Mrs. McCartney's Class Blog

Donors Choose

mrsmccartney — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:53:06 +0000

To enhance our WIN (What I Need) time, I set up a Donors Choose project to try to get some enrichment materials from Lakeshore Learning. Please go check it out and consider making a donation!! If you like our blog, imagine what we can do inside our classroom!

http://www.donorschoose.org/tmccartney

eGrades

mrsmccartney — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:59:37 +0000

Grades have been posted and should upload after 7 p.m. tonight (Friday). I will be sending a progress report home on Monday that will reflect the same grades. For directions on how to access eGrades, please check your child’s binder.

Pennies for Patients

mrsmccartney — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:44:26 +0000

Today our class attended an assembly put on by Tony from the Sacramento Rivercats baseball team. He stressed the importance of attitude, attendance, and academics in our school careers. He also introduced our newest project, which is Pennies for Patients. Students are encouraged to bring in loose change (pennies and any other coins or dollars!) to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma society.

Literature Circles

mrsmccartney — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:28:30 +0000

We have been reading different books in our literature circles in the past two weeks. Leave a comment and tell us what book your group is reading. What is it about? Would you recommend it to other readers (especially people who are reading our blog right now)? Why or why not?

Glogster

mrsmccartney — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:05:10 +0000

Another tool that I’d like our class to try out is Glogster. One of our reading groups is going to give it a try to create a classroom news Glog. They will become our experts, and will share Glogster with the rest of us at a later date. Anyone can try it by following the link! If you really like it, I will create a classroom account for you.

Khan Academy

mrsmccartney — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:19:25 +0000

Want to review something we learned in class? Don’t understand your homework? Homework too easy so you need a challenge? Go check out Khan Academy. You can see videos or take practice quizzes on all kinds of topics. I’m adding it to my homework help page too. If you login with a Google account (check with mom or dad first), then you can add me as your coach (mrsmccartney98@gmail.com) and I can track your progress.

Let the Plant Experiment Begin!

mrsmccartney — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:00:30 +0000

We started talking about the science fair today. Although students are not required to enter th science fair, I’d really like to see many of our classmates choose to take on this project outside of class! They can work with a friend or on their own. I recommend http://www.sciencebuddies.org as a very helpful science fair website. We will be doing a class science project, mainly to get students using the scientific method. So, today we began our great plant experiment. Our question is, “What do plants need to live?” Our hypothesis is that plants need food and water to live, as that is what past research and knowledge has told us. Here are our test subjects before we begin….

Food Processing Center

mrsmccartney — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:59:38 +0000

Today we visited the EGUSD Food Processing Center. We learned about http://www.choosemyplate.gov, and created our own balanced meals out of food pictures.

We even toured the food processing center, where we got to stand in a *really* cold freezer (-4!)

Then we taste tested some fish sticks and breakfast quesadillas/burritos.

What a fun day of nutrition education! We continued on later in the day with some important physical education with Mr. Robinson. It was AMAZING!

See more pictures at http://mrsmccartney.shutterfly.com

Happy New Year!!!

mrsmccartney — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:04:09 +0000

See you all on January 3rd!

Grades should update tonight after 7 p.m. if you would like to see your current grade.

Homework 11/28

mrsmccartney — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:17:34 +0000

Math: 7-1

Spl: ABC Order

Read 20 minutes

If you can, bring in a picture of the off track activity you wrote about today.

Finish off track writing if you haven’t already done so in class.