Tsunami Video
I found this video this morning (excuse the ad at the beginning) that shows a swimming pool during a 7.2 earthquake. This video (somewhere near the end) shows a great example of how a tsunami is formed. You can also make your own little tsunami by filling a glass of water half full then moving it back and forth, repeatedly. This week, one of the things we learned was that a tsunami is formed by and earthquake underwater. Cool stuff! Enjoy and have a great weekend.
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read moreReading and Rolling!
Tomorrow we will be having our reading test and a spelling test . Listen along with our story below. You should all have your text books at home. My goal is to have a class average of over 92%! We can do it!.
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There’s No Place Like Loam
Today in our soils unit in science we learned that there are different types of soils. We learned mainly about clay and loam. We then got to get our hands on dry clay, wet clay, loam, humus, and sand. This was helpful because we learned that the smaller the particles that a particular soil is made up of, the better it holds water. Therefore clay gets maliable with water and sand lets water run right through it. The best was the humus. That was strangely, wonderfully, soft. Joe wants a pillow made of it. Frankly, I think that is a little gross.
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Anna’s mom sent in the rock star picture of me during our spring concert. Hmmmm . . . what do you think Simon Cowel would say? Thanks for sending in the picture, you made my day. And, now, I share it with you all!
Mile Run/Walk!
May is National Sport and Fitness Month. In celebration, all of the classes will be running the mile next week May 3-7th during their physical education classes. Parents/Friends are invited to participate with your child either by running or walking the mile. Students really enjoy having important adults in their life to com and run/walk with them.
My class will be participating on May 4th from 11:00-11:30am. If it rains we will make this up on May 6th.
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Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull Volcano Pictures
Below is a little gallery of amazing pictures of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull (check out my amazing spelling!!) volcano as it exploded into amazingness. This fits right in with not only what we are learning in science, but also this weeks reading selection Rocking and Rolling.
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Spring Performance Tomorrow
Just a reminder that our spring performance is tomorrow evening in the PAC. All students are supposed to be at the PAC by 6:15. See you there!
Just a quick math note. We have begun working with division concepts. In the last few days we have been focusing on relating division to repeated subtraction and to multiplication. Today we began exploring specifically dividing larger groups in half, or dividing by 2. Each day for a little while we will explore dividing different dividends by specific divisors. Here is a link to a crazy Wikipedia article on division.
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Popcorn Tomorrow
Today we collected money for our school’s popcorn sale. Tomorrow the purchased bags will be coming home. Enjoy!
In social studies we finished our writing about Susan B. Anthony. We began collecting notes on Abraham Lincoln. Our reading and discussion lead us to a conversation about his assassination by John Wilkes Booth. Read here to know more about this. Read here to learn more about Abraham Lincoln.
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Also: Remember that our spring performance will be on Thursday at the PAC!
read moreSpring Program on Thursday
All day on Thursday we will be practicing for our spring program at the PAC. Please be sure to be on time, dressed nicely, and ready to sing! I know I will be practicing my guitar bit! Please check out our music teacher’s web site for more information.
Tomorrow our student council representitive, Vicki, will be collecting popcorn money. Each bag of popcorn costs 50 cents.
See you tomorrow!
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Reading, Spelling Tests Tomorrow/Science Quiz
Just a reminder to read (and listen to) Alejandro’s Gift in preparation for our test tomorrow. Also, study your spelling words!
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Tomorrow we will be taking a quiz in science about rocks, minerals, and fossils. Most of the quiz will focus on vocabulary and labeling of the Earth.
We also began a couple day study of Susan B. Anthony for our work in social studies. Here is a link to her wikipedia page for further interest. We will be listening for and learning at least 3 reasons why she is considered an important person in our country’s history. This then is going to be a basis of a short writing project.
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Have a great night, and I will see you tomorrow!
read moreThe Marchionda Minutes Episode 20 – This One’s For Keesha
On this week’s episode of the Marchionda Minutes podcast we hear from Marissa who shares with us her favorite reading material, her new puppy, the dog her family recently lost, and about her favorite tv shows. Enjoy!
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In science today we discussed fossils and how they are clues into the characteristics of plants and animals that lived long ago.
We will be having a math test tomorrow on fractions and probablity.
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