tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26528898837870904572024-03-19T01:05:24.446-07:00A Peak into Room 15create write innovate imagine explore think collaborate design evaluate discuss analyze question connect reflect debate invent team wonder blogJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04407409476032509053noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-62468326543055346912016-03-01T05:07:00.003-08:002016-06-23T18:30:50.892-07:00Snow Day Challenge #2<span style="font-size: large;">Well, what do you know. Another Snow Day? Well, that means Another Snow Day Challenge!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For our last Challenge we had some AMAZING blog posts. What will happen this time?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">BE KIND!</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;">What can you do to be kind? Can you give a compliment, help someone with a chore or a project, share something you have?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Who can you be kind to? Your brother or sister, your Mom, Dad, Grandma, or Grandpa, a friend, a neighbor?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>There are so many ways to spread kindness</u>! Think of what you can do to be kind, and then share a blog post about it. Upload a picture if you want to. At the end of the day, I will update our class blog with ways we were kind today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a wonderful <span style="color: blue;">SNOW DAY</span>, have a wonderful time being <span style="color: magenta;">KIND</span> today and I will see everyone tomorrow! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a way to review, we spent some time finding rectangles in the classroom and figuring out the area and perimeter. We used the Skitch app to take pictures of rectangles in the room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a great way to review the concepts that we've learned and also practice our measurement skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Take a look at some of our pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is Meredith and Sydney's Skitch picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is Lainie and Lauren's Skitch picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We took pictures of items in the classroom and divided them into <u><b><span style="color: purple;">equal portions.</span></b></u></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">We can find math wherever we look. Can you think of some times when we use area, perimeter, or fractions in our daily life?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-29734511478570102962016-02-25T04:53:00.000-08:002016-06-29T11:34:20.159-07:00Snow Day Challenge #1<span style="font-size: large;">Hello Amazing Third Graders!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As promised, here is your first Snow Day Challenge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, Create! You can create out of paper, blocks, toys, snow, toothpicks, and well, pretty much anything! Use your imagination and make a creation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="background-color: magenta; color: lime;">Sydney</span></b> wrote a great paragraph all about the zoo she created. Check out her paragraph at her blog, <a href="http://sydney215.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sydney's Stupendous Blog</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read about what she created on her blog here: <a href="http://dorothy215.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dorothy's Distinctive Blog.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: magenta;"><span style="color: lime;">Lainie</span></span> made a monster during our Snow Day! Read her great post. <a href="http://lainie215.blogspot.com/2016/02/snow-day-creation.html" target="_blank">Lainie's Magnificent Blog</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Have an amazing Snow Day and I look forward to seeing your wonderful creations! </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-1253227051427325632016-02-08T19:32:00.000-08:002016-06-29T11:48:57.912-07:00Kidwish 2016<span style="font-size: large;">We started off our school year with a collaborative project called Kidwish 2016.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">For Kidwish, we started with thinking of a wish we had for the world for the year 2016. We were going to connect with students in Ms. Chapman's third grade class in Andover, Kansas and share our wishes with them.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">After we decided what our wishes for the world were, we made cards for our friends in Kansas. We each wrote to a student in Ms. Chapman's class and that same student wrote back to us!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Then we worked on writing essays about our wishes to share with our friends in Kansas. Check them out below.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Joey's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lainie's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meredith's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mason T's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Julian's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dorothy's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Addison's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andrew's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sydney's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mason W.'s wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Selena's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Camden's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Cordelia's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ethan's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lauren's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kaityn's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Omar's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Avery's wish:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then it was time to mail the letters and wait to receive our letters from Kansas. After we received them, we were able to Skype with Ms. Chapman's class and meet the person we wrote the letter to. It was great to see them!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Below are a few of the multiple step story problems we wrote. This was quite a challenge to do! See if you can solve some of them.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Here is Izzy and Jason's problem.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Thanks for checking out our story problems. Can you choose one and solve it in the comment section below? We would love to hear what you think the answer is.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-7516800341320606382015-12-21T16:10:00.000-08:002018-01-14T15:50:36.694-08:00Holiday Card Exchange<span style="font-size: large;">For the second year in a row, our class has participated in a holiday card exchange with classes from around the United States and Canada.