Reading Buddies

Our reading buddies joined us for a reading class last week. Together we created "Wordle" masterpieces by focusing on important words from our 7th age buddies' most recent stories. Feel free to spend time on the wordle site, http://www.wordle.net/, working with the words clouds was a very exciting activity!

Super Bowl Pool Winners

We had four winners of our Super Bowl pool, two have selected to use a "recess" pass and two selected to "switch desks with the teacher".

History Test 31-33

Our next history test (31-33) is scheduled for Thursday, February 24th. Below is a link to the "quizlet" vocabulary notecards from the test.
http://quizlet.com/4441965/history-31-33-flash-cards/

Technology

We are working with a new website on Thursday during technology to explore an another style of expression. Feel free to spend time exploring it at home!

I created a Calvert image using words from our Calvert website and a silhouette image.

We look forward to sharing our creations with you!
http://www.tagxedo.com/

Chinese Acrobats

We had a wonderful time celebrating the Chinese New Year! The acrobats were incredible!

The acrobat below is balancing several glasses on top of a soccer ball, on top of a sword.

Wow!

Check out the video below, we had a wonderful experience!

Newest Student Blogger

Our newest student blogged below:

This week we made clay landform in geography, we also finished testing in P.E.! We are almost finished our play practices.

New Composition

As the boys have finished up their Martin Luther King, Jr. composition, we are beginning to focus on our next topic: Pandas!
We spent time looking at the "Panda cameras" at a variety of locations. Feel free to view from home. (Some are only available during specific time periods).
Enjoy!

National zoo: (scroll down)
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/default.cfm

San Diego:
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/index.html

Several cameras, on one page!
http://home.comcast.net/~dreidel/pandacams/index.html