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&lt;span style="font-size: 23.636363983154297px;"&gt;We have been exploring arrays!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #000099; font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; font-size: 17.27272605895996px;"&gt;Row x Column = Product&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The multiplication for the array above is&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;3 x 4 = 12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;because it has 3 rows of 4.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #009900; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;When the factors are different digits,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #009900; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;the arrays are in the shape of a rectangle.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #009900; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;When the factors are the same digit,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #009900; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"&gt;the array is a square!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Ramona Quimby, Age 8&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;We have just finished reading hilarious Chapter 3, "The Hard-Boiled Egg Fad!"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;The fad is not so much fun anymore for Ramona, when she finds that the egg &lt;br /&gt;she thought was hard-boiled was really raw! Boy, how humiliating!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;A fad is something that is very popular for a short time,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and fads can be a lot of fun! Fads often involve fashion, an activity, or some kind of toy or trinket.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Family members and friends, this is a great post for you to get involved in! Tell us about fads that were popular&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Last week, Mrs. Yollis noticed this tweet from her Twitter friend, Ms. Moroder. The tweet mentioned a "Thank a Teacher" essay contest to win a free trip to ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education),&amp;nbsp; compliments of &lt;a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThankATeacher" target="_blank"&gt;Promethean.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Mrs. Yollis mentioned the contest to her class and they immediately and&amp;nbsp;enthusiastically&amp;nbsp;jumped on the wagon train to support their teacher and get her to San Antonio, Texas, where ISTE will be held at the end of June!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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On Friday, the winner was announced!&amp;nbsp; Here is a video of Principal Hibler revealing the exiting news to Mrs. Yollis and her class!&lt;/div&gt;
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When asked how she feels about winning the contest, Mrs. Yollis stated, "I'd like to give a big, Texas-size thank you to my students, their parents, and my principal for contributing such heart-warming letters on my behalf. As everyone knows, integrating technology in meaningful ways is a passion of mine. Last year, I presented &lt;a href="http://theedublogger.com/2012/07/02/iste-2012-flattening-classroom-walls-with-blogging-and-global-collaboration/" target="_blank"&gt;Flattening Classroom Walls: Educational Blogging&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;at ISTE with my talented Australian blogging buddy, &lt;a href="http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/" target="_blank"&gt;Kathleen Morris&lt;/a&gt;. I saw firsthand how valuable this type of professional development can be for educators and their students. I look forward to this opportunity to continue my learning." &amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;
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Thank you, &lt;a href="http://www.prometheanworld.com/us/english/education/home" target="_blank"&gt;Promethean,&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; for selecting me as the recipient of your generous gift! &amp;nbsp;I look forward to learning and sharing my insights right here on Mrs. Yollis' Classroom Blog.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;A&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;biography&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a true story about a person's life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This morning, @catlett1 Brent Catlett tweeted out this picture so we could get a sense of what the day looked like in &lt;b&gt;Nebraska&lt;/b&gt;. It was cold out on the plains today! Freezing is 32˚F! How many degrees above freezing was it in Nebraska?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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He also tweeted out this picture and asked, "How many snowmen do you see on the playground?" Look carefully!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Pepita, who can speak both English and Spanish, decides that she doesn't
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;The video below, made by former students in both Mrs. Ranney's and Mrs. Yollis' class, demonstrates many Spanish words we learned!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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¡Bueños días! Good day! &lt;br /&gt;
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¡Muy bien! Very well!&lt;br /&gt;
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¡No muy bien! Not very well! &lt;br /&gt;
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¡Que lástima! What a pity!&lt;br /&gt;
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¡Gracias! Thank you!&lt;br /&gt;
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De nada. You're welcome.&lt;br /&gt;
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¡Hasta mañana! See you tomorrow!&lt;br /&gt;
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¡Hasta luego! See you later!&lt;br /&gt;
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¿Vamos a aprender Español? We're going to learn Spanish?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~4/MIqGPVRqLgM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~3/MIqGPVRqLgM/learn-spanish-aprender-espanol.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mrs. Yollis)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Ua2ztSjCuVw/S-x1B-xCiGI/AAAAAAAAAd8/Oc58_FKLMCU/s72-c/IMG_0382.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>5</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/learn-spanish-aprender-espanol.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633466533683944100.post-8628104732194606614</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-04-11T19:27:02.685-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nonfiction</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">salsich</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">text_features</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sheriff</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">yollis</category><title>Video: Nonfiction Text Features</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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Mrs. Yollis' class is learning about &lt;b&gt;nonfiction&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Nonfiction writing is based on facts, real events, and real people. &amp;nbsp;There are many helpful text features found in nonfiction writing. &amp;nbsp;Some common text features are: &lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;headings, subheadings, captions, diagrams, time lines, maps, charts, &lt;/b&gt;and the&lt;b&gt; glossary.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Below is a humdinger of a video made by Sheriff&amp;nbsp;Yollis and&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Sheriff&amp;nbsp;Salsich&lt;/a&gt;. They hope their video helps you greenhorns learn about about these important reading features!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;Yee-haw!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gjRD7JZkX6M?rel=0" width="420"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="375" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/23765240?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/23765240"&gt;The Nonfiction Trail&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user3173961"&gt;Jonah Salsich&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Are you reading a nonfiction book right &amp;nbsp;now? If so, what is it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;What did you learn from a text feature?