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">This project is one of the many collaborative projects coordinated by Jen Wagner, an amazing teacher who is willing to share her great ideas.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Our first task was to create some cards for all of the classes on our list. Our theme was SNOW!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Then it was time to wait for cards to come in. The week before our Holiday Break we had enough for everyone to open a card.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">We put the information in a spreadsheet to compare and contrast the different schools. Click on the link below to see our data.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Look at these beautiful cards!</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">We had great fun collaborating with other schools with this project. We would love to hear your thoughts or questions about what we did. Please share them with us in the comments section below.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">The Hour of Code is an introduction to computer science. It introduces the type of logical thinking necessary to write computer code.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check out the website here: <a href="https://hourofcode.com/us" target="_blank">Hour of Code.</a> </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Students were able to write code for a variety of different characters.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Some chose to write code for Elsa and Anna from Frozen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And of course, with the Star Wars movie coming out this week, there had to be a puzzle for Star Wars!</span><br />
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-48950497521839396132015-12-06T19:06:00.000-08:002018-04-23T11:42:30.842-07:00Properties of Multiplication<span style="font-size: large;">In Mrs. Essenburg's third grade classroom we have been working hard on learning multiplication!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">One very important part of multiplication is understanding the different properties and how they help us solve problems. There are quite a few properties of multiplication.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">There is the <span style="color: red;">Zero Property</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In other words, any factor times 0 is always 0. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">8 x 0 = 0</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">557 x 0 = 0 and</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">0 x 3,238 = 0.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">That means that we can flip the factors around and we still get the same product.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">So 3 x 7 = 21. But 7 x 3 = 21 too!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It works with addition as well.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Of course there is the <span style="color: red;">Associative Property</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This means we can move the factors in all different places and if we use the same numbers we'll still get the same product.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">So 1 x 2 x 3 x 4 = 24</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But 4 x 2 x 1 x 3 = 24 as well.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So does 3 x 4 x 1 x 2!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Don't forget the <span style="color: red;">Distributive Propert</span>y. It's very important! It helps us to solve problems with larger numbers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After learning about all of these properties, we made a paper slide video about what we've learned. Check it out below!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also learned how to make a screencast to show more about how the Distributive Property works. A screencast is a short video explaining a skill. If we can teach a skill to others that shows a real understanding of that skill.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Here is Ashlyn and Izzy's screencast about the distributive property.</span><br />
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Here is Jillianne's screencast showing how to do the distributive property.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Here is Camden and Lainie's screencast about the distributive property.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is Jason and Andrew's screencast on the distributive property.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Here is Jackson and Brody's screencast showing the distributive property.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And here is Joey's example of the distributive property.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Understanding the distributive property is so important! It will help all of us as we move into multiplying larger numbers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">A fact is something that can be proved. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">For example, <span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thanksgiving is a holiday in November is a fact</span></span>. We can prove it is true by looking at the calendar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: blue;">An opinion is something we think or believe</span>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">For example, <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: lime;">Thanksgiving is the best holiday of all is an opinion. </span></span>We can't prove it, and some people might agree and others might disagree.</span></span><br />
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Izzy made a Fact and Opinion puzzle about Fall.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, we worked together with a partner to research a topic that we found interesting. We wrote down facts and opinions about that topic, and used Book Creator app to write pages for a book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a pumpkin filled day in Room 15 last Friday. We were able to have a lot of fun with pumpkins while learning at the same time.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">We had six pumpkins in our classroom. One we set aside for later (more on that below), so that left five. Each table group was given a pumpkin. Of course we had to give each of our pumpkins a name!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First we had to find the <u><b><span style="color: blue;">mass</span></b></u> of our pumpkin. What does the word <span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>mass</b></span></span> mean?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A kilogram is a unit we use to measure mass or weight. We made our own kilogram weights!