Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! Hey six graders, come closer, closer ,closer ok, stop. I bet you can't do this problem: 100-2+5-1=y. Now six graders, do that problem. Tick, tock, tick, tock, you people are slow. My fourth grade class is faster then you guys. In the meantime, I will be typing my student blog.
Today we started QR, MR. QR stands for Quick Review. Quick Review means the stuff we already know...but Mr Kootman would like us to remember the math. MR stands for Mixed Review. Mixed Review is almost like quick review but it has more problems than quick review,because quick review has five questions more than mixed review. Today's lesson is Analyze Graph and Data. Analyze Graph and Data is like two things 1. it's like a bar graph. 2.it's also like connect the dots, when you use a line graph.
When that was over, we finished our story board. A story board is an organizer the helps you understand social studies or whatever project you will be creating. My table (table six) is doing urban & rural. An urban area is a city. And a rural area is communities that usually have lots of open land & low population density. Each table in my class got to do a different term. One table did compass rose, so we combined it all together and put it on Photo Story three. Photo Story three is when you put anything together and turn it in like a movie. You get to create your own music, & a whole lot of stuff.
Once that was done, we did reading. The book we read was Starting A Business. Starting a Business discusses supplies or a list to start a business. Today, we are taking a test on the story. The questions are mainly going to ask you what you did to start a business, and so on.
Afterwards, we did CLAS (it's not spelled class) this CLAS stands for Comprehension and Language Arts Skills. Today's lesson is Sentence Combining. Sentence combining means when you have 2 sentence, and you try to put the together. Sometimes, when we do CLAS, our topic depends on what lesson we are doing, like Sentence Combining. We did sentence combining because it's in our homework packet.
Yesterday we did yoga. Only 4th graders do yoga. The reason why we do yoga is to relax our brains & and our body. At 9:30 we leave to go to yoga. Mrs. Swanland is the main teacher that does it. My teacher(Mr.Kootman) does yoga sometimes. The thing that Mr. Kootman is really good at is push-ups. He might be the fastest push-up champion in the whole school. At least I think so. I bet you a lot of people would like to see Mr.Kootman do a one hand push-up.
Finally,the worst thing happened to Mr.Kootman. When everybody came in, he lost his voice. So we had to get very quite to earn marbles and to help Mr. Kootman. The marbles are for H.O.T. HOT stands for Homework On Time. If we get over the red line then we get H.O.T. time. If we don't get over the red line then we have to do more work. I hoped you enjoyed reading my student blog. I won't forget the math problem six graders!
Wednesday
Thursday
October 9, 2007- by Devin D.
The class started a wonderful day on page 81 in our math book. On page 81, Mr.Kootman had to remember tables in our math book. Mr.Kootman's class did some whiteboard showups (this is where we write the answer on our whitebords),to find the correct answer. Sometimes, we write the problem too like: 24+(72-9)=87.
When Mr.Kootman's class was in yoga all of the kids (exept Mr.Kootman 's class) were loud. Most kids did not like putting their legs up in the air, with only their elbow's touching the ground. Mr.Kootman's class was in a strait line from yoga back to the classroom.
When Mr.Kootman's class got to reading, it was our first time reading "Daedalus and Icarus". The story "Deadalus and Icarus" is about two prisoners who work for King Minos the king of Crete. "Deadalus and Icarus" live in the tallest part of the palace, with splendid view's across the island of Crete. Deadalus did not like being prisoners to King Minos so he made his greatest invention of all. Deadalus finally finished, after one YEAR, making wings to escape and go to their home land. Icarus died by not listening to Deadalus's words. These were the words Deadalus said "Don't fly to close to the sun."
In writing, Devin Diaz did a class blog for the class. Devin D. class blog is for what Mr.Kootman's class did on October 9,2007.You have to get it done at least in one week. If you don't Mr.Kootman well publish it early (no efens Mr.Kootman).
So, the day went on wonderfully, and pretty smooth. Mr.Kootman did the drawing's of the day with Popsicle's sticks. The kids got their prizes and put it in their backpack. I didn't win anything.
Finally, Mr.Kootman's class left in a hurry to catch their bus.
When Mr.Kootman's class was in yoga all of the kids (exept Mr.Kootman 's class) were loud. Most kids did not like putting their legs up in the air, with only their elbow's touching the ground. Mr.Kootman's class was in a strait line from yoga back to the classroom.
When Mr.Kootman's class got to reading, it was our first time reading "Daedalus and Icarus". The story "Deadalus and Icarus" is about two prisoners who work for King Minos the king of Crete. "Deadalus and Icarus" live in the tallest part of the palace, with splendid view's across the island of Crete. Deadalus did not like being prisoners to King Minos so he made his greatest invention of all. Deadalus finally finished, after one YEAR, making wings to escape and go to their home land. Icarus died by not listening to Deadalus's words. These were the words Deadalus said "Don't fly to close to the sun."
