Google Docs

                In our classroom we are using Google Docs. In google Docs we can make documents, spreadsheets, drawings, presentations and share it with other people. When you share with other people you can let them comment, edit and can view. You can also chat while writing or editing some one’s writing piece, but only if you have permission to.

                Google Docs is where your teacher can create a test that only he\she can edit but if you copy the document, you can edit it by putting in the right answers, then you give your teacher the power to edit it so he\she can fix mistakes and give you a grade. You can make a collection so that you click on it and all of your documents, spreadsheets, drawings and presentations under that title will show up so you can choose one of them to work on. In your Docs, if you throw accidentally throw out a Doc (put it in the trash), there is a tool called trash where you can see what you threw out and either clear the trash or bring it back. You can also look at collections that come with google docs like items you own (not items that were shared with you), all of your or some one who shared it with you item, your main page, items that you starred, or the trash collection. You can see the History of your revision and pull it up. If you accidentally delete all or some of your words and you save it if you click under File then scroll down to revision history, then click on it and you will see all of your revision history. Click on the one you want then exit it out of revision history.

           In our classroom every morning, we have to sign in by using morning message. It is on the smart board. All of the messages are different (unless we have a band day which is only on Thursday). Today’s morning message was use an adjective or one phrase to describe the scene outside our classroom window. Every day, in math we do a math problem called a Do Now. It is going to be fractions because that is our subject right now. We sometimes have math home work. Our math home work last night was bringing home a recipe that one of our relatives made and say what it reminded us of. We made our own cartoons to show an example of PEMDAS and Integers. We also made our own math games.

             We all have our own google accounts that we made our own blogs with. We have friends from Canada. They are called epals.With our google accounts we can blog, email ,create docs, see calendar, see sites and make or watch a video. We have friends from Canada. They are called epals. We write online messages to them and we haven’t seen them yet. Some of our epals live in Toronto.Some live in the Newfoundland area. In our classroom we also are working on writing. In are writing we are working on a giver project which is create your own Utopian society. We used google Sketch up to make 3-D models of things that are in our society.

 Here are some pics!

R&E's 2011 class newsletter

Wednesday 9/29/11 : We had writing today. We were working on the paragraphs if I was any super hero, and One friday morning I walked into Mrs.Starr’s classroom and was shocked to see.....

I loved to read all my classmate’s work on our class blog!
We also had gym today. We played soccer in our gym class. The white team defeated the green team 1-0.



Thursday 9/30/11:

Today we had guidance. We learned the difference between what someone does on purpose and on accident. When someone does something on purpose it means that they meant to do it.








We also had music class today. We put the finishing touches on our garage band project for on top of old smokey using instruments.












Friday 9/31/11:

Today in library we signed out some new books.

We also had science with Mrs. Fortier today. This week is  all about the earth.













Monday 10/3/11: Today we started a game on the integer addition,subtraction multiplication and division. We also played Bizz Buzz where we use the number seven and go through all the numbers until someone doesn’t say bizz or buzz.

On Tuesday we continued reading The Cay. Philip was stranded on a raft and eventually went blind. SO SAD!!

BUT THAT'S NOT THE END




FUNNY PHOTO GALLERY

First 2011-2012 Class Newsletter By Robert And Jalyn

                                                          we had indoor recces one day.

 Writing: In writing, we have been working on paragraph writing. The class has been given a prompt “The worst vacation ever would be...” we have to write it on an outline, then we type it on pages. After that we have to paste it to the blog and comment on others work. Our next prompt is “If I could be a cool super-hero to be would be ...”

Reading: In Reading on Monday we picked an animal in the rain-forest to research. Then we had to write down why we would want to be that animal for a day and draw it. Then we shared it with the class. On Wednesday we started reading group. We are reading a book called powwow in the p.m reading. In a.m reading they are reading about the solar system.

Music: In music we have been working on making an uploaded twinkle twinkle little star sound awesome on garageband. We have to make it into A.B.A form. Both the A parts have to be the same instrument and the B part must be different. Then we sang a Justin Beiber song, reviewed how to read music and danced to double dream hands.

Tech: We have been working on web literacy. We have talked about what a url is. We have also learned how to use a Prezi. We also learned how to evaluate web sites to tell if they are reliable.

Morning work...
In morning work, we answered the question everyday. We have worked on our Prezis and jobs. Then we do morning meeting. Every Thursday the advanced band has band.

Kinder Buddies: This week was the first week with our kinder buddies. We taught them to use computers and we read to them on and off the computer.

Math: In math we have been working on adding and subtracting negative and positive numbers. One way to add negative and positive numbers is o find the absolute value. There is also a way to add negative numbers together. We learned that you have to add the negative numbers like they are positive and when you get the answer you add the negative sign. Finally, we reviewed how to add positive numbers.
 
