Happy St. Patrick's Day

     Our class would like to wish everyone a Happy St. Patrick’s Day. We had an enjoyable day today. For reading, we took notes on cause and effect. The students watched a PowerPoint presentation on the topic. This is the same PowerPoint that you will find on our class blog. Afterwards, the students paired up and read a short passage. They then discussed any cause and effect events they found within the story.  

    We had a wonderful time while completing our math assignment. We participated in a project sponsored by TechnospudProject. We divided a 14 ounce box of Lucky Charms evenly among the class so each student had their own baggie full of cereal.  The students were then responsible for tallying and graphing their marshmallows based on shape.   The class hypothesized that the rainbow shape would be the most popular.  

     It turned out that the clover was the most popular shape.  Our box had a total of 72 clover marshmallows.   We discovered that our box only had 29 star shaped marshmallows.  We did have fun counting those marshmallows though.  

     We also read another wonderful text by Gail Gibbons called St. Patrick's Day.  We discovered quite a bit about the day from the text.  For example, did you know that the harp was used as a decoration for St. Patrick's Day?  We also discovered that St. Patrick's real name may have been Maewyn.  It was really a good book.

     Finally, we worked on a St. Patrick's Day word-search, fine tuned some of our writing pieces, went over the new reading vocabulary, and reviewed the newsletter.  Be sure to look for the hidden message in the newsletter.  Have a Happy St. Patrick's Day!