Instruction+Samples

Grade level: Third Subjects covered: Math, Science, Social studies and language arts Teacher: Ms. Leauna Pack

 What follows are examples of projects we will be working on in four major subject areas this year. A big part of our learning experience this year will be following and adding to our classroom blog. Students will be asked to check the blog on a biweekly basis for new teacher postings that they will then take some time to think about and respond to new posts. These posts will relate to various projects we will be working on and it will help me to understand where your student is in regards to thier understanding in each subject area as well as give students a chance to ask questions and discuss the subject matter as well.  __ Learning actual value and fractions: __  **#1.The children will be asked to bring 100 of somthing from home ( marshmallows, sticks, pennies, Pieces of paper) and use these items to represent wholes and halves. This is will be a fun and interactive hands on way to accomplish learning our fractions. #2. **  **Math: Using actual moneyand flash cards that they create, children will combine various coins to create different amounts. This will help them understand the value in real world situations and equivalences such as 2 nickels equals a dime. Further along we will have a classroom store where students will have to figure out what they need to pay the set price of each item using "class money".**         ||
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<span style="COLOR: #5c1698; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">*The following flashcards were created on the Flashcard Machine website. As a class we will use them to learn real money value and fractions as well. Each student can go on the website and create thier own set of flashcards to use as a study tool. As a classroom this will enhance our learning experience by #1 making it a technology related activity, #2 It will be a fun way to learn fractions and the value of money for everyday situations, and #3 for visual learners I think pictures really enhance the experience so you see this is 2 quarters and one nickel and that equals .55cents. <span style="COLOR: #5c1698; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> http://www.flashcardmachine.com/myFlashCards/my_flash_cards.cgi?cookie_check=true (link to sight)

**<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> #1. Using a plastic human skeleton and having the children demonstrate things such as how an elbow or knee bends, we will look at how the human body is sculpted and works together. We will make up or find a song related to the Human body and how it works to post on our class blog.
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This is a graph done by our class to illustrate the percentage of various types of items we found related to each type of the 5 energys we are studying. || <span style="COLOR: #0036ff; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #f31620; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> //Social Studies:// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: #d10a0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #f31620; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> <span style="COLOR: #0036ff; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">   <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: #bb0c14; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">  # 1. Students       will be searching home newspapers and the internet for articles related to immigration in Colorado. We will then discuss the social and political aspects of these articles related to immigration and the local impact here in Colorado. The following is a video looking at the various issues and faces related to immigration in America. It shows various sides of the issue as well as the faces of immigration hopefully making it real for students versus a distant idea. We are a nation of immigrants and this is a very complicated issue. I think this will get students thinking about our country and thier own heritage. http://animoto.com/projects media type="custom" key="2079572"
 * 1) 2.As a class we will explore a variety of items such as magnets, a lamp, a radio, and other objects to explore and discuss how energy travels and is transferred. We will discuss heat and light energy from the sun and earth as well as other sources such as gravitational and Kinetic energy from movement. We will chart our findings and post them on the class blog.This will enhance and change our classroom learning enviroment by making it technology interactive where we use the website to make a graph, which in todays job market is a much needed skill,as well as making it fun! It is much more interactive than reading about molecules and energy. **

**__*Research Project*__**
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 * __Follow the link below for complete instructions on your asigned Research Project on immigration as it relates to your family.__**

[|http://www.slide.com] media type="custom" key="2065736" width="91" height="87" <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: #bb0c14; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">   <span style="FONT-SIZE: 80%; COLOR: #d10a0a; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="COLOR: #da0707; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #f31620; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">**#2. Students will be taking a tour of the capitol building and have a chance to ask questions of several local government officials who are willing to discuss what they do on a daily basis so students can get a better idea of what it is our local officials do. We would then look at articles related to our local government and discuss what we have found out about how what our officials do affects us as citizens. **    <span style="COLOR: #da0707; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #f31620; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">
 * This is a sample of a class slide show that will be posted both here and on our class blog. It will contain photos from our class trips such as to the capitol building and of your students working on class projects and other school activities. This is a fun way to share your students experiences through the year. Students will benefit from this because it will be a bonding experience for us as a class as well as a fun way to look back on what we have learned.

[|75.101.140.69] ( This Link will take you to the official blabberize website.) <span style="COLOR: #2700ff; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">*As a second phase to the above project each student will create thier own video on a website called blabberize where they will disscuss somthing they learned in thier tour of the state capitol or a newspaper article related to a current issue being dealt with by our local Colorado government.I will take a picture of each student using a digital camera which we will download so each student can create thier blabber. Then as a class we will watch our creations and discuss what we have learned about our local government. In doing this it is creating a fun and interactive visual to let the kids be more hands on in thier learning. <span style="COLOR: #da0707; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #f31620; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">media type="custom" key="2056164" width="79" height="73"      || **#1. Students will** **spend a week bringing in newspapers and searching the internet for newspaper articles related to topics that interest them as examples of nonfiction material. We will look at the headings and subheadings in these articles and discuss what the writer is trying to say and do to grab the reader.We will compare and contrats what makes an article fiction or nonfiction.** **<span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; COLOR: #0c9d1b; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive"> #2. After learning about Haikus and how they are structured, students will write thier own Haikus and draw a picture or create a cartoon related to thier Haiku. We will publish these on our class blog to share with all our family and friends.Toondoo is a very creative outlet where you can create a comicstrip type cartoon while not needing to be an artist or poet but with the help of haiku guidlines and toon doo you can feel like a proffesional. I think the students will feel great about having thier own piece of work officially posted on our class blog! **   [|http://www.toondoo.com] (click on link to go to Toondoo website) || <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive">*The following flow chart will be one of many examples laid out in a very easy format to teach students how to write a Haiku and to demonstrate the differences between a typical English and Japanese version. Students can even use this websit to lay out there own haikus or to create ant nunmber of projects throughout the year. This will change our classroom by creating fast and easy flowcharts for myself to have great visuals for my students and for the students to create great projects. http://www.gliffy.com/( click link to create your own flowchart)
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 * 1) 1.This is a great example of some fun haikus 2 young boys created & the video also explains what a Haiku poem is very clearly. Great example of how to take somthing you really like,for these boys the Canucks hockey team, and have fun being creative with it.
 * 2) 2.This video is computerized examples of haiku. In today's technology based world This is a great example of using a popular venue such as youtube and getting creative. **
 * 3) 3.This is a fun video with bright pictures wich shows Haikus in Japanese & then English so kids learn in several areas; English, a bit about a second culture and for fun some Japanese words.
 * 4) 4. This sixth grade class wrote Haikus about jello for a contest run by the Salt Lake city tribune. Great examples of how they each used thier own creativity and put thier own spin othe subject of jello.