Learning About Our Classmates

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Character Elephant

Our elephant has spent some time with some new 9-1 classmates, and we were able to learn even more about our friends!
Check out his adventures below!

Calvert School Bank

Today in math we began working with money. The students arrived this morning to discover that our classroom had turned into the Calvert School Bank.

 Watch the video below to get a sneak peek into class.

Cave Tools

To experience the tool making process that ancient cave boys experienced, we spent today's history class creating our own cave tools using only a rock, a stick and twine. Check out our progress in the video below:

Reading Class Titanic Timeline

After spending several days studying the Titanic in reading class, we organized timelines following the final days and hours of the "unsinkable ship". Below is a video of our hard work!

Feel free to check out the Discovery Titanic videos below. These will give you an peek into the Titanic, as it rests deep underwater. (Many thanks to Mr. Howe for uploading these videos!)

Scholastic Book Orders

The 9-1 boys will be bringing home book orders on Monday afternoon. Here are the steps if you wish to place scholastic book orders online. We will review this again at Parents' Night, and I will still process paper forms, but our first book order will be placed on Wednesday, September 28th, so I hope this gives you an easier way to grow your sons' libraries!

• Visit: Parent Scholastic Registration and click on "register now".
• This will prompt you to register as a "parent" and then to enter basic information, including a username and password.
• Finally, after selecting submit, you'll need our class code, HQCZ7, to link your orders with our class.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

First Full Week

Here is short video detailing some of our first full week activities: laptop project, history review, math challenges and summer story sharing.

 Enjoy!

All About Me Compositions

The boys are beginning their "All About Me" compositions in class this week. We will be writing a composition as well as creating a digital story using images found in Microsoft Clip Art and Photos and another Photograph Site which will be uploaded to, edited, and combined with text on the Photo Peach website. We look forward to sharing our results with our families!

Perspective Taking

Our elephant has returned back from his first weekend. He had a wonderful trip, meeting pets, family members, and even learning how to play the guitar! We enjoyed "taking his perspective" as we learned more about our classmate's life and family.

Thank you for sharing with us! 

Character Partnership

We met with 6B on Thursday for our first character partnership. The students worked together to identify important traits of good character.

 Check out the video below to see our partnership in action.

 

Many thanks to Ms. Clark for creating this wonderful video!

Go Ravens!

We had a terrific time celebrating Purple Friday today! Check out the short video below to see the boys decked out in their gear!

Learning Styles

We spent time today with Ms. Hannah, discussing our brains. We learned about the parts of the brain, how the brain takes in information, and about different learning styles.

Out of This World Sentences

We worked on creating complex sentences today in composition.

The boys took simple sentences about meteorites, cut them apart, and put together new "out of this world" sentences! Check out our short video below that shows this process.

Structuring Sentences from Ms. Gentry on Vimeo.

Our First History Class

We spent some time in history today, discussing our very earliest history!

The boys then illustrated timelines of the start of our planet.

(Feel free to click on collage to enlarge.)

Beginning the Year

We had a wonderful first two days of school! Take a sneak peek at a few of our activities.

Beginnings from Ms. Gentry on Vimeo.

First Day of School

There is nothing like the excitement leading up to the first day of school! It was wonderful to have the students back on campus today, and I know that this year has incredible things in store for us all!

We spent some time arranging our black accordion folders, which will keep us organized all year long!