For Our Children's Sake...

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Last Day of Cultural Arts...

Using our mental images with today’s storyteller…

Listening to the story of the old lady who swallowed a fly...

What else did she swallow?

Do you think she cried?

Art Extravaganza Continues...

Morning Rock!

Observing Lima Beans

Observing last week's lima beans...What observations did you record in your science journal?

Art Extravaganza Begins!

Today, we were entertained by the Fletcher Middle School Band.

Recycled Superheroes

Today was a busy day! We had our student recognition ceremony and we celebrated Earth Day. We had the opportunity to dress up as "Recycled Superheroes" ...
... and our read aloud during Readers Workshop was Why Should I Recycle?, written by Jen Green and illustrated by Mike Gordon. We also made cool little bracelets out of can tabs and ribbon.

Then we reused plastic gallon bottles as our bunny baskets for our afternoon math egg hunt.How do you conserve, reduce, reuse, or recycle?

Thinking of proper prefix to use...




Do you know what it means when 'un' is at the beginning of a word? (i.e. undo)
Do you know what it means when 're' is at the beginning of a word? (i.e. redo)

Morning Message Edits

Peer Assistance

Reviewing patterns with numbers on hundred chart...

Still having trouble understanding out what to do?

Peer Assistance to the rescue!

What do you do when you need assistance?

Performance Rehearsal

Invited for another rehearsal of a Goldilocks & The Three Bears performance by a Kindergarten class...

Bravo!!! Thank you for a lovely performance. This garden is truly blossoming.

Resource: Art 2

Student completing their original artwork in Seurat's Pointillist Style...

Inside a Seed

Observing lima beans...

Searching for embryo (baby plant)...

Why do you think there is so much food inside a seed for such a tiny plant?

Hundred Chart Patterns

Discovering patterns found in the hundred chart with even and odd numbers.

If you skip count by 2 and start with an odd number, will all the numbers counted be odd numbers or even numbers?

Mystery Beads

FCAT? No Sweat!

Persuading our adopted fourth grade class that we love and support them!

Revisiting the Sun

Today, we revisited the benefits and harmful effects of the Sun.

Do you agree with this chart? What would you change?

Making Ten

Playing a game of concentration... with a twist. For a match, make a combination of 10 using two cards.

Playing Go Fish 10 - ask other players for the card you need to complete a combination of ten.

Can you list all the addition combinations of ten using two numbers?

Morning Warm Up - Already?

Completing our morning warm-up with this week's weekly words:

though, above, break, already, caught, off, garden.

Can you write a 5-7 word sentence for each weekly word?

SuperSTARS Rally

Showing our love and support to our third, fourth and fifth graders getting ready for the FCAT.

We believe in you! Don't Sweat the FCAT!

Dismissal Patrol Fun

Making Ten with our class patrols during dismissal.

Using two numbers, can you list all the addition combinations of ten?

Wacky Hair Day!

Showing off our farmtastic school spirit as an Eagle Creeker.

Tomorrow is Chets Creek School T-Shirt Day.

How far back can you go?

Wanna Change Anything?

Preston Gannam wanted to change things. He wanted a safe place for students to enjoy recess without worrying about the harmful effects of the sun. So, he wrote an essay and was a winner for the 2011 Sun Defense Essay Contest. Thanks to his persuasive writing, our school will receive a sun shade structure to help shelter us from the sun when needed. Yee-Haw! Today, we also heard the story of some cows wanting an electric blanket from Farmer Brown. The cows in the barn typed away their demands trying to persuade Farmer Brown to give them what they want. Then, we made our own list of things we'd like to change and why or how. I wonder how will they try to persuade me to give them a longer recess? Or how will they persuade their parents to let them have a later bed time?

Our afternoon read aloud was about a little boy wanting to have a baby iguana as a pet. All he had to do was persuade his mother to let him have one. So, they wrote notes back and forth to each other about the pet iguana.

Do you have anything that you want to change? Why or how would you change it?

Go Fish Homophones

Today, we played a fun game of Go Fish with homophones.

Homophones are two words that sound the same, but they don't look the same and they have different meanings.

Can you list any other homophones?

DCPS Budget Meeting

Have you heard?
Duval County Public Schools are facing a possible $97 million shortfall for the next school year.

How can you help?
Stay informed. Attend a community meeting to discuss the Budget Shortfalls.

• Monday, April 4 – Atlantic Coast High School (6 PM)


• Thursday, April 7 – Andrew Jackson High School (6PM)


• Monday, April 11 – Ed White High School (6 PM)