Technowhizzes
Our name fits us to a T! For us, it's not just about using technology
but using technology to share ideas. As you will see our skills have
grown as readers, writers, mathematicians, and scientists. We truly are
thinkers! Be sure to check out our portfolios below by clicking on one
of our names!
Brandon Sonu Brenden Jenna Nasir Nate Amayah Zach Milan Jess Allie Jonas Amanda Gio Dylan Zebin David Keenan Mahendra Brianna | Shout Outs
Live Notebooks
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Ecosystems & Adaptations
Plants & animals adapt to survive in their environments. We created our own ecosystems that included all 5 elements of an ecosystem: air, plants, animals, water, & soil. Then we focused on 2 animals to see how they adapt in their ecosystems to create comparative infographics. Here are 2 Answer Gardens we participated in: If I Were to Create an Ecosystem I Would Include... and Ecosystems are like...
~ The Ecosystem ~ Amayah & Jonas's Ecosystem ~ Speedy Plants ~ Intelligent Birds ~ Super Intelligent Plants ~ Dangerous Insect Eater ~ Wise Wolf & Snakes ~ Birds & Bamboo ~ ~ Racin' Rodents ~
~ The Ecosystem ~ Amayah & Jonas's Ecosystem ~ Speedy Plants ~ Intelligent Birds ~ Super Intelligent Plants ~ Dangerous Insect Eater ~ Wise Wolf & Snakes ~ Birds & Bamboo ~ ~ Racin' Rodents ~
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Behind the Rock
Where do rocks come from? How are rocks made? How do we identify rocks? What do rocks do? We grabbed our geological hats, field notebooks, specimens, and dig tools to dig up the answers to these questions and more. We unpacked our drills to so that we could get a sample from the Earth's core. Be sure to check back for more!
Check out our Earth's Layers!
Check out our Earth's Layers!
I Spy My Town
We are exploring the town we live in! We are finding out where we live and how we feel about that. Be sure to check back often as we will be adding local businesses and services to our map!
We are compiling all of our resources and thinking to create a thought provoking multi-media presentation. Be sure to check back to see those! Be sure to check out our LIVE Social Studies Notebook where we have been sharing our thoughts!       |
How do you feel about where you live? Do you like it? Hate it? Love it? Why? What is it about your town that invokes such strong emotion? If you could have anything at all where you live, what would it be? We have created a video (above), an e-bulletin board, website, and museum box.
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Supermoon
Scheduling Time
While exploring the concept of Time, we learned how to read a clock, tell time to the nearest minute, say time in different ways (1/4 after, 1/2 past, 1/4 of), and find elapsed time. Here are a few schedules that we created that show everything we learned. Click to listen to our ujam.
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Mighty Multipliers (and Dividers)
We are sharing the multiplication strategies that work best for us. And created our own multiplication stories.
~ Skip Counting ~ Repeated Addition ~ Equal Groups ~ Grand Crayons ~ Zach & Brenden's Math Project ~ The Store ~
~ Skip Counting ~ Repeated Addition ~ Equal Groups ~ Grand Crayons ~ Zach & Brenden's Math Project ~ The Store ~
The Giver
After reading The Giver we were so moved by the complex ideas that Jonas faced we were compelled to share our thoughts with others. Click on the links below to see what we thought.
Dream For Keeps The Giver News The Colorless Giver Dystopia The Giver Release Memories Are Important
Dream For Keeps The Giver News The Colorless Giver Dystopia The Giver Release Memories Are Important
Honoring Veterans
Every year we take the time to honor our veterans. Take a look at how we honored them after our WebQuest.
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Fight for Your Right!
As American citizens we all have the right & responsibility to vote. As cyber-citizens we have the right & responsibility to be safe on-line. How can we take care of those rights?
We travel on-line often; blogging, tweeting, creating. We have frank conversations about what it means to have a digital footprint. We not only think about how to keep ourselves self, we consider how to keep others safe. We carry our rules with us no matter we are! |   |
Visualize, Visualize! We Can Visualize!
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We spent some time learning a variety of digraphs: ph, gh, sh, th, ch, wh, ng. We know that each combination makes its own unique sounds. Take a look at how we would teach it to someone else!
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Constitution DayWe celebrate Constitution Day by finalizing our class rules. What better way to celebrate the document that helped establish our country's freedoms than to create one of our own? We began our process by choosing Hopes & Dreams & establishing our classroom routines. We then brainstormed a variety of ways to help each other reach our Hopes & Dreams. Our list was quite extensive, so we categorized them by how we can take care of ourselves, others, & things. These categories helped us whittle down to 3 global rules. Because we know our routines we know what it looks like, sounds like, & feels like to care for our class rules.
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Our Class Rules helped us establish our Twittiquitte, online guidelines. We do our best each and every day to live by the Twittiquette.
Creating Class Rules
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Summer Reads
We are definitely readers. Not only did we BEG to bring our books home the 1st day we book shopped in the classroom, we read all summer long! We choose a media outlet to share 1 book we read & then worked together to create it. We shared our thoughts in Glogster, Blabberize, posters, or a booklet. Be sure to click on the links below to see our FABULOUS work; which was also our 1st time creating on the netbooks!
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