#GeniusHour

Today we are taking advantage of our opportunity to share our Genius Power! There are a million things that we are curious about. From the whys to the hows it is so important that we spend time investigating in our passions. Over the next 3 weeks kiddos in room 227 will be encouraged to look at what things in the world they want to know more about, and they will be given the time to look for that information and create! Below we are collecting topics that the kiddos of room 227 are curious and passionate about!


*We will be sharing out some of our ideas, questions and problems during this process using Twitter and the hashtag(#) #GeniusHour feel free to follow our class on twitter @kdsof227 . Twitter does an amazing job of connecting our class with experts who know about our topics, and other students and teachers who are finding out more about their passions!

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Famous Missourians

Here are a few websites that should help you get rolling on famous Missourians:

http://www.house.mo.gov/famous.aspx

http://www.marshallschools.com/teachers/krausi/linksfamousmissourians.htm

For sharing:

www.toondoo.com

Feel free to place comments about links you found that you think would be helpful to others!

Bike Safety

This week our class learned about bicycle safety. We learned to always wear helmets, wear bright colored clothes at night and all sorts of things that help us stay safe on the bicycle. 

Worms!

Yesterday, our class studied worms for Earth Day. We learned how they eat things and decompose them. We took one to our desks and observed the way they move. One of our students even had a worm that had a baby!

Helping 2nd Grade with Culture!

Culture Tech Hunt Resources

Videos:

What is Culture? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSCFxDKJWwo&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

The Titanic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HvimJDj5Lc&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Chinese Culture

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h0cF-TnkoY&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Irish Dubstep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSIMbqVP4ns&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

African Dance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM4nDN84gNc&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Ancient Egyptian Artifacts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K7JfeRkuKI&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Websites:

Click on the “Kids” tab once you go to this site:

http://www.exploreandmore.org/world/default.htm

April 16 2013

Hi,

We will have a busy day, even without me here! 

Morning Work:

       - Drop books off in Library Basket

        -Finish Math Star

        -Acuity Practice

-Multiplication War 2 Player only

-Mean, Median, Mode and Range Foldable

-Line Plot from Thursday with parnter

-Read around the room

        - You may work with your group on completing your Pizza Data. 

       -Students should not be emailing me questions about assignments today! They can leave there question here by typing their first name and hitting join (http://todaysmeet.com/Pizza227Questions) 

*Your sub, while very educated, might not understand Google Docs. Here is a quick tip for some help!*

In Google Docs you can use the Help feature by clicking on the settings cog (where the blue arrow is)!

Once you are under this tab hit the help button. A search window will then pop up you should be able to answer any of your Google questions this way. 

 

Between specials lab we get 20 minutes of free reading! Woohooo!

11-12:01 Computer Lab

Finish Research

Your goal is to have your research page completed and printed. Students who are done with this may work on reading about famous Missourian's (the post below this one). Students who are done with both things may work on Type to Learn, XtraMath, or RAZ Kids. If the whole class works quietly they may have from 11:45-12:00 To play cool math!

Lunch Break

Read 1 chapter of The Misadventures of Maude March  Students will answer the question below. 

In your reader's notebook:

What do you think Maude and Sallie's biggest fear is at this point? Give 2 pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer. Your opinion doesn't matter, as long as you give valid proof!

Time to read around the room!

1:50-2:10 Recess

Students should be working to finish up their Pizza Challenge forms. Final information should be put here: 

Class Google Doc

There might be questions they have they can be shared here: 

Question Drop Off

We will deal with any unanswered questions tomorrow morning! 

Anyone who finished their whole project early may read at their desk or around the room! Good luck. What an awesome way for you to earn even more compliments!

 

Nelson Atkins Outing!

Our students participated in some amazing art creating and observation today. Our budding artist created their own parflache and were able to learn about how the native Americans created art.

Mean Median and Mode Help

This video is not quite as good as our Flocabulary video, but it is free and will do in a pinch!



 

Time for Kids

Today we read a new edition of Time for Kids. There were several interesting articles. Students will be posting comments below about their favorite articles and the information that they learned.