Mrs. Travis’ Classroom Blog

Students in this year’s Reading class have learned about Haiku poetry and written their own Haiku poems.  Check out their work in the slideshow below:

Make a Smilebox slideshow

The Homeroom class has finished up their water cycle unit by writing a story.  Students wrote about what it would be like to be a drop of water in the water cycle.  Check out their hard work on their student blogs.

Students in the the 1st and 2nd grade Enrichment class read non-fiction books on animals.  They identified important and interesting facts about their animals and created Voice Threads on their animals.  Below is Samuel’s example.  To see more examples go to the Non-Fiction Picture Books section of the Read and Respond Project.

Students in Enrichment classes from grades 1 – 5 have begun a new project.  Each class is responding to a picture or chapter book of their choice and responding to the book using technology.  The 3rd through 5th grade Enrichment classes are creating webpages based on their favorite chapter books.  One of the combined 1st and 2nd grade classes has created a retelling of a picture book using Microsoft Movie Maker.  Upcoming classes will be creating podcasts, online posters, blog posts, and more based on books of their choice.  Check out what the classes have contributed so far and make sure to look for more books to be added in the future.

http://readandrespondproject.wikispaces.com/

The 3rd Grade Enrichment class has been sharing their ideas about the themes and morals in stories.  Check out their ideas.

Our Class learned about the history of the inauguration and watched our new vice-president and president being sworn in to office.  Each student in class wrote about the inauguration in their blogs.  Some students focused on the events of the inauguration, while others wrote about what it means to them to have an African American president.  Check out their thoughts on their blogs by clicking on their names on the right hand side of the blog.  Take a moment to share your own thoughts on their blogs.

Read a transcript of Mr. Obama’s inauguration speech.

Our 2nd grade Enrichment class has been learning how to summarize fictional texts.  Students chose their favorite story and will summarize the story in this post. 

Students make sure to include the title of your story.  Remember that a summary only tells the most important main events or ideas in a story and is much shorter than the original story read.

Go to the link below and learn about the animals that can be found in Maryland.  Next, create a food chain using the animals you read about.  Remember you will need to include the sun and a producer in your food chain to make it complete.

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/wildlife/animalbits.html

Look at the data below:

1, 2, 2, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10

Answer the following questions:

1)  If I add a 7 to the data will the median stay the same?  Why or why not?

2)  If I add a 7 to the data will the range stay the same?  Why or why not?

3)  If I add a 7 to the data will the mode stay the same?  Why or why not?