Our Missouri state capitol, Jefferson City – photos

February 27, 2008 on 10:43 am | In Uncategorized | 1 Comment

On February 26th, Mr. Sigler traveled to the capitol building in Jefferson City and this is some of what he saw.

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Spelling List

February 27, 2008 on 10:27 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Are spelling words for this week are:

Spelling Words Week 22

1.    general

2.    governor

3.    governors

4.    government

5.    one

6.    won

7.    winner

8.    winners

Results of our lunar eclipse

February 22, 2008 on 5:31 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Here is SW Missouri, our lunar eclipse observations Wednesday night were a bust.   An ice storm moved in, obscured the sky,  and iced us over.  Here is a summary of what we missed.

Thanks Mr. Eclipse for the great eclipse animation.

Lunar Eclipse February 20th

February 20, 2008 on 3:05 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

I wrote a previous post about lunar eclipses. You will get to see on Wednesday, February 20th the best total lunar eclipse since 2004. It will start around 7:45 pm and reach its peak around 9:00 pm. Be sure to watch!

Spelling List this week

February 17, 2008 on 9:09 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

All our word wall spelling words to far this year is

January Portable Word Wall(pdf)

This week’s words are

Week 21


1. by
2. buy
3. bye
4. didn’t
5. doesn’t
6. happiness
7. unhappiness

Spelling List

February 11, 2008 on 10:45 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Our spelling words for this week are:

Spelling Words Week 20

1.    addresses

2.    crashes

3.    employees

4.    healthy

5.    rainy

Lunar Eclipse

February 5, 2008 on 4:24 am | In Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Lunar Eclipse time lapse

Did you know that the moon doesn’t disappear during a lunar eclipse? Instead, it turns red. Here is an explanation of why.

Lunar Ecplise over Maui

Mr. Eclipse also has this great multiple exposure of a lunar eclipse over Maui.

Thanks to Mr. Eclipse for this great resource on lunar and solar eclipses.

Doing Science

February 5, 2008 on 4:08 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

We are doing more than just learning Science.  We are doing Science.  We used lots of hands-on materials and tools to experience, explore, observe, and investigate science.  We felt like real scientist!

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Solar System Gallery

February 5, 2008 on 2:55 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

We have been studying a unit on Solar Systems. We made models to explain what causes day and night Can you pick out which model just explains day and night without any extras? We have also been studying the moon and its phases. We’ll have more on that later.

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Spelling List

February 4, 2008 on 10:51 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Our list of spelling words this week is:

Week 19

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