What Type of Animal is This?

Today we celebrated Earth Day. We saw the movie, Oceans, and we then cleaned the park and enjoyed a glorious day outside in the fresh air. The bunnies were at the park, too. When we returned to school, we decided to take the animals we learned about and create a inferring game for our sister class in Chicago, where Mr. Phipps' third graders will use our movies. They will practice inferring and taking what they have been studying about animals to get their answers. We can't wait to share and hear what they have to say.

What Type of Animal is This?

Today we celebrated Earth Day. We saw the movie, Oceans, and we then cleaned the park and enjoyed a glorious day outside in the fresh air. The bunnies were at the park, too. When we returned to school, we decided to take the animals we learned about and create a inferring game for our sister class in Chicago, where Mr. Phipps' third graders will use our movies. They will practice inferring and taking what they have been studying about animals to get their answers. We can't wait to share and hear what they have to say.

What Type of Animal is This?

Today we celebrated Earth Day. We saw the movie, Oceans, and we then cleaned the park and enjoyed a glorious day outside in the fresh air. The bunnies were at the park, too. When we returned to school, we decided to take the animals we learned about and create a inferring game for our sister class in Chicago, where Mr. Phipps' third graders will use our movies. They will practice inferring and taking what they have been studying about animals to get their answers. We can't wait to share and hear what they have to say.

What Type of Animal is This?

Today we celebrated Earth Day. We saw the movie, Oceans, and we then cleaned the park and enjoyed a glorious day outside in the fresh air. The bunnies were at the park, too. When we returned to school, we decided to take the animals we learned about and create a inferring game for our sister class in Chicago, where Mr. Phipps' third graders will use our movies. They will practice inferring and taking what they have been studying about animals to get their answers. We can't wait to share and hear what they have to say.

Blog It- Math Style!

We have been using our class blog interacting with one another, commenting, posting, and simply communicating in a digital way. This past week, we have been working hard on fractions and being able to add them when they have different denominators. We have been learning how to reduce. Check out our blog to hear and see the kids explaining and designing their own math problems. Fun stuff to check out. Click below for a sample.

http://kidblog.org/randolph109/Martyna2/explaining-math/

Yahoooooooo!

The garden, through DonorsChoose.org is now fully funded! This is fantastic and we are super duper excited. Thanks for all the donations, world!

Donors Choose: Recession Gardening

We are currently studying the Great Depression and its effects on families living in America during that time. As a direct way to become the solution in difficult times all students, in Room 109 are encouraged to sign up for the last round of after school programs and be a part of the Gardening Club. We will be creating an edible garden to fight today's present economic times. We will be monitoring the DonorsChoose.org website for our Project entitled, "Yes We Can: A Community Recession Garden Project". It is here that we have asked the world outside our window to provide materials and seeds for our upcoming project. Keep your fingers crossed (just one, I hear) and spread the word and seek donations, kids!

109'ers Blog Conversations

Ms Parkhill and the staff at Washington School have created blog spots where students will submit comments about various activities, topics, and ideas presented in our classes. Of course, we have agreed to our internet safety guidelines and understand that we are ready to blog appropriately! Have fun, be throughtful, and safe.

Podcasting Book Reviews with Images

We reviewed our latest book chat novels using our own illustrations and pocasting skills. Enjoy!

mental warm up

FInally... it works!
We LOVE to dance and our teachers LOVE to dance, even more. When we are feeeling like our brain synapses need a zap, we mental warm up. Thanks to our good friends over at www.cics.com in Mr. Phipps' third grade class, we are able to enjoy dance offs when we need a zap!
Watch and feel free to join us by dancing in your living rooms at home!

Podcasting Book Reviews

We have been reading excellent novels in our Book Chat time. We used our art skills and time to provide an illustrated book summary of our last three chapters. We are using these pictures to create a mind movie where we simply tell what happened in our story. Summary at its greatest.
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The week before, we just used our lovely voices to summarize. Compare the two and see which you enjoy more.

Colonial Jobs Day.

We have been studying the 13 colonies and are about ready for our Common Assessment. In order to understand and "live" the colonies, we worked with Ms G to come up with a colonial job fair day. We had a blast dressing up and presenting the occupations of colonial times- Innkeepers, Blacksmiths, Silversmiths, Teachers, Doctors, Printers, and Wigmakers.

Book Chat Reviews: Commercial Style

One of our last rounds of book chat books allowed us to create persuasive book reviews using technology. We had a great time making commericals about each of our books. Enjoy!


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Welocme to Learnin' It, Bloggin' It, and Showin' It- 109 Style

We are a classroom of fifth grade students who love to learn and use technology. This is our blog and we welcome you to it. Come often and check out what we have been up to throughout our days.