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We observed our pumpkin closely again to try to estimate the circumference. We used centimeters as our unit of measure. We then entered those estimates in our Google Form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After estimating, it was time to find out what the mass and circumference of each pumpkin actually was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We made a prediction. We thought that the larger pumpkins would have more seeds than the smaller pumpkins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then it was time to find out! We got inside our pumpkins and counted the seeds together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For this pumpkin, we were going to see how many rubber bands it would take for our pumpkin to explode!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mass: 8.6 kilograms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Mrs. Essenburg's class we have been reading and learning about nonfiction. What is nonfiction?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are lots of different types of nonfiction, such as books about animals, sports, history, biography, or different states or countries.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Authors write nonfiction in a different way than they write fiction. Authors use special text features to help the reader understand the facts they are reading about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Text features are things like <span style="color: red;">captions</span>, which tell what a pictures is about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> A text feature might also be a <span style="color: red;">heading</span>, which explains what the section of text is about.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't forget about the <span style="color: red;">Table of Contents! </span>The Table of Contents lets us know what each of the chapters are about and also what page they are on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A <span style="color: red;">map</span> is one of Mrs. Essenburg's favorite text feature, because if we are reading about a place it shows us exactly where that place is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't forget about <span style="color: red;">bold-faced words</span>. Bold-faced words are words that the author thinks are important, so the author makes them darker than the other words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Charts and graphs</span> are very important text features. Charts and graphs organize information in a way that is very easy to read. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Those are just some of the text features authors use to make nonfiction books more interesting and to help the reader understand the facts in the book.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Check out this great video Jordan and Cordelia made about the text features of this nonfiction book about animals!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We practiced using text features. In Social Studies we were learning about the Midwest Region. After we read about the different food, fun activities, and music of the Midwest we used the Pic Collage app to make <span style="color: red;">headings</span> and <span style="color: red;">captions</span> about what we read. Here are some examples of what we made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are Korin's and Mason W.'s headings and captions about food in the Midwest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are Andrew's and Kaitlyn's headings and captions about things people do for fun in the Midwest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are Sydey's, Riley's, and Addison's headings and captions about things people might do for fun in the Midwest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are Dorothy and Jordan's headings and captions about the music you might hear in the Midwest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are Lainie and Selena's headings and captions about the music in the Midwest.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Think about the nonfiction books you like to read. What type of nonfiction do you like the best? Which text feature do you find helps you the most to understand the book? Why is that text feature so helpful? Please comment below and let us know. Make sure your comment is a <u>Quality Comment</u>. </span> </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-12957667339653028862015-10-05T17:52:00.000-07:002015-10-06T05:19:06.323-07:00Global Read Aloud<span style="font-size: large;">We are participating in the 2015 Global Read Aloud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is the Global Read Aloud? It is a story read aloud at the same time by schools all over the world. Classrooms can discuss the books and learn with each other.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">The book we will be reading is Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are very excited to be collaborating with other classes as we read and think about this book. We will be collaborating with Mrs. Remedios's class in Brampton, Ontario, Canada and Mrs. Kiabacka's class in Pointe Verde, Florida. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We started thinking about the book today and connected with Mrs. Remedios's class on Padlet. Both classes had a chance to look at the front page and the title and make a prediction about what the book is about based on those clues. Here is our Padlet of predictions!</span></div>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">After watching the book trailer, does your prediction change? What is it now and why do you make that prediction? Is there anything you are wondering about? Parents and visitors to the blog, we would love to hear from you as well!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-85358931413667600142015-09-25T04:43:00.000-07:002015-09-25T08:45:33.613-07:00Rounding Numbers<span style="font-size: large;">In Mrs. Essenburg's classroom we are learning to round numbers to the nearest 10 and the nearest 100. We round numbers all the time to make working with numbers easier. Understanding how to round numbers shows we have a good understanding of place value and number sense.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Also, if we can explain what we have learned to others it shows we truly understand what we are learning. Check out the videos below with two students explaining how to round!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Here is Mason W.'s video about rounding to the nearest 10.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Great job Mason W. and Lainie!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Math Practices describe how we should think and act as mathematicians to have a deep understanding of mathematics. We will be focusing on one or two math practices each day.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">For this lesson, we concentrated on the math practice <span style="color: red;"><u>Using Numbers and Words to Help us Make Sense of Problems.</u></span> It is sometimes easy to find the answer to problems, but it is not as easy to explain why the answer make sense. Check out the great explanations that the third graders gave to the rounding problems below!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Being able to explain our math thinking is a very important skill. It shows we have a good understanding or what we are learning. Great job third-graders!