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;I am passionate about educational blogging. &amp;nbsp;Below is a video I created with my second and third grade students. We hope that our video inspires and motivates other teachers to consider blogging with their classes. There are so many wonderful benefits!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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If you are new to blogging, here is an informative video made by my former students. They offer FIVE great tips for writing quality comments.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Interested in learning more about blogging?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here is my &lt;a href="http://educational-blogging.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Educational Blogging Wiki&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here is Kathleen Morris' &lt;a href="http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/information-about-educational-blogging/" target="_blank"&gt;Educational Blogging Resources&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Kathleen and I presented&amp;nbsp;"&lt;a href="http://theedublogger.com/2012/07/02/iste-2012-flattening-classroom-walls-with-blogging-and-global-collaboration/" target="_blank"&gt;Flattening the Classroom Walls With Education Blogging&lt;/a&gt;" at ISTE last year.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;b style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;These video were made to share. Feel free to use them at a staff meeting or embed them in your blog. Be sure to link back to this site!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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On Thursday, the split classes at our school&amp;nbsp;&lt;i&gt;split&lt;/i&gt;! In other words, the 2/3 split and the 4/5 split classes embarked on a field trip together to the California Science Center! What an incredible day of learning!&lt;/div&gt;
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Because the second and third graders are studying animals and their habitats, we spent a good deal of time at the &lt;a href="http://www.californiasciencecenter.org/Exhibits/WorldOfEcology/WorldOfEcology.php" target="_blank"&gt;Ecosystems Exhibit&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
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Enjoy some photos from the plethora (pleth • ə • rə) of exhibits. A plethora is a fancy word for a large amount.&lt;/div&gt;
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We are in the middle of a global project called&lt;a href="http://ourworldournumbers.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"&gt; Our World, Our Numbers&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;This week, Mrs. Yollis' third graders are reading &lt;i&gt;The Great Kapok Tree &lt;/i&gt;by Lynne Cherry. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The story takes place in the rain forest of the Amazon. Throughout the story, rain forest animals try to &lt;b&gt;persuade &lt;/b&gt;a logger to leave the kapok tree.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"&gt;Thank you Keira and Nate for your wonderful reply to Ms. Johnson in Baltimore, Maryland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Share so&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;me Chesapeake Bay facts!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~4/Ys2L7j4rd4k" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~3/Ys2L7j4rd4k/old-bay-surprise.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mrs. Yollis)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--dtVRpe7R-Y/UTfnX_86_VI/AAAAAAAAMU0/veci-XYyYUY/s72-c/Screen+Shot+2013-03-02+at+3.30.08+PM.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/old-bay-surprise.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633466533683944100.post-314773411097302504</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-06T14:01:34.908-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Chumash</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2013</category><title>Chumash Challenge!</title><description>&lt;div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;what it might have been like to be a Chumash Indian!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Our friends Karen and Ross from&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.caminorealhistorical.com/caminochmshMWBC2.htm" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Camino Real Historical&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.caminorealhistorical.com/caminochmshMWBC2.htm" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;"&gt;and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.caminorealhistorical.com/caminochmshMWBC2.htm" style="color: #6699cc; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Historical Interpreters&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;provided us&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;with activities from&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #783f04;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;The Natural World of the Chumash!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;We looked closely at the compass rose. Then we practiced traveling north, south, east or west. Knowing direction is important on a map!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Next it was time to explore. What did you locate in Asia?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Some people stood in two &lt;b&gt;continents&lt;/b&gt; at the same time!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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This week, Mrs. Yollis' class will be kicking off a new topic over on the &lt;a href="http://ourworldournumbers.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Our World, Our Numbers &lt;/a&gt;global project. The new topic will be&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The St. Louis Gateway Arch&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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The second graders are reading a story called &lt;a href="http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/gr2/gr2_th5_sel1.html" target="_blank"&gt;Brothers &amp;amp; Sisters&lt;/a&gt;. The word siblings is a fancy word that means your brothers and sisters. &lt;/div&gt;
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The reading skill for the story is "Making Generalizations". A generalization (&lt;b&gt;jen&lt;/b&gt; - er - all - i - za - shun) is a statement that is true &lt;i&gt;most&lt;/i&gt; of the time.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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All of the second graders&amp;nbsp; in Mrs. Yollis' class have siblings. Even Mrs. Yollis has siblings! Below is an old photo of Mrs. Yollis with her younger brother and older sister. Can you use the context clues to figure out which person is Mrs. Yollis?&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-family: Georgia,&amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;,serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Have you ever done something for one of your siblings?&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~4/vFOhqAk3Gsw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~3/vFOhqAk3Gsw/siblings-please-share.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mrs. Yollis)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V7SgPLBVc6o/US6S8rE6flI/AAAAAAAAMLw/BSPDjWVMjYE/s72-c/Screen+Shot+2013-02-27+at+3.12.21+PM.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>9</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/siblings-please-share.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633466533683944100.post-1249024689476760434</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-02-27T14:41:49.636-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">puppet_pals</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">our_world_our_number</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">coin_club</category><title>PuppetPals: The Coin Club!</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
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Here is our production called The Coin Club! &lt;/div&gt;
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The third graders used PuppetPals on an iPad. Photos were used as well as the American History characters that came with the $2.99 version.

