We had a short day with the kids because of CRCT testing, so we squeezed in as much as we could in our 2 hours.

We saw one Frog presentation, with two more still to go next week.  A few presentations are awaiting bibliographies and notes before final project grades can be given.  

We also took our Frog Anatomy quiz.  It was a matching quiz with 25 parts of the frog and a description of each of them.  Students needed at least 20 correct to successfully meet standards on this assessment and get the OK to attend the field trip.  Quite a few students were not prepared for the quiz, so they can try again.  We are around in the mornings before announcements, so that would be a great time to come and take the quiz again.  Otherwise, a requiz will be given next Tuesday.  Here's a link to the Frog Vocab Review.  

We've also posted some frog dissection videos on the Frog Glog for viewing as homework this week.  This will be excellent preparation for the actual dissection.

HW: Watch Frog dissection videos, Bring back "Anurans on the Run-Dissection Guidelines & Safety Issues" from your Frog Packet with Parent Signature!  Stop to see me for another copy, if you can't find it!

Until next week,
Mrs. Kraeger

Remember to look over your vocabulary words in your Frog Packet to prepare for Tuesday's Frog Test.  Check out the Frog Glog for a list of the vocabulary on the test and a couple of sample questions.  All questions will be matching and requizzes will be offered, if needed.

Well…our day was filled with frogs, frogs, and MORE frogs!  I'm surprised that I haven't started having dreams about frogs!

We enjoyed several GREAT presentations today, including some games, a flip book created on a Gameboy DS, some Powtoons, a frog diary, and a video.  What tremendous creativity!  Some of the graded rubrics came home today, the rest will come home next Tuesday.

We finished our review for the Frog Test.  The kids will take a simple matching quiz on Tuesday, April 29th.  I will post some sample questions later this week.  It will be a basic matching test involving the main parts of the frog anatomy and what they do.  Students need to master the basics in order to be ready for the dissection field trip, meaning at least an 85% on the quiz.  Anybody needing another chance to succeed, can take a retest the following week.  We will make sure they get plenty of extra review before trying the requiz!  

Class next Tuesday will begin after students finish testing, so we will have a shorter class time.  

HW:  Frog Lab Safety-get parent signature, Frog Quiz-study

Froggily Yours,
Mrs. Kraeger

Perhaps the frogs have eaten our pencils!  I'm not sure, but please be certain that your child has two pencils to bring to Target next week.  All of our extras have been used up, lost, or YIKES! eaten!

We enjoyed watching several Frog Presentations today!  I was greatly impressed by the deep knowledge and interest about frogs!  Some students really took a risk and tried some brand new apps or web-based sites to show some new technology.  Way to go!  The projects were very creative and well presented.  I can't wait to see the rest of them next week!

Today was definitely a "FROGGY" day!  We started off with some reading from our novel study, Theodore Boone.  That was the ONLY part of our day that didn't have something to do with frogs!

Next, we identified any kids that needed to work with Mrs. Kindschy to answer technology questions about their frog projects.  In the meantime, we also began our Frog Posters to be used for our Frog Project Gallery.  This gallery will be displayed outside our classroom and will have an Augmented Reality component.  More about that next time!

We spent some time in the computer lab working on projects and posters.  The kids had great focus during this work period!

Following this, we read a book starring flying frogs, Tuesday, by David Wiesner.  A really cool, almost wordless picture book!  It has a surprise ending.  As a followup to the book, the kids created short presentations about a scene from the story or what might happen next.  They presented some very creative ideas to the class!

After this, we worked on "Basic Frog Anatomy" from our Frog Packet in the Target Binder.  These review questions will help the kids prepare for our dissection in May.  Most of the answers can be find in the definitions pages or the diagrams we labelled together.  Any remaining questions could easily be found on any basic frog anatomy website, check out the Frog Glog for some ideas.  

Early Frog projects are due April 15th, with the rest due on April 22.

HW: Finish "Frog Anatomy" and work on the Frog project.

Until the frogs meet again,
Mrs. Kraeger