Looking back at last week, I am really proud of this class. After three quarters together (add a year on top of that for half of the class!), they continue to impress me with their maturity, flexibility, creativity, and skill. The two major focuses of last week were our Skype call to Gadsden, Alabama as [...]
Today was an exciting day in Room 10. Students have been working for the past few classes on inquiry-based math projects. As part of our study of statistics and probability, students worked in teams to create a question, hypothesis, procedure for experimenting, and a method of recording and reporting data. It has been very busy, [...]
Here is a link to the presentation of persuasion I showed students on Monday: Persuasion

We hit the halfway point of our second week…and we survived! We’re nearly done with the MEgazine presentations and, I’ve got to tell you, I have been really impressed with both the content and the quality. We have an interesting group of students here in Room 10! We have no official homework tonight…just the [...]
Here are the assignments for today: Language Arts: Reading Practice Book page 5 Math: Student Activity Book pages 5-7 Students began presenting their MEgazine projects today. They have been doing a great job and I look forward to hearing the remaining 11 presenters tomorrow.
Here are the assignments for today: Language Arts: Reading Practice Book pages 3-4 Math: Student Activity Book pages 1-4 Please remember that the MEgazine project is due tomorrow. Students will begin presenting to the class tomorrow afternoon. They will receive scores for speech effort, ideas and content, organization, language, delivery, and art effort and content.

I love the second day of a new school year. The first day jitters are mostly gone, and you know pretty much everyone in the class. It’s usually a completely different experience than day one. We started the day by hanging the collaborative mural we created yesterday. It looks great on the wall and helps [...]