Our Party

Wendy's meals, Frosties, treats, hot chocolate, Oreo pies and more! :)

'Bye Raphael, We'll Miss You! Write Us a Note! :)

Hall of Famer, Andre Dawson, Visits Our Class! :)

The ENTIRE class got his autograph!  He's one of three people in baseball history to bat 400 homeruns! Wow! What an honor! Thanks for visiting Mr. Dawson.

Principal for the day: NBC 6
Andre Dawson's Web Page
Hall of Fame
Andre Dawson's Commercial :)

Miami International Book Fair

It's finally here! 

MY LIFE AS A BOOK author, Janet Tashjian will be there! Janet Tashjian's website-new books!

Tell your parents to go to the parent blog for maps and schedules!

Click:

• Spelling Breathing Parents

• Street Fair

• Children's Alley -FUN!  :)   

• Destination Comics 

• Map with directions

Kids' Authors:  (Click on names.)

• Janet Tashjian, MY LIFE AS A BOOK author. Janet Tashjian
• David Kirk-Miss Spider and Nova's Ark David Kirk, link
• James Dean, Pete The Cat 
• William Joyce  George Shrinks,  Wilbur Robinson, Leaf Men, and more 

William Joyce's Site: The Guardians of Childhood Books- cool

No Matthew Reinhart :(  Meap

Visit:

Usborne books

Harper Collins

Tate's Comics

Thank you for sharing your culture.

Partial Solar Eclipse Sunday, November 3 (This Sun.)

Pretty cool. Check it out at sunrise and protect your eyes. :)


Some helpful hints for viewing:

1. Don't stare! NEVER stare at the sun.
2. Get Mylar at Michaels or hobby store to shield eyes if looking for prolonged periods.
3. If you know a welder, use his mask. :) 

Here's NASA's Guide for Safe Viewing

Sky and Telescope's Guide
Time and Date eclipse info

Space.com gives extra info
Exploratorium shows how to make your own with white posterboard-scroll down

Costume Day

It's the last day of October. You can wear your costumes and eat candy. It's also three days before we set our clocks back one hour...the class clock already did it by itself. :)

Here's some fun things to click on and learn:

• Pumpkin Guts video-The Happy Scientist
• NG Kids - Fruit Bats video Listen for the METAPHOR
• Interactive Bat Site
• Wow, check out what scientists did when hypothesizing about bats! What did they use to test bats?
• Okay, watch this spider trap and prepare this bat for dinner...FOR dinner! Warning=Creepy
• World's Fastest Pumpkin Carver-watch him carve Alan Shephard walking on the moon! Not the astronauts from your book, Moonshot, but cool!
• History.com-History of Halloween "Bet You Didn't Know"  So, what did you learn?
• Pumpkin facts video-interesting Where do you think pumpkins originated? Which country/continent?
• Candy Corn video Yum! Did you know the candy gets polished? How?

Since you were interested in these things, here you go...

• NG Kids-Beavers :) They're North America's ___________ __________.

Free Comic Book Day - This weekend!

Type your zip code to see the closets places!

Get your Chilean Facts

Get your facts! :)

Happy October! Multiplication is here!

Multiplication Rock videos!

About 50 Cases of Lice @ School!

Check out some lice info
Kids' Health.org
Headlice.org

National Punctuation Day is September 24!

How will you celebrate? Will you use correct punctuation? Will you use punctuation marks to make cute happy faces? :)

nationalpunctuationday.com/
SHR, Interjections! 
timeforkids-punctuation-practice
LL COOL J Punctuation Rap
Capt. Cluck
Yo! Yes?
Electric Co. May I Ask A Question? Video
Elec co. Punctuation Marks, video
Google Grammar for kids
Kim's Corner
Punctuation song

Matthew Reinhart Day Was Great!

Hope you enjoyed the special event.

Remember, Transformers will be on bookshelves in October! Plus, there's more to come!

You will be able to order his books from Amazon, which has a LARGE selection and delivers them right to your house. You can always go shopping at Barnes and Noble to purchase his books-like I did. :)

Yay for Matthew Reinhart Day! :) 


Pre-order from Amazon

Check out the awesome author, Matthew Reinhart, "Mr. Pop Ups"

Visit his cool site. Watch videos and learn how to make your very own POP UPs.

MATTHEW REINHART DAY is September 13!

MatthewReinhart.com   
Matthew Reinhart shows how to make a pop up (video)
Videos and more about the author
Listen to his recording.
Video-6th Grade Pop Ups!
Dinosaur and Princess Pop Up Video
A Princess Like Me; Rumble and Roar! Dinosaur video
A Pop Up Guide To the Galaxy
Matthew Reinhart and Teaching Books site
Matthew Reinhart's biography

There's many cool books to choose. I bought both Star Wars books for my niece and nephew last year. Did you know that the light sabers pop up and LIGHT UP? It's so neat! :) The one in class has one light saber, but the Darth Vader one has TWO!


Visit Barnes and Noble book store, or order online. Barnes and Noble
You can order some of his books online at Walmart!   Walmart-Matthew Reinhart
Amazon also sells his books. Amazon

His NEW TRANSFORMERS book is released. October 29!  It's going to be great! :)

We hope to see him soon. :)  

Constitution Week

Two hundred twenty five years ago, the United States Constitution was adopted. Today, it is still considered to be America's most important document. Learn more through song, video, and writing.

SHR The Preamble - We The People

Place Values, Value, Rounding

Comma place value song/video
Gamequarium place value video
Gamequarium place value video part 2

Borrowing movie
Subtract with regrouping video

Standard form
Word form
Expanded Form

Place value aid
Place Value WS
WS - 6 place values
Vocabulary
Rounding-Basketball game

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Watch this video to see how it works. Common Craft blog video