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Archives for November, 2011

Thanksgiving Feast

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We’re thankful. There are so many things that we’re thankful for that to list it, the list would go on and on. So it can all be summed up into one simple statement, we’re thankful. Every year, on the fourth Thursday in November, we celebrate Thanksgiving. This day is to commemorate what was said to [...]

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Stories Around the World

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One of the great parts about blogging is the chance to connect with other classes around the world. We’re always excited to learn about what school and local traditions are like in different places. In order to learn about certain places in more detail, we’ve joined up with a new blog called Stories Around the [...]

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Let’s Make a Deal

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Earlier this week, we shared a video about how to find a percent. We talked all about where you might see a percent being used outside of school. One of the places mentioned was at a store. Many times stores will have sales and they’ll offer a discount on an item. For example, a store [...]

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Edublog Award Nominations

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It’s that time of year again. Time for celebrating our families, time for being thankful, and time of course, for the Edublog Award nominations! There are so many amazing blogs in education, it’s difficult to narrow it down to nominate just one for each category. However, since it needs to be done, here are our [...]

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Bloopers: Practice Makes Perfect

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We’ve been putting our green screen to great use this year. We’ve been making so many different videos. We made our Math Movie Network intros at the beginning of the year. We’ve also made videos about all different math topics. One thing we’ve found while making them is that things don’t always go perfectly the [...]

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Math Movie Network: Percents

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The Math Movie Network is back with another tutorial! This week, we’ve been learning all about how to find a percent. A percent means a part of or out of 100. It’s essentially another way to represent a fraction that has a denominator of 100. We’ve been learning about the relationship between decimals and percents. [...]

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Monster Mania

Sharing our monsters

One of the things we always strive for in writing is for our words to paint a picture for the reader. We want them to be able to envision the images we create with our adjectives and descriptions. With Halloween occurring last week, it gave us the perfect opportunity to practice our descriptive writing in [...]

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