Trip to San Antonio 2012

San Antonio 2012

Figurative Language

Add your example of figurative language. Make sure you include what type of example, your name, and the source of your figurative language.

Writer's Tools

Think about all the writer's tools and techniques you learned over our How We Express Ourselves UOI. Now, look at your formative assessment (this is your Native Texan research paper). Share your very richest sentence from your paper, and label what tool or technique you used.

How do you do two-digit multiplication?

Think about all the strategies you have for multiplication.  What method do you use for completing two-by-two digit multiplication?  Check out this Khan Academy about it if you need some ideas! Multiplication 5: 2-digit times a 2-digit number: Multiplying a 2-digit number times a 2-digit number

Earth Timeline

Here are a few beautiful websites with timelines of Earth's history:
BBC

National Geographic

A spiral one at: Discovery

TSW Math Word Problem

Publish your word problem here!

Multiplication

What math facts do you think are the easiest?  The hardest?  Check out these games: multiplication games

Fact and Opinion

How do you know if something is a fact or an opinion?  Check out this interactive to help you find facts in your research:
fact frenzy

Tagzedo and Wordle

Try at least one of these sites, and let me know what you think we could use them for in class.
Tagxedo: Tagxedo
Wordle: Wordle

8 Kinds of Smart

We have been learning about the 8 Kinds of Smart.  Here is a link for an on-line quiz that your parents can take:
8 kinds of smart on-line assessment

What did you learn about yourself from our activities?  What kind of smart are you?

Reading Log

What kind of books do you enjoy reading? 

Blue Moon

Tonight is a Blue Moon. Today we discussed that this is a full that occurs twice in one month. Here is a short video about blue moons.  Did you view the blue moon?  What did you notice?  What do you think the idiom, "Once in a blue moon", mean?

Welcome to Fourth Grade!

Welcome to fourth grade! What are some things you have noticed about fourth grade? What are you looking forward to? How would you like us to use this blog this year?

Just out our latest pictures:

What are your summer plans?

What is your favorite fourth grade memory?

What product are you most proud of producing this year?  Why?  What did you learn from the process?

Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Check out your global footprint at the quiz below: http://www.earthday.org/footprint-calculator When you post, share what your global footprint is, and what is something you can do to reduce it.

Life Cycle

Here is the video we watched of class of Lotte's first 12 years. Can you think of how other animals grow and change as they develop?

Vocab List

Here is a list of vocabulary words you may use for My Side of the Mountain: awning barometer berate bleakness bole bough brisk cascade cavort citified combustible concede concoction conservationist conspicuous corm crag dale depression device dignity eddy ember emphatic flange forage forum furtively gorge grove implement indignity infer ingenious loam loll lure mantle momentum mountain mussel niche noose peewee poach portico reap remote rendition roost rumpus sanguine sapling savory sentinel serenade sire slat teeter tether tinder untoward vague wiry wistfully

How typical are you?

How typical are you?

7 Billion...a provocation for our new UOI How the World Works

Our new UOI (unit of inquiry) for How the World Work's central idea is: A complex relationship exists between humans and the the natural world.

We provated this idea by watching this National Geographic video. 
What questions do you have for this UOI?

Brother's Grimm Fairy Tale Reader's Response

Which of the Brother's Grimm fairy tales did you read?  What were some of the elements of the fairy tale that you noticed in the story?  Be specific in your response!

Spring Break

I hope you are all having a blast resting and relaxing over spring break!  What are you doing?  Share your experiences!

Cool Science Video

Camp Write Along

What do you think of Camp Write Along?

Novel Project PhotoSnack

We used PhotoSnack to create a photo story book of our recent Texas Novel Projects.

FlipSnack

Check out all the cool books we created today using FlipSnack.

Erica

Lucy

Maggie

Annika

Jenna

Lauren

Rahul

Rachel H.

Frank

Hazel

presley

Sonya

Nick

Rachel R

Grace

cody

Matthew

Jason

Sonya's Drawing

Erica's Friends

Weatherly's FlipSnack

Novel Survey

What do you think of our Science Fair Projects?

You have all been working very hard on your Science Fair Projects.  In your comment, answer all or one of these wonderings:

1. What did you find out in your investigation?
2. What was the hardest part?
3. What else do you still want to learn about your initial question?

Share one understanding about the Texas Revolution that you found today.  You may include a BIG idea, little known fact, connection, observation, or wondering here. 

What do you think of our blog?  Is there anything you'd like to discuss?

Welcome!

Welcome to the Bell Blogosphere!  I hope you enjoy reading and responding to our classroom happenings! 
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Watch this Peanuts clip, then add a comment.



We have been exploring and reviewing spelling rules this week.  Think about a spelling rule you really KNOW.  Add a comment about it.