Gray's Kiddos

November Math Challenge

5th graders don’t forget…November Math Challenge is due on Monday, November 30th!  I can’t wait to see your projects!!

I also hope that everyone is enjoying their Thanksgiving Holiday!  Dinner last night was delicious!!  There is much to be thankful for this holiday season. I’m thankful that I was able to celebrate with my mom and dad.  What are you most thankful for?

13 colonies

Do you know your colonies?

Test yourself here…

13 Colonies

Updated Newsletter

I’ve added our updated newsletter to the blog.  Also – don’t forget that book orders are due on the 20th!

Yucky Gross!

Here is a site from Discovery Kids that we will be exploring this week - http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/index.html. Wendell the Worm will help you learn all about the gross and cool stuff humans’ bodies create–burps, snores, gas and more.

Fifth graders tell me what you think!

Word fun with Wordle.net

Today our fifth grade students headed into the computer lab for some work with synyoymn.  The students used the theasuarus in MicrosoftWord to create a list of synonyms for tired words.  We wanted to find new words to replace words like: said, happy, fun,sad, big, tall, etc.  Here is a sampling of our work!

Taylor's Workman Wordle

Taylor stayed in at recess to complete this wordle about Workman! Thanks Taylor!!

Join the fun – go to www.wordle.net to create your own word cloud!

Welcome to our blog!

Welcome to our blog! This is the place where you can get all the news and information about what’s going on in our classroom. Stay tuned for ways to use this blog to get help on homework, keep up on important dates, and have interesting discussions about what we have learned in class.

At the top of the page there are different tabs that you can click on – Calendar – Schedule – Guidelines, Conference, Newsletter, Student Links. The Calendar tab will take you to our classroom google calendar. This will help keep you up to date on what is happening in the classroom with due dates, tests and other upcoming events.

Newsletters will still come home via email – however I will have them posted here as well. They are password protected. Hint – the password is the name of your child’s elementary school (all lower case).

Also, our conference schedule is posted here for you as well. Please use the same password for the newsletter tab.  If you need to change your conference time for any reason please let me know as soon as possible.

You can also subscribe via email to the blog. Check out the subscribe section on the right column.  Which, if everything works right, you would get an email notifying you when the blog has been updated!

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