The Holiday Season is Upon Us!

December always brings along some of my favorite projects with the students. Take a look at the cute Santa Stamps the kids created, as well as the logic problem they had to solve involving the song "The 12 Days of Christmas." Students had to figure out how many gifts were given at the end of the 12 days. The results were much larger than any of them anticipated.

Native American Folklores

For the past month, our class has been working on creating digital storybooks of our Native American folklores using the website, Storybird. The finished products are pretty awesome, and I hope you'll check them out. The kids all worked really hard on their individual books.

You can find all the projects in the Class Projects tab at the top of the page, or by clicking on this link.

Native American Folklores

Our very first BYOD was a success!

Today, our class participated in our first ever Bring Your Own Device day! The students were excited to use them all day long as an additional resource in the classroom.

Students used them:

• To look up words during vocabulary time
• To find better diagrams of the respiratory system during science
• To practice coding, and participate in the Hour of Code by using Lightbot & Tynker
• To learn more information on important historical figures like Chief John Ross, Sequoyah, Chief Logan, President Andrew Jackson during social studies.

In fact, BYOD day went so well, we've already got our next one planned! Wednesday, December 18th will be our next BYOD day.

Can Food Drive

During the week of December 9-December 13th we will be collecting cans of fruit, as part of a school-wide Can Food Drive. If you have any cans of fruit in your pantry at home that you are willing to donate, please send them to school next week.

Video Lessons

We have a fun new feature as a part of our website! Along the top of the page you should see a new tab titled...

Video Lessons

On this page you will see a series of videos that have been created as a quick refresher for lessons we've done in class. So far, I've only made 2 math lessons, but I hope you will find them helpful. I will be continuing to update this page as the year progresses, and you might see some of the students making videos as well.

Important Dates

December is going to fly by for us in Room 11B! We have many exciting projects that we're working on, as well as a few tests before we head out for Winter Break. Most of these projects will be done in class, but you may see your students working on them at home as well.

Friday, December 6th
Spelling Week 10 Test
Body System Video Notes

Friday, December 13th
Spelling Week 11 Test
Topic 10 Math Test

Monday, December 16th
Native American Folklores (Storybird)

Thursday, December 19th
Social Studies Unit 3 Test

Friday, December 20th
Spelling Week 12 Test
Body System Project & Poster