In writing, Devin Diaz did a class blog for the class. Devin D. class blog is for what Mr.Kootman's class did on October 9,2007.You have to get it done at least in one week. If you don't Mr.Kootman well publish it early (no efens Mr.Kootman).
So, the day went on wonderfully, and pretty smooth. Mr.Kootman did the drawing's of the day with Popsicle's sticks. The kids got their prizes and put it in their backpack. I didn't win anything.
Finally, Mr.Kootman's class left in a hurry to catch their bus.
September 27, by room 40
Do you know how to subtract across zeros? Today we had a quiz on subtracting across zeros. Mr. Kootman felt that the class needed extra practice with this concept. People sometimes have difficulty regrouping and crossing out other numbers. It is easiest when you take it one step at a time!
For our new math lesson, we reviewed fact families and learned about how to use parentheses in expressions. When we see parentheses, we always do them first!
When it was language arts time, we read Mae Jemison- Space Scientist for the second time. Mae was famous because she was the first African American women to go into space. After reading the story, we did our first quick write.
We were all very excited because Megan wrote our second student blog! Our blogs have received so many comments so far, including comments from Guam and The Philippines.
After lunch, we read about how Zoe’s dad helped the girls negotiate contracts in The School Story. Then we went to the library, where we all got some great books for our daily reading logs.
Lastly, we took a social studies quiz on the different regions of California. The four regions of California are the valley, the coast, the desert and the mountains.
For our new math lesson, we reviewed fact families and learned about how to use parentheses in expressions. When we see parentheses, we always do them first!
When it was language arts time, we read Mae Jemison- Space Scientist for the second time. Mae was famous because she was the first African American women to go into space. After reading the story, we did our first quick write.
We were all very excited because Megan wrote our second student blog! Our blogs have received so many comments so far, including comments from Guam and The Philippines.
After lunch, we read about how Zoe’s dad helped the girls negotiate contracts in The School Story. Then we went to the library, where we all got some great books for our daily reading logs.
Lastly, we took a social studies quiz on the different regions of California. The four regions of California are the valley, the coast, the desert and the mountains.
September 25, by Curtis
Danger!!! Danger!!! Beep!!! Earthquake!!! Just kidding it was cramped under our desk for our earthquake drill. It all started in the monring when it started from the intercom. It was the principle saying for every kid to get in their class for an earthquake drill and get under their desks. We waited and waited and then the siren came and it went beep!!! We hid under our desks and it hurt really badly.
We did a weird math test which took about five minutes. After that we started our Open Court reading about Mae Jamison the famous astronaut . She trained to go in space and I think it took her five years. No one believed her to be a scientist but she still followed her dream and did not care what people said. She had to go through tons of training. And she was 26 when she was a doctor. then Then we got our yoga mats and we went to the cafeteria to do yoga. It is really fun when we do yoga; well some times not all the time. All we're doing is stretching for 30 minutes and then we went to the first recces. After recess, we did vocab and the vocab was about Mae Jemison. One of the words was astrounat and then we did a computer activity where we were playing with the Smart Board. A Smart Board is a board that is hooked up to the cumputer so you can use your finger to draw.
After that, we went to lunch. When lunch was over, we went to class and we read School Story where Natalie finally got her book publised. After that we did social studies then we went to play steal the bacon!!! It is where the marker is in the middle there is what 18 players on each side and the teacher calls out 2 or 4 or what every and some one gets it and they run back to their team and the day was over. Thank you for reading.Wednesday
September 24 2007, by Megan
Geuss what? We started the day with four drawings!The class did really good this morning.First, in math,we started with page 50 review in our math book and corrected it.Then,we took our chapter 3 math test because we didn't get to do it on Friday.We also did 4.1 in our new math packet, which was on expressions, then,the class did the math log. Our math log is where we write down what we learned in math today.
In reading,the class did a spelling pretest.Almost everyone got most of the words right.We also did our vocab and clues chart on our new story "Mae Jemison".Some of our vocab words were astronaut,excelled,and simulates.Plus we went fifteen minutes earlier for recess!
After recess,we did "What is a Sentence" in our C.L.A.S book.We learned about a predicate and subject.
When lunch was over Mr.Kootman read School Story.In School Story Hanna has problems with her boss because Hannas boss wants to edit the book instead of letting her do it. Natalie found a way for Zoe to get her moms boss to let her mom publish the book.
In social studies,we learned about locations in California.The class also learned about how people can live in the desert,and that they need us to send fresh water through a canal because there is no water in the desert.
