Highlights of the week from Eliana

This is our classroom charter and tells people how we want to feel in the class.  And what we need to do to achieve that.

These are display folders in the hallways to collect our writing.

These are everyone's ideas on how we work in small groups.

This is us working on our folders with our classroom bears, Drizzley the Grizzly and Chocolate the Black Bear.  The bears are for our teddy bear exchange with Taiwan and Mexico.

Ms. K's dad had a stroke and couldn't write.  Then when Ms. K tried to get him to write, he didn't want to.  We came up with some ideas to help him.

Drizzley and Chocolate had fun working with the kids.  We did some research on Black Bears and Grizzly Bears.

Everybody corrected their homework of the article on the hurricane in Puerto Rico.

Highlights of the week from James

This is Scholastic News and our homework.  We learned that there is a volcano erupting in Hawaii.

We learned about logical consequences. Logical consequences happen when people do things that are not right.

This is our learning community anchor chart.  These are the rules we agree to follow.

This is our quiet work draft of an anchor chart.  It tells you how to do quiet work and silent work.

This is Ms. Kochvar, the school counselor.  She gave us puzzles of teamwork to work on.

This is our ideas about our classroom charter.  The classroom charter reminds us on how we want to feel and be treated.

Highlights of the week from Ms. Kathleen

To introduce myself, here is a little bit about my family...

This is my family - my son Zachary, my husband Steve, and my dog Bruno.

This is Bruno's library.  He likes to read a lot.

This is Bruno's throne.  He likes to rest here during the day.

Bruno likes to sleep on our bed during the night.

Sometimes Bruno gets tired of his throne and he rests on our other sofa.

We had a great first few days of class!

We have a classroom library with lots of books.

Organized by levels and genres!

We had to transition 3rd and 4th grade at the same time which made it kinda complicated...

Our work goes into workbins.

We had a scavenger hunt where we looked for stuff all over the classroom.  We have atlases!

We modeled quiet work time and silent work time.

We checked out and read books.

We decorated folders for displaying our writing.


This class is very strong in taking care of our tools. We will take care of our library and here is a video about how to responsibly use our classroom library.  📚

 (Videographer - Maggie Shernoff, Friend - Lou Shernoff, Ms. Kathleen - Ms. Kathleen)