Room 18 is full of talented kids! Here is Tara celebrating part of her cultural traditions with a Thai Dance. So cool!

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Congratulations to Manasi for sharing this wonderful video of her dance contest. If you have a chance, ask her about it in class!

Yeah Manasi!

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Here are Irene’s slides from her Word Root Presentation.

“Micro” PPT

“Micro” PDF

Check out our new Student Work Gallery.

At the top of the website there is a new link to our new Student Work Gallery. This page will offer examples and samples of student work.

These samples can help students improve their work and take it to the next level. Let these examples be your guide.

Here is an example of a well-written RRL. As I find other excellent examples, I will post them to our new Student Work Gallery. This new page on our website will highlight some of the best student work coming out of Room 18.

These examples can be used to guide everyone in their pursuit of excellence.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Dear Mr. C.,

Today I read the book The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket. I liked this book because the main characters, Sunny, Klaus, and Violet Baudelaire are so clever. In this book, the antegonist, Count Olaf is after the Baudelaire fortune! Throughout the story, the Baudelaire’s moved to Paltryville to live with a family member. First, Sunny kept on looking at the mold on the floor. When they arrived at Paltryville’s mill, they noticed all the workers there were frowning (That’s all I read because I just started this book).

While reading this book, I used the strategy “Tune into Interesting Words”. This strategy helped me collect interesting words. For example, when I was reading on one of the pages, I read across the word “mold”. However, after I used “ Tune into Interesting Words,” I put the word “mold” on a page, and next to it, the definition. The definition for “ mold” is: “ a hollow container used to give shape to molten or hot liquid material ( such as wax or metal) when it cools and hardens. This strategy made me a better reader because interesting words, I just want to write them down.

My reading goal last week was to read more slower, and I reached my goal! I met my goal because when we were reading yesturday, I was reading with a partner and read slow. So my steps this week are the same as last time.

Sincerely,
Nikki

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Here is a very impressive slideshow Octavia made “just for fun” and as a way to learn how to use the presentation application that is part of Google Apps.

Octavia does a great job of connecting the text on each slide to a picture that enhances the meaning of what she is trying to share. Judging by this slideshow, Octavia really understands the strength and power of presentations is visual (pictures)! Yeah!!