Upcoming Events
Preview Day- May 31, 2018
Students will meet their teacher and classmates for the next year
LAST LIBRARY BOOK RETURN
June 1, 2018
Please make sure all of your child's books have been returned to Mrs. Bryce before summer vacation!
Last Week of Spelling and Reading Homework
June 4, 2018
Waterville Elementary School 6th Grade Graduation
June 14, 2018 @ 6:00
Carnival Day/End of Year Picnic Celebration - June 15
Waterville students will experience an amazing carnival set up right here at our school! WESPO will sponsor a day of games, fun and food! Ms. Debbie will be sending home food donation forms in the coming weeks.
Last Day of School/ Half Day
June 18, 2018
Technology Trouble
Over the weekend I was having some technical trouble with my school laptop. I usually prepare homework for the week beforehand, but this weekend I wasn't able to do so! I will work on getting homework copied and sent home on Wednesday.
Jared Campbell
On May 14th, we welcomed singer and song writer Jared Campbell! Mr. Campbell sang songs which totally excited our students while touching on some really important topics- respect, friendship and bullying. We loved his whit and humor all while teaching kids some critical skills. Please check out his website @ jaredcampbell.com. I will be ordering one of his CDs for our class! He was amazing!
Readers' and Writers' Workshop
This week we worked more on researching our topics in our book clubs. Students learned to use Info Bits, an online encyclopedia which is a resource available through our WES library resources. Students reviewed our internet safety rules, and learned to log on using our new touch screen laptops! We gained lots of information about our topics by reading and listening to interesting texts. We also learned a lot by looking at photographs about our topics. Students learned how to organize the facts that we learned into categories. Now that we are experts on our topics, we began writing our own nonfiction books. Students used the information they learned to write different sections about their topics. We will work on finishing up these books and begin publishing them next week.
Science
In science, we continued our important work discovering how living and nonliving things live together. Students investigated animal coverings and how they help animals survive. We did a cool outdoor camouflage experiment. Students had to find as many pipe cleaner worms as they could in 30 seconds... the worms were many different colors. Students noticed that the green worms were the hardest to find because they blended in! We returned to our original models and practiced revising and making our models public. Students drew and wrote about how they thought living and nonliving things lived together. After watching a short informational video, we revised our models to insure they included our new schema.
Math
This week in math we worked more on our addition and subtraction strategies with numbers up to 20. We played some fun new games at stations that helped us add 9 and 10 to different numbers. We also loved a figuring out our mystery pictures! Students had to color different boxes on our 120s chart by solving different equations i.e. 10+45=55 35-10= 25. During skills time, we continued our work with solving missing number equations and explaining the meaning of the equal sign. We worked on explaining if equations were true or not.
Fundations/Spelling
Students worked hard on learning their spelling patterns which included a comparison of long and short vowel patterns. We also worked on reviewing trick words so that we can write and read them with accuracy. Students worked on a variety of activities which included word building, sorting, and writing.
Students will meet their teacher and classmates for the next year
LAST LIBRARY BOOK RETURN
June 1, 2018
Please make sure all of your child's books have been returned to Mrs. Bryce before summer vacation!
Last Week of Spelling and Reading Homework
June 4, 2018
Waterville Elementary School 6th Grade Graduation
June 14, 2018 @ 6:00
Carnival Day/End of Year Picnic Celebration - June 15
Waterville students will experience an amazing carnival set up right here at our school! WESPO will sponsor a day of games, fun and food! Ms. Debbie will be sending home food donation forms in the coming weeks.
Last Day of School/ Half Day
June 18, 2018
Technology Trouble
Over the weekend I was having some technical trouble with my school laptop. I usually prepare homework for the week beforehand, but this weekend I wasn't able to do so! I will work on getting homework copied and sent home on Wednesday.
Jared Campbell
On May 14th, we welcomed singer and song writer Jared Campbell! Mr. Campbell sang songs which totally excited our students while touching on some really important topics- respect, friendship and bullying. We loved his whit and humor all while teaching kids some critical skills. Please check out his website @ jaredcampbell.com. I will be ordering one of his CDs for our class! He was amazing!
Readers' and Writers' Workshop
This week we worked more on researching our topics in our book clubs. Students learned to use Info Bits, an online encyclopedia which is a resource available through our WES library resources. Students reviewed our internet safety rules, and learned to log on using our new touch screen laptops! We gained lots of information about our topics by reading and listening to interesting texts. We also learned a lot by looking at photographs about our topics. Students learned how to organize the facts that we learned into categories. Now that we are experts on our topics, we began writing our own nonfiction books. Students used the information they learned to write different sections about their topics. We will work on finishing up these books and begin publishing them next week.
Science
In science, we continued our important work discovering how living and nonliving things live together. Students investigated animal coverings and how they help animals survive. We did a cool outdoor camouflage experiment. Students had to find as many pipe cleaner worms as they could in 30 seconds... the worms were many different colors. Students noticed that the green worms were the hardest to find because they blended in! We returned to our original models and practiced revising and making our models public. Students drew and wrote about how they thought living and nonliving things lived together. After watching a short informational video, we revised our models to insure they included our new schema.
Math
This week in math we worked more on our addition and subtraction strategies with numbers up to 20. We played some fun new games at stations that helped us add 9 and 10 to different numbers. We also loved a figuring out our mystery pictures! Students had to color different boxes on our 120s chart by solving different equations i.e. 10+45=55 35-10= 25. During skills time, we continued our work with solving missing number equations and explaining the meaning of the equal sign. We worked on explaining if equations were true or not.
Fundations/Spelling
Students worked hard on learning their spelling patterns which included a comparison of long and short vowel patterns. We also worked on reviewing trick words so that we can write and read them with accuracy. Students worked on a variety of activities which included word building, sorting, and writing.
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