Persuasive Writing

   We practiced our powers of persuasion last week in writing class.  The children had to pretend that they were a turkey in Farmer Rathbone's barnyard.  Farmer Rathbone was coming out to choose the Thanksgiving turkey.  The children had to convince me that I should not choose them for my Thanksgiving dinner.  We had a lot of skinny, dirty, disease ridden turkeys in the barnyard...or so they said!  Some were quick to give up their friends or siblings.  Such whiners!!!!!  I guess I'll eat chicken for Thanksgiving dinner!

Waterwheel Wizards

The children were divided into groups and given some materials to make waterwheels that would lift a load.  We had lots of fun designing and building them but we had more fun making them work.  Needless to say, we had water everywhere, but we know that it will eventually evaporate!!!

Smart Board Highlight

Here you can see one of our students using the Mobi to control the pen on the Smart Board.  This made our math class a little more interesting.  We also had fun learning how to make nouns pural.