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Third Graders, comment below with a two or three digit number and round it to the nearest 10 or 100. Can you explain your thinking and tell us why you rounded it the way you did?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Parents or visitors to the blog, do you have a rounding problem for us to try? If you do, share it in the comment section below. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Also, it is so important for us to see how we use math in every day life. Can you think of an example of when you might use rounding in your job or during your day? If you can, comment below with an example!</span></span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-31197291375871554402015-09-17T04:30:00.001-07:002015-09-17T04:49:20.502-07:00Making Our Mark and Celebrating International Dot Day<span style="font-size: large;">This week we are celebrating International Dot Day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is Dot Day?</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">International Dot Day is a celebration of creativity and innovation. It is based on the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the book The Dot, Vashti doesn't know what to draw. In frustration, she just puts a dot in the middle of the paper and gives up. As the story continues, Vashti realizes that even a dot can become something very special and that she can create amazing things. She needed to make her mark to see where it would take her.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Watch the video below for the story The Dot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We read the story The Dot together and talked about what we learned. Making something new can be frustrating and even a little scary, but it is worth the risk. Each of us has our own way of creating something, and each person's way is unique and special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">To celebrate Dot Day, we started by making dot t-shirts. First we put dots all over the shirt, in any way we wanted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then, our parent volunteers helped us by turning them into tie-dye t-shirts. Each shirt is wonderfully different!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also made dot posters. The instructions were simply "make a dot". It was great fun to see the different dots everyone made.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On our dot paper we wrote how we want to make our mark. Check out the video below to see the pictures we made and how we are going to make our mark.<br />
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After we wrote how we hope to make our mark, we Skyped with a class from Texas and a class from Pennsylvania. We shared with each other the dots we created. It was fun to see how other classes celebrated Dot Day and to learn a little bit about them.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Please tell us in the comments below, how are you going to make your mark?</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-16205789095476329592015-09-14T05:08:00.001-07:002015-09-14T05:08:15.355-07:00First Mystery Skype of 2015 - 2016<span style="font-size: large;">In third grade this year we are learning all about the United States. One of the ways we learn about the United States is to participate in Mystery Skypes with other classrooms.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">What is a Mystery Skype?</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">A Mystery Skype is a problem solving game. Two classrooms set up a Skype call to each other. They do not tell each other where they are located. Students need to ask yes or no geography questions to figure out where the other class is.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">It teaches geography, problem solving skills, critical thinking, and helps us to learn about other classrooms in other parts of the country. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Watch the video below to see our first Mystery Skype in action!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We will be keeping track of all of our Skypes on the <b>Mystery Skype page on the tab along the top of the blog</b>. Check back and look at the map to see the different places around the country--and perhaps around the world--that we have been able to Mystery Skype with this year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We would love to hear what you think about Mystery Skype. Share in the comment section below!</span></span> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-17092715443205494992015-09-10T13:30:00.000-07:002015-09-10T13:30:29.023-07:00Technology Tool<span style="font-size: large;">Today we learned about a technology tool called Padlet. Padlet is an online bulletin board where we can write our thoughts to share with the class. We have used Padlet in the past to share our thoughts with other classrooms as well, from classes here at Pinewood to classes in the United States and even a class in Australia.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">For our first time using Padlet we wrote down our favorite foods. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had a lot of fun using Padlet and we will be using it as a tool for learning as the year goes on. I challenged the third graders to see if they could show their parents how to use Padlet. Below is an empty Padlet for parents. Please share what your favorite foods are on the Padlet! Ask your child how to use the Padlet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When describing yourself, please identify yourself in relationship to your child, such as Mason's Mom or Avery's Dad. I'm looking forward to seeing what the favorite foods of our parents are. Thank you!</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Did anyone mention something that reminded you of something you really like? Did you see anything that surprised you? Let us know in the comment section below.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-78818363366619185672015-09-08T15:30:00.001-07:002015-09-08T18:44:15.855-07:00First Day!<span style="font-size: large;">Today was our first day of school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our theme for the year is Create Bravely. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Third graders, have your Mom or Dad help you leave a comment about the first day of school. What is something you enjoyed? What is something you are excited for about third grade? Share your thoughts below.</span></span><br />
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</span> Unknownnoreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-35804722018199991912015-06-30T04:56:00.000-07:002015-09-06T17:54:07.861-07:00School Year 2014-2015<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you third graders for an amazing year. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">We did a few activities the last few days reflecting over the past year that I thought were important to share. One thing we did was think over the entire year, remembering all the different activities we did. We were very busy! Here is the Padlet we made about some of our favorites.</span><br />
