Check out our new class picture on the home page--for the first time with ALL the students. Yay!

Kaitlyn's picture is now available in "Meet the Students."

Mrs. Perna has posted YouTube versions of the songs from the Christmas program. I have posted a link to one of the songs under the video section. You can also search YouTube for: Lincoln Elementary Christmas 2011.

The first of the interviews for our "Every Day Hero" broadcast are up in the videos section. Find out the identity of some Lincoln Elementary Heroes and what they are up to . . . 

Some people have been asking about the strategy "comparison bars" in math. I have posted in the resources section a scan from the teacher's manual that gives an overview of comparison bars and how they're used. This file will download as a pdf, which means it will open in Adobe Reader.

If you haven't had the chance to check out our collaborative story that we're writing with 3rd graders across the country, check out this link:

http://writeyourstory.wikispaces.com/STORY+26

Emmett, Alissa and Evelyn also contributed drawings and art to illustrate this story.

ThinkCentral was just linked in resources:

https://www-k6.thinkcentral.com/ePC/start.do

User name: (same as the computer lab, which is your student ID number)

Password: (Posted in the dragonfly blog)

This website is published by Math  Expressions which is the same program we use to learn math in school. Our in-class work is on this site as well as a button where you can hear someone reading the directions to you.

Students are writing letters to US Army troops through my cousin Lt. Colonel Ken Kamper, stationed in Seattle, WA area. He is deploying to Afghanistan for a brief while very soon. Here is a picture of him:

The rest of the students posted their geometry raps in the video section.

Just a reminder, the newsletters and scans of the weekly homework assignments are in the newsletter and resources sections respectively.

Our Trail Mix Business raised $80.00 which we plan to donate to His Harvest Stand (http://www.hisharveststand.
blogspot.com/). Thanks for all of the donations of capital resources that made this endeavor possible!!