Llama Talk

Descriptive Paragraph

2011-11-28T06:47:00.001-07:00

So you have just had 4 days away from school, Mr. M would like to know what you did. Please write a Descriptive Paragraph explaining what you did, where you did it, and how it was all done! Remember to start off with a good topic sentence, and build on your description with supporting details. Don't forget to wrap it all up with a concluding sentence.

Daily Life

2011-11-21T06:25:00.001-07:00

This week at school we will be reflecting upon that which we are thankful, we have opportunities that many did not have in the early 1600's. Think about what your life is like now, and what would have been different at the first Thanksgiving celebration. Please answer the following questions in preparation for your research today!

What would you have dressed in?
What types of food would you have eaten?
What sorts of games would you have played?
What sorts of chores would you have to do?
What things would you be learning at school?

Today I would like for you to compare & contrast what life was like for Pilgrim and Wampanoag children. Take good notes and give me at least 3-5 facts (You could write more ) about each culture, how were they the same and how were they different?

Here at the Scholastic site you will find information about their clothing, housing, food, chores, schooling, and games that they would play. You will be writing a letter as either a Pilgrim or a Wampanoag this week, be sure to write down as many details as you think are needed. The more facts that you have, the better your essay will be later on this week!

2011-11-14T07:18:00.001-07:00

Division Games - Can You Dig It?

2011-11-08T08:30:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to an interactive division game that I thought you might enjoy. You are helping the archeologist dig up bones using fact families. Let me know how well you do!

Division Games - Can You Dig It?:

Book Fair

2011-10-02T07:43:00.000-07:00

This next week we have parent teacher conferences and the book fair will be here at school! PTO has done a wonderful job decorating room 9south; they have a great selection of books. There is a classroom wish list at the book fair and this year we are trying something new. The scholastic book fair is now offering online shopping as well.

If for some reason you can't make it to the school to do a little shopping, you can do it online instead! We even have a classroom wish list online (wink, wink). This is a wonderful opportunity to encourage your progressing reader to become excited about reading. For my students, what are some books on this page that you would love to see in our own classroom library? Tell me in a comment and I will add them to the classroom wish list!

Goals

2011-08-29T06:35:00.002-07:00

Now that you have begun your year as a 4th grader it's time to develop some personal goals. First, you have to understand what a goal is. In your own words, I want you to give me a "kid friendly" definition of what you think a goal is. Once you have defined it I want you to come up with 3-5 personal and academic goals that you would like to focus on this year. You need to be specific with your goals and don't write things like, "I want to do better in Math." That isn't a specific enough goal to work on. Be sure to leave your answer as a comment, to help I would first write your response into a Microsoft Word Document so you can check your spelling and grammar.

Mr. Moore

End of the Year

2011-05-23T07:16:00.000-07:00

This is now our last week together in fourth grade, I know that I am going to miss you. I want you to tell me what some of your favorite parts of fourth grade were. What did you enjoy the most, and what did you NOT enjoy!

Scholastic Goosebumps Graphix

2011-03-11T08:16:00.000-07:00

Goosebumps and Scholastic have teamed up to give kids a unique opportunity to create their own unique scary stories! The students can insert graphics and bubbles for text so that it looks like a real life comic strip! Click here to make one for yourself.

U of A History Museum

2011-03-09T13:48:00.001-07:00

Today we went down to the history museum to learn more about Native American pottery here in the Southwest region. It was very fun and informative, o think we are all very excited about our pitfire coming up soon!

NW Fire Visit

2011-03-07T13:40:00.000-07:00

A quiet room

2011-03-07T12:27:00.001-07:00

Captured with 360 Panorama in 66.6 seconds.

The Pottery Project Exhibition - Arizona State Museum

2011-03-07T08:13:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to the museum exibit that we are going to see this week at the U of A. Check it out when you get a chance!

The Pottery Project Exhibition - Arizona State Museum

Door Decorations

2011-03-02T16:33:00.001-07:00

Here are some pictures of doors that were around campus. I think that everyone did an outstanding job! No two doors are alike, turned out really nice all thanks to Mrs. O'Meara who helped organize it all. Thanks!

Read In Door Decoration

2011-03-02T12:42:00.000-07:00

Here is what the kids put together for the love of reading door decorations. I think it turned out fabulous and makes me want to read all of the Harry Potter books again, great work kids!

Dr. Seuss's Birthday!

2011-03-02T09:29:00.000-07:00

Today is our school wide read in! Which one is your favorite book?

