Come to Our Colony

The students were given the task to design a poster that would make people want to move to their colony. They were judged on this rubric. Click on a poster to enlarge it.

The Jamestown Colony was given a 2 for their poster. It had a good use of color. However, we felt the title was mashed together and there was too much blank space. Some graphics would have improved their poster. It was strongest in presentation but weak in Readability, Information, and Organization.

The Boston Colony was given a 3 for their poster. It was strong in all areas. They also tried a different approach than the other groups so they get credit for being innovative.

The Plymouth Colony was given a 3 for their poster. We felt it had a good layout but the facts could have been organized better. It was cluttered with more pictures than information. It was strong in Readability and Presentation but weak in Information and Organization.

Quebec Colony was given a 3 for their poster. It was probably the strongest poster especially in Presentation and Organization. The art teacher could have taught them how to use perspective in their poster. They always remembered that it was a recruiting poster. (The pigs probably should have been beavers)

This poster was given a 2. The New Amsterdam Colony was strong in facts but weak in design. It had too much blank space and the colored lettering was distracting.

Grandperson's Day

Today we had Grandparent's Day at our school. Actually we had grand person day because kids have grandparents that live in another state, so they invited their mom or dad or other special people instead. All the grandparents came and had lunch with their grandson or daughter. They went to the playground with them. They got to see what they do at school.

We were doing math when they came so they helped us learn about area.We hope they were proud of us and our school.

If we're lucky, they will take us to the book fair.

Click the link to see a slide show
http://animoto.com/play/90vn0TagXNMAdTPkFT3FQg

At the Movies: The Lightning Thief

Today, many of us met to see The Lightning Thief. We all left the theater thinking how different it was from the book. Well here's your chance to sound off.

Which did you like better - the book or the movie? Why?

What parts were changed or in some cases, left out?

How did the characters change?

If you were making the movie, what would you have done?

Science Fair

Jeopardy

Here is the link to our Jeopardy game for February. Be ready to play it on Monday. Practice at home with your family and friends.
Remember - All answers must be in the form of a question and they must pertain to the category.

www.jeopardylabs.com/play/february14

French Colonization Of The New World

Click here to get to our wall.

Very Busy Day

Yesterday, in the back of the school we saw a Ringtail in our tree.

Today in class we met a teacher from China. She showed us her class blog and we showed her ours. http://www.cjedu.cn/Her school has over 7,000 students and they live there during the week. There were amazing pictures of the student performances.Unfortunately, the website was in Chinese but we were able to translate with Google Translator.Plus we might have a pen pal class in China.

In computers we had to get our own Spanish misson and get information and write about it and show pictures.We intend to make a Google map of El Camino Real.

In math we learned Expanded Notation and scientific notation so we can write large numbers using powers of 10.

We also watched a video from Punxsutawny about Groundhog Day and Punxsutawny Phil.Phil predicted six more weeks of winter. We'll see if he is correct.
http://www.groundhog.org/