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Published On: Jan 15, 2006 09:37 AM
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Student News: January 13, 2006
written by the Scholars of
Room
208We don't have a
Podcast this week because we started working on a project and it didn't get done
in time so we couldn't make a podcast. The project we are working on is: "What
should a classroom look like in the Year 2015?" We are working on "2015" because
David
Warlick interviewed teachers and we wanted to do it too.
David Warlick is an Education Podcaster. He used to be a teacher. He
is a writer for books. He's an awesome
podcaster.This Monday, January 16,
2006 most schools will be empty or let go early for a special event: Martin Luther King
Jr. Day. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a very special day because he
was the person who led the Civil Rights Movement which happened in the
mid-1960s. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead the March on Washington.
The March on Washington was in Washington, D.C. The date that the March happened
was on August 28, 1963. It was for jobs and freedom. 250,000 people march[ed].
It was the largest march ever seen in the nation's capital. Later, in 1964,
[Martin Luther King] was awarded a prize called the Nobel Peace Prize which was
very important to him. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by James Earl Ray
who spent the rest of his life behind bars.
Also, this week in music the Thirds
started recorders. They got their recorders and they got their music books. The
notes they learned are B, A, and G. They're really enjoying the recorders. While
the Thirds were doing that, the Fourths were learning songs for
Starz for
Broadway. Some of the songs they learned were:
They're Playing My Song, Green Eggs and
Ham, There's No Business Like Show Business
and
Be Our Guest. We have many more songs but our
music teacher hasn't taught us the rest yet. We really hope you come to the show
in June so we can perform for you. We really enjoy doing this.
This week in Science we were learning
about Biomes . Biomes are big areas. The are unique
for their different weather and plants. They have many habitats inside of them.
For example some of the biomes are: Chaparral, Deserts, Rain Forests, and
Grasslands. Elizabeth asked if water could be a biome. From reading a book, we
found out it actually is a biome. There are two different water biomes. The two
different water biomes are Freshwater and Marine. Mr. Sprankle gave us a piece
of paper to write our top favorite biomes. He gave us this paper so we can go
with a partner that got a similar biome. With our partner we are going to study
those biomes. That is what we're doing in
Science.Also, on Saturday, [January]
7th, 2006, David Warlick recorded a conference for his
podcast. During the conference he played our
"Wicked Wikipedia"
podcast. After the podcast, a man said that he
did not think we wrote the piece. He said that it sounded like Mr. S wrote it
and we read it. Some of us took it as a compliment, others thought it was a
"dis". Some thought it was a compliment because he said it sounded like an adult
wrote it. Other think it was a "dis" because he might think we can't do that
good of a job. You can listen to the conversation we had on Mr.
S's Bit
by Bit Podcast. We also though of
making a movie showing us working on the podcast to prove that we do our [own]
work and that is what happened.
Posted: Sat
- January 14, 2006 at 05:19 PM
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