PE

2011-02-08T07:54:00.001-07:00

Today we are doing more track and field with hurdles and the long jump.

Teddy Bear Picnic

2011-02-03T10:18:00.001-07:00

Today our buddy class was nice enough to let us help out with their end of the unit celebration on bears. After we finished measuring the bears in inches we did a Venn diagram comparing two bears. After we finished all of our comparisons we feasted like bears ourselves, it was a blast and we would like to thank our buddy class for letting us join in on the fun!

Music

2011-01-27T15:13:00.001-07:00

Buddy Class

2011-01-26T10:37:00.001-07:00

Today we are playing a base-10 exchange for the 100th day of school.

Science Fair

2011-01-11T19:55:00.000-07:00

Google Science Fair

The Science Fair is right around the corner. Today the packets went home and the students Questions are due for review on this Friday (1.14.11). While searching around the internet I noticed that Google has their very own Science Fair. Poke around their site and see if you find anything interesting!

Discovery Education

I have also found that Discovery Education is a wonderful resource to help find, organize and share your ideas for the Science Fair. Do you have any other sites that you have used in the past or would like to share for future reference?

PE

2011-01-11T11:58:00.001-07:00

Today we are goal setting and doing some mid year fitness testing.

Obama calls for national moment of silence for Tucson victims

2011-01-09T16:22:00.001-07:00

Obama calls for national moment of silence for Tucson victims

On Saturday January 8th, 2011 Tucson was stuck by tragedy. A shooting occurred in front of a local grocery store that has changed the face of not just Arizona, but the entire nation. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot and remains in critical condition, sadly there are many who did not make it. Our class will be participating in a moment of silence to help support national unity in a time of great sadness. I encourage my students to share their thoughts about what has happend. There are many lives that have been effected by this event, no matter what it was a senseless tragedy that will stay with us for a long time.

More Buddy Class fun...

2011-01-05T21:17:00.001-07:00

Buddy Class Wishing Stars

2011-01-05T10:16:00.001-07:00

January is national wish month. Today we are wishing for something that we want to have happen for everyone out there in the world. Can't wait to see what we can come up with.

A Frigid Morning

2011-01-04T08:06:00.001-07:00

The weather is very cold (for Arizona) this morning. Please don't forget to wear appropriate clothing!

Buddy class

2010-12-15T11:48:00.000-07:00

Today we made some gingerbread houses with our buddies!

Third Grade Performance

2010-12-14T10:16:00.001-07:00

Today we got to see Mrs. Sabri's classroom musical.

Computers

2010-12-13T08:25:00.001-07:00

Today we are getting in some math practice and earning awards with IXL.

NW Fire Visit

2010-12-06T13:39:00.001-07:00

Inspector West is talking about hazards that you can find around the house.

ART

2010-12-03T08:44:00.001-07:00

Today we are learning about different types of camouflage.
Concealing
Disruptive
Disguise
Mimicry

Leafy Friend

2010-12-01T12:40:00.001-07:00

Today we found a "leaf-bug" out on the play ground!

Spelling Bee!

2010-11-30T13:23:00.001-07:00

Good luck Richie & Julian!

Spontaneous Word of the Week

2010-11-29T09:59:00.001-07:00

What is a word that encourages you to try harder?

Thanksgiving

2010-11-29T07:20:00.001-07:00

Tell me about what you did over the long weekend. What did you enjoy the most?

Crafty Crafters

2010-11-24T12:51:00.001-07:00

The students wanted to make a few projects to share with their families for the holiday weekend. I certainly hope you all enjoy the long weekend and have a wonderful relaxing time.

To Give Thanks

2010-11-23T11:58:00.001-07:00

This week we are thinking about things that we are thankful for in our lives.

Solar Stills Pt. 2

2010-11-15T14:09:00.001-07:00

This was the follow up lesson for our field trip last week when we talked about thw water cycle.

"Our models showed us all of the steps within the water cycle in only a few short hours."

-Amaiah

Solar Stills

2010-11-15T11:37:00.001-07:00

Today Ms. Linaman talked to us about the water cycle and what each of the steps is. We talked about:

Precipitation
Condensation
Evaporation
Perculation

"We made a solar still that mimics the water cycle and uses the power of the sun!"
-Tanner

Field Trip

2010-11-12T09:05:00.001-07:00

We are on way to the park!

Buddy Class

2010-11-10T10:17:00.001-07:00

Today we get some free choice time with our buddies!

