T is for Tarheel

The 4th grade girls are going on an adventure through NC and its history as well as other interesting little tidbits about our great state as they read T is for Tarheel.

Activity Packet

Flag Picture from http://www.clker.com/clipart-9158.html

Lily Brown's Paintings

Lily Brown's Paintings is one of the picture books nominated for the 2009 NC Children's Book Awards. Several classes at Diggs Elementary are reading the nominated books. Mrs. Uhrig has a blog for us to type on about these books. After reading this book, our class decided to create our own worlds. We drew pictures and painted them with watercolors.

Because of Winn-Dixie

You girls are in for a treat becuase you are going to begin reading Because of Winn-Dixie, which is one of my favorite book! Before you start reading (and at various points while reading this book), please go to the Enrichment Wiki and answer questions and/or do certain activities.
Because of Winn-Dixie page

Online Activities

Literature Circle Job Sheets

Webquest

Now that the girls are almost finished with the story, they are using block to build things from the book. Pictures will follow shortly . . .

NC Picture Book Award Nominees 2008

http://ncpicturebooks2008.blogspot.com/
Mrs. Uhrig created a blog for us read and review all the nominees for the North Carolina Picture Book Awards for 2008. We will be working together with Mrs. Uhrig and Ms. Feinman on this project.

MagicPen

We have a good time learning about shapes, logic, cause/effect, and motion while working with the MagicPen site on the ActivBoard in math class. Videos done with Flip Video Camera.

http://magic.pen.fizzlebot.com/

Mr. Pilson needs our help again!

From Mr. Pilson's Blog:

Would you like to be on a CD? We have a chance to get published! Please submit a bully free poem. Your work could be sung by students across the state of North Carolina.

http://makingmarvelousmusic.blogspot.com/2009/02/bully-free-community.html

Book Projects

I posted links to various projects using voicethread in the sidebar. On the Book Project link, there are pictures and scans of some book projects uploaded to voicethread for you to add comments. Please share with us why you chose to create this and what the pieces mean.

Word of the Day

I just added a new link to Useful Links in the sidebar: Word of the Day! I challenge you to check out the Word of the Day when you look at the blog . . . see if you can use that word that day! Be sure to tell us about what great job you do with this challenge!

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Sign of the Beaver

What do you think about the book so far? What are the best parts? What do you think will happen next? Is there anything else you want to tell me about this book?

More Activities:
CyberGuide
More Information
WebQuest

War With Grandpa

WOW!! The third grade girls finished Wish Giver in 3 days!!! Now they are on to their next book . . . War With Grandpa
So girls, here is a place for you to tell me about what you are reading now and what you think so far . . . you can make predictions too !

Questions and Activities

Rotation, Reflection, and Translation

You are the author/illustrator of a new math book. It is your job to use designs, models, and/or computer graphics to illustrate and explain reflections, rotations, and translations of figures. Your part for the new math book is due in one week!

http://tinyurl.com/de8uwb

Books! Books! Books!

Both groups just finished (or will soon finish) reading Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life! We really enjoyed this book. The 3rd grade girls have just started reading The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain and the 4th grade girls will soon begin reading Sign of the Beaver. The students are working with the teacher to create their own reading schedule and projects to go along with the books! I can't wait to see what we come up with!

Math, Math, Math!!!

Talk to me about math . . . What have you learned recently? What have we done? What do you think you need more help with?

Using Flip Video . . .

Here we used the Flip Video to record us working on our voicethread projects! :)

Update on Jeremy Fink!

What have you found out about Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life so far? What has been your favorite part? What do you predict will happen next?

Book Projects

WSFCS WriteOn Project

We are working with several other classes in the school system to create a collaborative story on a wiki.



Our group is writing the beginning of the the story!