Computer programming is difficult!

We have been using the website code.org to learn how to write computer code. It is difficult, but we are learning a lot.

The evil pumpkin

by Justin, blogger of the week

We cut this evil pumpkin from the school garden and it struck back!!

This pumpkin knows how to write words but he can not write so good. He wrote in the morning  message sincerely your MEEN teachers and he also wrote this on a piece of paper kan you reed this pleez. If you were to call him something I would call him evil and mean. People think he used his stem to write. If you see this pumpkin call 911 or report to the FBI.

Math game!

Our favorite math game right now is a fact practice game called Sushi Monster,

In this game, you use addition facts to serve an angry monster sushi!

This game is available for the iPad, and it is free!

Read the Common Sense Media review to learn more.

Book Report Project Calendar

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13 No school!	14 No school!	15 Due Date: Choose a book!	16 Start reading the book	17	18
19	20 Due Date: Read the book!	21 Start writing the first draft	22	23	24	25
26	27 Due Date: First draft written	28	29	30	31 Due Date: Whole project!

Maps: Part Three

Next, we thought about how we could draw a picture of our school. This is a very difficult task, made more difficult by Mr. MacLellan's insistence that we couldn't leave the classroom to look! We had to try and remember where everything was, just from our brains.

Here's what we drew. Some people chose an overhead or bird's eye view. Other people chose a side view, as if you could look through the walls. Some people did a combination, using elements of both views combined with other pictorial elements. See if you can tell which views are which!

Maps: Part Two

After discussing what is a map, and looking at some examples of maps, we moved on to making our own maps. First, we made maps of our classroom. We imagined that a giant came and took the roof off of our school. Then, we imagined that we were robins eating worms out of the grass. Yum! Then a predator came, and we had to fly up into the sky. If we looked down from this bird's eye view, what would our classroom look like?

Here is what we drew: