Festive Figurative Language

Here are a few happy holiday similies, metaphors, and personifications to please your verbal appetite.

Tweeting "The Little Red Hen"

Our literacy group has created fairy tales for the technology age! View the comments to read their tweets about "The Little Red Hen"

2010 - 2010 School Year

It's time for a new look and a new year!

This year I am blessed to have become a part of the Weber Elementary team. I will be teaching 5th and 6th grade literacy. I am super excited to meet my students and get their minds moving. Look for many great things to be happening on our blog this year!

Glogster

Fraction Challenge Results!

Early in April Mrs. Lindberg's math class gave us a fraction challenge. This challenge can be see in the a post below. I have finally gotten around to posting our results to these questions:

1. What fraction of students are girls?
2. What fraction of students are wearing jackets?
3. What fraction of students are wearing white? Blue? What is the sum of these fractions?
4. Name 2 equivalent fractions for 1/2.

What a bunch of Turkeys!

This is hilarious! I brought in two turkey legs for my science group to explore... they thought it was the coolest thing until it came time to touch them. Ha ha kids. Gotta love them!

K-9 "Kraziness"

Earlier in the year we read the story "Areo and Officer Mike". This story tells about how a police officer works side-by-side with his K-9 dog. At the time we read the story, our school resource officer came to talk to us about his job and how dogs are used in the police force. This week, the K-9 officers were able to bring their dogs for more conversation and demonstration. This was a great way for our students to connect with their community.... they absolutely loved it!

Dinosaur Ridge

This years field trip was to Dinosaur Ridge. Here our students were able to show their knowledge about dinosaurs, fossils, and rock layers. Our tour guides told us many facts and showed pictures, maps and artifacts. The kids had a blast and we came home with a few future paleontologists!

Grocery Getters

My math students have been hard at work solving real world problems. This week our focus has been on the grocery store and how to calculate prices with fractions and discounts. For this activity my students used a weekly King Soopers ad to find discount totals. This was a super fun and engaging activity!

Fraction Challenge

Hi Brainiacs in Room 14! The Blogging Panthers of M-13 have another challenge for you! We've been studying fractions and wanted to see what you could do!

We have some questions for you to answer using this picture. Please write the fraction and draw a picture of the fraction to show the following:

1. What fraction of the students are girls?
2. What fraction of the students are wearing jackets?
3. What fraction of the students are wearing white? What fraction of the students are wearing blue? What is the sum of those fractions?
4. Name 2 equivolent fractions for 1/2?

We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Good luck!

Ms. Lindberg and the Blogging Panthers of M-13

Lost

My ELD group read, summarized and illustrated the story "Lost". This story is about a girl's adventure trying to find her lost beagle. If you click on the link below you will see my students' illustrations and voiced summary. Enjoy and feel free to leave them a comment on all of their hard work!

http://voicethread.com/#q.b939779.i5036058

Main Idea Madness

My Favorite Jacket

I love my jacket because it is very soft. It has fur inside and makes me cozy and warm. I take it almost everywhere I go. It is black with peach colored stripes. I have been wearing it for almost two years and I still love it a lot. One day my mom gave me a different jacket to wear. I told her no I didn't like the other jacket. I took my favorite and put it on and went to school. My jacket feels like a friend to me. When I misplace it I won't stop looking for it. When it doesn't fit me anymore I will give it to my little brother. Whenever I wear it I con't stop thinking about how warm and comfortable it is!

What is the main idea of this story? (Who or what, did what, why or how)

3D Christmas

Right before break our math class worked on the elements of 3D shapes! We decided to decorate our classroom tree.... and it turned out beautifully! :) The students did a wonderful job building very tough shapes such as cones, pyramids, cubes, and cylinders.