Few things can challenge the beauty of the morning after a fresh snowfall. Are you wondering what the photo on the left is all about? Okay let me tell you what is going on. The kids decided to act like snowflakes. Yes, they are "pretending" to be snowflakes. In the world of social media, everybody seems to be after the next big pose. First came the "My Space Pose", then came the 'Prune Pose". Let me introduce to you the "Snowflake Pose". Between enjoying some of the winter weather with my wife and son, and committing to some heavy duty video projects for the school, it has dwindled any time I may have had to update this site.....but I am back! Despite all the good, I will need to take some much needed time off from video making for at least a few weeks. Oh, but so much has happened! Allow me to share a couple major highlights. Highlights and Updates!3C was very honored to have Aya and Iman in the school wide "Spelling Bee" tournament a few weeks ago. Both had trained very hard and showed a high level of compete. In the end, Iman was crowned the champion. She couldn't have been any happier and we are all very proud of her! Mrs. Ghani's 1C class has been teaming up with us as part of our reading buddy program. We have been taking advantage of that opportunity to showcase some excellent reading as well as having my kiddos review short and long vowel sounds with the grade 1's. How About The Core Subjects?As far as the core academics go, we are finishing off our rocks and minerals unit and preparing for a unit exam sometime near the end of the week. We will review up until then. Please click here to access the study guide outline that I have prepared for the kids. In math, we have started investigating patterns involved in skip counting. We have completed skip counting by 2's. From here we will be investigating skip counting by 5's, 10's, 25's and 100's. Heavy focus will be placed on number patterns that result when these they are mapped onto a hundreds chart. In Language Arts, we will be divulging into the topics of nouns, adjectives and verbs and incorporating them into our writing. For the past few weeks, my little Einsteins have been learning to proof read the work of others and mark down corrections. This will continue to be an area of focus. In Social Studies, we have been studying the art of debate and using these skills to compare the lifestyles in the four countries that we have been studying. Have a great week everybody!
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After being inspired by an idea that 3D's Miss Zahra came up with, I decided to take advantage of the pumpkin and candy sale going on at Superstore. The idea was to kick off our next unit, skip counting and estimation, by having our little scholars perform a variety of challenges all of which included counting the pumpkin seeds. The chance to investigate the properties of the pumpkins using our 5 senses generated some interesting ideas. As for the candy, my kiddos were presented with the challenge of using the ingredients that I had provided them to create a soil profile consisting of the humus, top soil, subsoil and bedrock. Objective reasoning as to why each ingredient was selected for each corresponding layer had to be provided. I'm telling ya....some of these kids gave me Einstein level reasoning just to eat the candy at the end. The following class, my superstar geologists were sent on a virtual field trip to an excavation site. The mission was to use a toothpick to uncover the hidden treasures that lay within the land of chocolate chip cookies. They applied proper excavation techniques to the cookie land so as not to damage any of the precious chocolate rubies that lay within it. We were very fortunate to have a few of our local firefighters drop into the school for an entire day to teach the kids a lesson about fire safety. Students had a great time listening to the interesting stories that were shared by our firemen. Student volunteers even got to try on some of the fire gear! At the end of it all, each student received a fireman's hat along with a tour of the fire truck! Remember to click the star at the bottom right hand corner of the youtube video and adjust to 1080P resolution for maximum HD clarity.
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