Day 87: In 10 Years

This week, our Bobcat Writing Prompt is

Imagine your life 10 years from now. How old will you be? What will you be doing? In 100 words, or less, describe how you picture your life 10 years from now.

Use the comment section below to enter your ideas!

Day 84: Sheep in a Jeep Part 2

How can you use these words to tell about...

Motion
Force
Gravity
Inertia
Friction

Day 83: Mythology

RESOURCES

Cute idea generator for writing your own myth

StoryNory provides many of the Greek myths as read-alouds

Understanding mythology as the religion of the Ancient Greeks, and others

Quiz Your Noodle on mythology/Percy Jackson

Symbaloo of major Greek myths

Introduction to Greek Mythology

Literature for Children: Myths short video from DE Streaming

Clickable Painting of the 12 main gods as research

Brain Pop of Greek Gods

LESSON IDEAS

Greek Mythology Unit with readings and activities

Webquest type activity with questions, lessons and pacing - good for an extension project!

A few activity pages, including one of designing your own urn

Crosswords and Word Searches

Greek Masks and Coloring Pages of the Gods

Day 82: Thinking Blocks

This week, we will be spending some time working in Thinking Blocks. Thinking Blocks has recently moved to Math Playground, but they also have newly developed apps for fractions, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. It integrates modeling, algorithm, and word problems.

Day 81: Action and Reaction

Day 80: Cold Weather Science

Day 79: Reading Challenge

I hope you all completed your 300 minutes of reading over the holiday break. Remember to return your reading logs, signed by a parent or guardian, by Wednesday!

Be safe and warm to come in tomorrow on a 2 hr delay!

Day 78: Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays to you! Have a safe, warm, and restful break. Check back at the blog for updates over the vacation!

 

Day 77: New Years Resolutions

Day 77: MATTER TEST

Day 76: Letters to Santa

This year, the McLeansville Elementary School Student Council is making an effort to flood the Santa Mail boxes at Macy's stores with letters to Santa. For each letter Macy's receives, they will donate $1.00 to the Make a Wish Foundation. Today, we learned more about the foundation and discussed how great it is that someone is helping sick children to have something positive to think about throughout the year. If you can, take a moment and write a quick letter to Santa. If you bring it to school before Friday, December 20, we will even drop it off for you.

CLICK HERE for the link to the Macy's Believe Project!

Day 75: Holiday Card Exchange

This year, our class participated in a holiday card exchange with 30 schools across the country. Here are our cards and the map we've created to show where the cards have originated. We've even been able to talk over Skype with some of the classes! Happy Holidays from around the USA!

Day 74: Changes Labs

Exploring what happens with Alka-Seltzer and water. 

Hard at work with our 6 science lab stations.

Baking soda and vinegar... oh my!

Vinegar and milk... hmmm! What happens?!

Day 72: Voki

http://voki.com

Day 71: Holidays Challenge

We've started building Holidays Around the World boards with our Discovery Education accounts, and check out this challenge from DE! If you want your board submitted to the challenge, let me know!

The challenge is open to students in all grades. The prize-winning board will be selected based on the most interesting content and the best use of the features of Board Builder. The prizes are a New Year’s Gift for the board creator and a New Year’s Gift Pack for his or her classroom. (Prizes will be wrapped in paper and mystery, like all good holiday gifts.)

Deadline = December 20, 2013. Teachers must submit the boards, so give them enough time to review, approve, and submit.

Here are the directions:

1. Create a board with a theme of Holidays around the World.

2. Create a unique title for your board and include the word “holiday” or “holidays” (i.e. “Globular Holiday Extravaganza” or “Musicalicious Holidays”).

3. Submit your board to your teacher for approval. Then, ask your teacher to 1) share it to the DE Community and 2) submit it for the challenge here.

Here are some hints:

Get creative: take some time to think about a theme that interests you and would be interesting to others. Focus on one holiday and the different traditions it brings in various cultures; highlight unique holiday foods; dig into the origins of a particular holiday — all of these and many more ideas would be fine.

Use the features of Board Builder: make sure you take advantage of the variety of things you can include on a board. Board Builder lets you include images, video, audio, and documents. You can use resources directly from Discovery Education, resources saved on your computer, or you can create your own photos, videos, songs, etc. and upload them right onto the board.

Day 70: Hour of Code

Let's start here...
Catch those pigs! Code.Org



Places to learn how to code for kids:

Tynker

Create a holiday card with Scratch

Code Academy

Day 69: Congratulations

Congratulations to our students who were selected to serve on the 2013-2014 McLeansville Elementary School Student Council!

President: Storm
Vice-President: Kayla

Representatives: Da'Mon & Alexandra

Day 68: Student Council Elections

Day 67: Mrs. Hines' Interim Report

Day 66: Look What Came Today