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I also asked the students to give me five words to describe their year. They could choose any words they wanted. I took the words they chose and put them in a Word Cloud. I wasn't surprised to see techie so prominent!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Finally, here's a short video I put together with some of the (many) pictures I took over the year. I am so fortunate to be able to spend my days with such caring, enthusiastic, positive students. Thank you for an incredible year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have an amazing summer. I would love to hear about it. The things you did, the places you visited, and the books you read!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last but not least, a big welcome to the class of 2015-2016! Hello to Omar, Andrew, Meredith, Jackson, Shiloh, Riley, Lauren, Julian, Addison, Ethan, Dorothy, Selena, Korin, Avery, Camden, Joey, Laina, Kaitlyn, Jordan, Cordelia, Mason T., Sydney, and Mason W. It's going to be a great year!</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Let me know in the comments below what you are doing this summer!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-41198377077612017192015-06-04T04:27:00.001-07:002015-06-04T07:49:41.216-07:00Summer Reading and Writing Challenge<span style="font-size: large;">Summer is here! We have had an amazing year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are all doing the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge. I am very excited to get started on my summer reading. Some of the books I'm thinking of reading include:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I will share what I am reading with you here, but this is also the spot where <span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>you</b></span></span> can share what you are reading with the class. At least once this summer, I would like you to share with the class about a book you have finished reading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In your paragraph, include the title of the book, the author, and a 5 - 6 sentence summary of what the book was about. Let us know the genre and whether you would recommend the book to a friend and why or why not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check back often for comments and other entries from your classmates and Mrs. Essenburg.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">We tried our hand at making thaumatropes to get a better understanding of one of the toys children might have played with long ago. It took a bit of work as they aren't as easy to make as they look! Check out our thaumatropes below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We want our book reviews to last and to help people as they choose books, so we have been using the Croak.it app to share our book reviews with others. We take our written review and record it on the app.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After we record the book review we made a QR code for the recording. Then we put the QR Code right on the book. When we finish we put the book back in our classroom library. From now on anyone who looks at that book can listen to a review about it by scanning the QR Code. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check out some of our favorite books below. Click on the link below the book to listen to the croak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We love Geronimo Stilton books! Andrew describes one of his favorites.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anthony really likes Laura Ingalls Wilder books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Claire tells us about the book Judy Moody Declares Independence</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of our favorite books this year was the book Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Deven chose it right away as her favorite. I'll let her tell you why. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This book is so popular in our classroom that two students wanted to talk about it. Bradyn also chose this book as his favorite. Perfect, as we have more than one copy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sideways Stories from Wayside School has a few sequels. One of them is Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger. Ruby thinks you should give that book a try.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Jaelyn enjoyed the book Mallory on the Move.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are adding QR Code reviews to books nearly every day, so there are lots more books in our library with book reviews attached. What fun for next year's class to get to hear the recommendations from this year's class!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After we chose our topic we drew our picture. Then it was time to write our descriptions of our picture for our partners in Australia. It took a long time to write the descriptions. We were concentrating on being very descriptive and detailed!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">When we finished we sent our descriptions off to our friends in Australia and shortly after that we got their descriptions to see if we could draw their pictures. Click <a href="http://grade34msps.global2.vic.edu.au/category/global-connections/" target="_blank">here</a> to visit Miss Bardem's classroom blog to see how close we got!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sophie's description of a sunflower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jaelyn's description of a birthday cake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Claire's description of a face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sara Jean's description of a honey bee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bradyn's description of an iPhone 6.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jocelyn's description of a bumblebee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Lexi's description of a sunflower.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Jack's description of a pizza and a piece of cheese.</span><br />
