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Brianna’s Blog Post

Here is a great example of what to do on your blog post, kids. This is Brianna taking our lesson and project from this afternoon and turning it into a blog post to publish it to the world. Great work. Click on the image to view the post.

Pledge of Allegiance Paper

Today, as a part of our short chapter on government and government symbols, we explored the Pledge of Allegiance. We took some of the larger words in the Pledge and found definitions for them. Then we replaced those words with our definitions. Tomorrow we are going to read our new pledges to get a deeper [...]

Monday News

In social studies we are learning about how our government works and the different symbols our country uses. In math we are continuing working with geometry, focusing on

Have a Fun Extended Weekend!

I hope you enjoy your extended weekend. Make a snowman,

read a book with a friend,

or do a dance.
Whatever you do, have fun and be good! I know I am going to enjoy my day tomorrow with my little girl.I will see you all on Monday!
For Parents: I just want to take a moment and thank [...]

The Marchionda Minutes Ep. 15 – Urduor With Emaan

On this week’s episode of the Marchionda Minutes podcast we hear from Emaan. Emaan is from Pakistan and is here at our school for the first year. She shares with us a bit about her language and the struggles with learning English in school. She also shares with us about some time she spent in [...]

Look Who Was In My Classroom Tonight!

Gregg Jennings of the Green Bay Packers! Don’t I look tall??

I Did A 540!

Today I was awarded a gold medal by Richard, our class math tutor, and the rest of the class for my amazing feet of jumping a 540 degree turn in class yesterday! Yes, it is true. I jumped a full turn and a half as a demonstration of angles. Ahh, the things I do for [...]

Welcome Weblings!

Over the weekend I began an upgrade to Marchionda.org’s software that runs the site. This upgrade allows for students in my class to have their own mini site off of mine with a domain name of firstnamelastinitial.marchionda.org. Last year some students really got into making a site and running their own online journal. If you [...]

Substitute Tomorrow/Two Tests Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will be gone from the classroom at a district training session. Please represent yourself and our class well while our substitute is here. Please be the helpful kids, polite students, and great listeners that I know you are. Have a great weekend, and I will see you on Monday.
We will also be having [...]

Parent/Teacher Conferences Tomorrow

Just a reminder that we will be beginning this round of parent/teacher conferences tomorrow after school. I am pretty booked so I will have to keep our conferences to the 15 minute limit.
As for news from the classroom, we are continuing working on geometry skills and vocabulary. In social studies we are finishing up our [...]