Today I quickly showed the students how easy it could be for us to snap a picture of something and put it up to the blog. I'm going to look into how other teachers use blogs and the way that they use the blogs within the class. If anyone is terrified of the idea of their child being put up, let me know right away. If you're open to the idea, I'll send information along soon regarding this issue. I know the school has sent home slips, but I don't imagine anyone had a blog in mind for classroom information. The short of it is, you won't see any pictures of your kids on here unless you specifically choose to opt-in to such a decision.
Today's Areas of Study:
We didn't have a "special" (gym, music, counseling, library) today, so we spent that forty-five minutes focusing on science. I showed the class a documentary (Cosmic Voyage - narrated by the fantastic Morgan Freeman) that I show every year to give the kids a full view of how far out we've seen with telescopes, and how far in we've gone with microscopes.
We currently live in a time in which we know that electrons are not the smallest bits of matter in the universe. We know about quarks now! We theorize about strings, which are smaller than quarks. When I went to middle school, nothing was smaller than an electron.
Then, telescoping out, the documentary takes us to Venice, Italy, birthplace of the telescope, and then shoots us out to the farthest known reaches of space.
The video is part of the Imax Space set that IMax did with Nasa. It's a really fascinating documentary. If you're hooked up with Netflix, Cosmic Voyage is the name.
My Readers' Theatre group performed in front of (nearly) the entire fourth grade today, and a few parents who were able to make it. Everyone did a great job, and had an opportunity to perform and speak in front of an audience. It was a good day.
My math group continued on with the x8 and x9 work and reviewed our quiz from the previous day. The quiz was five questions, and neither of my students who are out of town missed anything in the quiz.
We read more from George's Secret Key to the Universe, and looked at our poster of the planets on the Smart Board.
In writing we did our Daily Language Exercises, and then worked in our writer's journals on one of the student's current writing pieces. I let the students know that I would be asking for them to edit a piece to final draft form.
Our big technology discovery of the day was to finally implement Google Docs into the classroom, which allows me to look at something online that a child has written through my Google account. It's not accessible by anyone other than myself, but allows me instant access to student work digitally.
I miss my vacation students, but understand the need for a different environment. Enjoy yourselves Evan and Hannah.
Take Care,
Mr. B
We didn't have a "special" (gym, music, counseling, library) today, so we spent that forty-five minutes focusing on science. I showed the class a documentary (Cosmic Voyage - narrated by the fantastic Morgan Freeman) that I show every year to give the kids a full view of how far out we've seen with telescopes, and how far in we've gone with microscopes.
We currently live in a time in which we know that electrons are not the smallest bits of matter in the universe. We know about quarks now! We theorize about strings, which are smaller than quarks. When I went to middle school, nothing was smaller than an electron.
Then, telescoping out, the documentary takes us to Venice, Italy, birthplace of the telescope, and then shoots us out to the farthest known reaches of space.
The video is part of the Imax Space set that IMax did with Nasa. It's a really fascinating documentary. If you're hooked up with Netflix, Cosmic Voyage is the name.
My Readers' Theatre group performed in front of (nearly) the entire fourth grade today, and a few parents who were able to make it. Everyone did a great job, and had an opportunity to perform and speak in front of an audience. It was a good day.
My math group continued on with the x8 and x9 work and reviewed our quiz from the previous day. The quiz was five questions, and neither of my students who are out of town missed anything in the quiz.
We read more from George's Secret Key to the Universe, and looked at our poster of the planets on the Smart Board.
In writing we did our Daily Language Exercises, and then worked in our writer's journals on one of the student's current writing pieces. I let the students know that I would be asking for them to edit a piece to final draft form.
Our big technology discovery of the day was to finally implement Google Docs into the classroom, which allows me to look at something online that a child has written through my Google account. It's not accessible by anyone other than myself, but allows me instant access to student work digitally.
I miss my vacation students, but understand the need for a different environment. Enjoy yourselves Evan and Hannah.
Take Care,
Mr. B
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