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Word Wheels

Syllable Factory

Synonyms for "Nice"

Prefixes to Make New Words

Prefixes changing meaning

Spin and Spell

Syllable Factory

Enter to Suessville.

Yesterday, our classes performed a play. Today, we are going to reflect on our performance. Please answer the following questions as a comment on this post.

• What was easy about the performance?


• What was difficult?


• How do playwrights make it easy for performers to do their jobs?

Write a haiku about the picture above. Remember that a Haiku has 1 Stanza, 3 Lines, with a sylable pattern of 5,7,5.

Please post your haikus on your own blog pages.

Today we will be making a shape poem with at least one example of figurative language. Remember figurative language is when we compare something to another thing in a creative way. Click the picture below to get started.

Addicting Games.com

Jeremy the Crow, and The Shrew are not main characters in the book, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. However, the creators of the movie thought that they should play a big part in the movie. 

• Why do you think they did that?


• Do you think it makes the movie more interesting?


• If you were in charge, would you have done the same thing?

A fun link for the weekend

Today's blog assignment is to look at the following picture. Look at it carefully. Then, when you are ready, begin to write about something that the photograph has inspired. It can be a fictional story, a real story that happened to you, a poem, or a song. Good Luck and Have fun!

This week, students in both classes read the book The Secret Knowledge of Grownups.  Students watched how the author used his creativity and some juicy details to create a great story. 

Students then tried to use the author's style to create their own story. Some of the stories were published to the individual student blog pages. Students who did not get a chance to publish today will publish their stories on Monday.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Today we are starting our Raz-Kids online reading program. Click this link to take you to the class page.

Morning Class

The ABC's of Thanksgiving (Morning Class) from Michael Sandridge on Vimeo.

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The ABC's of Thanksgiving from Michael Sandridge on Vimeo.

Today's students made movies today! They are currently being processed and should appear on the blog shortly.

Brainpop Jr

This week we have been discussing and exploring why people chose to migrate to Carroll County. While we we're talking about the large amounts of English, Irish, Scottish, and German immigrants, we thought it might be interesting to see where our ancestors came from. Below is a map pinpointing where the the ancestors of the children in the Morning class came from.

View Our Ancestors in a larger map

Today, the afternoon class did an activity called The Mystery Science Box. Someone put on a blindfold, then one of us had to handle an item blindfolded. They had to use all of their senses except sight to describe the item using "juicy sentences"

By doing this we learned how to make our writing a lot more detailed and interesting.

Todday, we read a book call The Hickory Chair. In the book, we read about a character named Louis that was blind and had to use his blind sight to talk about things.

As a writing activity, we did The Mystery Science Box. We blindfolded kids in our class and used our senses to help us describe items in a box.

We learned to use good juicy words when we describe things.

Today begins the first posting from the new school year. I hope everyone is excited to begin posted things about our learning.

Your Line Rider Challenge today is to execute the following maneuvers.

• Loop-de-loop


• Ramp jump with at least two seconds of air (must land the jump)


• reverse riding directions

Prize will be given to any student who can link at least 2 of these tricks together in a single ride.

Free Rice

ABC Ya!

ToonDo

Ghost Blasters

 Line Rider

You can now listen to our class on iTunes! If you have an iPod or and MP3 player, you can now listen to our "end of the week discussions" on your portable music player. Make sure you get your parents' permission before downloading our podcast on the iTunes site. 

Currently working on posting the morning class' first podcast. Check back for updates.

Good afternoon Afternoon Class!

I hope you are behaving for Mrs. Bell. Please remember to use inside voices in the computer lab. I know you can do a great job in here without me.

Click here on RAZ-KIDS to get started today. THe username for your class is wmurphc

http://www.brainpopjr.com/socialstudies/geography/landforms/preview.weml

This week we are working on constructing good quality paragraphs. Use what we have learned in class to complete this assignment.

Imagine your class is volunteering at an animal shelter. Write a paragraph about what your classmates can do and why.

Complete the paragraph and make sure to click the correct assignment from the drop down menu on your blog page

Geography Game

Here's a quick BrainPop video with Tim and Moby explaining what is happening today in the Pacific Ocean after the very large earthquake in Chile.

