1st Grade Technology

A couple of weeks ago, 1st Grade students embarked on a 'Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventure' in the company of Reader Rabbit. Using their spelling, reading and math skills students have to help the professor fix his hovercraft and save the island from the bungling Pie-Rats!

2nd Grade PowerPoints

In Technology our 2nd Grade students have been creating slideshows using PowerPoint that show the lifecycle of the Painted Lady Butterfly.

Getting Fit and Having Fun in PE!

Kindergartners enjoyed a fun obstacle course in PE--balancing, hopping, rolling, climbing, crawling and jumping. Second graders enjoy a game of pickle ball.

Jammin' in K Music!

Kindergarten students enjoyed playing instruments while listening to Halloween songs and world music. We have been singing a lot of songs, so it was great to have a change of pace! In music we have been working in preparation for the Festival of Peace and Light in December.

Fourth grade Spanish

Fourth graders are finishing up with Chapter 1A and this week they worked with a partner and practiced asking their partner what they like to do more in Spanish.

For example: ¿Qué te gusta más, practicar deportes o nadar?
(What do you like better, to practice sports or to swim?)

Fourth graders also practiced answering the question
¿Qué te gusta hacer?(What do you like to do?) and ¿Qué no te gusta hacer? (What don't you like to do?)

Matamoscas!

Third graders reviewed their bedroom vocabulary by playing the game "Matamoscas"! Students love reviewing Spanish vocabulary words through this game.

Are you thristy? Are you hungry?

Second graders reviewed how to ask if you are thristy and if you are hungry and how to respond to these questions. They then had chats with other classmates in Spanish, asking if they were thirsty and if they were hungry.

Third Grade Tech

This week the Third Grade students embarked on the Zoombinis Logical Journey. Until the Bloats came along and enslaved them, the Zoombinis enjoyed the good life living happily on Zoombini Isle, making small, useful products, which were prized the world over. Using fun reasoning games that require serious problem solving and math-thinking work the students must rescue the Zoombinis and transport them to Zoombiniville.

Dancing Fan

Our kindergarteners and 1st graders learned about Native American dancing fan and created our own. They tried to create symetry with geometric shapes. After we create our fan, we were listening to native American music and dance around the room.

Third Grade Bedroom Projects

Third graders have been working hard on their bedroom projects this week. They drew a picture of their bedroom/dream bedroom and wrote 5 sentences about the location of specific objects in their bedroom.

4th Grade Tech

4th Grade students are working in pairs to make a movie about their experiences at Islandwood. In the first lesson of this unit they learned how to download photos from the CHA Flickr album and in the second lesson they composed captions that will accompany the images. This week they imported the photos in to Windows Live Movie Maker and started adding transistions and animations. If you have  a Windows PC you can download Windows Live Movie Maker and Photo Gallery for free here - http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker?os=other .

Middle School Tech

As part of our Information Literacy unit students have been learning all about the history and structure of the internet. Next we are moving on to learning what we can do with the information we find on the internet and the focus was on copyright. Students took part in a Brain Pop and then completed the Copyright Cats quiz which is produced by the Copyright Association. All the resources we are using are available at http://www.mrsmorlidge.com/Information_Literacy.htm

Photography ExtraCurricular

One of the great opportunties as a specialist at CHA is to teach an extra curricular class. Coach Aberle and myself are thrilled to be able share our love of photography with a fantastic group of 3rd, 4th & 5th Graders.

Fourth Graders Write "Yellow Journalism" Articles

Fourth Graders re-wrote a Seattle Times article with a "yellow journalism" spin. Yellow Journalism was practiced during the late 1800's and early 1900's as a way to sensationalize the news.

William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer are known as the Godfathers of Yellow Journalism! They sold lots of papers with exagerated headlines and stretched facts.

2nd Grade Tech

CHA Second Graders thoroughly enjoyed their trip to the Microsoft Visitor Center and got to play with all the toys!

Fruits & Vegetables Chart

First graders having been learning how to say the names of specific fruits and vegetables in Spanish. They are finishing up seperating the fruits and vegetables and they are then organizing them onto a Frutas/ Verduras chart.

CHA students celebrate Dia de los Muertos

CHA students are celebrating Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) this week in class.

Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd. This holiday is a time to remember people who have died. It is not a scary holiday, but a joyous time, because the belief is that the spirits of loved ones come back to visit on these days. Families create altars and on the altars put pictures of loved ones or objects representing those who have passed to help welcome them back.

Students celebrated by sharing stories of loved ones who have passed, tasting some pan de muerto, and drinking hot chocolate! They always enjoy celebrating Dia de los Muertos!

Sugar Skull are complete!

Fourth graders and Middle School students decorated their sugar skuls with frosting last week and wrapped them up to take home this week. The sugar skulls turned out great!