Mr. Miller's Classroom Blog http://mrmillersblog.com Grade 6 are go! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:40:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Quad Blog Survey Results http://mrmillersblog.com/2012/02/13/quad-blog-survey-results/ http://mrmillersblog.com/2012/02/13/quad-blog-survey-results/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:32:20 +0000 John Miller http://mrmillersblog.com/?p=3206 We have finally been able to put together the results of our survey. We had 47 total responses and here is what we found out . . .

We also discovered that the some famous people around where the quadbloggers live include: Dr. Brian Cox, Salvador Dali, Pau Gasol, Kimbra, Anna Paquin, David Beckham and Wayne Rooney, and John Steinbeck.

Soccer team: Bolton Wanderers, Liverpool, Bafana Bafana, Barcelona, Manchester City, Manchester United, and Arsenal

Movie: Transformers, Harry Potter(s), Mr. Popper’s Penguins, Rise of the Planet of the Apes

After school activity: Xbox360, running, gardening, sports

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The Treasure Seekers are signed up for the World Education Games and have been practicing like crazy. We’ve enrolled ourselves into all three challenges: spelling, math, and science. If you are not familiar with the challenge, students compete with other kids around the world and within their age group to see how many questions they can get correct. There are five levels with 10, one-minute competitions at each level. Teachers can track class and individual progress. The Spelling Games take place first, on March 6th, followed by math on March 7th, and science on March 8th. Once students are signed-up, they can “practice” all they want to online. ;-)

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This is an animoto video that I have created about China(:

I am a student from Mr.Millers class.

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]]> http://mrmillersblog.com/2012/01/31/world-ukulele-day-skype-call/feed/ 5 I can see my house! http://mrmillersblog.com/2012/01/26/i-can-see-my-house/ http://mrmillersblog.com/2012/01/26/i-can-see-my-house/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:05:20 +0000 John Miller http://room162.edublogs.org/?p=3165 Well, not really, but it is an amazing image. Check out the newly released super hi-res NASA image of the Earth that just happens to show the location of room 162. Fun stuff!

]]> http://mrmillersblog.com/2012/01/26/i-can-see-my-house/feed/ 4 Quadblogging Post #3 – Where on Earth? http://mrmillersblog.com/2012/01/25/quadblogging-post-3-where-on-earth/ http://mrmillersblog.com/2012/01/25/quadblogging-post-3-where-on-earth/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:07:57 +0000 John Miller http://mrmillersblog.com/?p=3149 Hi Quad buddies!

We have some questions for you about where you live and we hope that you can help us answer them using the comments.

We have been using Google Earth to check out your schools and your communities and have found some interesting things. The students ZER Vent Sere and in Room 12  have lots of swimming pools! The Fabulous 6D’s live in a really big city.

There are some questions we would like you to answer for us. Let’s begin with ZER Vent Sere . . . 

  1. What is the best thing to eat at the Panaderia Antoni Balague?
  2. What can you tell us about the Vila-Sana?
  3. What is growing here?

We also have questions for our new friends in Bolton!

  1. What can you tell us about St. Paul’s Church
  2. What do they sell at Paper Monkeys?
  3. Now a quiz, can you tell us the name of this location? Is that a soccer field?

Finally, for our friends to the south in Room 12 . . .

  1. What does Waikato mean?
  2. What is your favorite pie at the Pie Men’s shop? We think your pies are different than our pies
  3. Can you identify this location?

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