Click here to see the video

Etherpad

This is a chart of tomorrow's predicted snowfall. Can you read it and tell me how many inches of snow might fall in the next storm in Carroll County? Leave a comment on this post with the correct answer.

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Remember, if you take any photos of snow action this week, you can email them to me (get your parents' permission) and I'll do my best to add them to the blog. Hope everyone is enjoying themselves in the snow. I know I am.

Unfortunatly, the video I shot of the final reading of the snowfgall yesterday messed up. I can tell you that the final snowfall total for the storm was....

22 inches!!!

Thanks for everyone that participated in the survey. Congrats to our winners:

Mr. Murphy, Diane, Martin, Paula, jamie, jorja, Abbey, drew m., brooke, Matt, Kai, Kellen, laura, and Emma.

Below you'll see a picture sent in by one of the students.

Please make two different sticky notes with a thing that you like. After you finish, wait for the lesson to begin.

BrainPop .

Shape Poem Activity

Today is the first day of Black History Month. To start off the month, lets look at this movie on BrainPop about Rosa Parks. After you watch the video and do the activity, I'd like you to leave a comment on the wallwisher page below. Even if you are not in our class, you can participate with us by watching the movie, doing the activity, and leaving a commenent on the wallwisher below.

Please tell something that Rosa Parks taught you about people.

Raz Kids

Through the year we are gaining more and more visitors from abroad. Can you figure out how many continents we have had people visit from?

Check out some of our artwork in Ms. Connor's Health Class. You can watch it on the new MAE/Parrs Fine Arts Blog.

Dictionary

ToonDo

Life as a Dollar Bill Writing Project.

Possible Story Starters

Describe the house of a squishy woodpecker who is afraid of spiders.

Write a short biography about a sophisticated muffin who invents a spaceship to go to Pluto.

Write a wilderness adventure about a frozen flamingo who flies in a hot air balloon.

Write a fable about a freezing potato who hides in a tree.

Write a mystery about a pickled hippopotamus who saves the rainforest.

Today, we are going to create a story with a vivid setting. After we create our story, we are going to create an illustration of an important event in the plot of our story using Toondo. 

After both those tasks are completed, we are going to combine the story with the illustration using"embed" to create a new blog post.

Today, you need to first go to this site to practice your vocabulary for this week's story. I would like you to time yourself and get a score of 45 seconds or less. Then I would like you to begin or finish your story on Storybird using the three different types of Author's purpose that we have talked about before. If the stories turn out well, we will be posting them to our blog by the end of the week.

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See you all tomorrow!

Today we will be using Storybird to write with one of the three Author's Purposes,  We will be creating a story and publishing these stories next week. Click on the Storybird link to get started.

After you finish your Main Idea-Detail Web on Kidspiration, see if you can use BrainPop to draw your own picture of our solar system. Make sure you draw your name on it, then print it our on printer 4.

If you complete that, take some time to explore the BrainPop page on The Solar System. 

Please go to our Wallwisher page and leave a cool interesting fact that you learned about the solar system.

Over the past couple of weeks, students in Mr. Sandridge's class have been learning about descriptive writing. We are using a game called Myst 3: Exile to practice with. The students have really enjoyed it so far, and I think we are starting to see an improvement in everyone's writing.

Today, students will have a choice whether to post a peice of their writing to their blog, or to write a reflection on how using Myst has changed the way they write.

What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving? Think about it, and write it on the board below. You'll need to click the tab at the bottom of the box thats says, post a sticky. We'll be able to see it when we get back to school next week. Remember not to use any personal information!

Here's a really cool collection of information and activities on Native Americans from BrainPop. This week, you can watch these movies, take the quizes, and print the activities on each page. 

Hope everyone is having a great start to their vacation. I found this quiz online, and since we talked about Thanksgiving on Friday, I thought it might be neat to see how you score on this quiz. My score was 500 out of a 1000. Go grab your parents or brothers and sisters and see if you can do better. Post your score in the comments section, and we'll see who is the biggest Thanksgiving expert.

Some activities for you to try today.

Treasures Vocabulary and Spelling Activities

Mystery Story Starter 

Write a real book review for other students around the world to see. 

