Teacher Messages

Awesome Explanation

I LOVE math! I really do. To me it makes so much sense. So for years I have asked my students to explain how they arrived at a certain answer in math. I know, totally doing Common Core before my time. Anyway, I was impressed by the use of academic language and the ease in […]

First Day By Ms. N.

So normally a person wouldn’t pair Angry Birds, a sign that reads F.A.I.L (First Attempt in Learning), and school philosophy in a lesson to 5th graders; let alone 5th graders on the 1st day of school. But I did, and I’d say that I’m pretty darn brilliant. F irst A ttempt I n L earning […]

Mystery Hangout

Mystery Hangout

So last week we had our very first Mystery Hangout. A Mystery Skype/Hangout is where 2 classrooms ‘meet’ online and try to figure out where the other one lives. So for this one, we ‘met’ our class on a Wednesday morning. We each took turns asking yes/no questions. We began by asking very broad questions […]

Theme

So this week we have been discussing THEME in literature, and how it is different from TOPIC. For example, we read a story from Afghanistan about a village that was afraid of a melon because they thought it was a terrible animal. A boy told them that it was just a delicious melon. We discovered that the […]

Homophones

Homophones

One of my students is the Queen of Homophones. In order to help us she created this handy little chart. Thank you Amy!

Idioms

Idioms

We have been working with idioms this week. Each student took an idiom of their choice, illustrated it, and told its actual meaning. To do this we used Drawings in our Google features. Here is a great example by Dennis.

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