Christmas Celebration 2010

Our Christmas celebration was a huge success thanks to Mrs. Alberts and Mrs. Onda as well as a host of wonderful parents.  The students enjoyed making an ornament, a gift bag, and a picture frame.  After, they exchanged Christmas socks with a little friendly competition. Finally, we ended our time with an ice cream sundae.  Each student created their own master piece of sugar. What a great time with an amazing group of students! God has his hand on each of them, and I know he has great plans for every child in room 256!  Enjoy the video and please comment! I wish you a Merry Christmas!

BY THE WAY...Check out the class' recording of a Christmas song using their recorders under the direction of Mrs. Jenichen!

Thanksgiving Celebration Party!

We had an amazing Thanksgiving party, due to wonderful parents!!  The students made some amazing desserts which we all enjoyed thoroughly. It was yummmmmy!!! Thank you to everyone for a wonderful time.

Christians and War

As we have been discussing WWI, ethical qustions have seem to come up throughout our discussions. I would like as many of you to comment on the following thought: Should Christians fight in war? Why or why not.

You do not have to have a Blogspot account just post your comments as anonymous. Students please put your number in your comment so I know that you participated. Thank you and I so look forward to reading your thoughts of genius.

Covenant Heights

We had an awesome time at Covenant Heights together!! The fifth grade teachers definitely felt that God was speaking to the students.  Also, I think we bonded together as a fifth grade, which is also awesome! Take some time to look at the pictures (there are some good ones).  Feel free to download as many as you like. Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to work with your student!! Covenant Heights

Operation Bubbles

Operation Bubbles was a huge success!! This video (taken by Mrs. Onda) shows the excitement of someone who has been nailed with a random act of kindness.  The students really did an amazing job with this!! By the way, this is just the beginning; I want to be challenging the students to go out of their way to love others and be witnesses for Christ!!! Thank you to the awesome students of Room 256 at RCS! Click here to see pictures of this activity!

Eratosthenes

Why was Eratosthenes such a genius?

How did he figure out the earth was round?

I want to see some serious thinking in your resonses! :)

Welcome to the 2010-2011 School Year!

I am excited to use the blog this year! This will be a great way for your student and I to connect outside of class. It will also be a great way for students to discuss and relate to new information they learned during the school day. Let's have a great year! Here is a link to the class website: Mr. Ross