Phonics Skateboarding Vert. Ramp 

Our cluster map was updated this week. Our map was reset so we can see new visitors this year. I'm excited to see who is going to be reading our work over the next few months. 

If you are interested, I have pasted a picture of our old Cluster Map below. Lets try to get even more readers to our blog this year!

Today in ILA Mr.S assessed on how well we knew capitlising proper nouns.We also watched a BRAIN POP movie about veterins day.It talked about the Armed Forces and how they protect our country.At the end of the day we did a graphic orginizer on the armed forces.

Today, we will be learning a little bit about who our country's armed forces are. We'll also talk about different traits that servicemen and servicewomen have.

We'll also be talking about some new vocabulary words associated with the armed forces and try to find them in a word search.

http://www.brainpop.com//english/grammar/capitalization/quiz/

Today we are doing a play called the strongest one we are making our costumes now our characters are ants,snow,sun,wind,house,mouse,cat,stick,fire,water,deer,arrow and big rock .Some people like me are camera and video people we all had a part James played background music at the begining of every scene and at the end of every scene he did to. After our dress rehearsal we performed and it went great we are uploading it right now we are using the computer lab to start our myst writing unit then we are going to wach our play on teacher tube.

Our school subscribes to a educational website called Brain Pop. This is a great site that we like to use in the classroom to learn about writing and social studies.

Recently, they published a video about the H1N1 Virus. Enjoy watching it, then encourage your parents or guardians to watch it with you.

Daily blogger: Brett.

Today in music we learned more about the tacka tikki and  sang biddy biddy hol` fast and halloween night. Biddy biddy hol` fast is a song about a guy who lived in Jamaica who went to England London and came back and realised his favorite gold ring was missing and said to people biddy biddy hol` fast lost my gold ring carry me to London come back again.Today in I.L.A we checked our rough draft about a place we`ve been and wrote a final copy.THE END.

today we learned about legends a legend is a story that is twisted and the thing that is in the story is really old.it might not always be true.

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Today in art we are learning about space can help a landscape. We are also making Halloween pictures. We also shared our art. In ILA we watched a brain pop movie about how to make our writing better before we took a test with clickers. we are starting a rough draft of a personal nerative. we also played a game called hot seat and that was our mornig.

Guest blogger Aidan.

Today in gym we worked on soccer. We worked on ball handling and passing and some juggling. Today in media we read a fracured fairy tale called Gingerbread cowboy and told the dinfriences from the regulur one and the one we read. In Mr.Sandridges class we made a small peice of writing and it was like an idea. We also made a list of ideas like about pets,friends,and school. Also we wrote a discriptive paragraph from our ideas.Then we shared them.In the computer lab we ceareated  bubble maps about a pearsonol narritive we are doing next week at bubble us.com. That was our day in Mr.Sandridges class.

Remember everyone... our usernames have changed.

Hint: It has an initial in it.

Please use the bubbl.us mind-mapping site to plan your personal narrative.

Make sure to finish your reflections on how difficult it was to be a Emperor Penguin Parent for the day. After you finish, check out some of these new games. 

Noun Dunk Basketball

Dance Mat Typing

Geo Spy

If you really think that one of them is particularly good, leave a comment on this post and I will add it to the sidebar.

-Mr.S

Student usernames have been reset to strengthen security. Students will receive new usernames for their blog accounts on Thursday at school. Thanks for your patience. -Mr. S 

Everyone is doing a fantastic job posting and commenting on our blog site. I'm seeing many comments that use what we talked about in class (1 question, 1 good thing).

Also, we are starting to get some more vistors to our page. Check out the Cluster Map at the bottom of the page to find out exactly where they are coming from.

You guys are doing great, so keep it up. 

-Mr. Sandridge

Today we wrote some stories using similes. We put some of our stories into a Wordle and then saw that the most used word was "like." This is good because we learned that we have to use like to compare two different things when we make a simile. You can view some of the stories here.

