Ordering decimals in a real world context!

Students worked in the media center with decimals today! After learning about the Dewey Decimal system from LMS, Cary Hanson, students put their ordering decimal skills to work!

2019 Winter Open House Schedule

Students create Narrative Story with Stop Motion!

Prepping our setting for our narrative story! https://t.co/fG8WjNivOT

— Ms.Thelen (@thelensthinkers) November 5, 2019

Global Read Aloud 2019 Front Desk

Students have finished reading this book by Kelly Yang.

It is this year's Global Read Aloud selection.

Learn more about GRA here!

Students made buttons to promote the book's message! I hope you consider reading this 

great book!

Vocabulary Day 2019

Check out these awesome vocabulary words! ⁦@paxtonkee⁩ pic.twitter.com/AfVgFXwvOn

— Shelli Thelen (@ShelliThelen) October 16, 2019

Meeting our Kindergarten Buddies for Dot Day

Inspired by Peter Reynold's book The Dot we met with our Kindergarten buddies from Mrs. Mariott's class. We celebrated Dot Day and had a great time creating together!

Ecosystems and the Transfer of Energy

Students have been finishing up our unit on the transfer of matter and energy within ecosystems. Showing the food web and the transfer of energy is a tough thing to represent!

Do Worms Eat Soil?

When students are posed with the question where do dead leaves go?  Many answered that worms often eat the dead plant matter in the soil. However, many students also believed that worms eat soil. 

After this engaging investigation from Mystery Science students discovered that worms prefer soil to dirt. They are not exactly eating the soil, rather the dead plant matter in the soild.

They are decomposers!

Welcome Back to Paxton Keeley!

Being Physically Active during Health!

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— Ms.Thelen (@thelensthinkers) May 13, 2019

Collecting Data and Formulating Percents!

Students developed a question that they could survey their classmates on to collect data.  Today was perfect for representing the data into a percent as we had exactly 20 students present today!  Students started with the question...

Some people went a tad dark...

Then students represented how many were in favor or not in favor with percents!  Students really enjoyed this activity and saw a purpose for using math!

Practicing the names and location of the United States!

Students played a game where they had to identify and name the 50 states!  There may have been some math involved too!

Reviewing Inflectional Endings -ed and -ing spelling patterns!

Students were misspelling many words when adding the suffixes -ed or -ing when they needed to "drop the e" or "double the consonants". Word study time!

As students went to read, they were to locate and record one word that represented the spelling pattern. We sorted them and tomorrow we will have a mixed review using these words!

1920's and 1930's Learning!

Students learn about the Dust Bowl and its devastating effects on the geography and economics of the time.

Students learn about immigration through Angel Island and explore what a "Paper Son" is.  We used this awesome book to learn more!

Learning about the Great Depression with this picture book. Students learn content-specific vocabulary while following "Rudy" travel by train across the United States. 

Students are watching mini video clips learning about some important people and ideas post WWI:

Students read two articles from NewsELA that addresses the economics of life during the 1920s. It was considered the time of "buy now, pay later". With the introduction of the washing machine, the vacuum, and the refrigerator housework was lessened and free time increased.