Student News: February 3, 2006
written by the Scholars of Room
208From now on an old
classmate and friend is going to be coming to our classroom to edit our
podcasting work. His name is James. He is in 5th grade, and Mr. S trained him to
edit our podcast. The way he does [it] is he goes on the computer and takes out
our mistakes. For example, if we said a word twice, he would take one out. And
it helps Mr. Sprankle so he doesn't have to do as much work at home and he can
spend more time with his family. It also helps because James also can record
people so Mr. Sprankle can help people with their work. If you want to hear
[James'] work, you can go to last year's podcasts. Thanks,
James!Also this week we went to a
planetarium in the gym. It was a small bubble area with a special machine inside
that made stars appear. Mr. Negley is the man who controlled the planetarium. He
told us where the sun rises in the [sky]. It depends on what season it is. He
also used a machine that made stars appear. Along with that, he showed us
pictures in the stars like: the big and little
dipper.Also last week we have started
to practice for a very special event in our school:
Jump Rope for
Heart.
Jump Rope for
Heart is a special event on the 16 and 17th of
February every year. We will jump rope for an hour. Before we jump rope, people
can get a permission slip to earn money for the
Jump Rope for
Heart. All the money we collect will go to the
American Heart Association according to our gym teacher, Mrs. Calo. This is what
Jump Rope for
Heart is for.
Another thing we learned this week is
a new role for Literature Circles. The new role is called
Literary
Luminary. Literary Luminary is a job that
people get to do. The job is to find a part of a book that catches your
attention. On the [role] page, there are four boxes. The first box is for
writing the page number. The second one is for the paragraph number. The third
box is for why you picked it. For example:
it's surprising, confusing,
or
well-written. And the fourth [box] is your
plan for reading [it] (to yourself, or if you're going to read it out loud to
your group). That is how you do Literary Luminary.
Lastly, we have a new attachment to
our Blog. It's called "The Room 208 Journal Blog". You can check it out
if your want. The address is: bobsprankle.com/journal. There are two different
kinds of questions. "Required [Questions] are in
red,
which means we have to answer it. And there is "Casual [Conversations]" too.
That means you can do it if you want to. You are also allowed to do the
questions at your house.
Posted: Fri - February 3, 2006 at 09:04 AM
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