Paper Airplanes in School?

We divided into 4 "corporations" to design and build the best airplane.  It's all economics!  We had 5 minutes to come up with a "business plan." We decided on the design and how to get it built fastest.  Then we had 3 minutes to build and test the planes.  The team that got the most planes through the hoops won!  This activity created great questions about successful business practices and market economies in the United States.  Social Studies can be fun!

Guest Readers

Thank you to Angela #32, Sam #21, and Lucy #12 from the MTU Women's Basketball team for being our very special guest readers to help celebrate "March is Reading Month."  What great role models these young women are!

Student-Led Conferences

Oh!  It's been way too long!  So sorry about not keeping up with my blog posting.

Please be sure to check out the slideshow of photos to the right of some of our student-led conferences.  I love student-led conferences!  It is something we prepare for throughout the year.  Kids love the undivided attention from their invited guests, even though reactions differ widely.  I get to see everything from the normally relaxed student becoming very nervous, to the quiet child yapping it up for a solid 30 minutes!  The students read "You know me as I am at home.  My teacher knows me as I am at school.  The real "me" is somewhere in between".  That is SO true, and something we sometimes tend to forget.  After all the preparations, my job is to observe..........and that is my favorite part!  Thank you parents and guardians, for entrusting such great kids to me every school day.

"The Trial of Freddie Fungus" Reader's Theater

Introducing the Red Wings group!

Introducing the "Bears" group!

Introducing the "Dogs" group!

And the "Shooting Stars!"

Recent Photos

Everyone is hard at work! (But it was fun work...)

Owl Day!!!

We dissected owl pellets today.  Watch for neat pictures to be posted this weekend.  While we were at work, we kept our eye on the owl live web cam.  Cute, cute, cute!  check it out:  Owl Web Cam

The Last Week in October

What a busy one!  Check out the photos taken while we were with our kindergarten reading buddies.  So cute!  We read a fun poem and helped write some recipes for "Spider Soup."

We also went on a field trip to learn about raptors from Upper Michigan Raptor Rehab.  Very cool!  We saw live owls and hawks.

 We capped off our week by having rootbeer and orange floats while showing off our Halloween costumes.