A 30 Year Christmas Tradition
Every year our 1st graders put on a Christmas show. They work very hard to learn the songs and their part in the program. We have been doing it for so long, that many of our students have parents who...
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An early Skype session this morning gave us our first contact in Europe. The students found the location of our mystery classroom by asking: Are you in the Eastern or Western hemisphere? Are you in the...
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Tasty Geometry!
Learning about sides, vertices, edges, and faces is so much fun when we get to use marshmallows! We started by building 2 dimensional figures like triangles, squares, pentagons, hexagons, and octagons....
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Melting Snowmen
Mrs. Glass came and helped us make really cute melting snowmen. This art project goes with our current #2ndchat read aloud: Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner Mrs. Glass gave us step by step...
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Martin Luther King, Jr – Painting and Listening
In honor of Black History Month, we spent some time painting portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr. The students don’t get to paint very much because we do not have art at the elementary level in our...
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The Phases of the Moon
The Moon looks different every day, but looks the same again about every 4 weeks Can you see a pattern? When the Moon appears to get bigger, it is “waxing” When the Moon appears to get smaller, it is...
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World Read Aloud Day
On March 6, we celebrated World Read Aloud Day. First we Skyped with The Phoenix School. The kids read their published stories to us. Their stories were awesome. We could tell that they worked very...
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On the Same Day in March and Flowers!
On the first day of spring we kicked off the day by reading On the Same Day in March by Marilyn Singer, a book about weather around the world. We learned that the weather can be very different in...
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Shape Challenge and Vehicle Challenge
During our morning independent work time, the students have been working on building challenges. The first challenge was the SHAPE Challenge. Students had to figure out how to make a square pyramid out...
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Recycling Survey
A 5th grade student at Mary Harris Elementary in Crowley ISD would like our help with his recycling survey. Please click HERE and type your answers in the boxes. Another student is doing a...
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Field Day!
Every year our PE teacher, Mrs. B, puts on a great field day. This year we got to go out for the whole day! There were 30 different stations with fun games and activities: obstacle course, king of the...
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A Sweet Ending
The last day of school has come and gone. The room is all packed up and summer has begun. We spent the last day cleaning, reflecting, and partying. I am looking forward to a nice break so I can relax...
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Shootin’ Marshmallows!
A fun activity for the last week of school took us to the science lab where we used everyday classroom materials to create marshmallow shooters. Some of the shooters were as simple as a plastic spoon,...
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Dot Day Part 2
We wrapped up our Dot Day celebration on Friday by Skyping with Mrs. Rosenquist’s class in Long Island, New York. We shared information about our schools and how we made our dots. We also took turns...
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Augmented Reality – Try it!
Use these two images to check out ColAR app. Just go to the site and download the app to your Apple or Android device. Once dowloaded, click on play, aim it at one of the images, and watch it come to...
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Tweeting!
This morning we sent a Twitter message to Mrs. Rosenquist thanking her for the awesome Dot Day video she made with pictures from our Dot Day Skype. It’s so fun to type on our new Smartboard! Make a...
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The Life Cycle of a Snowman 2013
3 snowmen visited 2nd grade to teach us about the 3 states of matter! For 3 years, a snowman has come to visit my class to help teach us the 3 states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. It was so fun to...
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