Friday, January 10, 2014

Team Mindcrafters Daily Update 1-10-14

Parents,

Well, we did it, got back to school.  The students did great today, and were happy to be back, as were we!

Social Studies:  We will be beginning our history unit.  This begins with learning about historical thinking, and evaluating primary and secondary sources of information.  Today, I showed the students a paragraph I wrote about "My Hectic Christmas Eve."  They learned that it is a primary source, because it was told by me (a person who witnessed the event).  They have been given a paper to rewrite my story, which will be a secondary source.  This is actually Monday night's homework, but I gave it to students today if they wish to complete it while their memory is "fresh" but it isn't due until Tuesday.

Soon we will be starting to create a timeline that will be added to throughout our history unit.  It would be great if you could send in a container to keep your child's timeline protected.  We will be using adding machine tape, so a small cardboard Pringles can, regular sized Play-Doh canister, or frosting container should work well.  We'd also appreciate any extras you could donate for others that may need them.

2nd Quarter Goals:  We again will be treating students to a pizza lunch for meeting their math and reading goals for the second quarter.  Please check your child's assignment notebook today with information about how many points he/she needs by Thursday to meet the AR goal.  Those who are below the 90% expected by today also have a printout of their AR record report for the quarter.  MOST students have met the multiplication goal.  You child knows if he/she still needs to work towards this goal.  They can practice Math Facts in a Flash through Home Connect from home.

Reminders:
  • Thursday is the end of the 2nd quarter
  • Grade cards go home by Friday, January 24
  • No School next Friday - Teacher Work Day
  • No School Monday, January 20 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day)

Have a great weekend,
Mrs. Dressel and Mr. Pransky

Reading/Language:  
Read
100% AR by Thursday

Social Studies:
Secondary Source story (see above) - Due Tuesday

Science: 
none

Math:  
Practice math facts for those who have not mastered multiplication.

Spelling:  
Spelling - Lesson 14
Dressel - test Thursday
Pransky - test Thursday

Class Blog- frequently used links and daily updates.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Team Mindcrafter winter challenge

Thank you for all of the submissions for the Team Mindcrafter winter challenge.  I received a lot of great pictures and videos of your activities.  I have posted what I received here:

http://teammindcraft.blogspot.com/2014/01/team-mindcrafter-winter-challenge.html

Have a great day off!
--
Shane Pransky
Whitehouse Primary
4th Grade

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Bored? Have cabin fever? Try some cold weather science experiments...

Team Mindercrafters,

Parental supervision is required to do these.  If you take any pictures or video, please send to me and I will post on the class blog.

Stay warm today!  Hopefully, I'll see you tomorrow.

Monday, January 6, 2014

Winter challenge


Sorry, sent the wrong link.  This should get you to the class blog:

--
Shane Pransky
Whitehouse Primary
4th Grade

Well, the weather outside is frightful....

Hopefully everyone is staying warm and safe.  The temperature has really dropped today so I would advise that you stay inside.  If you do go outside, I wanted to caution everyone to really bundle up.  I just got in from clearing my driveway and it was really windy and really cold.  A few people did send me some pictures of playing in the snow from yesterday.  They are now posted on the class blog.  See link below:

Winter challenge submissions

--
Shane Pransky
Whitehouse Primary
4th Grade

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Team Mindcrafter Winter Challenge!

Allison's snowman


Brendan's snow fort

Spencer lightening the load on his trees

Eliana's Snowman



Travis digging out a snow fort


Josie's snowman


Alivia's snowman at night



Noah's snow creations



Austin hiding in his snow tunnel


Katelyn went ice skating


Seth and his brother Evan made snow ice cream




Josie and her sister Kaylee made homemade snow





Haley and Zoe show General spirit with a frozen t-shirt!


Allison made a snow float!


Isabelle behind her snow fort





Caroline's homemade snow




Travis froze and unfroze a towel outside



Bella and Eliana had a hot chocolate party in their snow fort!


"This is how I make a snowman when it's too cold to be outside." -Ty


Caylee's snow angel



Bryce's homemade sledding hill


Happy Sunday! Team Challenge!

Hello Team Mindcrafters + parents,

I hope everyone has had a terrific winter break so far!  Hopefully you have been able to spend some quality time together as a family.  I'm sure everyone gave and received some nice presents, too.  (I guess I was too naughty because I had a lump of coal in my stocking again this year.) 

Team challenge time!  As I'm sure you know by now, school is canceled for tomorrow.  I want to challenge all students to two tasks for Monday.  First, Mrs. Dressel and I are hoping that all students will be ready to take an AR test over something they read over break.  Take advantage of the day off tomorrow to cuddle up with a good book and read a little.  Second, get outside and play in this wonderful snow.  I'd like students to build a snowman or other snow structure and take a picture of it (even better if you're in it!)  If you e-mail me the picture, I'll post all of the snow creations on the class blog.

Enjoy you day off tomorrow!

--
Shane Pransky
Whitehouse Primary
4th Grade
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