Flipped Lesson: Planting Seeds

Students, please view the video below for information and materials needed to plant seeds.

You will be responsible for following the steps and planting your own seeds in a plastic cup or container (such as an empty yogurt or jello container).  You may plant the seeds from the baggie you were given at school, or you may use seeds from home (maybe seeds from fruit your family eats?).

If you need help, ask a parent, but you should be doing the work.

After planting your seeds, you will need to provide your seed with the things it will need to grow and survive.

You will bring your cup/sprout with you to school on:

Monday, December 10th

We can't wait to see your sprouted seeds!!  Have fun!

Writing Assignment!

Dear 2A Students,

Please view the short film below and use the Comments to practice your writing skills.  After watching, please COMMENT on this post with 2-3 complete sentences reflecting on the video.  This can include a short summary of the video, telling about why you liked it/didn't like it, telling about your favorite part, or making a connection to your own life.

Please remember to use capital letters and punctuation where needed.  Try your best at spelling; sound out the words that are hard, and try your best. 

To comment, click below where it says Comments.  Then click on Name/Url and type in your FIRST NAME only.  (You don't need to type anything in the URL box.)

Type your sentences about the video in the box.  Click PREVIEW to see what your comment will look like, and click PUBLISH when you are ready to post your comment.  DON'T FORGET TO WRITE YOUR FIRST NAME ONLY, AND HAVE FUN!

Homework Assignment for Wednesday.

Students,

Please answer the following 2 questions in a Comment. Remember to choose "Anonymous" from the drop-down list if you do not have a Google account to log-in to.

1) What was your favorite article in today's Time for Kids magazine, and why?

2) Based on today's article about kids' health, why do you think so many kids are becoming overweight, and what are 2 things we should start doing to get healthy?

**HINT:
Your comment should read something like:

1) My favorite article was "____________" because _________________________.

2) Kids are getting overweight because _________________. To help us get healthier, we should __________________ and _____________________.

Have a great night, 3d! You rock!!

Love,
Mrs. C.

Homework for Tuesday.

Parents,

I would like to sometimes assign the students homework by way of our class blog. Basically that would just mean watching a short video or reading a blog entry, and then making a comment on that entry. I am placing a new Poll on the right sidebar of the blog for you to let me know how you feel about this. In the meantime, I'm asking the students to do the following for homework tonight:

3D Students,

My favorite thing about our Smartboard so far is all the many activities I have found online that we have been able to use in class. I especially like when we can pull up the pages from our Math textbook and then write on top of the page on the Smarboard to work out each problem together. That is way cool, and much more exciting than just looking in our textbook!

INSTRUCTIONS: Please click on the link below that says "COMMENT," and answer the following prompt using complete sentences: What is your favorite thing so far about our Smartboard?