Today we read a book about a girl who moved from mexico to the US  she found out that some things were just like home and some were not ! Then we wrote about it by moving us in mexico. We also went to the computer lab and we made our first blog entries on our own blog .Then we made a bar graph about carrol county based off of our HW  now we are reading a book about mice and her sick son timothy .We had one fun day=http://=http://=http://=http://=http://=http://

Today we practiced plural nouns. We used a cool computer pad to click and drag things out of mr. S's brain. Then we put the nouns in different categories. After that, we went to stations where we learned about multiple meaning words, descriptive paragraphs, and problems and solutions. Finally,  we sang songs about pets written by us! Mr. S. played his guitar.

Today, we watched a video called Rumplestiltskin. After we watched it, we did a shape-go map to concentrate on important things in the story. After that, we did a possesive noun sport story to improve our ability to write well. Finally, we drew pictures of an important event in Rumplestitskin.

Hi Parents. Thank you so much for taking the time to fill out this survey for me!

http://link.carrollk12.org/Checkbox/Survey.aspx?s=4d2ee5f84a5f473392193af3d1400deb

I told your student today that I will be monitoring the blog, and posting video from Ireland this summer if you would like to check back here once in a while.

Have a great summer, and all the best!

-Mr. Sandridge

username: maestudent

password: cardinals

Your first assignment is to complete the student Blog Survey. Please be honest and do your best. Its important for the students that will be in third grade next year.

1. Blog Survey (Students)

Next Select some games to play from the list. Please have your volume turned down.

Kidspell

National Geographic Kids

 ABCya!

You can enter the text of your blog here!

Ice Age Video.

Welcome back to the computer lab! I know its been awhile, but I hope you remember what is expected of you while we are in here.

We are learning a lot about China. Yesterday we even went on a Virtual Field Trip and saw somee reall

Here are your tasks for today. Please complete them in order!

1. Please visit one of the following Blogs written by students in China


2. Experiment with some of the games on Academic Skill Builder

Ben C. Has been working really hard on a story fo the past couple of nights, and this afternoon, I m pleased to announce that it is finally done. Congrats Ben, the story is great!

This is Sean M reporting about the green school assembly.we are going to be learning about the green school. It is going to be about recycling and helping are school . Mrs. Delany is telling us about the green school.know we are looking at a video.it is telling us about recycling and helping our earth.know we are seeing a movie they are planting trees.know they are pouting soil on the plants.know it is showing the fifth graders recycling. A lot of people won the pictures fordrawings sand talking about a rain barrel. Know mrs stevens is talking about how to help are earth. A lot of people won trophies for there pictures.Know there is a guest speaker Mrs.dison is talking about how we can save are earth and talking about stuff that can help the earth.Know she is talking about what you should do to save the earth and the animals in the world. Know we are saying a pledge about taking apart in are enviornment to save it.It was a good assembly.

Today my class is examineing cause and Effect in text. Also we are useing questioning to understand comprehension.We are doing this to improve our ability to understand text.We are doing this by cause and Effect board game.It looks like a lot of people are switching games. also I see ben and cody are playing to gether and ben lost but it was close. -Matt S.

Today, both classes worked together to examine a minute organism called Daphnia Magna. Here is a short video of what happened in class, as well as some actual footage of our specimen underneath our digital microscope.

This podcast was meant to be posted last week, but due to some technical difficulties with our school computer, we had to wait till today. In this podcast, both the morning and afternoon classes reflected on what we should do to celebrate Earth Day. Take a listen and enjoy!

Everyone has been having fun doing podcasts. We have several to post on the blog site. Hopefully, I will be able to upload them throughout the course of the day.

1. Morning Class: Earth Day Conversation.

Story Test Cocoa Ice

Check out the Cardinal Reading Group and their most recent Literature Circle Podcast. This discussion was very special to them becasue they did not have any teacher guidence.

I just listened to it myself and I have to say you Cardinals did a great job! I'm very proud of you!

To Listen: Click them small icon at the bottom of this post. You can either save it to your computer and listen to it there, or you can choose to listen to it in your browser.

Example

I think I would like to live in the mountains. I like the way that there is snow on the tops of the mountains, but it is still warm down in the valleys. I also think it would be cool to be a rock climber because that is something they do for fun in the mountain region. The mountain region also has really neat looking animals, like big horn sheep and mountain lions.