Junior Achievement

2010-11-09T10:34:00.001-07:00

Today we are talking about expenses and income. Profit versus income and what the difference is, ask your junior achiever what each of these mean.

Class Visitor

2010-11-09T08:25:00.001-07:00

He was trying to stow away with the backpacks, not today my friend!

IXL Math

2010-11-07T17:55:00.000-07:00

Here is the page that I want you to visit and practice your math skills. You have to use the password that I gave you and your username is your first and last name put together.

IXL Math

Music practicing site reading

2010-11-04T08:43:00.001-07:00

Windy morning!

2010-11-04T07:13:00.000-07:00

Today is early out, don't forget that next Thursday we don't have any school.

Math Mystery!

2010-10-31T20:52:00.000-07:00

Here is a fun and interactive Math Mystery story that you get yo read along with. Click on the link below and see if you can figure out what is going on. DON'T give the answer away to your neighbor, if you have it figured out keep the answer to yourself. Once you have finished solving the mystery see if you can research some fun ideas that you could use for your upcoming book report. What are some activities that you would like to do or use to tell me about a book that you have recently completed. Leave me a comment to let me know what you have found.

MATH MYSTERY

BOOK REPORT: Scholastic

Science!

2010-10-27T14:01:00.000-07:00

Sunrise at Walker

2010-10-27T08:23:00.001-07:00

Water Cycle

2010-10-24T21:02:00.000-07:00

Soon we will be taking a field trip and discussing what the water cycle is and how it effects us. Living in the desert, water plays an important role in each one of our lives. I would like for you to watch the short 3 minute video and take the quiz that follows it. Let me know how well you did. REMEMBER to think about what the different parts of the water cycle are and how the relate to one another.

Click here to make your way to the video and quiz.

Fall Break

2010-10-17T21:41:00.000-07:00

Well I hope that everyone had a nice week off and you had some time to relax. The break seemed to fly by way to quickly but I made the most of it while I could. What did Mr. M do over the break? Well the first thing that I did was attend the wedding of a very dear friend of mine. Here is a picture of Sara and I at the wedding.

After that I went up north and spent the entire week camping & fishing! I really don't think I could have had a better week off. Here is a picture of me and a trout that I caught out of Willow Springs lake.

As you can see I was wearing a sweat shirt and the weather was much cooler than it is here in Tucson! I tried to do a little hiking around and take some pictures while I could. Unfortunately Mr. M forgot to bring his tripod with him so he was unable to do any night time photography. While I was camping I got to see a whole range of wildlife that we don't get to see here in the desert. I saw skunks, squirrels, chipmunks, blue jays, and even a bald eagle! The trip was wonderful and I can't wait to go up there again. Here are a couple of pictures that I took while up north.

Here is a picture of part of Fool's Hollow Lake in Show Low, AZ.

This is a picture of a flower that I have never seen before and don't know too much information about! I want to hear about what you did over the break, tell me what you did and what you enjoyed doing with your time off away from school.

It's Science

2010-10-06T09:34:00.001-07:00

Today we are looking at what effects two different objects being dropped from the same height. Should be interesting to see what we learn!

Book Fair!

2010-10-06T08:20:00.000-07:00

This week during conferences the book fair is open for business with some really great stuff.

Beat the Calculator

2010-10-05T09:42:00.001-07:00

This is a game designed to encourage students to beat someone else who has a calculator only with their knowledge of math facts

Computer lab

2010-10-04T08:11:00.001-07:00

I Spy!

2010-10-03T13:59:00.000-07:00

Over the past couple of years I notice a lot of my students have become more and more interested in these I Spy books. They can spend hours in search of random objects in cluttered pictures with extreme joy. I found on the scholastic website an online version of the same game. It is a virtual space that the students have to click on and interact with in order to locate the specific objects. Check it out for yourself and let me know how you like it.

You can find the link for this page here.

Story Starters!

2010-09-26T21:30:00.001-07:00

Here is a great resource for young writers who need some help getting ideas for writing. It is a generator that gives you different writing scenarios and formats such as a postcard, letter, newspaper, or notebook entry. I hope that you enjoy this as much as I do! Click here to start a new and creative story.

Moving desks

2010-09-23T09:55:00.001-07:00

Teaching with Video Games?

2010-09-19T08:53:00.000-07:00

An opinion is something that is based on your own beliefs or views, I would like for you to read the following news article about learning using video games and give me your opinion. Do you think that this is a good idea, why or why not? Give me specific reasons why you think this might work and how we would be able to use it in the class room. You and your partner need to take turns reading the article and share with me what your opinion is as a comment. Don't forget to put down your names (first only).

