Mission San Francisco 2

Mission San Francisco de Solano

Mission San Rafael

Mission Santa Ines

Mission San Miguel

Mission Projects Due

Your project is a report. It can be done on paper with built mission, on powerpoint, on video, or on a poster.
The rough draft of your report is due to me by Friday, May 14th.
The finished project is due on Monday, May 24th.

Mission Night will be May 25th at 5:30 in the Mark Twain Cafeteria.

On our way to Boyden Cavern

we stopped for a scenic view
and to play in the snow for a bit

outside Boyden Cavern

our lunchtime view
The long, hard hike up to the cave entrance
waiting for our guide

Inside Boyden Cavern

General Grant's Tree

This was a quick side trip on our way out of the park. Unfortunately, the snow distracted from the giant sequoia trees, so the students didn't pay a whole lot of attention to them.

Moodle

Mark Twain teachers are learning a new tool today called Moodle.
Hopefully if we can learn it well, next year we will be able to use a lot less paper and will be doing more on computers. It is already being used by students, teachers and parents at John Muir and Corcoran High Schoool. We will be able to post study guides, class work, home work, as well as blog and chat with each other.

CST is almost done

One day left of the CST. I'm very proud of this class. Everyone is
using the test-taking strategies and trying very hard to do their best.

WE REALLY ARE BLOGGING NOW!

We finally started for real on Monday and we are taking off. Check out the 2nd link on the left "G2 kids are blogging".

Collecting Data

We have collected much interesting data this week on ourselves and made some equally interesting graphs so that we could talk about using data. Here are some new words we learned.

median - the middle number in a set of data when the data is put in order from least to greatest

mode - the number in a set of data that occurs most often

mean - the average number (add all the number and divide by the number of numbers)

outlier - a number in a set of data that is distant from the other numbers (an outlier may give you unreliable information)

G2 kids are blogging

I found a new blog site yesterday, at kidblog.org, which lets the students each have their own blog page in a safe and structured way without having to submit an email address. Hopefully we will start using it to publish some of our writing and thinking about what we are learning. If you click on the first link under "Links to Learning" it will take you there.

I am excited about this new tool because it allows me to give opportunity for the students to blog without them having to have an insecure email adress, without me having to give them access to my email address and it allows me the ability to oversee all posts before they are published.