We learned about how animals adapt to their environment in different ways. A few of us got carried away…

Fourth graders at Pretty Place.

We went on a nature walk on day 2. This was what we found along the way.

This place is beautiful.

It’s 4:30 AM, way too early for blogging! But I think I’m just as excited as the kids about camp today. I hardly slept at all!

Keep track of our (mis)adventures this week at Camp Greenville! I will be updating this blog and my Twitter feed here as long as I can get a signal in the mountains! Parents, you can leave comments for your kids, and you can have peace of mind that things are going well.

Goodbye Peeler! See you Wednesday! =)

Our fifth graders have been learning about landforms for science.  Our final project for this unit was to create landforms from a topographical map (either one I provided or one that they found), and it had to be completely made from edible materials.  The students were able to think about how these landforms are created in nature.  The edible part….well, that was just for fun!  The kids had to get very creative to meet the requirements of the challenge.  I think that’s higher order thinking skills, don’t you? 🙂

Here are some pictures from our Edible Landforms presentation day.  Students and teachers from other classrooms came by to hear our kids talk about their models and the formations of landforms in nature.  I felt that the day was a huge success, and I am extremely proud of our scientists!

Ms. Mannino and her second graders visited the newly-opened International Civil Rights Museum here in Greensboro. To read about their trip, check out this article in today’s Greensboro News and Record.
To learn more about Ms. Mannino’s class, visit their blog…great stuff!

This is for Mr. MJ’s kindergarten and first grade class, and for anyone else who needs help telling time:

This installment of Meghan’s Math Minute is to help the little kids out there count money! Enjoy!

It’s that time of year again, when Mrs. Buckmaster gets another year older! My birthday is March 24. I love math, so every year for my birthday I have a contest to see who can be the most creative with order of operations.

This year, the contest is to come up with an interesting way to make the number 30, since that’s how old I’ll be! Using order of operations, write an equation that is equal to 30. The bigger, the better! Any elementary school student may enter from anywhere in the world! To enter, make a comment on this post with your equation.

Some quick things to help you type your equations:
* to show exponents (powers), use the ^ symbol (hold shift and press the number 6). Example: 3^2 means “three to the second power”.
* To show division, use the backslash /. Example: 9/3 means “nine divided by three”.
* to show multiplication, use a lowercase letter x or use the asterisk * (shift and 8).

That’s all! Please send me lots of equations for my birthday! The deadline for entries is March 23. The winner will be given/sent a Bucky Bear!