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Dance Off: Cha-Cha Slide

23, Feb 2010

We have been officially challenged by Mr. Franklin’s 5th grade class at Lone Pine Elementary. Never ones to back down from a worthy opponent, the DreamExtreme crew needs to get our groove properly aligned. We’ll get together with Mr. Franklin’s class via Skype sometime in the next few weeks. Lone Pine has chosen the Cha-Cha [...]

Door to Door Virtually

16, Oct 2009

Each one of us has to travel some distance to get to school each day. Some students walk or ride bikes and scooters. Some ride on a bus while others are dropped off by parents. I drive to school each morning in my family van with my two children who attend Kennedy. For all of [...]

Hey! It’s Us, DreamExtreme!

6, Jun 2009

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The end of the school year – as much as we tried to avoid it – finally reared it’s calendary head and POOF! Summer vacation started. We spent part of the last two days of school recording the music and shooting the video [...]

Rockin’ “We The People”

12, May 2009

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video As part of our collaborative poetry unit with the South Paris Collaborative we worked as a whole class to create a new version of an existing song. After much brainstorming and exercising of the democratic process, we finally selected our source material. We [...]

Cross-Country Communication

21, Apr 2009

Here is a link to the video of our recent Skype session with Mitchell Elementary in Gadsden, Alabama. Thank you to Mrs. Goodwin for creating the project and including us on it!

Field Tripping, ‘bama Skyping, & Math Inquiring

13, Apr 2009

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 [...]

Math As Inquiry and Connecting the 50 States

7, Apr 2009

We continued, today, working on the inquiry-based math projects. It was very exciting to step back and look at a classroom of students who were nearly all engaged in completely different activities and phases of their projects. Hands and brains and paper and computers all mixed up in a wonderful combination of learning and creativity. [...]

Poetry: Skype-style.

22, Mar 2009

Friday featured the latest installment in on-going poetry collaboration with the South Paris Collaborative class in Long Island, New York. We have been using the Sharon Creech book Love That Dog as a springboard into looking at, responding to, creating, and performing poetry. Our most recent project was to use Arnold Adoff’s sound poem Street [...]


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