Pyramid Solitaire by Patrick

I play Pyramid Solitaire when I finished all my math. In the game you try to find two cards that equal ten. The game can sometimes be quick. Usually the game will take long. In this video I will show you how to play Pyramid Solitaire. Hopefully you will learn how to play the game after this video. After watching the video you may see that Pyramid Solitaire is not easy. It is a good way to entertain yourself if you are alone.

 

Polygon Pair Up by Ryan

In room 101 we play many math games. My personal favorite is Polygon Pair Up. Polygon Pair Up is a geometrical game that has to do with shapes and their properties. I think it is fun because it gives a good brain test or challenge. It also is also almost a social activity because you are playing with one of your classmates. The point of Polygon Pair Up is to get as many matches as you can.There are yellow cards and blue cards.On the yellow cards are shapes and on the blue, properties. You will have to find out the rest and how to play in the video below!!

 

Reading Celebration by Serafina

Our teacher, Mrs.Mills, decided we do a Reading Celebration by acting out a part we read in our partner reading book. When Mrs. Mills said acting I thought of all the funny things in my book. Everybody loves reading in our class. Some of the things people acted out were funny but everybody thought the coolest and funniest one was Dylan’s. It was fun acting out parts in our books and most partners had a lesson to learn from the part they acted, like to never give up. Everybody's story was different and had all different lessons. Also, for every partnership that finished acting, everybody else gave them a nice round of applause. Some of the partnerships didn’t just act like people, as in Stone Fox they were dogs. Acting out parts in our books was fun, scary, and exciting and also fun to watch. Our class did very well on our acting celebration.

Knollwood Voice Magazine by Georgia

Kids are starting on the first Knollwood Voice magazine. Kids are joining faster than you can count! It is a lot of fun and an amazing way to spend your recess.  You could go as an artist for the cover or inside of the magazine. You could also write stories or be an editor. Almost anything you can think of they have it! And it's kind of like free time in kindergarten. If you have an idea, go for it! I think Knollwood Voice is amazing and it just started.You should join Knollwood Voice!

Last year's Knollwood Voice

Learning about Rising Stars of Inferences Post-Its by Lauren

When you're reading your just right book, you should put post-its in your book to have deeper thinking about your reading. Post-its are meant for you to stop and jot down what you are thinking. When you have longer thoughts, you write thoughts down in your reader's notebook. For example, you can do an EEG or you can stop and sketch or write long off of a idea. But when you do post-its those are for you to stop and jot your ideas, you should have evidence from the text or evidence from the book. 

If your goal is to write a 1 star post, it states an idea about the characters or it says an idea. In the book Sheila Rae's Peppermint Stick, for example, I could write “Sheila is rude” or “Sheila loves her peppermint stick”. If you’re ever stuck on how to start, you can use "I think…" or "________ is feeling…" or "______ is the kind of person who...."

If your goal is to write a 2 star post-it in your book, you should support the idea with evidence of words and actions like “Sheila got a chair and then she got 4 huge big books and then climbed up on it and stood on her tippy toes." To get started you can use "I think this because...and a part of the text that shows this is..."" and also… and…."

If your goal  is a 3 star post-it you should support ideas with more than one piece of evidence of words and actions. For example if my goal was to write a 3 star post-it, I would write “Sheila is rude because she keeps teasing her little sister. For example, she said "I will give you some if you can guess how many stripes it has," and she would not give her the peppermint stick." 

If my goal is to  write a 4 star post-it, I would write ideas about characters relationships using specific evidence in the text. For example I could write “Sheila Rae LOVES her peppermint stick. I know this because in the text it says Sheila Rae had a peppermint stick it was long shiny and had stripes she loved it and she did not want give some to her sister. I know this because she made obstacles for her sister to have some. Sheila Rae loves her peppermint stick because in the text it says, "Sheila Rae held the peppermint stick close to her body."" To get started you can use: "__________ and _________ are similar/different because...also..." or "__________ is ibn the story because.../____________ is in the story to show..."

 Rising Stars of Inference Poster

 An example of writing about our reading

Reader's notebook where you can sort your post-its and do other writing about your reading

(The photos above were taken and captioned by Lauren for her blog post.)

first published pieces are up around town!

Our first published pieces have been hung around town! You can find our published personal narratives at Tavolo, Fairwinds, and River Road Books. We're so lucky to have places in town that value our writing and allow us to hang it to share with others!

Personal narratives are true stories from our lives. In this unit, we worked hard to write in the moment, rather than a summary, using details like tiny actions, dialogue, setting, and inner thought. We set goals for our writing at the beginning of the unit, choosing one of the three goals: writing a strong lead, using a storytelling voice, or elaborating (stretching out) the heart of our story. Comparing the personal narrative on demand that we wrote on the first day of school with our published piece and on demand at the end of the unit, one month later, showed so much growth for us already as writers!

Here's a break down of whose pieces are where:

Tavolo - Emma, Antonio, Vivian, Jackson, Georgia, Annie, Matt, Megan, Ben, Alex, Dylan, and Patrick
Fairwinds - Evan, Eva, Caroline, Serafina, and RJ
River Road Books* - Ryan, Scarlett, Will, and Lauren

*pieces at River Road Books will be up by the end of next week. They're doing some renovations on Monday and thought it would be best for us to wait to hang them so that our pieces aren't damaged.

We hope you're able to visit the place hosting your piece, but also make it to the other places to read our classmates' pieces.