Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Take a Stand

Fair or Not Fair?

I’m getting in trouble and being punished because I’m too good,” says Tanner Beebe, a 12 year old who was banned from pitching for his baseball team.

9 year old Jericho Scott was also told he is too good, and could not pitch anymore. 

Choose one article to read. Then, write one paragraph that either agrees with the league's decision to not let the player pitch anymore, or defend the player's right to pitch. Use evidence from the article in your Google Doc to support your opinion.
(Rubric & Example)


spt Tanner 1.jpg     Jericho Scott






Monday, March 30, 2015

1st Grade/2nd Grade Career Research

What do you want to be when you grow up? Let's research a few professions today. When done researching 3 professions, flip your paper over and draw a picture of what that profession looks like. Then, complete the sentence that explains which career you liked the best and why.



Firefighter Pediatrician Veterinarian

Utility Worker Police Officer



Kindergarten Peep and the Big Wide World

4th Grade Research

What is research? Can we find information on certain topics from a reliable source? Today we visit National Geographic Kids to do some research. Find facts on two different animals. then, compare what you've learned about both animals on our digital Venn Diagram.



     


5th Grade For Crown or Colony

Time at one of our all-time favorite sites starts today. Mission US, For Crown or Colony, is today's activity. We complete the Prologue section, then we will write a letter in the point of view as Nathan Wheeler, to his parents upon his arrival to Boston. We will use our Google accounts for this activity. Please include 4 out of the 6 vocabulary words in your letter:
 

Vocabulary Definitions

Friday, March 27, 2015

2nd Grade ABCya.com Math

We are going to spend a few minutes at each of the math games below from our friends at ABCya.com.

Balloon Pop Subtraction     Math Facts Basketball

 Base Ten BINGO      Drop Sum

 Place Value Hockey     MATH MAN JR. – Subtraction

1st Grade Counting, Number Lines, & Base 10 Blocks

Today, we will work on skip counting, number lines, and base 10 clocks.

Skip Counting     Connect the Dots Multiples of 2

Base Ten Fun     

Numerical Order     100 Number Chart

100 Number Grid     Guess the Number

     


Wednesday, March 25, 2015

More Keyboarding

We are going to review touch typing today. First, let's revisit the correct hand placement for touch typing. Next, it's time for level 1 and then level 2 of Dance Mat Typing.

       

Dance Mat Typing Level 1
Level 1
Level 2
   









Keyboard Invasion

Monday, March 23, 2015

Animal Research - National Geographic Kids

CALIFORNIA SEA LION

BEACH BUMS

GREEN SEA TURTLE

GREEN BECAUSE IT EATS GREENS

SPIDER MONKEY

LONG, STRONG TAIL

GREAT HORNED OWL

NO HORNS HERE

AMERICAN CROW

LOUD CAWS

WHITE-HANDED GIBBON

LOVE TO SWING

HIPPOPOTAMUS

BORN UNDER WATER!

JAGUAR

SOUTH AMERICA'S LARGEST CAT

KOALA

JELLY-BEAN-SIZE BABIES


Newsela - Nutritional Lunches?

A lunch packed at home will usually be healthier than lunch bought in the school cafeteria, right? According to a new study, that may not be true ... Let's dig deeper.


Students' lunch boxes have too many treats, not enough meats, study says



Take the quiz

Sunday, March 15, 2015

BBC Bitesize Science

Let's learn about science from our friends at BBC Bitesize.

Image result for ks1 bitesize logo

Friday, March 13, 2015

Symbaloo - Working With Multiple Tabs

We are going to practice navigating to different activities and working with more than one tab today. Thanks to Kevin Jarrett for his awesome symbaloo webmix.


Monday, March 9, 2015

Introduction to Coding

Today we will be introduced to computer code. Can you code the following stages from code.org?