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Today in School...

March 21, 2012

...students were able to view their colonial webpages online!  They took the
time to visit their classmates' pages and read the information.  They also
worked with multiplication of mixed numbers in math class and began sorting
their note cards for their marine animal reports.

March 20, 2012

...students published their webpages. I created hyperlinks from a main page to
their pages so that their website can be unveiled tomorrow during social
studies class.  They also attended a presentation about biomes by Chewonki.

March 19, 2012

...students learned about ocean resources and work on collages to show some of
the many resources.  They reviewed the parts of the ocean floor and ocean
currents using our new Smartboard (thanks to the Cole Family Foundation). 
They also used the Smartboard to review place value in math class.

March 15, 2012

...students designed their webpages about life in the colonial era.  Mrs.
Waldron came in and showed then how to use iWeb.  The website will be
published soon.  Stay tuned to find out when you can view their work online!

March 14, 2012

...students celebrated Pi Day!  They had fun with their Kindergarten buddies
working with circles, making circle pictures, and trying to eat a piece of pie
in less than 3 minutes and 14 seconds.

March 13, 2012

...in science class, students worked together to clean up an "oil spill." 
They investigated various materials and rated their effectiveness.  Students
then came up with their own ideas about how best to clean up oil spills.

February 18, 2012

...students finished up some projects before vacation.  We are getting ready
to start several new units after the break.  Students will need a package of
100 index cards when they return to school.

February 17, 2012

...students visited the Egyptian Fair put on by the sixth grade.  They had a
lot of fun and learned a lot about ancient Egypt.

January 31, 2012

...it was an early release, so we had a lot to accomplish in half the time. 
Students worked in groups to read about 6 of the original 13 colonies and
complete a matrix about the reasons for its founding and the geography,
economy, and government of each.  Many of the students have said, after
further reading, they want to switch their colony of choice from yesterday's
survey.  We didn't have time to officially vote again, but we will tomorrow. 
The students had a shortened music class before spending 30 minutes reading to
their kindergarten buddies.  In math we worked with finding fractions on a
ruler and simple adding and subtracting of fractions.  Students also spent
some time working on their "Soil to Spoon" posters for the Knox-Lincoln Soil
and Water Conservation District poster contest.

January 30, 2012

...students finished their colony billboards and presented them to the class.
 Based on the information in the "sales pitch" and on the billboard, students
had a chance to vote for which colony they would prefer to live in.  The
majority of students choose Massachusetts.  Georgia and Maryland came in tied
for second.  Only one student chose Pennsylvania.  No one chose Rhode Island
or New York.  Tomorrow, after reading more indepth information, students will
have a chance to change their vote.  It will be interesting to see if anyone
does!  We read about the Junior Iditarod and worked on vocabulary, story
details, predictions, and determining fact and opinion during reading class. 
We had to take last week's spelling test and this week's spelling pretest.  In
math, we examined and interpreted climate and precipitation maps.  Students
worked on word problems with partners and reviewed some math skills
independently in math boxes.  Students also continued working on their
"Shipwrecked" stories during writing and on their fish during science.

January 27, 2012

Snow Day

January 26, 2012

...students had band and guidance class.  During science, they begin creating
fish, based on features of real fish.  Students had to complete a planning
sheet, answer some questions about how the particular features they chose
would help their fish survive, and draw a rough sketch.  Next will come the
fun part--drawing the diagrams and painting them with watercolors!  They spent
some time in their small groups working on their colony billboards and
slogans/jingles.  They read about Buck Leonard, Graham Hawkes, or Francisco de
Coronado and worked on vocabulary skills and identifying main ideas and
details. In math, students worked on elapsed time, statistical landmarks, and
a math box.  Students also spent some time writing their "Shipwrecked" stories.

January 25, 2012

...students worked on tabulating and graphing data during math class. 
Students are working in small groups in social studies to create a billboard
to convince settlers to move to one of the original 13 colonies.  As part of
the project, students need to create a catchy or memorable slogan.  Many of
the groups have chosen to do this in the form of a jingle.  They are quite
creative!  In reading class, they are working on identifying the main idea and
supporting details of text.  Students read a short article about space
experiments and a longer article about spiders to practice this skill.

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