Friday, March 28, 2014

Welcome to Blogspot, Mr. Hazelton!

Check out Mr. Hazelton's new Music Class Blog!  Welcome to Blogspot Mr. Hazelton!

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Busy Minion News - Week of March 28



This Week  We started our week with a really great trip to the NH State House and NH History Museum.  We all enjoyed the tours and learned a lot about NH government and history.  It was neat to check out the actual rooms where our state officials work and we also loved looking at some wonderful artifacts from our state’s history.  This week, we also worked on poetry about the aurora borealis, aka the Northern Lights.  We will be publishing little books of our poetry.  We also started multiplying fractions and working with line plots in Math, and we did a science investigation about bird beaks.  We continued to make progress on our super hero publishing.

Next Week  We will read the story, “Roadrunner’s Dance,” in Literacy.  Since Unit 5 in Math is a really quick one, we will spend a couple of days reviewing the skills and then take the assessment.  We will continue working on super hero publishing and hopefully begin to think about ideas for our NH Cups video.  We will finish anything left to be done on our Northern Lights poetry books, and do a quick Picturing Writing project on birds, to extend our science investigation on bird beaks.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Our Favorite Moments of Prisoner of Azkaban

A few weeks ago, we finished Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.  Today we finished our iMovie about our favorite parts of this book.  Now....onto Goblet of Fire!

Friday, March 21, 2014

A Belated Congratulations to Dallas Seavey - 2014 Iditarod Champion



The Beatles are the BOMB! So much fun!

What a successful Beatles concert again this year!  It was amazing!



Oh what fun "Hello, Goodbye" was!!! (Photo cred to Pellegrini Family!)




Busy Minion News - Week of March 21



This Week  We got back into our regular routine this week.  We read the story “A Walk in the Desert,” and learned many facts about the desert biome.  We finished Unit 4 in Math – and mostly did a great job on the assessment on adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers.  We also spent the week preparing for our Beatles concert.   WOW, what a great job they did!  A huge “Thank You” to Mr. Hazelton for organizing another wonderful, memorable concert!  We also got all set up on Google drive to start publishing our Super Hero stories and we made an amazing amount of progress on them!  We also found time to finish our animal classification projects and learn about NH state government in preparation for our field trip on Monday.  Friday Clubs also started today – and those will be 4 great weeks of FUN!

Next Week  We will start the week with our field trip to the NH State House and NH History Museum on Monday.  Remember to dress neatly, ‘professionally,’ and be ready to meet important NH officials!  Manners are a must!  In Literacy next week, we will work on a Picturing Writing story.  (Truth is…I can’t decide if they will be aurora borealis (northern lights in Alaska) stories or desert stories.  I’ll put up a “Survey” on the blog and you can vote.  Most votes wins and voting will end Sunday night!)   We will begin working on multiplying fractions with Unit 5 in Math and we should be able to get through those skills pretty quickly!  We will continue working on publishing our Super Hero stories.  We will also be starting to study life cycles in Science.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Publishing Super Hero Stories with Google Drive

Our technology teacher, Ms. Biller, helped us each get set up with Google drive so we can publish our Super Hero stories!  Using Google, we will be able to sign in to work on our documents, while allowing Mrs. Beaudet to edit and comment through out the process.  We were excited to learn our documents will save automatically!  We made huge progress on our very first day and we are so excited to see this project (that we've been working on since the fall) finally coming together!  We see the light at the end of the tunnel! Power of super sight - must be!





PSS Gets to Participate in Legacy X project!