Gingerbread Math

Yesterday we had gingerbread math it was fun. We made gingerbread mixes and wrote down ingredients and we all made pretty good tops for the jars that we put the mix in. The bad thing was we didn't actually make gingerbread, but it was fun! That was our day yesterday.

BY: Skylar

Learning about volcanoes

Here's some facts about volcanoes. Volcanoes have a magma chamber\lava/ash/crater and crust. Here's how a volcano erupts. It erupts from the magma chamber. The magma chamber does it because it builds up pressure and the lava reaches the top. Then the pressure of the lava is pushing up to explode. Here it comes BOOM! The lava now comes out. Here are some facts about under water volcanoes. When a volcano explodes under water it can form a new island. So that's what volcanoes do.

By Ben

Here are some of our projects that we made.

Winter Poem

Christmas cheer all around
Santa's coming
Shh! don't make a sound.
When he's here don't fall to the ground.
Try to be safe!

Oh No!
Hurry! Hurry! Everyone!
Play alone have some fun,
I count each other 1 by 1.

by Mahari

Coding

 Yesterday the teacher taught us about coding. The other thing she let us do with coding was play coding games.There were twenty levels for some people and eleven for other people. Instead of someone doing the math part he did a plants v.s. zombies showed up. Well that's what we did yesterday with coding. You can try too at code.org.

By Lucas

Science Time

This week's blog is by Brooke.

Today we are learning about weathering in science. It is cool. We watched a video of how rocks break apart. To try this you need to have  a rock, a hammer and a fan. First you can break the rock with the hammer, then turn on the fan. Finally the fan takes the pieces away. This is weathering. If there is a cliff with a crack in it and it fills with water and it get cold and turns  into ice the cliff breaks. That is what we're learning about in science.

Kids in the Kitchen

On Wednesday, we had kids in the kitchen. They taught us about healthy eating. They had yogurt, bananas, strawberries, blueberries and raisins. We made healthy parfaits out of the food. We also played food bingo. It was so much fun!  By Elizabeth

What I like

On Halloween Mrs. Rowe's class got cob webs and ghost all over the school. We did a hard test about the earth and her whole class did great on it. We do fun stuff like word searches and we play silent ball at the end of the day. That is all the fun things in Mrs. Rowe's class.

By Jaden T.

Halloween Time

Halloween is right around the corner the class is full of buzz.  People are telling about what they are going to wear and what they are doing for Halloween.   The classroom is like a Halloween house.   It  has spiders webs and ghosts galore.  Most everyone  is in the Halloween spirit.  I hope you are having as much fun as I am.     Happy Halloween  -Molly.

Signal Words

Check out this week's blog by Alexis:

This week in reading we learned how to use signal words to explain connections in nonfiction
text. Some of the signal words are first, next, then, finally and April. I hope this school year will go
great. I hope you enjoyed what we learned.

Our blog this week is by Julia.  She wrote her own poems about the seasons and holidays.

Back to School
Teachers greet
Friends to meet
School supplies
Grades rise
Every day recess play
Tests start
9:00 sharp
Reports bloom
That fill the room
Now in seats
School repeats

All about Fall
Leaves are on the ground
Apples all around
Animals move on
Farmers's crops are gone
Hunting season
Deer and turkey are the reason
It is cool
Closed the pool
Trick-or-treat
Good to eat
Last few days
Of Summer's gaze

Blog Use

I feel that blogging is a great way to communicate and keep information flowing outside of the classroom.  My plans on using this blog for the classroom will be to keep parents in the loop and for them to have an insight as to what we are going to do or what we have done.  Each week a student will be given the job of "blogger".  It will be up to them to decide what they want to add to our classroom blog.  I will have the students write their blog in their writing journal and then have another student edit it.  Before blogging, I will check it to see that what they are writing is correct and appropriate to be added.  This will help to give the students some ownership of the blog as well.

Constitution Day

Our class took a virtual tour today of the National Archives.  We learned about the Declaration of Independence and where it is stored.  We learned that everything up to Obama's tweets are archived.  Children who write letters to the president, those letters could be on display. To become an archivist you need to be appointed by the President.

Intro to Blogging

Rules for blogging:

1. Don’t give out any personal information like telephone numbers, home address, school name or parent’s office address.

2. Don’t use your real name as your log on name.

3. Make sure you’re not simply typing “Yeah” or “That’s right” or something equally boring.

4. Learn how to use “smileys” to show how you are saying things. Read the smileys sideways – they make a face.  or is a smiley face. You are happy and smiling when you speak….let me see that personality!

5. Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life.