Here is the last digital math book for the school year, created by Reilly as a version of Mario.

You can either view a version of the Powerpoint of Super Mathario Brothers or watch a video version:

Sixth graders spent the last few days in Writing Class working with Pivot Animation, Movie Maker and Super Dooper Music Looper to create small movies. Here is a collection of some of the work:

Last month, as we finished up our unit on poetry, Mr. Hodgson decided to do something a bit different this year. Normally, we collected poems from students, photocopy them and hand them out to students as a way to become published poets.

This year, we went a step further. All students had the opportunity to donate one of their original poems for a book project. Mr. Hodgson took all of the donated poems and then used a self-publishing site called Lulu to create a real book of poems that you can now purchase from Lulu directly. The cost is about $10 per book, including shipping. But you can download a PDF copy of the book for free.

You can order by clicking on the Lulu icon above or by following this link.

This is what the cover of the book looks like:

You can download a digital copy of the picture books by clicking on the title:

• A Day in School 1
• A Day in School 2
• Adventures of Willbur
• Adventure to Oz
• Alien Invasion
• Around the World
• Arty Arithmetic
• Ashleigh and Lauren’s Adventure
• Backpack Trouble
• Birthday Party
• Bob Knows Kung-Fu
• Carl and His Test
• Casey and Stephanie Make a Cake
• Curly the Blob
• Doughnut Shapes
• Dr. Shmoots
• Dyslexia Costs
• Floppy’s Party
• Frying up Shapes
• Geometric Jones
• Luigi’s Big Mistake
• Marty Mathematician and the Rescue of Numbers
• Math and Sports
• Math Magician
• Math Monster
• Math River Race
• Milly Moo and Hammy Hamster Make a Cake
  
• Ooie Gooie
• Pacman
• Phill’s Math Adventure
• Pinocchio the Great
• Pocahontas Has Fun
• Rakin’ in the Bacon
• Sid and the Geometric Juggler
• Snow White and the Seven Mathematicians
• Sweet Pi
• The Awesomeness of Peanut Butter
• The Math Adventures of Mimi and Arnold
• The Infinity
• The Perfect Outfit
• The Ugly Operation
• The Scavenger Hunt
• The Three Little Pigs
• Tim and the Equal Sign
• Tinker Bell’s Slumber Party
• Mr. Turtle and Buttercup Go to the Pet Store
  
• Which Pie is Which?
• Why Do We Need Math?
• World of Shapes

Thank you for reading our books.

Please feel free to leave a comment here for our young writers.

And enjoy this little video:

Mallory Bagwell visited the Norris School the other day to give a presentation in the morning around communication (that had us all laughing hard) and then he worked with students in grades 4 through 6 on constructing GeoDomes, which are geometrically-designed structures used in architecture and math. A GeoDome uses the power of triangles and other shapes for strength and versatility.

The sixth grade worked in three groups to build their own GeoDomes in the gymnasium.

We were very fortunate to have Mr. Nielson (Greg’s dad) come on in and share his experiences as the co-creator of a published comic called Rocketboy. Mr. Nielson showed us some storyboards and shared with us the process he goes through to collaborate on a comic, which has been published in Nick Magazine (in 3D, even).

Mr. Nielson’s work with the four classes is helping our young writers in planning and creating their own Digital Math Picture books, now underway.

In Math class, you are working on tallying up your stats for Quidditch. In order to do so, you will need to download the Excel Worksheet file from this blog. It’s easy.

• First, click on this link (or the picture of the golden snitch) and then click on the download button.
• This will move the worksheet to your desktop
• Make sure you rename your file (otherwise, the person after you may overwrite your data with their own data)
• Save all of your work.

Good luck!

– Mr H.

In class, we worked on writing and performing Poems for Two Voices, in which two people read the same poem. The poems are designed for voices to weave in and out on a topic, and our young poets did a fantastic job.

Take a listen:

• Group One
• Group Two
• Group Three
• Mr. H and Mr. M read a poem (written by Mr. H)

We hope you enjoy our voices!

Writing from some of our students is being featured on a new online journal of young people’s writing (which is being spearheaded by a friend of Mr. H) which seeks to create a place for young writers to get published.

The site is called SPACE and the second edition features:

• Stop-motion animation movies from Eva and Reilly, Matt R. and Mike;
• Hyperlinked Poem projects from Kyle B, Sam, Christie, Jessica and Greg;
• An article about Quidditch from Eva
• And haiku podcasts from two classes (Mr. H and Mr. C’s homerooms)

As the journal continues to develop, we hope to have more of our writers getting published. If you have something you would like to have published, please let Mr. H know and he can work with you.

Head to SPACE to see some neat pieces of writing.

– Mr. H

PS — We also had some of our students featured in the first edition of Space. They published stories inspired by Harris Burdick.

(a comic in haiku)

As we move deeper into poetry, we worked on writing Haikus on Friday. A Haiku is a form of Japanese poetry that is a 5-7-5 format (based on syllables) and traditional Haikus focus on nature. We wrote two haikus: one traditional and one non-traditional.

Some students then podcasted one of their poems.

Listen to a collection of Haikus from across all four classes.

Have a nice vacation!

– Mr. H