Our classroom blogs is a place devoted to allowing the students of our class to develop their expression, writing, and to share books they have read. We will share many ideas and items, and we will have an opportunity to comment on each other's work.

BrainPop helps us to learn something new every day with this go-to resource for timely and calendar-aligned digital content.

For upcoming events, field trips, and other important dates, check out our calendar.

Come find out more information about our classroom library.

Check out our morning routine, daily assignments, morning meeting, and morning work each day.

Highs and lows is a reflection strategy. It asks students to identify parts of their day that they are proud of and that they did well on, highs, as well as parts of the day that they see as areas to improve on, lows. This provides good discussion and an opportunity for follow up the next day to focus on ways to improve our climate.

Do you own an iPod, Miscrosoft Zune, or other personal media device? Check out this awesome tool to help you in your studies. Using the photos feature of your device, these flash cards can be flipped through for some quick studying! Additionally, these files can be downloaded on computers for a quick flip through as pictures.

There are a lot of website that we have found and we use to learn more.

This is an opportunity for extension and enrichment. Find information about our memorization challenge as well as view a list of some of our challenges.

Management of Organizational Skills Everyday. These binders are how we stay organized in our class.

One of the important literary aspects of reading is to note settings. A setting is the place and time a story is happening. This is an opportunity to locate on a map those places we find while reading.

Join our educational club and start earning points! Research in Action is an educational club that was created to help Mr. Schrader's students learn research skills by looking up interesting information and trivia.

Rise n' Shine is a great way that we start our days. After we have had time to complete our planners, enter our lunch count, and begin other independent work to get started, we work through our Rise n' Shine as a class. Rise n' Shine is a great way to work though our morning routines as a class and be productive as late comers trickle in.

Check out and listen to our Study Cast audio podcasts.

We're doing some cool things with video! To watch videos created by our class, check out our YouTube channel.

I have put together several videos to explain the main features of our website. Take a look at this YouTube playlist to get acquainted with our site.

Each week a student is in charge of blogging about the main ideas of what was covered. This recap is featured here on the website, in our weekly newsletters, and in our weekly podcasts.

Vocabulary is an important part of literary learning. Check our our online word wall full of the vocabulary we have covered this year!