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Blogging About the Book

We will blog throughout the reading of this novel and I invite you to follow us as we discuss the novel in detail. Our blog can be found at the following address: http://p86livereading.blogspot.com

Students will respond to questions on his/her personal blogs which you will be able to access from the hub. Each blogging response is for a grade.

Live From P86The Lightning ThiefOur next novel study by Rick Riordan

iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad all the licenses have been used. Therefore, you will need to download the Kindle Reader App on your devices and I will supply you with the username and password to download the book. The cost on the iPod, iPad, or iPhone is $5.59 per book. All devices are allowed in class to read with including Kindle devises, but you will

have to purchase the book on your Kindles or Nooks yourself. If you need a actual book, they will be made available Friday, january 13. We have already began the prep work for the book, We begin reading on Tuesday. If you need a book, please notify me immediately and you can pay when you get a chance.

TECH TUESDAY COMING JANUARY 24Want or need to understand what technology

and how we use it in P86 or simply learn it for yourself? Well, come join us on Tuesday, January 24 for P86Live - Tech Tuesday. Due to the demand for the use of technology it is important that we the opportunity as parents to know what our students are using and how you can keep up with what is

going on with his/her work. So please come out for a great evening of learning. 6:30 - 7:30 pm in P86.

The Lightning Thief has arrived in P86. Therefore, we will go at it again with a new novel; The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. This engaging book introduces greek mythology in an easy to understand manner for out students. During our study, we will participate in a a few live blogging events, audio readings, video presentations and culminate with a compare and contrast project between the film and the novel. The unfortunate part is we will need to purchase the books. We get the book at a 30% discount to bring our cost to $5.50. If your student has an

Facebook.com/smittieskids

$5.50

Don’t Forget!

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KREATIVE KORRESPONDERAs writing and communicating

effectively continues to become a key push in our curriculumn, it is now time to introduce something new. Kreative Korresponder is a writing reporting piece where each student plays the role of reporter for the day. The K2 will be responsible for letting the world outside of P86 know what is going down inside the classroom. Each student will have his/her own day to take notes as we cover various subjects throughout our learning time. At home that evening after an action packed day, The K2 will take the notes and transcribed them into detailed events to record as a blog and

podcast. The blog must be typed in Microsoft Word or on the Neoboard and

the podcast must be recorded in GarageBand. Therefore, each K2 will come home with a student laptop the night that they are responsible for the Kreative Korresponder Report.

You can find out what day your student is the

Kreative Korresponder by going to our Calendar on our webiste. http://wix.com/smittieskids/p86live Yes this is grade!

I am enjoying the fact that many of our students are using “smart devices” like the ipod touch in the classroom. One of

cool ways of using the iPod or iPhone in the classroom is taking advantage of the great educational apps. Well, this week’s app I highly recommend.

Reminders, will enhance your student’s organizational skills, or simply teach them some. Students who are using this app are finding it helpful with jotting down homework assignments, blogging notes, calendar settings while keeping a check list of what has been completed according to the timeline that they set. This is a must have!

LITTLE KNOW FACTOn an American one-dollar bill, there is an owl in the upper left-hand corner of the "1" encased in the "shield" and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner.

APP OF THE WEEK

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Helpful WebsitesMath Tutorials

www.mathplayground.com/videos

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/Math5.html

Science Vocabulary

http://smittieproject.wikispaces.com

Current History Topics

Congress Power to make bills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-eYBZFEzf8

ARE YOU COMING

Hopefully you are strongly considering coming to Tech Tuesday on the 24th of this month. This will by our opportunity to have a better understanding of what technology if being used by your student and how it is being implanted. Also, give you a chance to play with each tool so you can better support your student and increase his/her opportunities of success. Here are the topics we plan to discuss:

BLOGGERMany of our upcoming

assignments will require students to express his/her thoughts and understanding of topic matters utilizing this tool.

XtranormalA text to

movie animation tool that allows student writing to come to life.

GarageBandThis is the tool that we use to

create our wonderful podcast and mastery projects.

Google AppsThis is our normal

collaboration tool for students to discuss and complete various task.

Google+This is a hope tool: meaning I hope we get a chance to use it! However, this provides a hangout for us to

discuss projects, homework assignments one night a week via video chat.

P86 SitesBlogsAssignmentshttp://smittieskidsonfire.blogspot.comReadinghttp://p86livereading.com

Class Hubhttp://wix.com/smittieskids/p86live(access google calendar from here)

Wikihttp://smittieproject.wikispaces.com

Podcasthttp://smittieskids.podbean.com/

Coming SooniTunes Podcast Subscription

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Classroom Topics for the Week

Math: Coordinate Grids and Ordered Pairs along with Transformations

Science: Renewable and NonRenewable Resources

Social Studies: The Bill of Rights

English: Difficult Verbs and Verb Tense

Reading: Mythology vs. Tall Tales along with the Lightning Thief introduction (chapters 1 & 2)

Spelling: Review Week

Writing: Blogging Responses & comments

Special Projects: Kreative Korresponders

BirthdaysJanuary 13

Brittlynn Jenae Allen

January 14

Smittie

January 20

Jalyn Marie Reagans

January 23

Devon Karlotis Miller

January 24

Mason Hunter Moore

January 30

Shea Scott Ellis

Tech Tuesday

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If you are attending

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