MATH: multiplication circles and
finish all math pages/book
READING: Fill in reading response page
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Watertown Town Council Changes Margins?
Letters from Eric and Ilana went to the Town Council. We received this report from Council Member, Susan Falkoff:
Date: 04/22/2008 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: 4th grade at State House on WBUR April 22
Norah,
Ruth Thomassian came to the council to announce various events related to Earth Day and mentioned having heard the radio segment. Steve Owens, chair of the Democratic Town Committee told me he'd heard it, too.
Later in the Council meeting, I made a request of the council clerk and the data processing manager to explore the feasibility of the class's suggestion.
This could mean a victory, outside our school, soon!
Date: 04/22/2008 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: 4th grade at State House on WBUR April 22
Norah,
Ruth Thomassian came to the council to announce various events related to Earth Day and mentioned having heard the radio segment. Steve Owens, chair of the Democratic Town Committee told me he'd heard it, too.
Later in the Council meeting, I made a request of the council clerk and the data processing manager to explore the feasibility of the class's suggestion.
This could mean a victory, outside our school, soon!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
We are featured on WBUR website this AM!
Click here to listen
http://storypodnewengland.libsyn.com/
And Tamara Krinsky, who started this campaign has been in contact - she heard about us from the story on WBUR.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Update from yesterday's trip -WBUR date and time
From Nina Berger:
The last aide we talked to in Waltham office (Sophie's rep) - suggested contacting the I.T. office if we wanted to ask them to change the margins at the State House. She thought they could change system wide. We didn't have time to go up and visit them...
"WBUR segment on our visit should be on Tuesday April 22nd at 7:50 or 8:50 AM"
The last aide we talked to in Waltham office (Sophie's rep) - suggested contacting the I.T. office if we wanted to ask them to change the margins at the State House. She thought they could change system wide. We didn't have time to go up and visit them...
"WBUR segment on our visit should be on Tuesday April 22nd at 7:50 or 8:50 AM"
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
State House trip ...
Great work by all of the Green 13 at the State House today. We traveled by train and managed to meet with 10 legislators or their aides. We hand delivered 12 press kits, took a tour, met with Monica Brady of WBUR-fm and were back at school by 12 noon. The students spoke persuasively and made clear arguments for our initiative. Thanks so much to all the parents who able to chaperone. Student reflections and more news will follow.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
HOMEWORK April 15th
MATH: up to page 15
SPELLING: complete page provided
READING: independent reading 30 minutes
SPELLING: complete page provided
READING: independent reading 30 minutes
Monday, April 14, 2008
Homework APRIL 14th and news
WRITING: 3 paragraphs on the writing sheet provided in class.
MATH: pages up to 12 unless completed in class
READING: independent reading
NEWS: A reporter from wbur-fm will be accompanying us to the State House on Wednesday. And we are getting some responses from Representatives and print media as well.
MATH: pages up to 12 unless completed in class
READING: independent reading
NEWS: A reporter from wbur-fm will be accompanying us to the State House on Wednesday. And we are getting some responses from Representatives and print media as well.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Change the Margins
We are getting ready for our tour of the State House and our "lobbying" of State Senators, Representatives and the Governor about our green initiative to Change the Margins. In keeping with a save paper mode, our press kit is not only online, it is on disc as well. We have created a power point presentation to mail or show to anyone who is interested. Here is a youtube video with scripted segments by Eli and Shayna. The link is highlighted below:Please send the link to friends and family Spread the word...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_71mKrB7tDI
This week we wrote letters with persuasive arguments to:
Boston Mayor Menino
Boston Mayor's Environment office: Jim Hunt
Bryan Glascock, Boston Mayor's Environment office
Waltham Mayor, McCarthy
Watertown Town Council
Cambridge City Council, Mayor Simmons
New York Times, letters to the editor
Mayor of Newton
Mayor of Malden
Carisle Mosquito
JP Gazette
and we contacted these members of our State legislature:
Governor Deval Patrick, aide
and press office
Senator Tolman
Representative Rachel Kapreilian
Representative Alice Wolf
Representative Frank Smizik
Representative Mike Rush
We also wrote to WHDH, WBUR, WGHBH, the Globe and to Tamara Krinsky to say thanks for her powerful but simple idea.
If you have a PC, here's how to change the margins in Microsoft Word:
1. Go to File, then Page Setup.
2. In the Margins tab, type in 0.75 for top, bottom, left and right.
3. Click the Default button at the bottom of the Margins tab. A prompt will ask if you want to change the default settings for page setup. Click Yes.
