The other day at recess we found a giant Luna Moth resting on one of the windows. * Luna Moths are huge. This one was about 3 inches across and probably would have been 4 inches with the wings fully spread. It was such a beautiful and strange creature that we decided to learn more [...]

The other day we created a Wordle. A wordle is made from a bunch of text that is entered into a program that arranges the words into different colors and shapes to make a design. The more times a word appears in the text, the bigger the word gets in a wordle. * We decided [...]

We have been learning a lot about nonfiction texts. These type of texts are written to explain things and share real information. Nonfiction texts have special features to help the reader understand the information.  Here is a VoiceThread we made explaining nonfiction features and how to use them: * Last year, Sheriff Salsich and Sheriff [...]

We have learned a lot about the world through our blog this year! At the start of the year we were part of the award winning blog Our World, Our Stories where we learned about life in Canada (Sointula), Australia (Leopold), New Zealand (Reefton), Belize, Ghana, and California, USA. Back in November we ate some Vegemite to learn [...]

Our collaborative writing project with five other classes, the Tale Trail, starts right here! Last week the classes voted on a topic for the story and the idea with the most votes was “An underground tunnel is found under the school. It takes you to…” We are going to start the story and then Mrs. [...]

Our classmate Braedon got a bearded dragon for his birthday last week. Bearded dragons are lizards that live in Australia, but they are also popular as pets around the world. We are going to share some information about their appearance, behaviors, and feeding habits. Appearance: Bearded dragons can grow to be almost 2 feet long, [...]

We have a fantastic art teacher named Ms. May! Everybody loves going to art because we always do fun things and learn new techniques. We collected some of our artwork from the second half of the year and picked one piece each to put in a “virtual art show” in the slideshow below. We hope you like viewing [...]

Every year our whole school has a “Reading Day” in early June when we spend the day reading and sharing the joy of books. The month of May is our reading month, leading up to the celebration on Reading Day. To kick off the activities, we had a school assembly the other day all about [...]

Last month we used lots of the math skills we have been learning to build our own kites. This is part of a project we are participating in called Kites Around The World. Schools from around the world have shared their experiences making and flying kites. Now it’s our turn! * We built sled kites [...]