Valentine's Day 2013 in Room 121

Before our party on Valentine's Day, we created friendship cinquains and used candy sweethearts to collaborate on a math project with a partner from our teams.

The Animoto video below, created by McKenzie and Lexi, highlights moments throughout our day in Room 121 on Valentine's Day 2013.
 

Here's a closer look at our friendship cinquains, which were written by our partners after they had interviewed us:

CLICK HERE for more information on the math project, and CLICK HERE for more information about the friendship cinquains. 

Exponent Love Letters via RAFT prompt

To help refresh our memories on exponents during math, we collaborated with one or more partners to write "love letters" to exponents from the perspective of the base numbers. 

We used the following RAFT writing prompt format to guide us:

Role- base number

Audience- exponent

Format- love letter (or thank you letter)

Topic- what you (the exponent) means to me (the base number)   

Here's a video of some of us sharing our exponent love letter:

Our Idiom Comics are Out of this World!

Last week we jumped on the bandwagon and went to town learning all about idioms.

First, we worked with a partner in the computer lab and got our feet wet exploring the following websites to help us discover what idioms are and become familiar with common idioms we might encounter regularly.

• http://www.vocabulary.co.il/idioms/more-idioms/
• Idioms Galore
• http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/languages/words/idioms/
• Idioms and their meanings

Then we collaborated with a partner to create an idiom comic on Bitstrips, to illustrate the figurative and literal meanings of idioms.

"Go Fly a Kite" by Isaac and Makaiah

"The Big Cheese" by Logan and Chesnee

"Break a Leg" by Mariah and Joey

"Ants in my Pants" by Chase and Bailey

"Cool as a Cucumber" by Tanner and Madison

"Cry Wolf" by Hunter and Delaney

"Copy Cat" by Lexi and Austin

"Piece of Cake" by Courtney and Jacob

"Once in a Blue Moon" by McKenzie and Kenson

"Raining Cats and Dogs" by Coleman and Jaden

If you've enjoyed these comics, that's just the icing on the cake! Click HERE to view other idiom comics former students in Room 121 created--they'll knock your socks off!