Mystery Skype with Ms. Regruth’s 4th Graders Bloggers – Matthew and Callie We have just started with out mystery Skype and have met everybody! They have some questions for us to answer about our state. They gave an interesting clue that their state borders a major river. I wonder what river! They just gave us [...]
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Mystery Skype ~ Indiana
May 11, 2012 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Just for Fun, Photography, projects, Reading, Skype, Technology, Writing
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Mystery Skype ~ Massachusetts
May 5, 2012 · 2 Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Just for Fun, Photography, projects, Reading, Skype, Social Studies, Technology, Writing
Mystery Skype with Mrs. Carroll’s 4th Graders Bloggers – Matthew and Jake Today we had another one of our amazing skype calls! In our skype we can use questions or clues. At the beginning we thought it was Massachusetts, because to the north they bordered by New Hampshire and Vermont. Their other clue giveaway was [...]
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Mystery Skype ~ Lancaster, Pennsylvania
May 1, 2012 · 2 Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Just for Fun, Photography, projects, Reading, Skype, Social Studies, Technology, Writing
Bloggers – Pascal and Jake Today we had another one of our mystery skype calls. We started at 1:20 but were supposed to start at 1:15, but we had technical difficulties. The 2nd clue practically told us where they are. It was that their state had the first capital. Harrisburg was the first capital and [...]
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Mystery Skype ~ Hattiesburg, Mississippi
April 26, 2012 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Just for Fun, Photography, projects, Reading, Skype, Social Studies, Technology, Writing
Bloggers – Joey and Pascal If you don’t know what a mystery skype call is, it is where you ask questions or listen to clues to find what state they live in. We decided to ask questions. We started 10:28 A.M. When we ask our first two questions they had trouble finding answers to them. [...]
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Mystery Skype ~ North Carolina
April 2, 2012 · No Comments · Curriculum Highlights, Just for Fun, Photography, projects, Reading, Skype, Social Studies, Technology, Writing
Blogger – Ben and Joey On Thursday March, 29 we had a mystery state Skype. If you don’t know what a mystery state skype is it is when you skype a class in a different state you don’t know and you ask questions or they give you clues and you try to guess the state [...]
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The World’s Dangerous Quest
March 14, 2012 · 7 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Reading
By Trenton If you like awesome adventurous books then this is the book for you. It’s called The Lost Hero and it’s by Rick Riordan. It is Book 1 of the Hero’s of Olympus series. This story is about three friends named Jason, Piper, and Leo who go on a dangerous Quest to find Jason’s [...]
Allie Finkle’s funny!
March 13, 2012 · 3 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Reading
By Payton Allie Finkle “The New Girl” will take you away. It is a 222 page chapter book. The New Girl is written by Meg Cabot. Meg Cabot is also the best selling author of the Princess Diaries. The New Girl is about a 11 year old girl named Allie Finkle who is going to [...]
Helen Keller
March 12, 2012 · 1 Comment · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Podcasts, projects, Reading, Social Studies, Writing Projects
Our names are Payton, Kayla, and Gretchen. We read the book Helen Keller by George Sullivan and are doing an interview with Helen and Annie. Payton will be talking as Helen Keller, Gretchen will be Annie Sullivan, and Kayla will be the interviewer. Helen Keller
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Hugo
March 12, 2012 · 4 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Reading
By Pascal In the streets of Paris an adventure takes place. The Invention of Hugo Cabret is written and illustrated Brian Selznick. The Invention of Hugo Cabret includes two main characters, Hugo and Isabelle. It plays in Paris, mostly between the of a bustling train station. This is where Hugo lives with his uncle, taking [...]
Smile
March 11, 2012 · 12 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Reading
By Meghan Have you ever had something really bad happen to your teeth? Well Raina Telgemier has. This is an amazing book by Raina Telgemier. Some of the chacters include Raina, Raina’s Mom, Dentist and many more. It is about a girl named Raina who hurts her front teeth coming home from a Girl Scout [...]
Lewis and Clark
March 10, 2012 · 7 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, projects, Reading, Social Studies, Writing Projects
Our names are Ben, Hayes, Khush and Mathew. We read In Their Own Words Lewis And Clark by George Sullivan. We made a game board and this how to play. Rules: start at St.Louis go to the Pacific and back 2-4 players Objective: go to the Pacific and back before everybody else. Stops Fort Mandan: [...]
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The amazing book review
March 10, 2012 · 5 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Reading
By Matthew Would you like to be in a Nazi prisoner of war camp? I wouldn’t! That’s what The Great Escape is about. The Great Escape is written by Paul Brickhill. The Great Escape’s genre is informational. The main character is Roger because he planned the whole thing. Floody is also the main character because [...]
Popper’s Performing Penguins
March 9, 2012 · 6 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Reading
By Logan Do you like funny and cool chapter books? If you do, then Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater is a good book for you, yes you! One sunny afternoon there was a house painter calling a South Pole scientist… In this realistic fiction story Mr. Popper, Mrs. Popper, Bill, and Janie [...]
Davy Crockett
March 8, 2012 · 9 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, projects, Reading, Social Studies, Writing Projects
The Alamo By David, Adler, Clay, and Jack This is where the Mexicans and Texans fought for land. Davy Crocket was part of the Texans team. Spanish priest first built the Alamo in 1757. Sam Houston planned on blowing up the Alamo and then leaves. There are about 400 people in the Alamo. About 2,500 [...]
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Big Nate strikes again!
March 8, 2012 · 6 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Reading
By Khushdil If you like Diary of a wimpy kid you’ll love this! This book is called Big Nate strikes again, it is by and illustrated by Lincoln Pierce. This book is about this kid named Nate and there’s this girl named Gina that he dosen’t like and they might be paired up for a [...]
Dewey
March 7, 2012 · 1 Comment · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Reading
By Kayla Do you ever wonder if a cat could get trapped in a drop off box and how? Well, if you do you should read Dewey the library Cat by Vicki Myron. In Spencer, Iowa, on the coldest day of the year, a small fur ball was huddled in a drop off box in [...]
Betsy Ross
March 6, 2012 · 2 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Podcasts, projects, Reading, Social Studies, Writing Projects
Hi our names are Abby, Callie, and Meghan. We read a book called Betsy Ross in Their Own Words by Peter and Connie Roop. We loved it and decided to turn Betsy’s story into an interview. Q1. How did you feel when General Washington asked you to sew the American flag? A1. I felt like [...]
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Digory’s and Polly’s Adventure
March 6, 2012 · 2 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Highlights, Reading
By Joey Have you ever wanted to read a book where magical people come out of magical worlds and people come into magical worlds? Then read this book The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis. It’s about a boy and a girl, Digory and Polly who meets Digory’s uncle and he sends people off to magical [...]
Mystery Skyping ~ Springfield, Missouri
March 5, 2012 · 1 Comment · Curriculum Highlights, Just for Fun, Photography, projects, Reading, Skype, Social Studies, Technology Tidbits, Writing Projects
Bloggers – Ben and Logan On Friday March 2, we did a mystery state skype. We didn’t know who we were skypeing but we were very excited. If you don’t know what a mystery state skype is it is when you skype someone else and you don’t know who it is and you ask question [...]
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
March 5, 2012 · 7 Comments · Book Reviews, Curriculum Clues, Reading
by Jake Have you read Diary of a Wimpy Kid? If not read this. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a novel in cartoons. Jeff Kinney is the author and illustrator of this great book! Greg always says he’ll be famous but for now, he’s stuck in middle school. And he’s not really the best [...]