So I stumbled across a website called Camroid this evening. I have to admit, this is pretty funny. If you have a webcam on your home computer, you should give it a try. Get your parents and brothers and sisters involved! Here is an example of my own camroid creation.

Happy creating everyone! Have a good weekend!

Now that testing is over, we had some time today to start our next project. This week we will be learning about the Regions of the United States. However, on the side, both classes are entering a contest on Google called Doodle4google. We'll be doing our writing pieces this week. Hopefully, we'll be submitting our entries on Wednesday of next week.

Also, JT made a video yesterday about Saint Patrick's Day. Hope you enjoy it!

Here are a few new sites to try. Let me know what you think by leaving a comment!

Commercial Fishing: Can you find the right balance between making money, and conserving natural resources?

Archery: Can you think about wind speed, distance, and power? Can you make changes so you can hit the bullseye?

Keyboarder: Ever wonder how fast you can type? Try this and find out.

Below is a quick slideshow of some student artwork that Ms. Nies was nice enough to give us. Congrats to Jacob and Kirsten for being selected to be exhibited at the MAPL Art expedition.

Today, we will be writing a a non-fiction article with a comparison text stucture. Select two of the following websites.

1. http://fantasticcontraption.com/


2. http://www.inventionatplay.org/playhouse_tinker.html

Or

1. http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/


2. http://www.crayola.com/coloring_application/

Then, I want you to examine each site, think about things that they have in common, and things that make them different. THINK DEEP! Don't tell me things like, "They both are websites."

Next, complete a graphic organizer in Kidspiration to organize your thoughts. After that, you need to export your organizer to Word. Finally, you need to use copy and paste to put your article on your blog site.

Today the students worked with "main idea & supporting details" in a non-fiction article. We decided to do some small "research paragraphs" using some books from our media center. You can check out the morning class' work, as well as the afternoon class' work.

Boom Town Story Test.

Here is the morning class' PSA video skits. The afternoon class' will be posted tomorrow. Enjoy!

 The Cardinal's Liturature podcast is available for listening! Please click one of the podcast buttons below! Here are the illustrations from the imaginative illustrators!

First, complete your story test Next, please try some of the games listed here

Fantastic Contraption

http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/filmmaker.html

http://www.inventionatplay.org/playhouse_tinker.html

Ok, ok. I know it has been awhile since our last post. We'll blame it on the weather and the long weekends. Tonight we have two very exciting blog projects.

First, most students were able to read their own "Alliteration Poems" they created in class. The goal was to read "fluently." If you like what you hear and want to encourage any of the students, leave a comment on the blog post.

Second, The Cardinals in the pm class started a literature circle podcast today. Please click the buttons at the bottom of this post and check out what they have been doing with the book Mr. Popper's Penguins . They did a great job! If you are tech savy enough, you can even download it onto an mp3 player and take it with you!

Thats all for tonight. See you on Friday for published written work!

Here are the test results from Friday's story test.

Please complete the following items today while we are in the Computer Lab.

• Complete your Story Test on Turtle Bay


• Answer the following question

Is Jiro-San a wise person? Please use evidence from your text.

• Finally, i want you to explore Mrs. Shulman's Class Blog. They are a group of second graders that are doing some really cool things in their classroom. Good Luck today! 

Podcasting test

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Currently, I am working on uploading this classroom's first podcast. Hopefully, it will be up on this site tonight (if I can figure it out).

I really hope it works because both the "Lukeskypiewaffles" and the "Bulldogs" did a great job reading their summary statements with fluency today, and I would like to show off the work.

Check back to the blog later to see if I was victorious!

My Favorite Superbowl Commercial (so far...)

Question: How can students and teachers at Mt. Airy Elementary School use less paper?

It's a Snowday!!!

Leave a comment and let everyone know how you will be spending your first snow day of the year.

This is the Word Cloud that represents all of the published stories that we completed last week. Take a look at it and try to find some of the words that you used in your story

This week the students were concentrating on their first major writing piece. All of us watched this video(below), and then had to use describing words to create detailed mental images for the reader. Students were also reminded that they had to "zoom in on the details", and "stick to the topic."

