2018 Slice of Life Story Challenge Day 1
Mrs. Norman's Busy Bees
by bnorman
4y ago
Welcome! Our class will be participating in the Two Writing Teachers Slice of Life Story Challenge. A Slice of Life can be a moment in your day or even a memory. It is just a small segment of that day. It might be written as a short story, a poem, or a collection of words, images, or photos. Below are some links for other classes around the word participating too! http://5thgradewrites.edublogs.org ..read more
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Opinion Writing Celebrations
Mrs. Norman's Busy Bees
by bnorman
4y ago
It is always fun to gather around and share our final drafts after a long unit of writing. We just wrapped up our opinion writing unit today by celebrating our hard work and our writing. Mrs. Norman brought in brownies and with just our twinkling lights on we each shared our opinion piece we had been working on. During our opinion writing unit we worked on adding reasons and evidence for our reason to support our opinions. We also included leads and conclusions to our opinion pieces. Many of us even tried including a counter argument in our writing piece. Today was a great day for writing ..read more
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Read, Set, Blog!!!
Mrs. Norman's Busy Bees
by bnorman
4y ago
Our student blogs are created and this is the first official day of our student blogs. This week we are writing our first posts to our own blogs. Many have chosen to write a post introducing our blogs while others are writing about our weekend. We are all excited to share our writing with others. This morning we reviewed Mrs. Norman’s blog expectations and commenting guidelines. Now head on over to our own blogs and check them out ..read more
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First Post of 17-18 Students
Mrs. Norman's Busy Bees
by bnorman
4y ago
Hello, This year there are twenty-four of us. We just had our first popcorn party of the year for top attendance in November. We are a very noisy class. We learn about science, social studies, and math. This class is full of creative and funny bees. We are learning to use the multiplication algorithm, fractions, division with remainders, and square roots in math ..read more
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This week’s Buzz
Mrs. Norman's Busy Bees
by bnorman
4y ago
We have been writing/learning about text features and opinion writing in ELA. This is our ELA goal to have 22/23 students score proficient or advance on our Test Features Post Test. The daisies are different things we are doing to work towards our goal.   So for an activity fo rwriting we used Oreo’s to write an opinion. We also got to eat chocolate Oreo’s Opinion-write our opinion Reason- Give reasons why we have that opinion Examples- Show examples for our opinion Opinion- Restate our opinion to make sure they know our opinion. Yesterday we had a neighboring class come in our class to read ..read more
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Today’s Buzz
Mrs. Norman's Busy Bees
by bnorman
4y ago
Welcome back! We have been busy since the last time we wrote. Yesterday we started tracking our spelling and math scores so that we can keep track of our improvements. We also have been creating brochures about animals that we researched. Recently, we returned from Spring Break! In math we have been practicing multiplying two digits by two digit problem. Those of us who read at least four Mark Twain Nominees book got to vote for our favorite. Some of our favorites were Loot, Space Case, Rain Reign, A Million Ways Home, and Pack of Dorks. Yesterday we celebrated a classmate’s birthday. We also ..read more
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Hello from Mrs. Norman’s Busy Bee’s
Mrs. Norman's Busy Bees
by bnorman
4y ago
Hello! We are a classroom of fourth grade writers from Missouri.  Some special things about our classroom is that we enjoy math, like reading, and we work hard.  Something special about our school is we have a three legged dog named Buddy. We show kindness to one another. Our mascot is an owl. Today is the first day of the Slice of Life month long challenge. We are gearing up to meet the challenge of writing a Slice of our Life each and every day in March. We have each created our own personal blogs to complete the challenge with. Today our writers will begin this new writing journey. To kick ..read more
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Welcome
Mrs. Norman's Busy Bees
by bnorman
4y ago
Welcome to our new classroom blog page! On this page we will post about happenings in our classroom. On occasion we will have guest bloggers from our own classroom write blogs ..read more
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