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Social Studies midterm tomorrow – study. 12:00 dismissal tomorrow. Science and English midterms next week – study. Book read for Tuesday. Reading worksheet.

Use your imagination and think of an invention or an improvement on a current invention that would make life easier, safer or more fun. Please keep your invention simple and ideas in the realm of reality – although magic chewing gum that renders the chewer rich is a wonderful idea, it isn’t feasible :) Give [...]

Today in class we read the book “Diary of a Spider” by Doreen Cronin. Click ‘search inside this book’ to get an idea of what the book is about. I showed the children a slide show put together by a first grade class from another school, “diary of a Butterfly”so they have a good idea [...]

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The following are a few of the ‘free’ programs I use and wouldn’t be able to live without: Picasa – Free photo editing software from google IrfanView – Photo viewer. Quick and easy to re size photos OpenOffice – software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. MS Word to expensive, and [...]

Thank you all so much for your support, generosity and outpouring of love over the past 2 weeks. I truly appreciate everything that you have done for me and I am grateful and blessed to work at a school with such wonderful parents, children, faculty and staff. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and [...]

All grade 3 students have been given a St. Christopher email address. In the new year we will be communicating with students from St. Christopher School in Wolverhampton, England Today in class I showed the children how to access their email accounts by going to -  webmail.stchristophersi.com – The user-name is their first name followed [...]

Today the children began transferring the map of their neighborhood they created at home onto the computer using MS Paint. All are doing a wonderful job. Example below:

The second grade class began their ‘animal index’ card project during their last lesson. These are the instructions they were given: Go to kidsplanet.org Click on “Get the facts” Research your animal and answer the questions on your index card In the information box, tell where your animal can be found, and give 2 other [...]

We are currently completing an open ended story.  You have been given the beginning, and in your own words you have to finish the story. The story begins: The hunchbacked figure beckoned to us to follow him, and we entered the castle, our teeth chattering. The hunchback turned and looked at us. He laughed softly [...]

We have put our animal index cards on hold for a week or so since they haven’t covered much of the information with Mrs. Drivick yet. They are still learning about the plant family. What the children are doing in preparation is learning how to format text in Microsoft works. Today they learned: Highlighting Increasing [...]

Research Christopher Columbus, and answer the questions below in the form of a report card. For each subject you will give Columbus a grade, and then give a justification for the grade. Subjects are as follows: Planning and organization Contribution to History Ethical Conduct Leadership Skills fulfillment of Expectations The project will be handed to [...]

Although this is a project to be done in computer class, you may do some of your research at home and make notes  in google docs. Write an essay, size 12 font and include no more than 2 small photos (please give credit to the photographer).  Imagine you are asked to tell someone all about [...]

Re-post: My apologies to 5th grade, the original post was deleted from the server and I failed to noticed. 1. ½ to ¾ of a page in your own words – do not copy and paste from the internet. 2. Min. of one photo, save to the computer, then input it into your document EXPLAIN: [...]

I’m still waiting on an email from some 8th graders with updated passwords. Please use the St. Christopher email address I gave you, if you use your personal email address and don’t sign your name, I have no idea who you are.

Grade 2 – In preparation for our ‘animal index card’ project, students visited kids planet. This is the website they will use to research information about the animal they will be given next week. Grade 5 – The flash drives were handed out and they practiced saving files to the drive instead of the computer. [...]

Don’t forget to finish your acrostic poem. This is the site we used in class to practice It isn’t due until next Monday, but please don’t wait until the last minute to do it. Next Monday you will design the page using MS Publisher, and transfer your poem there so we can save and print [...]

This year you will be given a St. Christopher email address and we will be working in google documents. Google documents is a great way to make your work available anywhere and share with anyone if you choose to do so. I have already set up the email addresses and created an account for you [...]

All responses to the questions asked in the previous entry can be found here