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Etymology: The Study of Words

January 4, 2010

Today I introduced our Word Study projects that students will be working on over the next few months. Each student has two different word roots (a prefix and/or a suffix). They will make a slideshow about each word root and present this slideshow to the class. Look for a more detailed post about this project [...]

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Making Salt Dough Video

December 7, 2009

Here is my latest video for those of you who want to see “Chef C.” in action. If you make some at home (like Nicole Q), please let me know!

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Word Root (Word Stem) Presentations

April 1, 2009

Students have been assigned word roots (prefixes and suffixes) and are responsible for making a small slideshow to teach the class about their root word.
Here is a list of students and their word root.
Here is a more detailed explanation about the presentations.

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Science Project Worktime

February 9, 2009

Monday, February 9, 2009
Dear Parents,
As you know our Science Projects will be due next Friday, February 20. In an effort to support our students in completing high quality projects on time, I am allowing the students to stay until 4pm on this Wednesday (February 11) and Thursday (February 12).
During this project time, students will [...]

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Photosynthesis Poster

February 5, 2009

Here is a “Velcro Poster” that I made as an example of what I expect the students to make. I call this a “velcro poster” because all the pieces of the poster are attached with velcro. This makes a great teaching and learning tool.
Our “teachers” will “build”” the poster in front of their [...]

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Science Project Calendar and Q & A

February 4, 2009

Part of the learning that accompanies the Science Project students are working on is:

Learning how to work on a big project by breaking it into smaller chunks and,
Learning how to meet a deadline that is a ways off in the future (with a big project you can’t just put it off until the night before) 

I [...]

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Student Projects Due in February

January 28, 2009

In addition, students are expected to create an audio version of a picture book. This new recording will be placed with the book in the Media Center for all Pioneer students to enjoy. This recording is due Friday, February 27.
 
Students are  working on creating a page or two for our class “Living Things” ABC book. [...]

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“Living Things” Science Projects

January 28, 2009

In class we are on week two of a large project.  
Last week the students were divided into groups of 5 or 6 and given a series of products they need to create.  Some of these products involve computers and video cameras, some involve music, art, drama or photography.  All the projects involve many, many [...]

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How to Search Flickr.com for Pictures

January 27, 2009

One great site for pictures is flickr.com.  flickr.com has a way to search for pictures that photographers allow you to use for your work as long as you give them credit.  This is called a Creative Commons Attribution License.
When you go to flickr.com, make sure you do an advanced search. 
In the Advanced Search, select “Only [...]

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California Outline Maps

January 27, 2009

For our science slideshows, you need to identify where in California your biome and ecosystem are and show that information graphically on a map.  I have found a helpful site with lots of different kinds of California maps.  The maps that will be most helpful to you are “outline maps” or the maps with only [...]

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