5th graders are working on Limericks!
By Sophie:
There once was a snail named Joe
He didn’t have a friend but a foe
His foe is a seagull
Although it’s illegal
The gull took a bite of Joe’s toe!
Joe the Snail …a limerick
Wonderstruck!
We’ve got a lot of info to go along with the book Wonderstruck! First check out this video
http://www.scholastic.com/teachbrianselznick/assets/video.htm
The website for the book is here: Wonderstruck.
Enjoy!
Microsoft PowerPoint Graphics
Today I was following my nose and clicking on link after link and I found something kinda cool. It’s called SmartArt graphics that can be found on the Insert menu in PowerPoint. This is a quickie example of how they possibly could look-
If you would like to download a demo of how to use SmartArt, click here.
Build Your Wild Self
Today after third grade finished their typing practice, we went to buildyourwildself.com to finish off the monster project. Check out two of the results!
Graphing birthdays…always fun!
Today we graphed birthdays. The kids always like this lesson. Here are the results if directions are followed!
Picture It!
This is a project that I just finished with grades 3-5. Jen of ‘Projects by Jen’ had a project that you were to color 1/24th of a picture, along with 23 other classes, and then put them all together to see what it looks like!
This is what we have so far!
Check out the rest of her projects! http://www.projectsbyjen.com/
Monster Project!
Two wonderful teachers began the Monster Project a few years ago. This is how it goes:
one class studies and learns about adjectives and describing words. We used books such as
Go Away, Big Green Monster, and Many Luscious Lollipops,Hairy, Scary Ordinary, Drawing and Learning about Monsters, and some others to help them visualize their monsters a bit more.
Then, the students draw a picture of a monster, preferably online using Kid Pix or Tux Paint
We used Kidspiration and created mind maps to help us get our descriptive words in the right places!
They give their monster a name and a full description of it. Then, these are posted on the web. The partner students only get the descriptions, no pictures, and they have to draw their versions of the monsters. Then their versions are put alongside the original pictures! We can’t wait to see what the “redrawn” monsters look like!
Group 1
Group 2
One of our monsters! 
ifaketext.com
Interesting new tool to try out: ifaketext.com
Not sure how this is something we need to use but it’s kinda fun!
Bullying Academy
I came across this website, http://bullyingacademy.org/, and thought we’d try it out. I started my 4th and 5th graders on it last week, which involved getting their user names and passwords and then taking a pretest. This was done and when we get back from winter break, we will begin with a scavenger hunt. So far, so good.
Check it out here:
