Somewhere underneath all that blue and pink stuff on the map is Arkansas and Missouri. No school today as we continue to receive more freezing rain, sleet, and even a little snow. Looking like we will not continue back to school until Thursday or so. In the meantime, since I can’t leave the house, I…
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Now that we have selected our topics for science fair, on Monday we will explore the scientific method and the role it will play in our experiments. We are going to use one of my favorite TV shows, Myth Busters, to preform this task. We are going to use this show to study the different…
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This past week our students have been studying ballads. Ballads are poems that tell a story. They date back to medieval times and were told by singers called Minstrels. We have focused on two famous ballads in particular, Lord Randall and Barbra Allen. These are two classic stories of love, heartbreak, and death. Aspects to…
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Created using Obamicon Using our Ning website has become my new hobby. Everyday I use our online classroom I discover something new about the program. The newest feature that I have found, that is making my life a whole lot easier, is our new video section. With this feature I can now load videos in…
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We continued our use of microscopes today as I introduced two new objects to my students. Along with the observations from the clipping of the newspaper “e” they made yesterday, students were asked to draw their observations of a feather and a picture from a magazine that they viewed using a microscope. The top picture…
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After the craziness that was inauguration day yesterday, we were able to return to some normalcy today. We started our science lesson by giving a general introduction to microscopes. Students were given two slides and a small clipping of a letter from a newspaper, and asked to make a dry mount using these materials. Students…
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Wow, America can really put on a show….Today we were able to witness a new chapter in American History. Today brings a great time of hope and change. It also means a lot of different things to many different people. Students, your assignment for communication arts is to reply to the question, “what does this…
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Below is a link to CBS News Webcast coverage of the 2008 inauguration.Inauguration
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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)
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…..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….
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