Finally in PE we played steal the bacon.Alot of students didn't hear their numbers,and some people would circle around the eraser (the bacon).We had fun and we can't wait for yoga tomorrow!!!
In reading,the class did a spelling pretest.Almost everyone got most of the words right.We also did our vocab and clues chart on our new story "Mae Jemison".Some of our vocab words were astronaut,excelled,and simulates.Plus we went fifteen minutes earlier for recess!
After recess,we did "What is a Sentence" in our C.L.A.S book.We learned about a predicate and subject.
When lunch was over Mr.Kootman read School Story.In School Story Hanna has problems with her boss because Hannas boss wants to edit the book instead of letting her do it. Natalie found a way for Zoe to get her moms boss to let her mom publish the book.
In social studies,we learned about locations in California.The class also learned about how people can live in the desert,and that they need us to send fresh water through a canal because there is no water in the desert.
Finally in PE we played steal the bacon.Alot of students didn't hear their numbers,and some people would circle around the eraser (the bacon).We had fun and we can't wait for yoga tomorrow!!!
Monday
First Week of School Revisited- Sept 5- by Reina
Guess what? Today we had our first math test! But before the test Mr. Kootman let us do some mixed review on the test. He wants us to achieve,not fail like some teachers nowadays. Since he let us do the mixed review, I think we did pretty darn good. The mixed review and the test was on benchmarks, place value and pictographs.
After math we did reading. In reading we read Toto. Toto is about an elephant who gets caught in a snare and a African boy who frees him. Next the class answered questions about Toto and did vocabulary that was in Toto. Afterwards we did a class blog on the projector. Here is how the class blog worked: the class gave some ideas and Mr.Kootman typed. Mr. Kootman is a good typer!
At 12:45pm we went to lunch. I brought lunch that day. As usual the cafeteria was loud. Once lunch was done we read our chapter book, The School Story. In that part of the story Natalie (the main character) and Zoe (Natalie's friend) are researching about how to get Natalie's book published. Natalie went to her mom's office and learned about the slush pile. To close up our day we did Social Studies. In S.S. we did vocab words (hemisphere,tropics and climate) with a game. Mr. Kootman would click on the projector while we had our eyes closed and it would say the meaning of the word, then we would click on the word we thought it was. Afterwards we packed our bags and flew out the door to go home!
After math we did reading. In reading we read Toto. Toto is about an elephant who gets caught in a snare and a African boy who frees him. Next the class answered questions about Toto and did vocabulary that was in Toto. Afterwards we did a class blog on the projector. Here is how the class blog worked: the class gave some ideas and Mr.Kootman typed. Mr. Kootman is a good typer!
At 12:45pm we went to lunch. I brought lunch that day. As usual the cafeteria was loud. Once lunch was done we read our chapter book, The School Story. In that part of the story Natalie (the main character) and Zoe (Natalie's friend) are researching about how to get Natalie's book published. Natalie went to her mom's office and learned about the slush pile. To close up our day we did Social Studies. In S.S. we did vocab words (hemisphere,tropics and climate) with a game. Mr. Kootman would click on the projector while we had our eyes closed and it would say the meaning of the word, then we would click on the word we thought it was. Afterwards we packed our bags and flew out the door to go home!
Friday
September 19, 2007- by Room 40
Are you a savvy shopper? Today, Mr. Kootman told us how we can save money by using coupons we find in newspapers, magazines, on boxes or even in Mr. Kootman’s shirt pocket.
We began the day by reviewing math, which included a Quick Review and a Mixed Review. These are short and quick math problems that are based on material we should already know. Our new lesson for today was subtracting across zeros. This is when the top number of a problem has a lot of zeros, so we have to borrow from a greater place value. It can get confusing because there can be a lot of crossing out and borrowing.
In language arts, we read “Escape”, which was a story from the book Charlotte’s Web. It is about the risk that Wilbur takes when he leaves the pig pen. One of my favorite vocabulary words from this story is appetizing, which means giving the desire for food. After we read the story, we created our own tree map for the story. This helped us to organize our ideas and make sure we understood the story. Then, we wrote a summary for the story. Mr. Kootman says that the more we write for our organizer, the easier it is to write our summary.
After lunch, we created our very own map of California, with the four regions in different colors. We used water color paint to make the regions stand out. We also included a key on our map. We were all heartbroken that we did not get to read School Story after lunch. After we made our map, we went home to get ready for our field trip to the Avo Theater tomorrow.
We began the day by reviewing math, which included a Quick Review and a Mixed Review. These are short and quick math problems that are based on material we should already know. Our new lesson for today was subtracting across zeros. This is when the top number of a problem has a lot of zeros, so we have to borrow from a greater place value. It can get confusing because there can be a lot of crossing out and borrowing.
