OREO Project

We have been busy working on a special project. The project is called the O.R.E.O. Project – which stands for Our Really Exciting Online Project –and is hosted by a teacher in Southern California. This will be her 13th year of hosting this project. Since 1999, students from every state in the US, almost every Canadian province, and several other countries have participated in this project and submitted their results online to share with each other. Each student will have 2 chances to stack as many oreos as they can. (There are certain rules involved that were explained when we hosted the project in our classroom.) After every participant has recorded their stack counts, we will take everyone’s highest count and average them together for ONE CLASS AVERAGE. Then submit them to the Projects by Jen webpage and compare our results.

Here are the pics from our attempts!!

We had lots of fun!! The highest stack was 22 and the lowest was 13. We still have to complete one more attempt and then we will get our average and submit it to Projects by Jen!

Wall of Hope

Today was a special day at MES, not only did we have our grandparents come to visit (sorry I didn't get any pics because the kids that didn't have grandparents come had to go back to the room with me and eat lunch), we also commemorated the 10th anniversary of the September 11th events. The kids had a hard time understanding what happened that day, so we watched a fantastic clip from Nick News that explained the events in a way that is kid-friendly.

http://www.nick.com/videos/clip/nick-news-what-happened-the-true-story-of-september-11th-full-episode.html

We also went outside for a special ceremony. We created a Wall of Hope, if you drive by MES and look at the fence you will see many ribbons tied to the fence. Several classes, including ours, participated by tying ribbons to the fence and then each 5th grade class released 10 balloons in honor of the 10th anniversary.

 Tying our ribbons to the fence!

 Waiting for the ceremony to start.

 Some of the 3rd grade ribbons.

Each 5th grade class had a different color balloon.

 We counted down and they released their balloons!!

 There they go!!

 What a great way to remember and honor all those effected by the events of that day!!

This Week

This week we have been reading the story:

It is a very cute story!!

and we read a non-fiction story about Stars!!

We also learned how to do a few of our Daily Five activities. One of which involves using our:

and Play-Doh!

We used Play-Doh and practiced spelling out our words. The kids loved it!! I think this might be our favorite station by far!

 Jainayah hard at work!

 TayShaun had several words spelled out!

 Amalia spelled hand!

Chrissy spelled out ask!

This was so much fun!! Thanks to the parents who sent in Play-Doh!! It will get a lot of use! :)