How about that….even President Bush and President-elect Obama have heard about Tie Tuesday. Below are some photos of others that joined us in Tie Tuesday. Fourth grader, Hanna Third grade teacher, Mrs. Greer Levi (Mrs. Drake’s Class), Macy (Mr. McClung’s Class), Courtney (Mr. McClung’s Class), and Jeff (Mrs. Drake’s Class)

…..with a little help from our friend Dr. Seuss. With today being MLK Day, the sixth grade teachers decided that we would use Jim Crow Laws to help us with the explanation of the civil rights movement, and how important MLK actually was. We used Dr. Seuss’ book The Sneetches to help us do this….

Ahhhhh……paper, paper, paper….On Friday we were able to get our hands on a some soon to be recycled paper. How much you ask? Enough paper to make Dunder Mifflin jealous. You may also ask, “what did we do with this paper”, well we threw it at each other……DUH! My favorite part is Francisco pegging Cendy…

Another advantage that Ning provides for us is the ability feature class notes. This will serve a couple of purposes for us. Number one, if a students is absent a day, they can log on to our online classroom and review what was missed for that day. Also, students can access these notes anytime from…

Today we made our final observations with our vials and discovered there was a lot more going on than we thought. One of the biggest discoveries we made was that substance E (shrimp eggs), started moving. Its very hard to see but if you look closely you can see the eggs move a little in…

Today is the second day of our lab observations with the secret materials we introduced yesterday. It has paid off because today we are starting to see some signs of life.One of the materials we used yesterday was radish seeds. Above is a picture of one of our radish seeds starting to split and grow,…

This week our students have been working on limericks in communication arts. Limericks is a humorous poem of five lines. The first, second, and last lines all rhyme with each other, as do the third and fourth. Also the first, second, and last lines have three accented syllables. the third and fourth have two. My…

Today we switched gears as we left the science fair behind for a few days and continued our work in diversity of life. Previously we had set guidelines for what makes something living or non-living. Some of these guidelines or characteristics featured movement, breathing, consuming energy, etc… Students were asked to conduct a investigation involving…

On Tuesday we held an assembly for seat belt safety. In this assembly our students learned a variety of ways to to be safe in the car in different situations and have a little bit of fun while as well.The video below is a demonstration of how a seat belt should always be worn in…

What started out as a excuse for me to put some of the ties that have been in my closet for the past year to good use, has now created a buzz around the school. No one really knows when Tie Tuesday began, but it was sometime last semester. I would simply just wear a…