Relay for Life

 Here are pictures from our Mini Relay for Life at Oakland!

PASS REVIEW

Here are a songs we have watched during the year to help us better understand Social Studies. I will be adding songs as we review.

This helps us with the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the author's feelings while they were writing.

This helps us with the 3 Branches of Government...who has the MOST power???

This helps us with Checks and Balances

 

Constructed Response

Last week for constructed response questions we videoed on the IPAD student answers..this week we used the website "fodey.com" to write the constructed response answers and generate them into our very own newspaper article. Here are a few examples of student responses.

Terrific Kid of the YEAR

Congratulations to OWEN JACKSON! Oakland Elementary's Terrific Kid of the YEAR!

Here is the write up about Owen that I wrote to enter him in the contest~ I am so proud of you Owen!
 

Mrs. Gault’s Terrific Kid Nomination

       In my class when I think of “Terrific Kid” Owen Jackson is the first name that comes to mind. Owen deserves the Terrific Kid award because he is an exceptional student. Owen always has a cheerful attitude when working with his classmates and he knows how to look on the “bright side” of things! Owen is also very involved in church and school. Every day he comes to class with a positive outlook and shares what he has learned during church, First Tee (golf), or soccer.

       Owen has made all A/B’s all five years at Oakland Elementary and it is because he comes to class ready to learn each day, he works hard and doesn’t give up even when assignments are challenging!  In addition, he is an excellent problem solver. Before coming to me, he tries to figure out problems on his own. When he does come to me, he explains all the things he tried first. Then sometimes he says, “Well, I could try this…” And in most cases he comes up with a brilliant solution to his problem!

       Owen is the most caring, compassionate child that I have ever met, he never meets a stranger and when someone is left out in the classroom he always partners up with them and makes them feel important. Making someone feel important comes natural to him, he always gives his classmates compliments and tells them what a good job they do even when he isn’t told to, and this is what true character is all about.

Owen Jackson should receive this award most importantly because he demonstrates the life skill-PERSEVERANCE! Owen never gives up no matter what situation he faces in or out of the classroom. He is a GREAT student who ALWAYS gives 100%.  

 

Constructed Response

We are currently reading the novel Bridge to Terabithia, instead of writing down responses on the test I had students explain to me their answer in a video response. Some students like this better because they can explain themselves better with oral expression rather than written expression. Here are the results:

Moon Phases

We did a great and fun experiment about the Moon Phases. The materials we all used were Oreos, a tooth pick and a sheet to lay the Oreos on. With the tooth pick we had to scrap the iceing off the Oreos. Next we would shap the iceing into the Moon Phases. Once we were finished Mrs.Gault took a picture of us with Moon Phases. The best part of all was we got to eat the Oreos once we were finished! Everybody enjoyed that part. This was a great way to teach us about the Moon Phases!!!!!!!By: Ellie Tessin

Anna Leigh made the "axis" going through the Earth with her toothpick! Smart thinking!

To go along with our MOON PHASES, here is a song to help you remember them!

Feature Articles

We are creating feature articles on the planets, to do this we looked at this feature article and cited the different features we noticed.

 To help us with research, we went to the library and looked up different facts on the planets that we were given.

 

After researching, we started our rough draft.

I had Mercury it's the closest planet to the Sun. I think the part that was

hardest was working with my group.

Last, we did our final draft and colored our planet example.

I think that this was one of the coolest projects ever.

 I hope the younger grades do this in the future! Autumn Lockhart 

 

 

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