Mr. Storey

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May has been a very busy month.  In math, our students finished off their math units by creating fraction games.  Their objective was to create a 100 square picture and then provide the fractions for each color in their picture.  Then as a class, we tried to match the fraction descriptions with all the pictures.  The students showed amazing critical thinking skills, explaining how certain descriptions could not fit certain pictures because the fractions were not right.

With writing, we finished up our how-to writing project and moved on to parts of speech.  Although we aren’t writing long pieces, the students are writing more than ever.  We have learned about adjectives, nouns, verbs, and prepositions.  The students have practiced writing incredibly descriptive sentences using multiple adjectives.  We have also focused on using more descriptive verbs in our sentences.   Instead of saying that a person went to the store, they are changing the verb so that the sentence says a person skipped to the store.

Finally, in May our students had the opportunity to entertain passing motorists with their flute playing skills.  The class went to the corner of Maryland and Wolseley and played a musical piece they had learned with Mr. G.  One of our students held up a sign asking drivers to honk if they like music.  That intersection became a very noisy place for about 10 minutes as the students played and passing cars responded with their horns.