Happy Turkey Day!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. 

Safe travels if you are on the road this week/weekend!

Couldn't Resist This Photo Op.

Our students have been studying bicycle safety in P.E. For sanitary reasons, they all wear shower caps under their bicycle helmets. Needless to say, I love P.E. days!

Food Chains and Food Webs

Our Imagine It unit has focused on Animals and Their Habitats. A couple of weeks ago, we read a story titled Wolf Island. In the story, a family of wolves move away and it causes problems with the food chain on the island. To go along with our story, we learned about food chains interactively, and then made our own food web. We learned how animals are interdependent on one another, and how the disappearance of one species can have a horrible effect on the food web. Here are a few pictures.

 Interactive food chain

 Morning class makes their food web

 The afternoon class makes their food web

 Devean had some problems...

Devean still having problems! :) 

Nobody is quite sure how he got tangled up in the food web, but

we were all very entertained by it.

Good news: Devean managed to get free!

Homograph or Homophone?

We have been busy learning about homographs and homophones over the past two weeks. This can be a very confusing concept! Here are some ways to remember the difference between the two:

• A homoPHONE: We talk on a phone. When we talk on the phone we HEAR SOUND. So we can remember a homophone sounds the same, but is spelled different and has a different meaning!
• A homoGRAPH: When we use a graph we have to LOOK at it. So we can remember a homograph looks the same (meaning it is spelled the same), but has a different meaning and can sometimes (but not always) sound different.

Still confused? Watch this video for some examples!

Don't Forget to "Fall Back!"