Mystery Skype

Has your child come home and told you about Room 15 participating in a Mystery Skype?  If you have no idea what they are talking about, watch the video below which perfectly explains it!

Earlier this year we participated in a California Regions Mystery Skype and last week we participated in a Catholic Schools Week Mystery Skype with a 3rd grade class in Omaha, Nebraska!

Skyping with Alex's Lemonade Stand

Today we had the privilege of Skyping with the mother of Alex Scott of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.  She spoke with the students about the power of philanthropy.  

Alex's mom, Liz Scott, shared her daughter Alex's story about how, at 4 years old, she decided to have a lemonade stand to raise money for children suffering with cancer.  (She herself was suffering with cancer and lost her battle at the age of 8.)

The students asked some great questions and hopefully were inspired to take action to help others!

For more information about Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, please visit their website by clicking below:

ALEX'S LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION

Thanks to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation!

Skype Lesson: California State Quarter

Today we had the opportunity to Skype with Garrett Burke, the designer of the California state quarter!  

He has written a book called Quarterama which details the meaning behind each design on every state quarter. Last week, Mr. Burke SO generously dropped off a copy of his book along with a signed certificate with an actual CA state quarter on it!  

His book is available to purchase and would be a GREAT book to keep out in your family or living room.  It is FULL of amazing information about each state's quarter as well as his journey to being chosen to design California's quarter. You can also purchase a state quarter folder to start collecting them!  

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE BOOK AND COLLECTOR'S FOLDER!

 

CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT THE QUARTERAMA WEBSITE!

 
Thanks to Mr. Garrett Burke for an awesome learning experience!

Quad Blogging 11/1

**This post is intended for the students in Room 15.  Parents, this will be done in class today.**

We are blogging with St. Christopher's Primary Catholic School in the United Kingdom!

Quad Blogging Week 1

1. Go to this link:   http://blog.st-christophers.stockport.sch.uk/?cat=28

Read and comment on three student’s blogs. Remember to give 1 praise and at least 1 question.

2. Go to this link:  http://blog.st-christophers.stockport.sch.uk/?p=3018

Leave a question for the school.

Global Read Aloud 2013

On Monday our class will participate in the 2013 Global Read Aloud.  This year's selection for our grade level is Out of My Mind by: Sharon Draper.  I will be reading this book to the class and the students will be connecting with other students who are also hearing the book read to them through Edmodo and Skype.

Please visit the Global Read Aloud Website for more information by clicking HERE.

**Your child is more than welcome to download a copy of the book to their e-reader or buy a copy of the book to follow along, but it IS NOT mandatory!**

O.R.E.O. Project 2013

The last two days have been extra exciting because we used Oreo cookies to study math and art!

During math time on Thursday, the students predicted how high they could stack an Oreo tower.  Then they got two attempts.  Congrats to Mallory who had the high stack of 36!!

The students then added, subtracted, compared numbers, and we all averaged each attempt.  On the second attempt the class average was 23.5!  Impressive!

This was all part of a Global Learning Project called The O.R.E.O. Project which has been happening for ten years!  Read more about the project HERE!  Students all over North America participated!

On Friday the students used the cream filling as their medium for an art sculpture activity.  Mrs. Mueke (one of the Sprouts teachers) judged the sculptures.  Below you will see the top three!

Thanks to all of the parents who brought in Oreos!

 Scraping out the filling!

First Place: Dolphin

Second Place:  Mickey Mouse

Third Place: The Trinity