NY Times article Learning by Playing: Video Games in the Classroom

Bug!

2010-09-09T09:54:00.001-07:00

We had a visitor on the playground this morning, can you help me identify what it is?

Collage

2010-08-29T08:26:00.000-07:00

Last week Mrs. Peterson asked you to research what a collage is and who invented the process. It is your job to locate reliable resources to use in order to answer that very question. Remember that Wikipedia is not always the most reliable resource to use when you are looking up information. Once you find one or two reliable sources write down your answer into a word document and post it as a comment into this blog post.

Morning Rain Showers

2010-08-26T07:27:00.001-07:00

Buddy Class

2010-08-25T12:14:00.000-07:00

Today our first grade buddy class came to visit and work on a poster that we are going to hang up when they are finished.

More students need a laptop computer for the classroom - USATODAY.com

2010-08-25T07:04:00.000-07:00

More students need a laptop computer for the classroom - USATODAY.com

This article is talking about students owning laptops for use in the classroom. Between the laptops, iPods and iPads out in the world is this too unreasonable to think about? I think that within the realm of 21st century skills, if we are to be teaching children about collaboration and technology they should have access to the tools. Not to say that some of them will have access to these tools, but at sometime in the future each and everyone of my students will need to use a computer. They come by the skills so naturally that it seems logical to give them access to these tools at an early age in order to incorporate it into their lifestyle. Being able to use a computer appropriately along with Internet access can be powerfully motivating to a student not to mention empowering when the complete something using it. I think that it should be mandated by law that everyone in the United States has access to the Internet, there are other countries around the world that have started this trend and it speaks towards their vision for accessing information. How are we going to get these tools for our kids? They are expensive and I don't expect all of my parents to have to pony up the money for a laptop. What are some of your thoughts and options for more computers and media device tools for children to have access to in the classrooms?

Band and Orchestra Demonstration

2010-08-24T13:54:00.002-07:00

Multiplication baseball

2010-08-20T10:19:00.002-07:00

Happy Birthday Tucson

2010-08-20T08:10:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Tucson

Here is a whole list of things that are happening in celebration of Tucson's Birthday!

Walker Pit Fire: 2010-2011 Pit Crew

2010-08-20T06:43:00.000-07:00

Walker Pit Fire: 2010-2011 Pit Crew: "Hello and welcome to the 2010-2011 school year. We are looking forward to meeting and working with you to make this years Walker Pit Fire a..."

Letterboxing

2010-08-19T07:38:00.002-07:00

Yesterday Mrs. Wright, one of our wonderful 3rd grade teachers brought to my attention something that is called Letterboxing. This is similar to Geocaching, it is a mix between treasure and scavenger hunting. I LOVE to go geocaching on the weekends with my wife but it requires that you have some sort of GPS locator device. Not everybody has access to one of these. is based off of a set of clues and navigational directions to geographical landmarks. The whole idea behind it is to get people to explore their surroundings and discover something new. I am thinking about setting up some Letterboxing discovery landmarks here at our school. I think it would Letterboxing d be a wonderful activity for kids to participate in both in and outside of school. What do you think about this? Do any of you Geocache or Letterbox in your spare time?

Math Introduction

2010-08-18T10:40:00.001-07:00

Today we got a chance to look through our Everyday Math books. We also cut out some addition and subtraction triangles to help us practice our math facts?.

2010-08-17T06:45:00.000-07:00

This is a wonderful example of the beauty that Arizona has to offer Lulu Walker. This was taken from our playground!

Jeffrey the caterpillar

2010-08-16T10:10:00.001-07:00

This morning we had a new student trying to join us for the day. Luckily we found him before any damage was done and was able to relocate him to a safer environment.

Parent Information

2010-08-08T09:27:00.001-07:00

Hello parents and students of the 2010 - 2011 school year. I have already met some of you and am looking forward to meeting the rest of you on Wednesday when school starts up. If you (parents) could take the time to fill out the information form I have created it would be much appreciated. This gives me some important contact information about you and your young learner. If you have already filled this form out once there is no need to do it again. Thank you for your help and I will see you all very soon!

Parent Survey Form

Summer Must-Read for Kids? Any Book - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

2010-08-05T07:17:00.000-07:00

Summer Must-Read for Kids? Any Book - Well Blog - NYTimes.com

Here is an interesting article that says kids should be reading throughout the summer time. I have always told parents to let kids read whatever they are interested in, the goal is to keep them reading!

