High Interest Day Morning Sessions

Today was fun filled morning learning about different careers and classes as well as participating in fun activities.

Pat the Great Cat Links

Here are some links that we viewed this week to preview our new shared reading book, Pat the Great Cat:

Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjaN9SFGPC4

Website
http://patthegreatcat.com/

Book Trailers

We created these book trailers to go public on our history inquiry that focused on how conflict shaped America. We read books in our lit circle groups and worked together to create a book trailer to promote the book with others. The following link will take you to the wiki that is hosting our trailers:

https://wilsoninquiry.wikispaces.com/Book+Trailers

This link will take you to our wiki that shows our learning and thinking while we were reading the books:

http://wilsonlitcircles.wikispaces.com

Here are the books we read:

We are the Champions....

We have earned the Achieve 3000 championship belt for the week. We were very excited to be the top 4th and 5th grade class for the week. This is our first time earning the belt and it is a huge accomplishment.

Real Life Volume

In math, we built 1 meter by 1 meter cubes. This was a learning experience for all of us. We worked hard to collaborate with a partner to measure and build the squares. Then as a group we worked to put the squares together to build the cube. We realized that following directions is essential in order for the cube to stand on its own.

Reading Pajama day

Here we are enjoying our whole school reading incentive for having less tardies in 3rd quarter than 2nd quarter.