If you have a Mac:
1. Go to Format, then Document.
2. In the Document dialogue box, click on Margins and fill in 0.75 for top, bottom, left and right.
3. Click OK.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_71mKrB7tDI
This week we wrote letters with persuasive arguments to:
Boston Mayor Menino
Boston Mayor's Environment office: Jim Hunt
Bryan Glascock, Boston Mayor's Environment office
Waltham Mayor, McCarthy
Watertown Town Council
Cambridge City Council, Mayor Simmons
New York Times, letters to the editor
Mayor of Newton
Mayor of Malden
Carisle Mosquito
JP Gazette
and we contacted these members of our State legislature:
Governor Deval Patrick, aide
and press office
Senator Tolman
Representative Rachel Kapreilian
Representative Alice Wolf
Representative Frank Smizik
Representative Mike Rush
We also wrote to WHDH, WBUR, WGHBH, the Globe and to Tamara Krinsky to say thanks for her powerful but simple idea.
If you have a PC, here's how to change the margins in Microsoft Word:
1. Go to File, then Page Setup.
2. In the Margins tab, type in 0.75 for top, bottom, left and right.
3. Click the Default button at the bottom of the Margins tab. A prompt will ask if you want to change the default settings for page setup. Click Yes.
If you have a Mac:
1. Go to Format, then Document.
2. In the Document dialogue box, click on Margins and fill in 0.75 for top, bottom, left and right.
3. Click OK.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Homework and news for APR 8th
MATH: Double sided math page in homework folder
SPELLING: Write your 6 words 3Xs each and use in a sentence.
NEWS: On our Change the Margins campaign:
We have heard back from some of our State Reps
and we had a nice response from some media too.
SPELLING: Write your 6 words 3Xs each and use in a sentence.
NEWS: On our Change the Margins campaign:
We have heard back from some of our State Reps
and we had a nice response from some media too.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Homework and news for APR 3rd
HOMEWORK
MATH: Math sheet
SPELLING: Check in with a spelling test
READING: Write a 4 paragraph letter to a character in your book.
This letter should have 4 ideas and contain good examples of voice, metaphor and simile.
MATH: Math sheet
SPELLING: Check in with a spelling test
READING: Write a 4 paragraph letter to a character in your book.
This letter should have 4 ideas and contain good examples of voice, metaphor and simile.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Homework and news for APR 2nd
MATH: finish up to page 74
GOVT: try making a symbol or a design
for a logo for our "Change the Margins" project.
It can help to look at google "images" for ideas.
Listen here for the NPR story that inspired me
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14210150
GOVT: try making a symbol or a design
for a logo for our "Change the Margins" project.
It can help to look at google "images" for ideas.
Listen here for the NPR story that inspired me
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14210150
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
APRIL 1st HOMEWORK
Homework:
SPELLING: write 6 words 3 Xs and each one in a sentence
MATH: pages 69+70
GOVT: finish a first draft of your persuasive piece.
Four paragraphs. Here is an outline to help you organize:
1.Introduction: What is the idea and why in a few strong sentences.
2.Why we need to do this? Arguments "for" the idea; using some facts about paper and global warming from the Mueller Study. Also include 2 Arguments "against" and rebut them.
3.Show how to do this? Show how to change the margins AND how changing the margins can save trees, clean air, reduce waste etc.
4. A strong ending that repeats the main idea in a new way.
Look at http://www.changethemargins.com/
We are looking for community newspapers in:
Weston, Boston = (JP West Roxbury), Newton, Everret, Watertown, Waltham, Carlisle, Brookline, Arlington as a place to publish our finished work.
READING: 30 minutes of independent reading.
SPELLING: write 6 words 3 Xs and each one in a sentence
MATH: pages 69+70
GOVT: finish a first draft of your persuasive piece.
Four paragraphs. Here is an outline to help you organize:
1.Introduction: What is the idea and why in a few strong sentences.
2.Why we need to do this? Arguments "for" the idea; using some facts about paper and global warming from the Mueller Study. Also include 2 Arguments "against" and rebut them.
3.Show how to do this? Show how to change the margins AND how changing the margins can save trees, clean air, reduce waste etc.
4. A strong ending that repeats the main idea in a new way.
Look at http://www.changethemargins.com/
We are looking for community newspapers in:
Weston, Boston = (JP West Roxbury), Newton, Everret, Watertown, Waltham, Carlisle, Brookline, Arlington as a place to publish our finished work.
READING: 30 minutes of independent reading.
Chaperones Needed for trip to State House and news
An important activity in our study of government will be our visit the State House on Wednesday April 16th. We will be exercising our 1st amendment rights as well as being tourists. Our class will be dropping off copies of our green initiative and stopping by the offices of our [Waltham MA] State Senator and Representatives. We need some extra adults for this exciting visit. Please RSVP by email or phone to Norah or Dan. We will be traveling on public transportation so some students and their parents may chose to meet us at the State House, which is a short walk from Part Street Station.
In other news,Norah will return to part time status, effective today. The 4th grade will be her focus for most of the the three days/week she will be in school. She will be working on science, government and art projects and assisting in instruction as needed.
In other news,Norah will return to part time status, effective today. The 4th grade will be her focus for most of the the three days/week she will be in school. She will be working on science, government and art projects and assisting in instruction as needed.
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