November 2012

Ready, Set, GO!

We just finished setting up our display at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum.  As we put up our posters and set out reminder tags to give away, we were discussing how exciting it is to have the opportunity to share our students’ incredible work on this international scale!  We are very proud of […]

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Grocery shopping

To prepare for our cookie fundraiser, we read many recipes and learned about procedural texts.  Students listened for recipes with bigger amounts of ingredients, so we could make large batches and they were careful to avoid recipes that contained ingredients which students in our school are allergic to.  As students decided on the best recipe

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A tremendous success!

When students researched adopting polar bears through the World Wildlife Fund, they found out that it would cost $40.00 to adopt a polar bear.  As a previous post explains, our students had many ideas for solving the problem of getting $40.00.  Our first fundraiser is now underway: students opted to start with a cookie sale,

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