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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

"Dreaming of a Bully-Free School"

Friday, October 30 will be a pajama day for Brown Elementary. We've been discussing creating a bully-free environment in which to learn and learn at our best! All students are encouraged to wear their favorite jammies and slippers on Friday!

Lyrics

As we begin our study of poetry, we're relating the music/songs we love to the art of writing poetry. Poetry and song lyrics share rhythm, stanzas/verses, meaning/emotion, and sometimes rhyming. Here are a few sites where you will find song lyrics to print. Each person must bring at least ONE song's lyrics by Friday, October 30.

***BE sure to include the artists/musicians of the song, the title of the song, and the source in which you retrieved the song.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com
http://www,geocities.com/islandlyrics
http://www.sweetlyrics.com
http://www.lyricsty.com
http://www.lyricsmania.com
http://www.elyrics.net
http://www.sing365.com

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

"We Don't Like Those Bullies" Link

http://www.teachertube.com/files/music/41bfd20a38bb1b0.mp3

Enjoy the tune to keep a bully-free school!

Monday, October 26, 2009

Ice Cream Experiment-Due 11/5

A relevant-to-real-world science experiment went home with the students last week. Each child will complete one of a few options using the scientific method we've discussed thoroughly in class. The project information is located inside your child's homework folder, and the project is due by Thursday, November 5. Presentations to Joe, the Ice Cream Man, will take place that afternoon since there will not be school on Friday, November 6.

I have also attached the information to our class website which can be accessed at www.brownsburg.k12.in.us/brown. Go to the staff list and locate our link.

Play-dough project

During the first week of November, we have a special project planned for social studies—making salt dough maps! Students will create dough maps illustrating each of the three regions of Indiana using different colors of play-dough. In order to do this, we need each student to bring in one container of colored play-dough. If you can send in more than one container, that would be greatly appreciated! Thank you so much!

Mrs. Hill