Happy Friday!

Today's post was written by Katie & Ava.

For math, we are mainly working on multiplication.

During reading, we are coming up with "thick" and "thin" questions for books.

In writing we are working on another personal narrative.

When we were in art, we worked on winter self-portraits.

We worked on dribbling in basketball during Phy Ed.

In music we worked with a music staff and "do, re, mi".

When we were in SEL we talked about safety, including fire, gun, and walking safety.

Joke:
What do you call a lazy kangaroo?
A pouch potato

Have a great weekend!