Hmm...

Hmmm...what do you think this means?

Rock Star of the Week, Preston!

Preston's Rock Star Wordle

Historical Site Presentation Dates

I can't wait to hear all about the historical site you choose to
present about.   Here are the dates you signed up for.  We'll start working on them in class after break. 

Time for a Brain Break!

I'm all for having more brain breaks in class.  A student a few years ago shared Four Corners with me and it's been a hit with students ever since.  Let me know if you have any new ideas for things we can do for brain breaks in class.  Remember, they need to be
quick, easy and most important active!

Math Recap

A little recap from today's lesson.  Happy computing!

Unsupervised Outdoor Play...

I came across this last week and thought it was pretty interesting.
Do you have any thoughts on the matter?

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Happy St. Patty's Day folks!
Don't forget to wear green on Monday.

March 14th

I'll give you 3.14 seconds to guess what day it is...

Harrison and Mychal's Weekly Update

Hi, this week’s Weekly Update will be brought to you by the harry Harrison and the marvelous Mychal. We will be telling you all about our week in the Weekly Update. First we will be telling you about our great time learning about our student lead conferences coming up, our special visitor Peter Brown, and our surprise guest, Jon Cooper.

In math, we prepared for our student led conferences that are coming up. We will teach our parents one of the lessons we did this year. Lots of people are teaching their parents about the order of operations, adding and subtracting mixed numbers, and much more. Most of us are having a question to start out with to see how much our parents know about the topic we are teaching. After our parents have answered the question of the day we will give them some more questions to see if they understand what we taught them. This is a really cool feeling to be teaching our parents because we are always the ones getting taught. When our parents are experts on the lesson we taught them, we will play a game to test their skills. Some games are to help you understand the lesson. Others are like tic atac toe where you are trying to make a certain pattern with the answers you got. We can’t wait teach our parents.

On Tuesday, we had our special visitor Peter Brown. Peter Brown is an author/ illustrator from New Jersey. He was first inspired by his grandpa who was an artist. He thought it was cool to see a grown man drawing and making art very seriously. Some of Peter's first pictures were horses since he lived by a farm. He also drew pictures of his mom. When he was little, he said he drew better than he counted. He showed us a picture of his mom he drew when he was a child. She had six fingers on one of her hands! Then he read Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, with special effects like noises. He taught us how to draw Mr. Tiger. First he started by drawing two vertical rectangles on top of each other. The top one was bigger than the one on the bottom. It was surprising how good his drawing was after only fifteen minutes! He told us that simple shapes such as triangle are really good when drawing this tiger. He was a really funny guy.

On Wednesday, we had an interesting visit by Jon Cooper, a British battlefield archaeologist. Battlefield archaeology is when a man or a women studies remains of a battlefield. He came to talk to us about our social studies project. He is currently researching World War 2 at Adam Park. He told us about the lost shrine somewhere in Macritchie Reservoir. He told us that this shrine was used for the ashes of the Japanese dead. He said that the Japanese built the shrine. When the British started started taking over Singapore they decided to take the ashes back to Japan and blew it up ahead of time. The British went to the area and only found parts of the shrine . He showed us pictures of Adam’s Park right after the war and now. There was a HUGE difference. The road that was built is covering most of the artifacts from the battle that went on there. He told us about a very nasty disease that we both don’t want to write on here because it’s so gross. Jon Cooper is a funny guy. He had some very funny jokes that he told us! I hope that he comes back next year because I think that those kids will like him too.   

We hope ya’ll enjoyed this Weekly Update, brought to you by the harry Harrison and the marvelous Mychal. If you liked this week’s Weekly Update stay tuned for the next Weekly Update (in three weeks) that the brilliant Beatrice and jazzy Jade will write. Comment what you doing for spring break.

Time For Pi!!

Get ready for Pi Day tomorrow!

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Checking Out Our Artwork!

Check out what's on display in the Administration Office!  What great looking stamps from i308!