Library:In library we signed out books and we used Sentios. We took a test on them to see what we knew. We also did this cool alphabetical sheet! We had to put the subjects in A,B,C order.

Gym: In gym we started our soccer unit. We played three games they were called Coconut, Traffic Jam, and more games like that We also played a game were we got a number and when Mrs. Gross called our number we would run up to the ball (which was in the middle) and tried to make a goal.

Bailey And Maria's Class News Letter

                                                    Bailey and Maria’s Class News Letter

            Monday: In Morning Meeting we read the message that Mrs. Starr wrote. She told us all of our jobs. In Library we did a paper on Dewey Decimals. During Guidance we did active listening. Four people were observers that observed people to see if they were paying attention to the speaker. In math we finished our morning work and did a paper on converting fractions to decimals and percents. Read Aloud Mrs. Starr read The Giver. During Writing everyone was working on their story book.

          Tuesday: In Morning Meeting we solved the problem that Jillian and John made. We greeted each other doing the bow and curtsy greeting. Our class played a little bit of 4-corners. In PE we played paddle ball. During read aloud (we are almost done the book=^{D!) Mrs. Starr read the book The Giver. During writing everyone (just as yesterday) worked on our story books. Independent work we ether did our job, worked on our creative piece for our utopian community, finished our paragraph for our utopian community or work on our story book.

          Wednesday: On Wednesday we read the message and did our greeting. Then we had gym. We played the halloween games. On was where we turned off the lights and had to find the object that Mrs. Gross told us to find. After in math we returned our homework. In writing we did the same thing as the days before. Independent work was the same as the other days too.

          Thursday: On Thursday we did the greeting called the snowball greeting. For the game we played a couple rounds of What did I do then we played 4 corners because it got out of control.

          Friday: On Friday we did the Mr. and Miss. (Mrs. for Mrs. Starr) greeting. When we went with our kinder-buddies we made ghosts out of a tissue, yarn and a Tootsie Pop. In writing we worked on our Narrative Poetry Story Book. During read aloud we finished the book The Giver. Then during math we did an assessment on how to convert fractions to decimals and percents, how to convert decimals to fractions and percents and how to convert percents to decimals and fractions.

        EXTRA: Last week we did “Skype” with Mr. Swangbang’s class. Stephanie was in his class! Then the poet came. Also, last week we have finished our Utopian Society and our Story Books. Our Utopian Society is a community that is perfect in our own way. We had to describe what our Utopia looks like,what it feels like to be a member of the community and the rules of the community. We also had to make a creative piece that goes with our Utopia, these will be posted on our class bulletin board. Our Story Books are our Narrative Poem put into books. We have to have a picture for every stanza. Each stanza i son it’s own page.        

Newletter for Learning by Meagan and Kenny

Math
 The first few days of school, we were working on Division & Multiplication in math. Also we were talking about decimals. 
           
                 

                                                852            __306___     
                                           x   212         6 ) 1836
                                   ----------------           -18           
                                            1,704            ---------       
                                    +    18,520                 036       
                                        170,400                 - 36
                                     -----------               ----------
                                      180,624                      0
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Writing

    In writing we have been working on Narrative Poetry.   During our Narrative Poetry time we have been watching the videos and analyzing song lyrics like “White Horse” by Taylor Swift, “In The End” by Licoln Park, “Travelin’ Soldier” by the Dixie Chicks, and “Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air” by Will Smith. We have been watching these videos so we have examples of narrative poems. Another reason we have been watching these videos, is to look for Poetry Devices!
    The storyline of “White Horse” is about Taylor Swift who is dating a guy, and they are in love. Then her friend tells her friend tells her boyfriend is cheating on her, then she dumps him. “In The End” by Lincoln Park is about a former girlfriend and how she was mocking her boyfriend, picking on him & more.  He tells her that he wrote this song to remind himself why he won’t go back to her, and that she was a waste of his time! The last song “Travelin' Soldier” is about a pretty girl, with a bow in her hair, who was a waitress. Then a Traveling Soldier comes in, and asks her to sit with him, because he was feeling low. Then she said “I'm off in an hour, I know where we can go” Then they went up on a peir and fell in love, he asked her if he could write to her when he goes to Vietnam. She said yes, then when she went to a football game, when they were naming off the people there was a name that was called that nobody cared about. Except a girl with a bow in her hair. The “Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air” by Will Smith is about Will Smith living in West Philadelphia. When he was playing basketball, some guys who were making trouble in his neighborhood started beating him up. Then his mom got a little scared, and told him he was going to live with his auntie and uncle in Bel-Air.
    Our next step in writing is to begin writing our own narrative poem using everything we have learned this past week.
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“The Giver”

    In class we have been reading “The Giver” by Lois Lowry.  In the book you don’t have a birthday you are just called ones, twos,  threes and so on. But there are ceremonies every time you get older. The last ceremony that you have is turning a 12. Then you are an adult! Also you are given your spouses, and you can only have two kids. But you don’t have the babies there is birth mothers that have the babies. But the birth mothers don’t get to see the babies, that they have. Also when you turn eight, you have to volunteer, at places. Like the Old House, The Nurturing Center, and many more. If you don’t do so many hours then when you turn a twelve, then you won’t get your job or assignment, and have anyone clap for you. There is a rumor that one kid didn’t do enough volunteer hours and he didn't get his assignment! When he did finish his hours he got his assignment privately, and nobody clapped for him.
                                            

These are some of the things that we have read about.