In language arts, we read “Escape”, which was a story from the book Charlotte’s Web. It is about the risk that Wilbur takes when he leaves the pig pen. One of my favorite vocabulary words from this story is appetizing, which means giving the desire for food. After we read the story, we created our own tree map for the story. This helped us to organize our ideas and make sure we understood the story. Then, we wrote a summary for the story. Mr. Kootman says that the more we write for our organizer, the easier it is to write our summary.
After lunch, we created our very own map of California, with the four regions in different colors. We used water color paint to make the regions stand out. We also included a key on our map. We were all heartbroken that we did not get to read School Story after lunch. After we made our map, we went home to get ready for our field trip to the Avo Theater tomorrow.
Tuesday
September 10, 2007- by Room 40
A new student named Mattison joined our room today. She jumped right in and seemed to know exactly what to do... as soon as we found her a desk to sit at! We began our day by practicing cursive. Mr. Kootman said he needs to know how well we can write in cursive so he knows what to teach us.
In math, we started out with a quiz on chapter 1. This was so we could review the things we got wrong and learn from them. Then, we started on lesson 2.3, which was about using tables and data. This took a long time and we went right into recess!
After recess, we started our new Open Court story, "Sarah, Plain and Tall". We did our clues chart, which tells us what the story is about and we practiced our vocabulary words in our vocab log. My favorite word from this list is feisty, which means to have a lot of energy and being very spirited. In our CLAS book, we reviewed first and third person point of view. First person is when someone who is in the story is telling it. Third person is when the narrator is not in the story.
In our chapter book, School Story, Ms. Clayton says she will help the girls get the book published. Zoe explains her plan to help out Natalie. During the day, we took notes for this blog as a class. Tomorrow we will write it up. We wrapped up our day by going out to play with the fifth graders while Mr. Kootman went to a PTA meeting. We can't wait to do yoga and have the Freedom Walk tomorrow!
Wednesday
September 4, 2007- by Room 40
Do you know who Katarina is? Now we do! She is a new addition to our class and we are very excited to have her here! Now we have 33 students in room 40!
The first thing we did today was review for our chapter one math test. This test will be on place value and pictographs. Mr. Kootman did a wonderful job of preparing us for the test. After math, we began our new story, Toto, in our language arts book. After that, we created a clues chart for the story. The purpose of a clues chart is to learn about the story before we read it. Mr. Kootman says that good readers try to get an idea for a story before they begin it. We also did our vocabulary log for Toto.
Throughout the school day, we took notes for the blog you are reading now! Tomorrow, we will all write our own class blogs. After lunch, we read our chapter book, School Story. In this chapter Zoe went to work with her dad to study publishing.
The last thing we did on Tuesday was social studies. We learned new vocab words, such as: tropics, climate and hemisphere. Climate is the pattern of weather in a place over a long period of time. That wraps up our spectacular day. We can't wait for Thursday to come so we can start yoga!
Friday
August 31, by Room 40
I can’t believe the first week of school is over. It went by so fast! We started the day by taking out our green homework folders. While the homework checkers looked at our homework, we began some review in our math book. Today’s math lesson was about graphs. We learned that we use graphs in many different ways, including how Mr. Kootman keeps track of how many people visit our website. We also learned that a pictograph uses pictures to represent a certain number of things. Right before recess, we received our writing folders. This is also where we will keep track of our grades.
After recess, we took our first spelling test of the year. About nine people got 100%! After that, we did handing off. During handing off, we answered questions to help us remember our story. It was cool to sit on top of our desks and throw a ball of paper too!
Then we went to lunch where we ate nachos or burritos. When lunch was over, we learned about nouns in our CLAS book. Concrete and abstract nouns were the focus for today. Next, we read School Story , where Natalie, the main character, learns how publishers choose which books to print.
Lastly, we continued our Daily Blog and then got to have a few minutes of PAT Time before HOT Time. Isn’t it cool that we have a three day weekend for Labor Day? Some people are upset that there will be no school on Monday, while others are thrilled.
After recess, we took our first spelling test of the year. About nine people got 100%! After that, we did handing off. During handing off, we answered questions to help us remember our story. It was cool to sit on top of our desks and throw a ball of paper too!
Then we went to lunch where we ate nachos or burritos. When lunch was over, we learned about nouns in our CLAS book. Concrete and abstract nouns were the focus for today. Next, we read School Story , where Natalie, the main character, learns how publishers choose which books to print.
Lastly, we continued our Daily Blog and then got to have a few minutes of PAT Time before HOT Time. Isn’t it cool that we have a three day weekend for Labor Day? Some people are upset that there will be no school on Monday, while others are thrilled.
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