Click on the "class assignments" link over to the left to read some of the student's work. I'm sure they would love to read your comments!

This morning when I was taking a look at your story tests, I came across this fun challenge on a website. I posted it for us to play here in our blog becasue I think it's imprtant that we know about other places in our country.

Just to let everyone know, I got to 73297 points when I played.

Get a Voki now!

Take your Story Test

Happy Friday everyone! While we are in the computer lab, please complete the following two tasks.

1. Complete your Balto test.


2. Please write a post on your page that talks about your "New Year's Resolution." Please include three things that you will do to make sure that you follow your resolution.

When you are done you may explore some of the games and sites that have been posted on the blog previously. Please take your time and do your best quality work!

Hope everyone is having a great weekend! Only two days left till the Holiday! I hope you check out the video I have posted here about Nouns.  I bet your parents remember these videos, so you might want to go grab them and have them watch as well. See you on Monday!

After you are done both your Vocabulary test and your BCR, please explore the links below till we leave the Computer Lab

Explore your Community

Virtual Dominos

Dance Mat Typing

Games

Spinart

Survive!

Spelling Competition

If you are still a little confused about posting from home, Ashley B. wanted to show everyone how simple it is.

Question: What kind of person do you "infer" that Lucy is? Brave or Scared?

Most students have their BCR's for today posted in their individual blog pages. Some students did not get a chance to finish and will be completing the assignment on Monday morning. Please check out some of your fellow classmates' writing and leave comments. Remember... if you feel like there is something they could improve in their writing, you need to say it in a nice and polite way. I will be approving all comments before they are posted.

Have a great weekend and see you on Monday!

For the Parents out there.

A copy of the Am class "winter party" is now on the related links portion of the blog. Its over to the right side of the page.

Paul Goble's Biography

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t7798.html" />

New individual blog posts are up. Just click whether you are a morning or afternoon student, and then find your name.

If you are in the afternoon class, your posts will be up by 6:30pm today. My apologies to Jamie.

Ask your parents if they can see all the details that we talked about today in class in the picture painted by Bev Doolittle.

Only three days left till school. This week has really gone quickly, don't you think? Today's picture was taken on wednesday. My family diceided to go on a hike in Carroll County. Can you take a guess and infer where I might be? Use the clues in the picture!

Well guys, I just finished Thanksgiving dinner and I think I am too stuffed to think!

I hope all of you did your homework assignment and ate 5 pounds of turkey.

Talk to you tommorow and Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Wednesday everyone. Today's geography challenge is a little more difficult.

1. What famous landmark am I standing in front of?


2. Can you tell me a state where you can find this landmark?


3. According to the story, which Tall Tale character made this landmark? How did he do it?

You can use this article if you need some help with answering the questions. Also, you can ask your parents for some help if you want to. Maybe they have even been to this place before!

See you tommorow for another assignment.

Happy Wednesday everyone! New Post will be going up this afternoon. Stay tuned!

Happy Tuesday everyone! Your assignment today is to watch this video. Then, you need to post a comment telling me where I am, and also the big clue that lets you know my location. If you need help figuring out where I am, you can click here . I'll talk to you tomorow!

Happy Saturday everybody! 

On Friday, we were able to walk to every third grade classroom and look at everyone's science projects on geographical features. The morning class thought it would be a good idea if some of them "reported" what they saw so they could post it here on the blog for everyone to see.  

However, some of my reporters did not leave their names on their work, so I don't know who wrote each article. Maybe some of you can post a comment and let me know who wrote each article? Also, thanks to Ethan for taking some of the pictures. They look great!

Have a great weekend, and keep posting!

-Mr. Sandridge

  .Banana Island has a nice lake called Lilly Lake .Dutch Bill is A 3-D island and it is cool .Boney Island is so weird .Bay island looks so gooey .Girls Rock island is so cool for girls.  By Libby 

Because you can move it around. And I like Jonathan’s project because they have cave on it. And I like Ryan’s project because the have a big island. I like Charlotte Island because it is big and it has trees on it. I like Katie’s because it has red gooey stuff in the volcano. I like GHON GAGNONS projects because you can see that his volcano looks real.  by Unknown              

Riley’s project is very pop out.

