Winter Fun

Today was a blast!  We started off the morning by watching movies and eating popcorn.  Santa Claus even made an appearance at our school.  The students opened their gifts and played with them.  We spent a lot of time in the gym flying airplanes, riding on scooters, and having fun.  Thank you for a great school year so far.  Happy Holidays!

Fun Video

Happy Holidays!  Here is a fun video we made as a class this morning.  We hope you enjoy it.

Holiday Video

Just a reminder that the students are dismissed at 1:00 tomorrow and that it is our school wide movie reward day too.  Your child may wear his/her pajamas to school and bring a blanket or pillow along with him/her.  It's always a fun day for everyone.

Many students are starting to run low on supplies such as pencils and erasers.  Also, many of their folders are in pretty bad shape.  Please ask you child if he/she needs new pencils, erasers, or folders.  This would be a great way for your child to start the new year.

Every morning the students come into our classroom and work on their math facts by using iPads.  They use the website xtramath.  This is a website they can use throughout winter break.  Please remind your child to practice his/her math facts and reading over the next two weeks.

It's Liberty's birthday tomorrow!  She brought delicious cupcakes today.  Have a great birthday!

The risers are ready for the students!  The Cooper Winter Sing begins with the kindergartners at 12:15 today.  Hopefully we will see you there.

It's Robbi's birthday today.  He brought a great snack for all of us to enjoy.  Happy Birthday Robbi!

This morning the students listened to a video on brainpopjr.com.  This video was on homonyms.  Don't be afraid to challenge your kids with some homonyms of your own.

Today in reading the students were given an opportunity to look over their sticky notes on the website linoit.com and compare and contrast the story elements of various books in their reading series.  This group of boys are working on the reading series The Bailey School Kids.  Next, each group will be writing a paragraph about how all the books in their reading series are similar to one another.  These will be posted in the near future.

Math Time

Haydon busy working on his math before lunch.

Liberty passed the division game for Big Brainz and Nathan passed the multiplication game.  Congratulations!

Reading

     During reading this week we have been working on mysteries and making inferences.  Each  group chose a series and read books from that series.  We had a sheet that we had to fill out as we were reading.  When we first started we read two or three pages and made an inference on what we thought  was going to happen next.  On the second day we read about fifteen or twenty pages and then made an inference on what we thought would happen.  
 Yesterday we started to post the story elements on a website called Linoit.com.  On that website there were different colored sticky notes that you could use.  We used the yellow sticky note for the title, the green sticky note for the characters, the blue sticky note for the setting and the pink sticky note for the plot (problem And solution).  Today we continued working on what we did yesterday.   Reading is a fun subject in our classroom.

Written by Brenna and Blake

HyperBlast by Lily

HyperBlast

HyperBlast scored 5 stars out of 5.  I think HyperBlast is an awesome amazing app, because it helps you know your math facts.  Another reason is because it has an easy,a medium,and a hard level.  My third reason I like the game is because it has a tutorial that teaches you how to play the game if you don't know how to.  My last reason I like the game is because it does not have a time limit on when your fighting the Electronic robot, so you have more time to think.  If you ever spot HyperBlast in the App Store and it's less then $2.00 you should install this game on your device.  

Math Puppy by Devyn

Math Puppy

I would give Math Puppy 1 out of 5 stars.  It is the WORST GAME EVER!!! One reason I dislike this game is because it give's you only 25 seconds to do one problem.  If you have a wrong answer they cross out the smile face.  You can never get this smile face back.  The calculator aka not smarter machine is the worst thing ever because you don't get smarter.   Another bad reason is that you have to start all over if you get three wrong answers.  That's why I don't like math puppy.  Never download this app.

Wings by Nathan

Wings

If I could rate wings I would rate it 5 out of 5 stars.  I think that the game is so amazing. The music is so amazing. It makes you feel like you are soaring through the sky.  I think that the graphics are great!!!  It looks like you are soaring high in the sky.  It is really easy to learn. It changes you in math. If you choose to buy wings you are in for a treat!

The Northern Lights from Sheboygan North High School came to our gym and shared their musical talents with us.  The students enjoyed the holiday music they provided.  One of the young singers was even a former student of Cooper Elementary School.

This Friday at 12:15 starts the Cooper Winter Sing.  The students have worked hard and have some fun songs to share with you at this time.  We hope to see you there.

This is the last week that our class has the opportunity to play Big Brainz.  It's an interactive game that helps students with the recall of their math facts.  The students have enjoyed playing this game tremendously.  Please have your child practice his or her math facts over winter break.  They can use the websites: xtramath and ixl.  Your child should know their passwords for these websites.  Also, encourage your child to read throughout the holidays.  Practicing the skills we learn in class is crucial

 in helping your child maintain what he or she has learned during the school day.

HyperBlast

    I would give HyperBlast 5 out of 5 stars. It is an amazing math app.  It helps young and old kids learn their math facts in a fun way.  The second reason I like it is because you can pick different levels to complete.  Another reason I like it is because you can tilt the electronic device which makes it easier to move around.  The fourth reason I adore HyperBlast is that as long as you are holding the shoot button it continues to shoot bullets from the bike. The last reason I like HyperBlast is that if you are playing and have to go to the bathroom or do your homework you can pause the game and you won't die. If you ever spot HyperBlast on the App Store I think you should definitely purchase it. I think HyperBlast is the finest math app ever.

Sushi Monster

  I would give Sushi Monster four stars out of five stars.  I think Sushi Monster is an awesome app.  One reason is because the music is especially fun and does not play if you don't want it to. Another reason is because it gives you a challenge.  You get a challenge because there are different levels you can go in like addition and multiplication.  My third reason is because of the score.  It always displays your score and it shows your score at the end of the game.   Also it rates you with three stars.  But I don't like it because there is no subtraction and division.  I think almost all people should get Sushi Monster.

Welcome to our new classroom blog!  Throughout the rest of the school year our class will share many of our experiences with you.  Everyone of us will get an opportunity to publish stories on this site.  We hope you will support us by commenting on our work and by exploring our blog.  Let's get blogging!