Mr. Mansour’s Classroom Blog

Analyze the following calls. Listen to each call twice. Keep track of the questions asked, follow up to the questions, volume of the speaker, politeness, pauses, and anything else that sticks out. Write down two good things that are good and two things that need improvement for each call. After you have done the pros and cons for each, write down what you think some of the themes for improvement may be.

If you finish your rock classifications, you can play this rock game.

Identify Rocks Game – Geology For Kids – By KidsGeo.com via kwout

Click here for full screen version

If you are done with your board – go to the link below and try the experiments.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/science_6_7.shtml

Green Monkey Homes has gotten some nice press lately on some great blogs. Most recently, GM Homes was recognized as the “website of the month” on the Active Learning Blog. Here is the post.

Our site was also featured on Free Tech 4 Teachers – an excellent resource blog with a very large following.

Way to go 6th graders.

The JMSO class of 2011 completed their recycling website last week and we made our first school visit today. Check out the newest offering from the 6th graders and the Green Monkey.

Green Monkey Homes via kwout

The 6th grade completed their weather podcasts last week. Go to this link to check them out.

6th weather podcasts.