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Important news from Ms. Shofner's class

//Grade Level: 1st or 2nd grade // //Unit : A comprehensive unit incorporating Math, Science, Social Studies, Art, and Language Arts Lesson Objectives:// - Students will create a class flyer or newspaper highlighting the new and exciting things they are doing in their classroom. - Students will work as a group to compose a class flyer or newspaper to pass out to friends or family.

//Time Required to complete this lesson: This will be a monthly assignment.//

//Title of lesson: Important news from Ms. Shofner’s class. // //Resources needed// - Computer with internet access // - Printer - Google apps

Description of lesson: As a group students will create a newspaper or classroom flyer with important news from Ms. Shofner’s classroom. The flyer will contain a survey about class favorites, that the students will later use the answers to graph out answers to find the most popular answers. There will also be a calendar with the school lunch schedule, class birthdays, dates when projects will be due, and more important information. Next the students will choose what lessons they want to put in the newspaper. I have chosen a science project (class plants), a math lesson ( a class sale), a writing lesson (pen pals), and a reading lesson (describing the current books that they are reading) // //Assignment: // This will be a class project where the students will work as a group every month to assemble a class newspaper.

//Technology used :// - Computer with internet access - Google apps

//The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way:// The Google apps, make it easy to share information with friends and family that are interested in what we are doing in class. By using Google Apps and putting the newspaper on the class wiki, they can share what they are learning with parents or family who may not be able to come to classroom events. Google apps makes this process easy and simple that they students will be able to use easily to complete their assignments.

__**Class Survey**__ media type="custom" key="5947483" width="65" height="65" align="left"Here is a survey that some of the students has put together about their favorite activities though out the year. If you have not responded to the survey yet, make sure you fill it out so we can get everyone's answers. Once we get everyone's answers, we will make graphs of the students answers and find out what the most popular answers are. If there are any questions or if you want to add anything to the list please just let Ms. Shofner know.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Here is a calendar of upcoming events that our class finds important. We have included school lunches, field trips, when there are tests, and most importantly our Birthdays!! Make sure that all permission slips are turned in before the field trip so that everyone can go!

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<span style="color: #ff4d00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">__Recent class projects that we are working on__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Here is something that we have been working very hard on. We have been growing plants and flowers in our class for the last couple of weeks. Below is our blog that we have been writing in to post ideas about our flowers and plants, and what things that we will need in order for our flowers to grow. Also there is a spread sheet that we have made to chart the growth of our plants. Each week we have been measuring the height and number of leaves on each plant. We have also been charting the amount of food and water we give them every couple of days. We are really surprised at how much they have grown already! This is something that all the students have participated in and have had a great time patiently watching our plants grow! media type="custom" key="5947851" align="right"
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Math:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Here is a math lesson that we had done last week. We were learning about fractions and decimals using coins like dimes, nickels, quarters. For the project we had a class sale and sold goodies and toys to other students. Below we made a a spreadsheet to show how much each object was, and how much money we earned in the end! We are really excited that we earned almost $25.00 and we cant wait to use the money for our final field trip to water world at the end of the school year!!!

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<span style="color: #ff4d00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Writing: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">We are have Pen Pals that we write to in different countries around the world. By using gmail, we are able to keep in contact with our friends from around the world. We write the our friends emails to update them on our lessons, and we draw them pictures that we draw in our art class. We communicate with other students in England, South America, Alaska, Spain, Italy, England, Scotland and Germany. Our favorite class room in Spain because they ask great questions and send us neat pictures!

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<span style="color: #ff4d00; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Reading: : <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Here are some of the books that we have been reading lately. The class really seems to like to read Diary of a Whimpy Kid and The Adventures of Percy Jackson. Once we have finished with the books, we will be doing group projects with our literacy group to tell our friends about the books that we read. The projects that we will do will be plays, diaramas, drawings of all the different characters, or reanactments of our favorite chapter. Make sure to come see our final projects at the end of the year

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