Friday Singing Songs

Hello!
I recorded the songs that you sang with Lighthouse last week. While the quality is not the best, they are still fun to hear. Remember, to listen you need to right click on the links below, choose "Save target as", and save them on your computer. Let me know how it works out by posting a comment. Have fun,
Mr. Willis

Deck The Halls
Dreidel
Jingle Bells
Rudolph

Friday Singing

Hello!
I enjoyed hearing you all sing the festive holiday songs in the gym last week. I also had a great time sharing cookies and one of my favorite books in our mixed group afterwards. I want to know what book you heard in your group and I want you to post a comment about it. It could be your favorite part, a funny part, a part with excellent descriptions or a connection you made. I look forward to your thoughts,
Mr. Willis

Government Interviews

Hi everybody! It’s Laura. I am doing an article about our study of government. In our study, we watched videos, we made posters, pretended to vote, and we also made papers of the three branches. In my interview you will hear Me, Liam M., Robbie, Julia, Adam and Zach. I am going to ask them a couple questions. If you are wondering what they are then you will just have to find out yourself.....

Government Interview

Garden Festival

Hello! My name is Sophia. I am from Williston Central School. I am in fourth grade, in Pinnacle House, and in Mr. Willis’s class. Almost every year we have a big garden festival. Lighthouse and Pinnacle got together by the garden and sing songs, recited poems that we had written, and more! All morning, people in the cafeteria had been making lots and lots and lots and lots of vegetable soup. Almost all the vegetables are from the garden! For lunch we all got in the cafeteria, and ate the soup and more treats. (Like zucchini cake) This year there was a slide show of pictures of us working out in the garden! If you click on the link below, you can hear some interviews that I took on the day of the garden festival!

Garden Interviews

Four Winds

Hello, again, this is Zachary! No, I’m not going to talk about anything I have already posted on the blog like the Garden and Work Together. This time I want to talk about Four Winds. Four Winds is a program and a class about the enviornment and is run by Mrs. Colt and Mrs. Parker. Four Winds always has a main topic. The main topic will be answered in the interview. I have interviewed two new people this time, Laura and Sophia. I hope you enjoy it! Now that’s enough of talking, let’s get interviewing! Click on the link below:
Four Winds

Newton Rules!

Hello Scientists!

Now that your first two days of science workshops are finished, it's time to post your reactions and what you learned. You will be working with Ms. Peterson's class on a similar question and helping them post. Here are your tasks:

1. Tell us what law you were studying.

2. Share your favorite experiment and tell us a bit about what you observed and what you learned from it.

3. Did you change the experiment at all and get different results?

Good luck being teachers,

Mr. Willis

Sir Isaac Newton

Election Projects

Election Article
By Nathalie and Hanna
My name is Nathalie and my name is Hanna and we are in 3rd grade in Mr. Willis’ class. We are studying elections. We started on September 1st 2008 and now it is November 11th 2008. We did it with our class. We were learning about the Election because it was very important because he wanted us to learn to vote so when we get older we now how to vote. It was very fun to learn about it. We got to take notes about the three branches of the government. We also got to make campaign posters. We got to make them with our table groups. We were going to make a classroom constitution with the phrases that we used to make our posters. We read some books about the federal government. We saw some slide shows about how a bill turns into a law in the classroom. We saw the slide shows with our whole class. Our favorite part was when made posters because we got to design our own picture. The names of the three branches are the legislative, judicial and the executive. Our second favorite thing was taking notes because we could decorate them. One time we wrote about the three branches. The first one we wrote about was the legislative, and then we wrote about the judicial, then the executive branch.

Celestial Excitement!

Hello class,
The CQ I want you to look up has to do with a special sight in the night sky. It has been visible since the past weekend so you may have seen it. If not, you can try tonight, but I think that it will be too cloudy. Never fear! Follow the link below to learn about what you have seen or what you can still see when the sky clears. Be sure to click around to find the sky charts and links to photos of the event. Post the name of the event and the names of the objects involved. Feel free to add comments about your own observations.

http://www.spaceweather.com/

Mr. Willis