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Archives for May, 2012

The Tale Trail – Part 4

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Our collaborative writing project with five other classes, The Tale Trail, continues right here!   Several weeks ago, the classes voted on a topic for the story.  The topic with the most votes was “An underground tunnel is found below the school.  It takes you to…” Classes have been taking turns adding to the story. [...]

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Home Sweet Home

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Avery Architects is home to some of the best house designers in the world. Recently, we were extended an invitation to join the company by creating their first house on Homestyler. We discussed some of the most important aspects of building and designing a house. We talked about the layout of the house and making [...]

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Spring Concert

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We recently had our spring concert. Every year, throughout the course of the year, the fifth and sixth grade classes meet every Friday with our music teacher, Mrs. Cardinal. They then put on two concerts, one right before our winter break and one in May. Every single time they do an absolutely incredible job.

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Quad Blogging: Meet Our Class!

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Through our blog, we have made great connections with so many classes from around the world. We’ve talked to classes from our neighbors to the north, Canada. We’ve talked to classes from other continents such as Europe and Australia. It’s been a wonderful experience getting to learn about different cultures. A few teachers wanted to [...]

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Quad Blogging: Meet 2DD and 2MD!

Quad Blog 2012

Through our blog, we have made great connections with so many classes from around the world. We’ve talked to classes from our neighbors to the north, Canada. We’ve talked to classes from other continents such as Europe and Australia. It’s been a wonderful experience getting to learn about different cultures. A few teachers wanted to [...]

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The Tale Trail

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In the coming weeks, we’ll be taking part in a collaborative project called The Tale Trail. Classes will be joining together to write and illustrate a story through their blogs. It will start with one class writing the first part of the story and posting it to their blog. Then, the next class will read [...]

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