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Class Photos

This is our 6th Grade class, one of our first days! We are getting ready for the wonderful year ahead of us! c[:

This is Ethan & Jacob working on their Prezis

This is Mrs.Starr eating a HUGE apple!

This is Mrs.Wetherby! She has been helping us in class the first few weeks of school : ]

 

Sam and Maria's Newsletter

    Last week our class presented our math games and human body projects. Half of us presented in the other fifth grade, Mrs. Wright’s and the other half presented in our class. Mrs. Wright’s class played our games with us. We will continue playing the games today, outside(Monday, June 7th at 1:00.) Like the math games, we presented our human body project half and half. We got in groups and shared our power points with our groups. Everyone did an awesome job on their math games and human body project!! Today we went to the Kindergarten graduation to cheer them on and give them graduation cards that we made them. When the graduation was all done, we came back to class and worked on our digital story telling. And as a special treat, we got to have ice cream and cake from the graduation. The cake was very delicious, it had a Big picture of all the Kindergarteners on it!!!!!!! We also got a bag of books today to read over the Summer. At the end of every school year each kid in the building gets a bag of books to read. Tomorrow is field day for us. During field day we do all sorts of fun activites in different stations, like: egg toss, water balloon toss, go on a obstacles coarse the national guards bring that is blow up, tug-a-war, drip drip drop, popsicles, face painting and other fun things!!!!!! We will also be drawing murals of our favorite characters on the school parking lot with 2nd graders. On Tuesday after we drew our favorite characters, we had art. In art we drew a self portrait of ourselves. And then Wednesday is our last day of school!!!!! We have a half of day that day. Then it’s goodbye school, and HELLOOOO summer.    




                                       Your Newsletter Authors,

                                                        Sam F. and Maria J.

 Maria And Sam's Class News Letter

           Friday: On Friday we have gym and in gym we did stealing sticks again. Then we had read aloud, in read aloud Mrs. Starr reads a book called “The Graveyard Book”.  After that we have SFA (success for all). Next we have lunch and recess. Finally we have math. Same as usual, we use the first few minutes to write our procedures. Then we do our calendar. We have to find out the missing angle. At the end of the day we have writing again. We ether work on our persuasive, our procedure or our digital story telling.
    Monday: On Monday we had Music. In music we practiced the songs that we are going to do for the Spring Concert. The songs that we are going to sing are: Cat Came Back, Third Base Coaches Dance and some of us are going to dance and some of us are going to sing to the Hoedown Throw-down. In writing we are doing procedures about things math related. Some choices are: Order Of Operations, Surface Area, Volume and other things too.
    Tuesday: On the we have Library. On The in Library we have skills day. In skills day we went over the test that we are going to do on next Tuesday. In writing Mrs. Starr introduced the persuasive piece. Mrs. Starr showed us a persuasive called “A Request For A Dog.” We started writing a persuasive, we had to write a request for a different or the same animal. Also in math we had to continue writing our procedures for the first minutes. Then after we did The procedure we did the angles on the calendar. On the calendar we have a shape and it there shows us the 3 other degrees and we have to find out what the other degree is. Did You Know? A 4 sided shape has 360 degrees in it’s interior angles. A 4 sided shape is called a  quadrilateral. A 3 sided shape has 180 degrees in it’s interior angles. A 3 sided shape is called a triangle.
    Wednesday: On Wednesday we have Library.  We also have Guidance. In guidance we started writing letters to the upcoming fifth graders. (the fourth graders).On Wednesday in Library we sign out books. Also, if you bring in your books for five weeks in a row with out forgetting any of them you get to go in the treasure boxes or discard boxes. In writing we kept on working on our procedures and our persuasive pieces. Then in math we used the beginning to write or type our procedures. Then we used the rest of the time to work on area in a rectangle. We also did an area page in our student books. We had to estimate the area in some rhombuses.
    Thursday: On Thursday we have P.E. Or Gym. In P.E we played a game called Stealing Sticks. In the game the other team tries to steal the other teams sticks. Then in writing Mrs. Starr introduced a new persuasive piece that we needed to write. We needed to write a letter to our parents to persuade them to come to the state that we did for the fifty states project. In math we did the usual use the first ten or so minutes to write or type our procedures. Then we did some more of the angles.