National Pizza Month

Welcome Back to a New School Year!

This is an update on a previous entry of National Pizza Month. I used Google Documents to survey third graders favorite pizza topping.  We then typed the information into an Excel spread sheet to create a pie graph! The students used pizza items to change the portion of the pie graph accordingly. 

This year my first grade students helped out with the celebration and designed their own pizza.  The first graders used the following link

http://www.abcya.com/pizza.htm to create their own pizza. 

Perfect for a bulletin board!

Decorah Eagles!

I love that this available again this year. It is live footage of two eagles in their nest 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/decorah-eagles The bald eagles pictured above have laid 3 eggs this year and each parent takes a turn on the nest.

The website enchanted learning has basic information and can easily be adapted for young students to use the internet to research facts to write a report.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/birds/info/Eagle.shtml

In class I start each lesson about what has occured during the day and since I teach multiple classes I am able to take screen shots and put the pictures into a powerpoint slideshow to share with each class. Just by observing the streaming and the powerpoint show I have created 500 eagle experts!