Teacher Meeting

2010-08-02T16:36:00.000-07:00

Today a handful of teachers came together at school to work on this year's schedule. Life around the school is starting to pick up more and more as the first day of school draws near. Looking forward to seeing and meeting my new students!

2010-07-27T08:45:00.000-07:00

I woke up this morning feeling really brainy! Not sure what it is, but I feel like good things are going to happen.

Bookmans | Project: Educate

2010-07-22T13:18:00.000-07:00

Bookmans | Project: Educate

This is mostly for any teachers who live in Arizona. Bookmans wants to take care of their teachers by giving them 20% off on everything that they sell. Look into it if you have never heard about it. I know I have!

2010-07-22T09:00:00.000-07:00

Not sure what I should do first!

Picasa Web Albums Features

2010-07-22T08:45:00.000-07:00

Picasa Web Albums Features Here is a great picture editing software that I got a chance to play around with a little bit over the summer. I am going to use this in the classroom this year as much as I can. Hopefully students will be able to make their own collages and share them with their families at home. This is software is FREE which makes me love it even more. I have posted a couple of small projects that took me no more than 10 minutes total to make both of them. Give it a chance and if you don't like it maybe you can share something that you do like to use.

Summer Fun

2010-07-09T11:33:00.000-07:00

Here is a collage of some of the adventures that Mr. M has been on!

Here is a collage of some of the school events from last year too.

Pit Fire

2010-03-29T07:35:00.002-07:00

Tell me what your favorite part of the Pit Fire was, what did you learn? Summarize what happened that day.

Tucson Wind Quintet

2010-03-23T14:22:00.001-07:00

Moving desks today along with some spring cleaning!

2010-03-22T08:50:00.000-07:00

Spring Break

2010-03-22T07:04:00.000-07:00

Tell me what you did over Spring Break. Did you go any place? Did you have fun? What was your favorite part of NO SCHOOL?

Example:

Over Spring Break Mrs. M and I drove up to the Grand Canyon on Friday night. We woke up early and went to hike around the South Canyon Rim. It was really windy and cold but absolutely beautiful! After we finished walking around the Grand Canyon we drove down to Flagstaff to spend some time. Flagstaff is the home of Northern Arizona University where Mrs. M & Mr. M met for the first time, so it was special being able to go back and visit. There was still some snow on the ground so we went and played in that white stuff. Eventually we drove back to Tucson and on Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. M both got new tattoos! Wednesday was St. Patrick's Day, I went bowling with Coach D and we bowled 8 games each, wow that is a lot of bowling. Thursday is my usual bowling day and I bowled my first 200 games! I was very excited about that. I even went bowling on Saturday again! My favorite part of my Spring Break was being able to spend so much time with Mrs. M and bowling my first 200 game.

Track Stars

2010-03-05T13:30:00.000-07:00

Our awesome track stars!

Important Jobs

2010-02-22T07:34:00.000-07:00

The President of the United States has many important jobs, I would like for you to research what some of those jobs are and tell me about them. Tell me about our 44th president Barack Obama

Click here to learn about Barack Obama

Click here to learn about what a President does

Remember to type up your response into a Word Document before you copy/paste it over.

Words About Technology

2010-02-15T07:21:00.001-07:00

I would like you and your partner to create a Wordle, listing out all of the words that you can think of that have something to do with technology. Think about a computer and all of the different parts that it has. For example a CD rom, monitor, USB port and a keyboard. Those are a few words to help get you stated. I want you to try and come up with as many different technology related vocabulary words as you can think of! Please type you list into a Word Document first that way you can spell check it, and then copy/paste it into the Worlde page.

You can go Here to get to the Wordle page.

A special visitor

2010-02-08T08:07:00.000-07:00

This morning before school started up we had a visit from our friend the Ringtail. It is our state mammal so it was really nice to have such an important state representative stop by to say hello.

Science Fair Projects

2010-02-08T07:48:00.000-07:00

Todat the Science Fair Projects are due! The time has just flown by and here we are going to present our projects this week. I would like to know what you liked the best about doing your Science Fair Projects, and what do you think was the most difficult part of the whole process. Do you already have an idea for next years project? What would you do differently?

Northwest Fire Visit

2010-02-02T11:22:00.000-07:00

Today inspector West came to visit us today and talk about bike safety!

iPod touch

2010-01-29T13:28:00.000-07:00

What could the class do with an iPod touch? Besides watching movies and listening to music on it, what would you do with it in class if we had one? What sorts of "apps" would you like to see on it and how could the class share just one iPod? Please answer using complete sentences!

