Puppet Show Videos

For the last full week of school, I decided to do a week devoted to readers' theater.  Students made their own puppets and backgrounds and rehearsed all week to memorize their lines.  They turned out great!  So great, in fact, we invited other classes to watch.  It was a huge success!  Students had a great time, while improving their fluency and performance skills.  The following videos are from our "dress" rehearsal.

Landform Projects

Salt dough landforms are so much fun to make!

 These landform landscapes are made with torn paper.

Learning About Polygons

Here is a list of websites students can use to learn more about polygons.
Using polygon tangrams, build the shape shown.
Sort the polygons
Polygon Practice Test
Polygon or not?
Create colorful pictures using polygons
Watch a video about faces, edges, and vertices

Antique Village Field Trip

Our trip started with a bus tour around Escanaba led by Mr. Aronson. He is a treasure of historical information.  Did you know that Ludington Park used to be much smaller?  During the Great Depression the CCC was hired to pump and shovel sand to expand the park.

This is the forge at the Village  

We learned how hard it used to be to do a simple chore like laundry.

This gentleman is our guide in the Village Museum.

The rules at the schoolhouse were very strict!

This is the ham radio building.  You can talk to people all over the world!

The model railroad building was a big hit.  Make sure to stop by later this summer to see how their main project is progressing - it's going to be amazing!