Rubix Cube (Almost)

Every week our school Rubix Cube team meets in Mr. Lane's class to practice for the upcoming state tournament! These kids are LIGHTNING FAST!! Miss Barber is determined to solve the rubix cube before the year is over. Today I got one white face and almost made it to having the middle row solved. A big shout out to L.P. for helping me get this far! Stay tuned for more progress!

Benchmark Assembly Homeroom Competition

C represented our class during the Benchmark Assembly this afternoon! One student from every homeroom had to find 5 skittles in a pan of whipped cream. He was so close to winning! 

Way to go, C!

Grandmas and Algebra!

We recently read an excellent book called "The Doorbell Rang" by Pat Hutchins and used it to show off our division and algebra skills.

In the book, a mother makes cookies for her two children and tells them to share.

Then, more and more friends arrive at the house and the number of cookies each child receives gets smaller and smaller.

The cookies look and smell delicious, but on each page we read that "no one makes cookies like Grandma!"

At the end of the story, Grandma arrives with more cookies for everyone!

First, we wrote the mutliplication and division fact families represented by the situation in the book.

Then, we wrote an equation that represented the relationship between the number of cookies, the number of children, and the number of cookies each child would receive.

Finally, we graphed the equation.

And as a big surprise, Grandma came to visit the next day and brought us cookies!

Using Inferencing to Solve Riddles

We have been making inferences all year!

To make an inference you take....

What You Read 

and put it together with 

What You Know.

Test your inferencing skills at this website!

Silent E

During spelling, we learned that a silent final E has 5 jobs.

Job 1: Silent final E makes a vowel say it's 2nd sound (it's name).

Job 2: English words do not end in V or U, so add an E.

Job 3: Silent final E makes a C say "s" and a G say "j."

Job 4: Silent final E makes every syllable have a vowel.

Job 5: Silent final E has no job - He's just hanging out!

Watch this video. Which job of E is it describing?

No Excuses!

Miss Barber's tile for our School Community Project

"No Excuses" is our motto in Miss Barber's class.

We accept responsibility - not excuses! 

It is important for us to learn to take responsibility for...

our learning.

our actions.

our behavior.

our choices.

The Power of Persuasion

Our class recently wrote a letter to our principal asking him to allow our class to watch the videos posted on our class website on our school computers. Follow the link below to see the letter.

Can you identify the topic, author's position, author's purpose, and supporting evidence?

Our Persuasive Letter