Compton: These projects are cool because they have so realistic stuff on them Brown: these are so cool some body’s volcano looks like a bowling all Richel: These are so cool a lot of people did a slide show  

Hammack: (did not get to see slide show got broken) but I think they would be good.

Stevens: I like these projects they are so cool because they are 3d and they worked so hard

By: Unknown

All of the projects are great. I like how their about land scapes. They must have taken a really long time on some of them. Now let’s go to a different room now. I liked Ryland, Banana islands, and sea shell islands. They have so much detail and they put a lot of effort in that. I liked mii island volcano islands, and sports islands those were cool!!! Next is down stairs I like Nagia, Alicipyia, and rocky mountain AWESOME!!! Next class I like Girls rock island, island of rock more, and Chesapeake Island.  That’s all for now!!! By: Unknown

In our room and in other rooms up stairs and down stairs. Jacob’s Island is called Fantasy Island. Kate’s has a lot of detail in her project. Some people made them out of clay or other stuff. One in a different class used a blue bendy straw as there river (Natalie). In the same class someone named theirs Candy Island. Hannah’s is very sparkly. Some people made slide shows for their Islands. Some people made Lego Islands. Some people used natural resource like real grass. Some of our projects are in the media center. We are in a down stairs class room (Mrs. Brown’s room) JT’s Island is called Bay Island. One kids looks like a mini put-put golf course. Miss.Reichl’s class has mostly paper projects. Some one used a cup as a mountain. Some people made their water out of pebbles. We saw a lot of projects today when we were doing our gallery walk. It was really cool to see different peoples projects.                 By: Unknown                                                                        

Hey everyone. Mr. S checking in. The students didn't have a chance to write anything for the day. So I'd give everyone a quick summary. 

Today we tried to use our knowledge of fables and tall tales to determine what genre the English folk tale King o' the Cats is. After much discussion of what the story could be (either a fable or a tall tale), I don't think we came up with a solid answer.

If you are reading this right now, feel free to leave a comment on your opinion on King o' the Cats.  Is it a fable or a tall tale? Why?

CarolineD

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Today we learned about morals.A moral is a lesson.We made question cubes to use while we read.After that we rolled them after each page of our book and answered the question.We made skits about problems that people might of had and made a moral for it.

From Morgan:

Hello. Today is November 18,2008. Today we learned about fables from reading The Tortoise and the Hare, The Lion and the Mouse, and The Fox and the Grapes. We are learning so fast! We also learned about having detailed sentences! I hope you liked this piece of writing!

The Missing Shoe...

Happy Birthday to Libby. Then we read Pecos Bill. Then we went into reading groups while the rest of us drew mental images of Pecos Bill. We are going to be working hard the next couple of days on writing our own tall tales to post on the blog. Recess is inside today because it is raining. 

In the afternoon class, Most of us had our homework done. We also spent some time silent reading. We also read the story Pecos Bill. We learned what a tall tale needs to be called a tale tale. Julie says, "I enjoyed sitting around a circle reading tall tales because it was fun to sit as a class and read a story."

In the morning, Mrs. Barnes came in and taught us about ideas for stories.We read two Paul Bunyan stories and made a venn diagram.We used our Alphasmarts to answer a question for the two books of Paul Bunyan.

In the afternoon, we "zoomed" in on Ideas. We looked at funnels and telescopes and talked about what they have to do with Ideas. We learned about how tall tales can be different. We also wrote about things that we were experts on.

Today, both of Mr. Sandridge's classes looked at a classroom blog from Hong Kong. The class is called Grade 5 From Hong Kong .

In the Morning Class, Ashley thought that it was very neat that the kids in the Chinese class liked some of the same things that she did. She was very eager to comment on their posts. Jacob learned that the kids in China are on a 12 hour time difference!

In the Afternoon Class Julie thought it was cool that the students liked alot of the same things she did. Hanna thought it was really neat that the students can speak 2 languages. Caroline thought it was interesting that the kids in 5th grade are only 9 years old.

Welcome to the first entry in Mr. Sandridge's Classroom Blog. We're glad you found us and are very excited to start learning and practicing blogging