Student News: March 24, 2006
written by the Scholars of Room
208Over the last few weeks, we
have been working on Biomes. We got facts from books. Then when Mr. Sprankle
said we had enough facts we started on our 1st draft poster. The biomes are:
Tropical Rain Forest, Desert, Grasslands, Wetlands, Freshwater, Ocean, and
Arctic. On our poster there was a drawing and our facts. We used markers,
colored pencils, and Crayons. It took about a month to complete this project. On
our poster we say: favorite saying, favorite plant, favorite animal, favorite
color, and favorite places. We would say the answer and then write facts to go
with the answer. We really enjoyed the project.
Next Friday the fourth graders are
going to the University of Southern Maine (USM). That is [where the] KIDS Consortium
[will be]. We are going on the 31st to teach them about podcasting.
The third graders are making a movie. Their movie shows some of us podcasting.
It also shows us doing Friday update and our "rundown". One thing we are going
to do is explain our purpose. Another thing we are going to do is "Why we do a
Podcast." The next thing we are going to do is show them the movie. And those
are some things we are going to do.The
past 2 weeks we did something called MEAs. MEA means "Maine Educational
Assessment". We did it for two weeks. The 4ths did it the first week and the
3rds did it the second week. We had fun doing this but now it's over.
While the third graders were doing the
MEAs, the fourths pretended they were traveling back to 1963. We read articles
and listened to [radio clips] about Martin Luther King's speech, "I Have a
Dream". Then we wrote a letter home and pretended we went to the March on
Washington. Everyone wrote the letter in their own way. One person put themself
right in the middle of the story. Lots of people met people in their story. One
person in our class said they know someone who went to the March on Washington.
So keep your ears open for a podcast about the March on Washington.
That is what we did in the last couple
of weeks.
Posted: Sun - March 26, 2006 at 10:13 AM
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