Sign of the Beaver

We finished reading Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare last week. The students made scrapbooks for our final project. For one of the pages, our class created a group Tagxedo about the book. Here it is! We hope you like it!

SIGN OF THE BEAVER TAGXEDO

Self Control Glogsters for December's Value of the Month

Here are the completed Glogs for Self-control by Youssef and Omar S.  They are the ambassadors for the month of December.  Both scholars presented their glogsters in class, then answered questions from their classmates about the topic.  Our class discussed how self control is more than just resisting the urge to goof around in class, or waiting patiently for your turn. It is also something we must aspire to achieve our whole life long to avoid the temptations out there that try to divert us from being the best we can be!  We hope you enjoy them!

Self Control: Value of the Month

Our class is collecting other's opinions and beliefs about self control.  Why is it an important value?  Please add your response to our Wallwisher below.  Our ambassadors for the month of December (yes, we are getting a head start since the winter holiday will be here before we know it!), Omar S. and Youssef would like to hear your comments.  Thanks!

Thankfulness Presentations

Two students, Mohamed and Abdulkareem volunteered to be the ambassadors to this month's value, Thankfulness. Each scholar interviewed their classmates, family members and friends about what thankfulness means to them or how they show that they are thankful all year long. I hope you enjoy their presentations!

Thankfulness: November's Value of the Month

Please help Abdulkareem and Mohamed, our ambassadors for Thankfulness, brainstorm all the things we should be thankful for.  These should be things we are thankful for not only during this month, but every day!

US Regions Animoto Projects

In partners, students researched and reported on different US regions. Here is the fruit of their labor. I think you will agree these are nicely done! Enjoy!

Ambassadors for Honesty: November Value

This month, Mariam Y. and Barien were the ambassadors for Honesty. Each student conducted interviews and researched the value: Honesty. Then, they each created a personalized glog to share with their classmates. Please leave them comments about their glogs.

More Character Analysis Vokis

Here are the second round of vokis from Tuck Everlasting!  Can you guess who these characters are?

A Scholar to Remember

Today, our class watched the video below about Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, and a fellow scholar.  Mr. Jobs' creativity, innovation, and imagination inspire our class to dare to do what no one has ever done before.  Thank you, Mr. Jobs.

Value of the Month: Honesty

This month our school is focusing on the value of being honest. Our two Ambassadors for Honesty are Mariam Y. and Barien. They will be interviewing their families and friends this week to gather a variety of perspectives about honesty and then presenting their findings with the class. Please help them by posting a sticky on the wallwisher below! Thanks!

Character Analysis from Tuck Everlasting

This week, each student selected a main character from Tuck Everlasting to do a character analysis on.  Using a graphic organizer, the students located evidence of their chosen character's appearance, actions, feelings, and dialogue from the text to form a more complete picture of the character's personality.  Then, at the computer lab today, we created Vokis for the characters using a Voki Classroom account.  Here are some of the first Vokis we created.  For those of our followers who are reading Tuck along with us, can you guess the character from the visual depiction and quote?

Responsibility by Sara

Here is Sara's completed project on Responsibility. She created her glog after interviewing her classmates, friends, and family. I think you will agree she did an amazing job!  Then, she presented it to our class. We got the chance to ask her questions. Sara was well prepared and we are so proud of her!

Connecting with Skype!

This week our class connected with two other classrooms via video conferencing with Skype! On Wednesday, we connected with Mrs. Cunningham's 3-7th graders in Colorado. We checked out their blogs, and left them comments. We introduced ourselves and talked about the difference in weather! Next, we talked with Mrs. Huebner's 5th grade class located in a rural community in Iowa. Most of the students there live on farms with cows, pigs, and chickens. We could see fields of corn outside their classroom window! So now, we just love corn and cows! We are pretty popular too because we live so close to Disneyland!  Both classes we Skyped with are reading Tuck Everlasting along with us and about 1000 other students from all over the world! Here are some pictures from the call to Colorado.
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Here, we are checking out their blog before we met them!

This is when we first connected with them.

Can you tell we had a great time?

What does Responsibility mean to you?

Our class Ambassador for the month of September is Sara.  She is responsible for a presentation about the value "Responsibility".  To help her out with ideas, we brainstormed about what it means to be responsible. The results are below on our Voicethread.

 

Tuck Everlasting Predictions

Our class is participating in the Global Read Aloud for Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt.  Today we previewed the cover of the book and then posted our predictions on Wallwisher.  Here they are!

Getting to Know Fifth Orange

We used Google maps to learn about where our families are from.  

View 5th Grade Orange in a larger map