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Homework at the end of the year

jsigler — Tue, 13 May 2008 21:25:36 +0000

We stopping spelling tests after the MAP tests. We will have homework Wednesday and Thursday. The final homework is assignment is to make a musical instrument. It must be able to change it’s pitch. Parent can help construct the instrument, but the design needs to be the student’s idea. They will present their instruments Monday.

I attached a copy of the instrument letter and scoring guide.

Episode 5 - Mr. S. Tech Club

jsigler — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:47:37 +0000

I know the podcast says Episode 4, but it took us a while to get this podcast finished.

Intro by Brytton
Jokes by Levi
Movie review - The Ice Princess by Hanna
Banana Joke by Cassady
Closing by Burgandi
Attribution by Ben
CC License by Brytton

We even included an outtake blooper at the end.

Enjoy!

Episode 4 - Earth Day Skype podcast

jsigler — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:38:19 +0000

Here is our Skype conference with Mrs. Sorey’s class in Nags Head, North Carolina. We had some technical difficulties, but it was only our first ever Skype meeting our class had ever had. We only managed to record about half of the voice chat, and some of that was hard to hear. We started with video, but they couldn’t see us. In the part we didn’t record Mrs. Evanoff said she saw a school of dolphins while driving over the bridge on her way to school! It was an exciting experience. We didn’t record much about Earth Day but it was sure fun!

Earth Day webcast

jsigler — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:49:38 +0000

Since we are testing on Earth Day, we are going to have our celebration head of time. On Friday we are going to try having a video chat with a 3rd grade classroom in Nag’s Head, North Carolina. Mrs. Sorey’s class will hopefully meet up with us virtually on Friday morning. We will introduce ourselves, chat some about our separate locations, and discuss Earth Day. The latter part of the chat will hopefully be recorded.

We will post the video recording here as a video podcast, but the audio will also be played during a 24-hour webcastathon on the Ed Tech Talk internet webcast channel. A webcast is like a live radio show on the internet, it is often recorded and posted later as a podcast.

Wish us luck.

Spelling List

jsigler — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:21:21 +0000

1. action

2. decision

3. explosion

4. threw

5. through

All our words so far.

March Portable Word Wall(pdf)

Spelling List

jsigler — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:54:06 +0000

Spelling Words Week 27

1. I’m

2. its

3. it’s

4. that’s

5. with

6. location

Spelling List

jsigler — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:43:30 +0000

Spelling Words Week 26

1. another

2. protection

3. we’re

4. wear

5. where

Wikijunior Famous Inventors book

jsigler — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:05:03 +0000

We are beginning a new project on Famous Inventors. We will research the inventors with partners and make a book out of them. However, this book will be shared with the whole world. We will use our research to create a book called Famous Inventors on Wikijunior.

The purpose of Wikijunior is to produce age-appropriate non-fiction books for children from birth to age 12. Wikijunior is a sub-project of Wikibooks, which is a community working to create a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks is a sister project of Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia in the world.

By contributing our researh to Wikijunior, we are making a permanent contribution to the world. Children all over the globe will be able to learn from and add to what we will have done on this project. What a great legacy to leave behind here at the end of our 3rd grade year.

Spelling List

jsigler — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:32:54 +0000

Spelling Words Week 25

1. confusion

2. question

3. vacation

4. vacations

Spelling List

jsigler — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:24:53 +0000

Spelling Words Week 24

1. readiness

2. sadness

3. teacher

4. builder

5. darkness

6. editor

7. elevator

February Portable Word Wall(pdf)