Winter Olympics

We will be studying the Olympics for the next few weeks as well as having our own Mini-Metric Olympics in science. Below are a few links to help with Olympic projects.
Winter Olympics for Kids (has information on the many events)
Meet Team USA (has many useful links for other countries as well)
Winter Olympic Games by Wikipedia (Wikipedia always has lots of information about history, etc.)
Vancouver Home page (will find medal counts and specific event information here)
Maps of the World (more information on events)
Olympic Project (created by students for students)
Winter Olympics First Grade project (We are participating in this one.)

Insight into Percy Jackson

Rick Riordan, author of The Lightning Thief and the rest of the Percy Jackson series has a really cool website. Check it out by clicking here.

Greek Parents

This is just for fun! Find out your Greek god/goddess parent as if you are a demigod by clicking here.

Artsonia

Ms. Knoth has registered our student artists at Artsonia, a really cool website that showcases student artwork. So far Kassi, Eric, Lauren and Abby from our class have artwork that is exhibited on Artsonia. To visit Artsonia go to www.artsonia.com and enter the zipcode 45160 or click here.

Journals Still Journeying

Two more postcards just in. Becca's is from Fredericksburg, VA (maybe from her cousin Ashley?) and Jack's is from Erica in Palm Peach Gardens, FL. The students LOVE getting postcards!

Traveling News

Washington D.C.- Four students from our class are going on the trip to Washington D.C.: Ethan, Megan, Rachel and Tori. All other students who sent in $$ are on a waiting list. Any questions regarding this trip should be addressed to Mrs. Bower at bower_b@cneschools.org.

Journal Journey-Four students received postcards this week-Megan from Debbie in Cincinnati, Austin from Amy in the Big Sky State (aka Montana), Kassi from Morrena in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Sam from Uncle Type in Alaska.

Second Quarter Honors

Congratulations to the students who are in the second quarter Rocket Club:
Kylie
Samson
Abby
Mikella
Ethan
Jessup
Megan
Sam
Eric
Garrett
Becca
Congratulations to the students who made the second quarter honor roll:
Kylie
Samson
Mikella
Jessup
Eric
Sydne
Garrett
Becca
Congratulations to the students who made the second quarter merit roll:
Abby
Ethan

Water Cycle Contract

For the water cycle games in both interactive and printable formats, click here.
Select interactive word scramble by clicking here.
Select interactive fun facts matching game by clicking here.

Water Cycle

For access to our science lesson plans for this week and next, click here.

Back in the Saddle

I don't know about anyone else, but I was definitely ready to get back in the routine of school. The snow days were nice, but we have lots of work to do here!

The district website has a new feature that I am just learning to use, but that should be very handy because I can now attach assignments that are in the form of a word document.
Click here to see.

Rainforest Animals

We are reading The Great Kapok Tree and learning about rainforests. As part of our rainforest study, each student is researching a rainforest animal using encyclopedias and other resources. While computers will not be used at school, they may be used at home for more information.

anaconda armadillo army ant boa constrictor bushmaster snake chimpanzee cobra flying lemur harpy eagle howler monkey hummingbird jaguar kinkajou morpho butterfly ocelot paca poison dart frog sloth spider monkey tarantula toucan tree frog

Wikipedia is also a great source of information.

Snow Alert

The weather forecast is not looking good as far as school being in session over the next couple of days. If we are at school on Thursday, I will send home the Friday folder report tomorrow in the event that school is canceled on Friday. Just in case we are not in school either day, next week's important information was shared with students today so they could write the upcoming events in their planners. If we are not at school on Friday, the spelling test will be postponed until the next school day, and the science poster will be due on the next school day for those who have not already turned it in.

Next Week
1/11: Social Studies test (ch. 4); Practice Reading Ohio Achievement Test
1/12: Math test (multiplication)
1/13: Practice Math Ohio Achievement Test
1/14: Science test (processes that change the Earth)
1/15: Literature Project due (informational nonfiction); Reward Movie (for students with no behavior infractions and no missing work)

January 15 is the end of the grading period so all missing work needs to be turned in before that day.

Traveling Journals

Our journals are traveling in every direction! Some went east (Vicki's to the Sommers in Maine; Austin's to the Ficklen's in Suffolk, VA-home of Planter's Peanuts), some went south (Samson's visited the Moores in Corpus Christie, TX) while others went west (Sydne's to San Diego and Mikella's to Cary's in CA and Chris's in WA) or north (Jack's to Detroit, Michigan). Garrett's went overseas to the Ernsts in Germany and back. Now it's on its way to AZ!

The Great Kapok Tree

I hope everyone had a wonderful winter break! We are back to work on our erosion unit in science. We should have a test sometime next week.

We will be reading The Great Kapok Tree in reading for the next 2 weeks. Here are some fun activities to go along with our story.

Count the rainforest animals
Learn about rainforest animals
Label the rainforest animals
Life in the Strata information