Monday is the 100th day of school. Can you believe it? Our students have worked really hard to make the kind of progress they need to accomplish in order to be prepared for the next grade level. Some classrooms will have special activities centered around this monumental day. We will continue to work just as hard for the remainder of the 2011-2012 school year.

Thank you to 2011 Edublog Awards for the nomination for the Best Class Blog!

We are so honored to have been considered. Keep reading our blog because we are still going strong.

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It is important that students know their multiplication facts automatically. This allows them to focus on the complexity of the problem-solving where they may have to apply these skills. Click on the above picture to practice your times tables. Do your best!

This is a time when we stop to give thanks for the beautiful blessings and sometimes trials in our lives. Michelangelo never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling, but his perseverance to see it through to the end is truly a beautiful blessing to the world.  We found this Virtual Tour of the Sistine Chapel and wanted to share that beauty with our readers.  Perhaps some of you have seen it in person, but this may be as close as any of us ever get.  Click on the picture above to enter the Sistine Chapel. Be sure to enable the music and zoom in to see the intricate beauties of Michelangelo’s creation.

A teacher in New York was teaching her class about bullying and gave them the following exercise to perform. She had the children take a piece of paper and told them to crumple it up, stomp on it and really mess it up, but do not rip it. Then she had them unfold the paper, smooth it out and look at how scarred and dirty it was. She then told them to tell it they’re sorry. Now even though they said that they were sorry and tried to fix the paper, she pointed out all the scars they left behind. And that those scars will never go away no matter how hard they tried to fix it. That is what happens when a child bully’s another child, they may say they’re sorry but the scars are there forever.

Remember to treat others the way that you want to be treated and we can avoid the temptation to bully.

We are noticing changes outside our windows. The season is changing and soon the trees will lose their leaves. Please enjoy reading about why this happens each year at this time on the page created by using a creative site called Bounce. If you like it, try creating your own page. It’s so easy to do.

CLICK ON THE TREE and BE SURE TO SCROLL OVER AND CLICK ALL OF THE RED BOXES ON THE PAGE TO SEE THE VIDEOS AND PICTURES.

Ghost Blasters!

Need some practice on your multiplication facts? In the game of Ghost Blasters, students choose the multiple by clicking on the red arrows. You may want to start out with the multiples with which you are familiar. Get ready to click like crazy!

Study Stack provides students of all ages and levels with over 2,400 templates for practicing and drilling a variety of math concepts. Introduce students to this site. Share these resources with parents. Bookmark them on your desktop or iPad for easy access. Regular use of this freely available resource will improve your students’ skills.

Visit the Study Stack homepage for templates to use with other academic subjects.