Ahhhh, the classic game of gambling…. as a part of our study of Hanukkah today our class split into small groups and played a Jewish children’s game, Dreidel. This game is played with a wooden top that has four Jewish letters on each side. Nun, gimmel, hay, and shin, each one of these letters has…

Convection occurs when there is an upwelling in the earth’s mantle caused by heat. This upwelling then causes parts of the earth’s mantle to cool as it rises to the top, as it cools the mantle then pushes the oceanic plates towards the coastline. At this point subducion occurs. From this process new ocean floor…

This week’s Academic Accolades go to….. Jeffery (supporting tie tuesday) from Mrs. Drake’s Clss, Kirsten from Mrs. Hamm’s Class, and Ben from Mr. McClung’s Class. Great job everyone! Mr. McClung

Today we continued our celebration of Christmas around the world by studying the Jewish Holiday of Hanukkah. Hanukkah (the festival of lights) is a celebration of when Judah and his men defeated the Syrians and reclaimed their temple after a fighting for three long years. Once the Jewish soldiers reclaimed their temple they relit the…

This fall I have read two books that I feel have influenced my way of viewing education greatly. The first book being Accountability for Learning by Douglas Reeves. In the first few chapters of this book he speaks about how important it is to talk about what you are doing in your classroom and be…

On Friday, our sixth graders kicked off what is going to be our celebration of Christmas around the world. In the next two weeks in social studies, our students will be studying how Christmas is celebrated in different countries by different cultures (feel free to comment about how YOU celebrate). Our students part of Friday…

Now that we have learned information about waves from an earthquake and locations at which they occur; today we started to dig deeper. We started a lesson focusing on the earth’s interior and the parts that make it up. To help aide in our learning we used Discovery Education (DE) to help guide us through…

Today we spent sometime plotting earthquakes. Each group of students were given 8 different earthquakes to plot on an transparency sheet (40 earthquakes total in the class). We used five groups plotting these points to help us develop a picture of where the majority of earthquakes occur. > The red on several of the maps…

Academic Accolades this week go to….Naomi from Mr. McClung’s ClassCendy from Mrs. Drake’s Class…and Kyle from Mrs. Hamm’s Class (absent today) Mr. McClung

As of today, Mr. McClung’s class is officially streaming live all day. After a bit of a process and a little help from Mr. C, we are finally wired for video. If you’ll notice, our streaming video is located at the top right hand corner of the page. The feed will be coming from my…