January 20 in Room 11

• Most of the students at Hillcrest had the opportunity to watch history being made in the inauguration of Mr. Barak Obama as the first African-American to become president of the United States. In room 11, Mrs. Craig found CNN on her computer and projected it onto the class SmartBoard.
• The writing and portrait projects on the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. have been completed.
• This week's spelling pattern is "when two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking and the second one is silent," with examples of ee, ea, and ie words.
• In math, students are still working on place value.
• Mr. Dunn taught about waves in our M.A.R.E. class. Students experimented with wave creation and size using rocks, straws and corks in a pan of water. Then they wrote sentences answering questions about waves.
• The students worked with partners as they read their Weekly Readers. After the class had read it, they took a Senteo test. This is a survey-like multiple-choice questionnaire projected on the SmartBoard. Students each have a remote ("clicker") with which they record their answer by pressing a button. Its a fun way to review and record, and they are getting better at it.