This month, we have been busy practicing some useful online shopping tips and tricks. We have been using excel to help us create a budget and shopping list for others and ourselves. Visit our class site to check out our favorite shops and guidelines. We have had lots of fun finding some great deals on the hottest gift items for the season.

What are some advantages and disadvantages of shopping online? What are some other ways that we can use the internet today for ordinary tasks?

Identifying the Parts of Speech in the News

The fifth graders have been working diligently on their challenging task of identifying the eight parts of speech in the news. Miranda did a great job on her project. Check out her work below:



I did notice, however, that Miranda forgot to identify two words in the sentence. Can you help Miranda identify the parts of speech for the two missing words?

Computer or No Computer

Create interactive meetings at Poll Everywhere

Fact and Opinion

Third Grade Eagle Club Students have been working diligently on completing their fact and opinion projects using Microsoft Powerpoint. Do you know how to tell the difference between a fact and an opinion? Juan proves he can distinguish the difference because he came up with five excellent facts and opinions about himself. Comment back and let us know how you can tell the difference between a fact and an opinion.

Nonsense Words

The fourth graders having been working on figuring out the meanings of unknown words using context clues the last several weeks. Students have been working with Microsoft PowerPoint and made up their own nonsense word. See if you can figure out the meaning of Crystal's nonsense word by reading her context clues. Leave a comment with your guess and Crystal will let you know if you are correct!

Our Blog!

This will be our class blog where we post our ideas, thoughts and reflections, and some of our work throughout the year. What is so exciting about having a blog? Blogging will allow anyone in the world with access to the internet to communicate with us as we show off how smart the students at J.H. House Elementary School are and how hard we work! I can't wait to read your comments and the comments from all over the world!

Leave your very first comment to this blog today! Have you ever blogged before? How do you feel about blogging? Are you excited that other people in the world will be able to read and respond to your writing or does that make you nervous?