SNAKE

Learning Around the School

On Monday we started rounding.  We went outside and there was a BIG numberline.  We partnered up and our partner gave us a number and we went to that number and we told our partner if we had to round up or round down.  Then we went inside and we used a balloon to help us round.  Mrs. Clark blew up a balloon and stuck it between her thumb and pointer finger.  Then we looked at a number and we looked at the ones place and we counted to that number.  Like 68 - we counted 8 to see if our balloon went UP and away.  IF it did - we knew the number 68 would round UP to 70.  If the number was 53, we counted to 3 and the balloon stayed in Ms. Clark's hand.  So we knew the number 53 would round down to 50.

In gym we are learning about basketball.  We bounce the ball and pass the ball.  In Music we are practicing for our Christmas Play.  It is called "Santa's going to Broadway".  It is about Mrs. Clause and Santa putting together a play and each person plays their own self.  At the end they decide to go home.

On Tuesday we voted for the President of the United States.  We got a registration card from Ms. Clark and took it down to the library and gave it to a 5th grader in Ms. Campbell's class.  The 5th graders marked our names off.  This helped them to know that we only voted once.  Then we went to another 5th grader and we voted on an i-pad for either President Obama or Mitt Romney.  At our school Mitt Romney won BUT in the real election for the country - Obama won.  Some of us are not happy.

After voting we went upstairs to the 5th grade hall.  There is a big container that has a cocoon inside.  Coach Rogers found a HUGE caterpillar in his garden at home.  He caught it and brought it to school to share with us.  The caterpiller has been here for two weeks and it is in the final stages of Pupa.  It will soon change into a moth.  The wingspan of this moth can get to be 4-5 inches across. The moth is called a Tabacco Hornworm.