Room 132

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We recently received a letter in the mail.  Flat Stanley came to visit.  He came to us from Lux Middle School in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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We still need to plan some places in the area for Flat Stanley to visit, but first he had to go around our building a bit.

First we were hungry, so we took Stanley to the cafeteria.

Later we took him with us to Technology class, where he liked hanging out with lego towers we made.

You can see the other places that Flat Stanley is visiting on his Glogster.

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Today I had to be out of the classroom for the day because I had to attend a followup training for our new Reading program, Ramp Up Literacy.  This program is quite different from previous programs we’ve used.  It strongly focuses on reading comprehension strategies.  I was asked to bring in some materials from the class so far, so I took a bunch of pictures.

Predictions about Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs: The Buried Bones Mystery.  The checkmarks show which of the class’s predictions came true.

Sara’s great response to Ziggy.

Kevin’s Independent Reading Log.  He really likes the Goosebumps series!

Kwami’s storyboard of events (in progress) from a page in Calvin and Hobbes.

Kwami’s Word Knowledge Chart

As you can see, the students have prduced some great artifacts already this year, and I look forward to lots more!

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Today we played another game working on our time-telling skills.  The previous one we played allowed us to see how quickly we could match times.  This one keeps track of how many we get correct.  This called for some friendly competition.  The students determined that the team that could get the most correct in the period (about half an hour) would get their picture put up on the website.  Here’s the winning team with their score:

Today our team took a trip to the National Liberty Museum.  The students learned about people around the world who fought for freedom and human rights.  Here are some of the pictures I took during the day.

Jellybean People

Powerful words on a wall

The Peace Portal.  Beautiful.

Signing the Declaration for the Future of America

Riding home on the bus

Bonus: a panoramic photo of the students in the class working hard after we get back!

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Update.  Some pictures from today’s activities.

Hard at work

Celebrating a win in HangMouse