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Kiersten's description of a robot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Many, many thanks to our partners at Morang South Primary School in Australia. We had a wonderful time with this project and look forward to collaborating again!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What do you think? How did we do with being specific with our descriptions? </span><span style="font-size: large;">We would love to hear what you think of our writing project.</span></span></span><br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-61238324845124563452015-05-17T17:20:00.000-07:002015-05-17T17:20:12.636-07:00Our Wonder Hour<span style="font-size: large;">This year we tried something new in Room 15. We gave Wonder Hour, also called Genius Hour, a try. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During Wonder Hour the students had the opportunity to work on projects of their own that interested them for one hour a week. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These projects ranged from research reports about shipwrecks in the Great Lakes to creating Rube Goldberg machines to making videos about Origami.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are some of some of our projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Andrew made a slide show and video about how to play marbles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kaiya and Kayla made a slide show about minerals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This student researched volcanoes and created a poster to share with the class about what she learned.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bradyn and Ruby were interested in origami. Bradyn created a website about origami and then created a video to put on his website. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://origami1234567.weebly.com/origami-videos.html" target="_blank">Bradyn's Origami site</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ruby also created a video and put it on her personal blog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://kidblog.org/MsEssenburgsClass-2/9d517a06-2b67-4030-92f8-dd21aff9db04/how-to-make-a-origami-bear/" target="_blank">Here</a> is the link to Ruby's blog and video. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We still have a few weeks of school to go, and we're doing our best to finish up some projects. If/when they are finished, I will add them here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We learned a LOT, both the students and the teacher. Most importantly, <span style="color: magenta;">we learned that the first time we try something it might not work, but that's okay, we can try again</span>. We can use what we learned from the first failed attempt to make it better the next time. <span style="color: magenta;">We learned that it takes hard work and perseverance and grit to keep going even if we're frustrated</span> -- we've had to re-record five times and we still didn't get it right, or no matter where we look we can't find the information we're seeking, or we just can't seem to figure out a way to attach a piece to the structure we're building.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;">We learned that we can seek help from others, look at it in a new way, and stick with it until we figure it out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those are important things to learn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For visitors to the blog, what do you think of our projects? Also, I asked this question at the beginning of the year when I first introduced what we were doing, and I will ask it again. If you could learn about anything you wanted, what would you choose to learn about? I would want to learn Sign Language.</span></span> </span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2652889883787090457.post-59585535235368265272015-05-11T17:58:00.001-07:002015-05-11T18:07:14.448-07:00Complex Sentences<span style="font-size: large;">As writers, we use lots of different tools to make our writing interesting. One tool that we use is to put complex sentences into our writing.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">What is a complex se<span style="font-family: inherit;">ntenc</span>e?</span><br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A complex sentence is a sentence that uses one independent clause and one dependent clause.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A dependent clause is a phrase that <u>cannot</u> stand on its own, such as:</span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because he needed to buy some milk.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even though it stopped raining.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;">Although she was tired.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Those just sound wrong, don't they? They don't sound like a sentence.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's because they are not complete. <u>They need an independent clause to partner up with.</u></span></span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">An independent clause is a sentence that can stand on its own, such as:</span><br />
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</span></span> <span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Anthony hurried to the store.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">The thunder crashed outside.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">The runner sprinted to the finish line.</span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Put them together with a comma between them and you will have a complex sentence!</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;">Because he needed to buy some milk</span>, <span style="color: red;">Anthony hurried to the store.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;">Even though it stopped raining</span>, <span style="color: red;">the thunder crashed outside.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;">Although she was tired</span>, <span style="color: red;">the runner sprinted to the finish line.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dependent clauses can go in different places in the sentence. For now, we are putting them at the beginning.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here are Tessa's complex sentences:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Here are Lexi and Deven's complex sentences:</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Jack and Ryan had a lot of fun with their complex sentence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Another great app we use to create is Shadow Puppets EDU.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Here is Kaydance's complex sentence. </span></div>
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</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Here is Bradyn's complex sentence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another app we like is Book Creator. Here is Claire's complex sentence made with Book Creator. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some common words we can use to start a complex sentence are after, because, while, and although.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Why don't you give writing a complex sentence a try? Use one of these dependent clauses, add a comma, and then finish with a complete sentence. Share your sentence (or more!) in the comment section below.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here are some complex sentence starters. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">While he waited for his sister,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">After they got off the bus,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Because he was late,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Even though she had to take a test,</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Or think up one of your own! </span></span><br />
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