Monday Pit-Fire Parents Meeting

2010-01-29T13:04:00.001-07:00

Hi there parents! Hopefuly you have recieved the notice at this point in time about the meeting that we have on Monday February 1st, 2010 about the Pit Fire. We are starting to get closer to the event itself and the fourth grade still has a lot to get ready. We hope to see you there at 6:00 pm in the MPR. We will be going over the following information:

Pit Fire Schedule
Description of Events
Update the volunteer list
Go over materials that are still needed
Answer some questions

See you there!

Tucson Symphony Orchestra String Quintet!

2010-01-19T12:55:00.000-07:00

Today we had a visit from the Tucson Syphony Orchestra's string quintet, it was a wonderful experience for us. We got a chance to see violins, violas, chellos and a double bass. They played fast songs, slow songs, sad songs and happy songs. Thank you so very much Tucson Symphony string quintet for giving us that wonderful presentation today, it was a pleasure. Here is the website for Tucson Symphony Orchestra Kids

TSO Kids

Tucson Symphony Orchestra

2010-01-19T11:06:00.000-07:00

Science Fair Projects (Materials & Procedures)

2010-01-15T11:03:00.001-07:00

Hello Walker Wolves! I hope that you are excited about the three day weekend, I know I am. Just as a reminder to both students and parents, next Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 the students Materials and Procedure section will be due to me for grading. Once again I will be grading the students based on the Science Fair rubric that we went over and discussed, it is attached to their packets. We have talked about and gone over extensively what the procedures section should look like, step by step instructions that indicate what they student is doing in their experiment. I found a great example of how and what the materials list should look like.

Materials List

Procedures

I hope that this is helpful to you while you are writing up your procedures and list of materials. Good luck!

Bookmans Reading Challenge 2010

2010-01-08T07:16:00.000-07:00

It is that time of the year again guys and gals, time to put your reading glasses on and get busy! The 2010 Bookmans' Reading Challenge is now underway and is worth a possible 15,000 to one very dedicated school. Our school librarian Mrs. O' Mera has already talked with the teachers and is getting some fun prizes set up for the students who are reading a lot of books. I am encouraging my class to continue to read as many books as we can. Keep in mind that after each book you read, you will need to fill out a short sheet, describing what the book was about. Now any books that you are reading need to be 4th grade appropriate, in other words picture books aren't going to cut it. You are in fourth grade, and you are reading fourth grade level books so lets keep it that way. Any books that we read in class together, as a class can count towards our school goal as well. We are getting very close to our read in as well, so we should have a good opportunity to get a lot of reading done. I am excited for this competition, I think that Walker has got a real shot at winning that money prize this year. Good luck and let the reading begin!

If you want to check out some of the details for yourself go this link: Bookman's Reading Challenge 2010!

Thursday Morning Sunrise

2010-01-07T08:05:00.000-07:00

While outside this morning at Miler's Club, I was very surprised to see the stunning sunrise! Pictures never really do it justice but here is a taste of what we got to enjoy on this chilly Thursday morning.

Science Fair

2010-01-05T19:37:00.000-07:00

Hi there everyone, it is about that time of the year to start thinking about the upcoming Walker science fair! There are a few key issues that I wanted to talk about to remind both students and parents of. Students have already received their packets along with the grading rubrics. The due dates are as follows

Question/Hypothesis due on Wednesday, Jan. 13th, 2010
Materials/Procedures due on Wednesday, Jan. 20th, 2010
Results/Conclusion due on Monday, Feb. 1st, 2010
Display due on Monday, Feb. 8th, 2010

The students will be going over each individual step in the class but are expected to complete the experiment at home. You are all encouraged to come up with a question that is original and unique to you! Here are a couple of resources that may help you when thinking about some topic ideas.

.http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/

OR...

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/pages/sciencefairzone/topics.asp

Please remember that these sites are meant to HELP, not do the work for you! I love to see students coming up with original ideas that pertain to them and what they are interested in. Please remember to ask questions if there is something that you are unsure about, I am here to help. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

Winter concert rehersal

2009-12-14T13:22:00.001-07:00

Thank you Chick-Fil-A

2009-12-09T20:11:00.002-07:00

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Chick-fil-A

2009-12-09T09:20:00.000-07:00

Mr. M will be at Chick fil A from 5 to 6 tonight at Oracle by the Tucson Mall