Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Ancient Greece Celebrations

On Friday, January 22 at 1:15 the students will be participating in Ancient Classroom Olympics. Some events will include the Straw Javelin Throw, Paper Plate Discus, and some running races. Following the Olympics we will have a small snack of cheese, olives, grapes, and bread. Please join us for our celebrations.
Volunteers and Food NEEDED!!! Food - string cheese, loaf of bread, grapes, oranges, and olives

Last Week in Ancient Greece

Our class is reading about Ancient Greece in The Magic Tree House Research Guide - Ancient Greece and the Olympics. Ancient means very old. there were two very important city states called Sparta and Athens. We're also learning aobut Greek people and gods and godesses.
Written by KA and TB

Two Weeks Ago.....

In math we learned about flips (reflections), slides (translations), and turns (rotations). It was fun moving shapes. We learned about skooners and machetes from our story Cocoa Ice. We also learned about trading from our story and that was also a Social Studies standard.
Written by CC and RR

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

MATH FUN

Mrs. McClure is making new fun changes in math centers. Our teacher will be teaching divisions. She will teach us hands on activities. We will study fast facts.
Written by: KA, RR, CC, and TB

Ringing in the New Year

Welcome back to School! This year I am going to make sure the website is updated!!! The kids will be assisting me with this project. Their will be a group of students that will write a weekly summary of the week and then it will be posted.
They started out today by writing about some changes for math.