Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Student Sharing

One of our 9-1 classmates shared about his Tae Kwon Do classes today.

How impressive!


In House Tournament:


Breaking wood during his in-house tournament:

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Egg Drop

The boys did an "egg-tastic" job creating their boxes for our egg drop today!

Thank you for all of your help at home, parents!

Check out the video below of our second drop:

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Fraction Tiles

Today in class we worked with fraction tiles to practice creating equivalent fractions and finding common denominators.

Community Service Planting

The boys spent a very warm and sunny afternoon outside yesterday completing a community service planting project. Please check out the slideshow from the activity!https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/gOx-unHGNOgVujTvZUu3b2fUvcAnlbqXdEbx5ocMO6Y?feat=directlink

The World is my Oyster...

As an extention activity for our Chesapeake Bay field trip, the Ninth Age boys opened real oysters to discover their hidden treasure: pearls!

Check out the slideshow below:

Monday, April 18, 2011

Exciting Weekend Adventures!

One of our students spoke with us about his exciting weekend adventures and the book that his mother and grandfather wrote.

Thanks for sharing, B.I.!


Technology Presentations

Below are the final technology presentations based on the boys' morning routines. They did a terrific job!

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Living Classrooms Field Trip (Monday)

Below are some pictures from our exciting field trip this week.
We traveled on two boats on Monday and will be taking one boat out on Wednesday.
The students had an incredible time and learned so much from the Living Classrooms's instructors.













Friday, April 8, 2011

Virtual Fractions

Our math group worked with virtual fractions today!


Some of our fraction creations are below:


Below is a video of one of our students creating her "fraction pie". https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/--KItCIsc_zGGOmMDUqgwS3Mu_oDofh-IJPiYmY_os0?feat=directlink

Readers Theater

We met with our reading buddies today to perform a "Readers Theater".


Below is a video of the students reading the stories together before performing them. (Please remember to "right click" and select "open in new window" to easily return to the blog).

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/qWG9JiCVFfKvKe8-IWmsvIwErAmnJ6GwY8ZdYc_DTs8?feat=directlink


Then we performed the stories together! Below are two quick videos of their performances!


https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wgnn3zUZV4jVGVVYgyAuzSA0gVg-ouB1PtH_i2uV4HM?feat=directlink https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/iRD9YoAtqDRL4MyMxz1IkkOHRzmax1xk0sVz7D5yy9Q?feat=directlink

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Middle School Composition Buddies

Many thanks to our middle school partners who came over to help us with our animal reports today!

Visitor from Kenya

The boys were a terrific audience for our visitor today. It was facinating to learn how similar, and how different, our cultures are!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Monday, April 4, 2011

Technology Class

Our boys have been working on their "Morning Routine" power point presentations in technology class. We were able to see the first half of the presentations today.

The boys did an incredible job!


Here is a link to a video I put together with more photographs from their presentations:


Student Posting

Below we had our newest student blogger post! Check it out!

This week in 9-1 we practiced lacrosse in P.E .We learned about planets in science. About two weeks ago, we had our hopper/cricket game in the middle school gym.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

12 Hour Challenge Winners!

As March comes to a close, our 12-hour challenge is coming to an end. We had a few more boys complete their twelve hours of reading, way to go!

All of our winners will select their two books (one for themselves, one to donate in their name to the library) Monday in school.