Mrs. Yollis us the  Reflector app ($12.99) to mirror the PuppetPal movie on her laptop. Then she used Camtasia to film the final project and upload to YouTube.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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It was a lot of steps and many failures occurred along the way. For example, the class learned that they needed to SAVE each scene before moving on when working in PuppetPals. Perseverance paid off! We hope you enjoy our hard work!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;Mrs. Yollis' class has been learning about&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;United States history and government!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;We have focused much of our learning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;on our country's most important documents...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;and on the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Watch the slide show below and study for our test at the same time!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 15.454545021057129px; line-height: 20px;"&gt;The Good Old U. S. A! on PhotoPeach&lt;object height="296" width="445"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://photopeach.com/public/swf/story.swf"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;What interesting facts have you learned about our government?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;What facts can you add about our government,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;our nation's symbols,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;or our nation's monuments?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: medium;"&gt;George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, and Benjamin Franklin?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~4/9HEd2Q_D9Hs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~3/9HEd2Q_D9Hs/us-history-and-government-quiz.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mrs. Yollis)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wjcmtEWs6zQ/USvCV0P8giI/AAAAAAAACOA/5K7q4BDpw4g/s72-c/Screen+Shot+2013-02-25+at+11.56.01+AM.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>12</thr:total><enclosure url="http://photopeach.com/public/swf/story.swf" length="116182" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><media:content url="http://photopeach.com/public/swf/story.swf" fileSize="116182" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /><itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><itunes:subtitle> Mrs. Yollis' class has been learning about&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;United States history and government! We have focused much of our learning on our country's most important documents... The Declaration of Independence The United States Constitution The Bill of Righ</itunes:subtitle><itunes:author>Mrs. Yollis</itunes:author><itunes:summary> Mrs. Yollis' class has been learning about&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;United States history and government! We have focused much of our learning on our country's most important documents... The Declaration of Independence The United States Constitution The Bill of Rights &amp;nbsp;and on the&amp;nbsp; three branches of our government. Watch the slide show below and study for our test at the same time! The Good Old U. S. A! on PhotoPeach What interesting facts have you learned about our government? What facts can you add about our government, &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;our nation's symbols,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;or our nation's monuments? What facts can you share about the famous Americans:&amp;nbsp; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, and Benjamin Franklin?&amp;nbsp; </itunes:summary><itunes:keywords>mrsyollis</itunes:keywords><feedburner:origLink>http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/us-history-and-government-quiz.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633466533683944100.post-1011624250640728994</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 00:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-02-23T16:21:25.635-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">global_project</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">our_world_our_number</category><title>Our World, Our Numbers :: Global Project</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Mrs. Yollis' class loves to connect and learn with our friends around the world. Today we are launching a new global project called &lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ourworldournumbers.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Our World, Our Numbers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;We have a blog &lt;a href="http://ourworldournumbers.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;http://ourworldournumbers.edublogs.org&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; where we'll meet up with our blogging buddies to learn together for the next five weeks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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In late 2011, many of us worked on the award winning global project called &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ourworldourstories.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Our World, Our Stories&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/i&gt;This latest project is based on a similar format with a mathematical focus.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: green;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Classes involved&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;i&gt;The students are all from primary (elementary) classes and are from three different continents and five countries.&lt;/i&gt;

