Well, it finally happened. After a few of my students' vacations to Mexico, I finally got my burrito!! Now I am a very happy teacher. Thanks to Eleanore and Mom, I finally got to enjoy the warm, spicy goodness of a wonderful burrito. Thanks! You made my week!

In other news, we scored a 99% class average on our spelling tests this week and a wonderful, record setting class average of a 97% on our reading comprehension tests for the story Lon Po Po. Great work, kids. You writing is becoming mechanically perfect, and your sentence structures are beautiful. I am impressed by how well you are using your resources to answer the questions correctly, too.

In Club Geek news, we are only 35,000 hits away from earning a class pizza party. So, this weekend some time, register if you have not - or log in and chit chat with friends. Post some questions, make some polls, show off some fun pictures, or whatever you want. I have posted some family videos in the Media Sharing section of my baby girl, Nadia. There is even a video of my sister and I when we were very, very young. Hope you enjoy them.

Have a good weekend, kids, and let your parents know that I am looking forward to seeing them at the parent/teacher conferences coming up. If your parent needs to contact me about changing a time, direct them to the "Email Me" page. Bye-bye!

~Mr. M

Happy Birthday, Dani!!
Have a great evening, kids. Here is the classwork:

This week we have been studying standard measurements in math class. Today we made clowns using gallons, quarts, pints, and cups. We then hung them up in the room. Hopefully, this activity and hanging them up around the room will help us on our test in the future.

Also, below are some pictures of us acting out Why Mosquitos Buzz in People's Ears from last week. Enjoy:

Here is the classwork for the day:

Not much news, just the classwork:

Great job this week, Kids! I was really impress with how hard you are working and your commitment to making sure that all of your corrections are made. Have a great weekend and head on over to Club Geek some time over the weekend and check out the new features! The only work some of you may have is our handwriting practice of uppercase A and O. See you on Monday, I'm off to celebrate Nadia's first birthday. Look for pictures in Club Geek in the Media Sharing section sometime this weekend. I hope to capture a picture of her with cake all over her face!

Oh, and head on over to the photos area to see pictures of our Valentine's Day Party. Also, check out the new multiplication and division downloads!

This week we unrolled a new classroom policy for almost every assignment. After checking with me, all corrections are made on the spot. Kids, tell your parents to look for the green signature above your grade. That green signature of mine lets you and your parents know that I have seen your corrections on a particular assignment.

Please re-register in Club Geek if you are interested in some online fun. The new software that I am running allows you to have a lot of control in your "user Control Panel". Also, uploading media from your hard drive is a lot easier - no need for a digital briefcase. So, you will notice that page is gone now.

Here is the classwork for the day:

Today we learned a bit about traveling west as a pioneer. We learned about wagon trains and their leaders, what kind of stuff to bring along, and some of the dangers of life on the trail. Feel free to play Westward Trail to get a virtual feel for this experience. Click the image to play the game. I have also added the game to our social studies games.

I have also updated the sidebar to include more current events that are coming up. If I have missed one please let me know.

Today we reviewed mixtures and began to discuss solutions in science. Check out the link for more information about these two vocabulary words in science. Check out this resource for more information about solutions and mixtures. There are movies, pictures and other activities there for you to explore. For some extra practice comment below one example of a solution and one example of a mixture.

Today we also began our review of multiplication for our test on chapter 18 in math. Head on over to our downloads section to practice if you wish. There are math facts and multiplication activities to browse through.

Also, Club Geek is in repair right now. I upgraded the software to try and keep out the bots, but lost all of our conversations. Please reregister yourselves remembering to use your first name and last initial in this format: Firstname L. - I would be Rocco M. Choose a password and submit your email address and wait for me to ok it.

Have a great night, kids. Here is the classwork for the day:

Today we spent quite a while working on the multiplication of larger numbers. I was really impressed with how well you kids stuck to your work and made sure you got all of your problems on the first sheet correct. Here is the work for the day:

Kids, I added 100 multiplication activities to our Educational Downloads section. They are under the heading called Multiplication Fun. Feel free to download and print them out. Return them to school and get a prize after completing 10 of them! Click on the picture to go right there.

By the way, kids, make sure that you make sure you bring home your take home folders. We need to get better at doing that. Parents, please bug your kids to make sure they are coming home! Thanks!

Here is the classwork for the day:

There are no challenge words for the week in spelling. We will be learning 16 homophones. Check them out here from our spelling chalkboard:

Homophones are words that have the same sound, but different spellings and meanings. Here is a link to more than 100 of them. Post your favorite to this post using the commenting system. Lastly, here is the homework for the day:

As a reminder, we will be having our Valentine's Day party next week Thursday in the morning. The party will begin sometime around 10:30AM. All parents are welcome to attend and celebrate this holiday with us.

Remember that you are responsible for bringing in a self-decorated Valentine's Day mailbox and valentine cards for each of the members of our class. Attached is a class list of first names for you to download. I will send a paper copy home if requested.

School is closed for the day! We will have our "Bring Your Portable Music Player to School Day" next week Wednesday. Have a great day!

~Mr. M

Well, that was our lesson today in social studies. Please share with your parents what these three things have in common. Just as a foot will grow at the expense of the shoe, the sun will grow at the expense of the inner planets, suburban communities grow at the expense of an animal's natural habitat. We had a great discussion about that, and we had a good review of multiplication for our test tomorrow. We will be testing on our 9's and 10's facts, along with three digit multiplication, and missing factors. Solve these for a little extra practice and comment your answers:
1. 9X4=?
2. 6X9=?
3. 10X0=?
4. 7X10=?
5. 2X4X5=?
6. 1X5X3=?
7. 6X2X4=?
8. 4X?=12
9. ?X3=36
10. Rodney wanted to ride a roller coaster with two of his friends. Each ticket cost them 5 dollars. After the first ride they all wanted to go again. How much money did the whole group spend on roller coaster tickets altogether?