Rock Star of the Week, Vainavi!

Vainavi's Rock Star Wordle

The A Team's Weekly Update

Hi, and welcome to this week’s Weekly Update. This is Alexa and Anushka, known as the A team. Some interesting things have been happening here in Mrs. Clayton’s class, like the Awesome Ape Challenge, Fantasy writing, and Wacky Hair Day! We have come to report these things to you. This week has had ups and downs, with hard challenges and fun things. Read on and find out about the glorious week! On Monday, we had our last session in gym B for PE, the rockwall gym. On the same day, we also had our Awesome Ape challenge. We were really lucky since we were in that gym, we got to practice for the Awesome Ape. Other classes never got to practice. We have 3 girls and 2 boys who got in to semi-finals in this class. Their scores were INSANELY high! Most of them got across that wall in less than 20 seconds! Also, the class got to practice their climbing skills, which strengthens both upper and lower muscles. Even though not everybody could get into the Awesome Ape, kids got good scores. There are still many more things our cool teacher, Mrs. Wenstrom, has to teach in PE.  

On Thursday, we had our final edit for our fantasy writing. We have been working on writing a fantasy story for an entire month now, and it felt kind of good to stand back and see your finished work. We learned about the punctuation for dialogue and different formats for dialogue. For example, instead of saying the person who is speaking before or after the sentence the person is saying, you can put the speaker in the middle of the context of the dialogue. In the past lessons, we have also learned about spelling and describing characters. These lessons are not only for fantasy writing though, we can use these helpful skills in the future a lot. We will all keep these revision skills in mind. Everyone has been working very hard on their writing and should be very proud of themselves. It is so exciting!

On Friday, if you saw our class with the weirdest hairdos ever, it’s because we were having Wacky Hair Day! Alexa’s amazing mom won this fun opportunity for us at the County Fair so we got to style our hair in any CRAZY way we wanted! (applause please). Some of us came in with wacky hairdos. A few people had dye in their hair and a few others didn’t. We had a range from mohawks to two ponytails. Two ponytails to ten ponytails. Ten ponytails to ponytails hanging over the head. Ponytails hanging over the head to hair sticking up! People even made their hair look like bed head (A little nicer though)! Some of these ideas were ones that we would have never thought of! It was interesting to see how creative people can be. Maybe you could use some of these ideas for your next wacky hair day!   

Well, that brings an end to the Weekly Update. This week was an amazing week for the class. We had many activities, but these were the best highlights. Come back to know about our next fantastic week (we can’t wait for it) being reported to you by the clever Harrison and the awesome Mychal. Have a wonderful weekend!

Can You Imagine?

I know there are A LOT of animal lovers out there and so I ask you this.  Can you imagine what would it be like to be a dog that has never had a chance to run?  Or has never set paws on to grass?  
Why do you think this happens?  Do you think it's right or wrong?  Maybe even a better question would be,
what can YOU do to stop this from happening in the first place?

Wacky Kids!

A very WACKY thank you to Alexa and her parents for generously bidding on this super fun day.  HAPPY WACKY FRIDAY KIDS!

Yummy....Part 2!

Oh my goodness!  These DID make us smarter for our Math test!  Thanks to Beatrice and her mom for thinking of us and making these delicious treats!  I think we should conduct a study to see if having treats before math tests consistently make us do better.
It could be a fun study!

When's Your Birthday?

What a treat to learn more about Young Seo today from his parent's powerpoint!  I can't believe how many kids didn't know their zodiac signs.  Here's a picture and a quick link to learn a bit more about your sign as it relates to your birthday.  It's fun to check to see if you match or are the opposite of the supposed characteristics.

Five Things....

A fun lil' rap to help you think
about the elements of a story!

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Awesome Ape!

Congratulations to these Awesome Ape Competitors and good luck next Thursday!  We hope you're among the top three boys and girls that qualify for the Finals on Friday.  Happy climbing!

Rock Star of the Week, Young Seo!

Young Seo's Wordle