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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mravery.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Mr. Avery's sixth grade class&lt;/a&gt; from Massachusetts, &lt;b&gt;USA&lt;/b&gt;

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&lt;li&gt;Mrs. Monaghan's 3/4 class,&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://middlehampri2.posterous.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Room with a View&lt;/a&gt;, from &lt;b&gt;England&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mrs. Morris and Miss Jordan's grade four class, &lt;a href="http://4kmand4kj.global2.vic.edu.au/" target="_blank"&gt;4KM and 4KJ&lt;/a&gt;, from Victoria, &lt;b&gt;Australia&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mrs. McKenzie's 2/3 class, &lt;a href="http://openthedoortob4.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;B4, &lt;/a&gt;from &lt;b&gt;New Zealand&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Mrs. Yollis’ 2/3 class &lt;/a&gt;from California, &lt;b&gt;USA&lt;/b&gt;

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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://jmsalsich.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Mr. Salsich’s third grade class&lt;/a&gt; from Connecticut, &lt;b&gt;USA&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mrs. Watson’s&lt;a href="http://mrswatson.ca/" target="_blank"&gt; K/1/2/3 class &lt;/a&gt;from &lt;b&gt;Canada&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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Students from all classes will connect and collaborate by sharing their mathematical lives. This will happen through &lt;a href="http://ourworldournumbers.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;the blog&lt;/a&gt; and involve a variety of media.

A different class will “lead” a mathematical topic every four days or so, publishing posts and replying to comments.  The other classes will read the posts, possibly publish their own posts, and leave blog comments.

We will share topics such as currency, seasons, time zones, population data etc.

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Through blog posts, the students will teach each other about different aspects of mathematics based on aspects of their own culture.

The learning will continue in the commenting section where students, teachers and parents will engage in conversations to explore mathematical and cultural topics further.

Students will gain an understanding of mathematics through the eyes of children in different countries and cultures. They will make comparisons and contrasts between their lives and other students’ lives.

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&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://ourworldournumbers.edublogs.org/" target="_blank"&gt;Head over to the Our World, Our Numbers&lt;/a&gt; blog now to check out our post and leave a comment.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;What do you think about our new global project?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~4/14bI2f2HZZY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~3/14bI2f2HZZY/our-world-our-numbers-global-project.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mrs. Yollis)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/our-world-our-numbers-global-project.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633466533683944100.post-4385776191744445534</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-02-21T15:28:40.421-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">california</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">winter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">weather</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">michigan</category><title>Winter in Southern California</title><description>&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Mrs. Yollis saw a tweet from &lt;a href="http://edublogs.misd.net/techiekids/2013/02/19/winter-in-michigan/" target="_blank"&gt;Mrs. Moore about Michigan weather&lt;/a&gt;. The post looked very interesting.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Although the &lt;b&gt;deciduous&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(d&lt;span style="background-color: #f5f5ff; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;ə&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;• sid • u • us )&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;trees are still bare, some are starting to sprout and shows signs of spring. Because the air temperatures are so mild, many people play outside and go for hikes on the weekends.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;According to the &lt;a href="http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=34.0522342&amp;amp;lon=-118.2436849&amp;amp;site=all&amp;amp;smap=1&amp;amp;searchresult=Los%20Angeles%2C%20CA%2C%20USA" target="_blank"&gt;National Weather Service (NOAA)&lt;/a&gt;, the current temperature for Thursday, February 21, is:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Head over to the &lt;a href="http://edublogs.misd.net/techiekids/2013/02/19/winter-in-michigan/" target="_blank"&gt;Techie Kids blog&lt;/a&gt; and leave them a comment about your weather!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~4/ttCOWYJz8YM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MrsYollisClassroomBlog/~3/ttCOWYJz8YM/quadrilaterals-special-names.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mrs. Yollis)</author><media:thumbnail url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/k9-pKUSxNt0/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/quadrilaterals-special-names.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2633466533683944100.post-8896723707355033667</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-02-14T07:05:43.529-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">video</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">valentines_day</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">LOVE</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">song</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Valentine</category><title>♥ Valentine Sing-along ♥</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Happy Valentine's Day!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red;"&gt;Mrs. Yollis and her class collaborated with a teacher friend&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.techwithintent.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Mr. de Haan&lt;/a&gt; in Seattle, Washington, to record a song just for you. Together, yet miles apart, they created a heart-felt Valentine song!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="color: red; font-size: large;"&gt;Thank you &lt;a href="http://www.techwithintent.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Mr. de Haan&lt;/a&gt; for being our accompanist!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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