Distributive Property

The Distributive Property is a tricky law to master! One thing to remember is that 'distribute' means to hand out, to spread, or to give away.  If you keep that definition in mind, it may help you remember what the Distributive Property/Law is.  

Happy Monday!

I'm guessing you all woke up ready to start your Monday like this?!  Thanks Mrs. Wenstrom for the pick me up video.

Rock Star of the Week, Harrison!

Harrison's Rock Star Wordle

Preston and Greg's Weekly Update....

Hello to the kids of Mrs. Clayton’s class, including  Greg and I. Today we will be discussing about Puzzles (Math) P.E., and Word Study.So I hope you have fun reading!    

Puzzles was really fun, because we learned new properties such as Associative Property,  Identity Property, etc. They can get really tricky. I haven't even memorized them.The easiest property is the Zero Property and the Identity Property.There are 5 property’s in all.  

P.E. was also fun, we played a game (We forgot the name of the game). On the rock climbing wall.  The class was allowed to put up magnets on the wall and try to get others down .  We would put them in really little metal holes, and the second thing that was different was that we actually got to do aerobatics. The last thing that we were able to do was the yoga station.  Yoga was actually fun as well as aerobatics. We also got to play Just Dance.   I hope everybody enjoyed P.E.   

In Word Study, we are  trying to figure out what words came later in the English history. Then  for homework we had to find six words that were made later than 100 years ago. If they weren’t there when our parents were children like us, we would ask them the words. When we were in school we were trying to figure out what were these people saying in a picture. For an example the Ipad was made in 2010. I even learned words that I didn’t know. We got to do some the stuff with partners. That was a really fun part of the day for the class. I hope the class liked it like we did.

We had a really marvelous week in Mrs. Clayton’s class. It was a busy week, but we mostly got everything done, but in the week we learned a lot to. So I hope everyone had a good week. Sadly if you didn’t get your work done you had homework, but that many people did that. Like I said I hope you guys had a marvelous week.     

The Science Guy

Bill Nye, he's a smart guy.  He's a silly guy.  He's the Science Guy!  And boy does he know science.  Have a look at his Chemical Reactions show and have a go of some of his experiments.

Time to Multiply

It's time to multiply!  Have a look at these multiplication games to help you with the next Topic in Puzzles.
Basketball Multiplication (One by Two Digit)
Multiplication Jeopardy (One by Two Digit)
Properties of Multiplication
Math Playground (2 by 2 digit)

Science Rocks!

It looks like heaps of fun has been had in Science Lab lately!!  Check out some footage from your 
Yeast Respiration experiment.

Rock Star of the Week, Jade!

Jade's Rock Star Wordle

Airplane Expert On Board...

If there's a question you're dying to know about airplanes, chances are Nate will not only have the answer, but he'll give you all the details behind it  Our resident plane expert shared his award winning artwork of the F135 airplane engine that his dad helped create and helped us make sense of how it works on the stealth airplane.  Thanks for sharing this interesting design with the class Nate and congrats on the award you won for it.

Book Wizard to the Rescue

We've been working on reading books that are 'Just Right' for us. If you're having trouble figuring out which level the book you're reading is, have a peek at Book Wizard.  Click on the "Guided Reading" to find the book levels we use in class.  Hope this helps some of you with your leveling!

Time to Vote!

WOW!  The competition is tough.  Difficult questions were asked, thoughtful answers were given.  It's time to vote for who YOU think would represent our class the best.  Please click on this link to vote for our class representative!

Noemi and Jade's Weekly Update...

Hello, this is Jade and Noemi, and we’re from Mrs.Clayton’s class. We are doing the Weekly Update for this week. We hope you all will enjoy!

One of the things that was outstanding this week was science lab with Mr.Kimzey. We conducted a really cool experiment. The materials were yeast, sugar, hot water, balloon etc. We first added yeast, sugar, and hot water in the first boiling flask. Then we mixed it. After that, we put a balloon on the boiling flask. We waited and waited. Then, the balloon started blowing up because we added sugar and the yeast ate the sugar so it got activated. In the other boiling flask, we did not add sugar so it did not blow up. It was so much fun.

Another thing that we really enjoyed was photo day. One reason we really enjoyed it, was that we got to dress up in pretty outfits. Another reason we enjoyed photo day was that we could also see the pretty outfits everyone wore for their photo.

The last amazing thing we did this week was Ice Cream Genre Challenge. One reason we really liked it was that it gave us a chance to explore genres we would have never touched. We also really liked that the prize was an ice cream party because both Jade and I really like ice cream. We also like that eight is a reasonable amount of books to read in twelve weeks.

Sadly, this week has come to an end and so has our weekly update. This week has been really fun in Mrs.Clayton’s class. I hope you enjoyed reading this as much as Jade and I have enjoyed sharing the best parts of our week. Have a fantastic weekend!

Amber's Picture Prompts

Thanks for the interesting Picture Prompt Amber! 

Time to Avatar...

Blog avatars are visual representations of authors that appear when they do things on blogs, such as comment or post something. They help identify posts and comments as belonging to someone and they help readers to “know” the writer better by giving them a visual to go along with a screen name.

You have five minutes to look through the following avatar sites. Think about how the avatar styles match your personality, hobbies, etc. Then pick one and create your avatar.

• DoppelMe
• Mini-mizer
• Wimp yourself - (relates to Diary of a Wimpy Kid)
• Mess Dudes
• Block head – (Lego-like)
• Even more fun sites!

Life Lately...

Just wondering how life's going for you lately both in school and out.  Please head over to this survey tonight and fill it in.  I'm looking forward to reading your replies.  
-Mrs. C

Photo Day tomorrow!

Don't forget tomorrow is free dress and photo day.
Get those smiles ready!

Leveling Our Reading

If you can't see the form below, click on this link.  

YUM-MY!

We are done with MAP testing and what a wonderful way to celebrate.  A HUGE thank you to Mrs. Surrency for sending in this delicious zucchini bread.  You can see it went fast!  We sure did enjoy it this afternoon while we were F.A.R.T.ing (Fun Awesome Reading Time).  Happy Friday kiddos!

Welcome to the IS!

Back at the start of the year, Mr. Filice asked two of our bright techie kids if they would be willing to put together some footage for Back to School Night.  Take a look at what Nate and Young Seo put together in their free time. Thanks guys!

Rock Star of the Week, Amber

Amber's Rock Star Wordle

Math Facts...

Today we checked in to see how we're doing with our math facts.  Hopefully you felt like you were up to speed on them.

If you feel like you need some practice,

have a look at these links

to help you out.  

Play Kids Games

Fruit Shoot

Baseball Math

Math Fact Shoot Out

So Far, So Good!

Have a peek at the first few weeks of school!
Phew, we sure have done a lot!

Play Ball!

Here's a few fun ball games to help with adding decimals.  Baseball Math and Hoop Shoot will help with subtracting decimals. Soccer Math will help with adding decimals. Happy ball playing!