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Mike Allen's Class of 2008/09 Class Projects Teacher plans
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Completed Classroom Projects and events:
Come to our end of year concert spectacular:
Tuesday, June 23rd 6:00pm and 7:30pm Please let me know which show you are coming to, and also how many are in your party. I'll put up a page for confirmed seats as I receive them. Please note that people with reservations get seated first!!
I am sad to report, following a conversation with Francesca, that Julia's fever has returned. As a result, she is not going to be able to make it back to school before the end of the year. This is very frustrating for Julia and very sad for the whole class. Julia - we all love you! You're a fantastic student, a great friend to everyone in the class, and you will be missed sorely over the last few days. We're dedicating the show to you! I would like to wish you a swift and complete return to health soon! Have a fantastic summer and come to visit in the autumn time! Mr. A.
Read their welcome letter here, as well as their contact information!
Great pictures of Seeds and pollens. Marvel at the majesty of plants!
Follow the links to see the students work on the American Revolution, including how much worthless currency they have acquired and accumulated! Final totals now included - find the winning Tavern now!!!
Enjoy a photo gallery of our work redesigning the classroom with life size replicas of famous Revolutionary characters...
An Oasis for writers: Webook.com
Apparently, Demi Moore sent this site to Frances on Twitter! It looks pretty good. See what you think!
Field Trip: Guided Walking tour of Boston
When: Friday, April 17th - leaving at 9:00am, returning 1:00pm How: Bus Cost: Free Permission slips: Sent. Chaperones: Marie, Frances, Vicki, Jen
Field Trip to Sturbridge Village
We're going for a lovely day out to Sturbridge village as a culminating activity for our Social Studies work. When: Thursday, April 9th - leaving at 9:00am, returning 2:15pm How: Bus Cost: $10 per student Permission slips: Sent. I will be looking for three or four chaperones. Please contact me if you can make it. Chaperones: Marie, Alexandra, Caroline, Tanya
Here's a photo gallery of our journey to the park with our 'Native American' styled shelters on this blustery first day of spring! Fourteen new pictures taken by Mr. Piatti now included!!
Here's a gallery of contemporary artwork about the Revolution: portraits, artistic interpretations of battlefield scenes, etc.
Battle Maps of the American Revolution
MCAS Dates and Report Cards
'Report Cards' for the second term were handed out today, Monday, March 23rd, to each student. If you want, or need, to meet and talk about the report, please contact me at the website here and we'll arrange a meeting - either at school, or Starbucks!
Hear the rough drafts of our excellent music session. Be careful: you know what they say about the thin ice!
MCAS Dates announced E.L.A. Reading Comprehension - three tests March 30th - April 14th Mathematics - two tests, May 11th - 28th Science and Technology/Engineering - two tests, May 12th - 28th Specific dates will be announced here as soon as I get them!
Writing Workshop - 2009
Watch the student projects continue to evolve...
DARE Graduation
Parents are invited to watch the DARE graduation ceremony in the Cafetorium of the Brooks school. When: Wednesday, February 4th Time: 9:15 - 10:30 approx. Listen to speeches from students, DARE officers, dignitaries. Watch your spiffily attired charges receive certificates, presents, and firm hand shakes from powerful local figures!
Here's a few pictures of the set and the background slides for memory's sake!
We live in their World!!! Come to our beginning of term extravaganza!!! Monday, January 12th. 6:00pm and 7:00pm Room 411 Brooks School. Show info: Dear long suffering parents, Please let me know which show you're going to attend, and how many will be in your party. Follow this link for the latest: Droobworld Reservations It's a 'first come first served' affair, with the capacity for each show being forty five adults (children can be squeezed in!). Performers need to show up at the Cafetorium door at 5:30pm on Show night! Cheers, mike
We look at outrageously talented
and successful people - the Beatles, Mozart, Rockefeller, Bill
Gates - and assume there is such a thing as pure genius. Not
necessarily, argues Malcolm Gladwell...
Follow this link for Parent Conference general information
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Field trip alert:
What: Trip to the Theater to see The Island Of Anyplace Where: ART, Cambridge. When: Thursday, November 20th, 10:00am. How: Local bus to Davis Square, Red line to Harvard, walk! Leave School 8:45am. Return: 1:00pm. Bring a packed lunch and drink (in a backpack!) Cost: Tickets: $12 per student. Chaperones: I'd like to take four people with me if possible. Sadly, chaperones will need to pay for their own ticket, too! Chaperones: Marie, Alexandra, Catherine, Caroline.
Space Convention Friday, November 7th Room 411, Brooks School 6:00pm and 7:00pm
Special Event Information for Parents: On Friday, the students should return to School at 5:30pm and meet me outside the Cafetorium. Adults should wait in the Parent's Room on the Second floor. Please write to me at the site here to let me know whether you prefer to come along at 6:00pm or 7:00pm. Also, I need to know how many people will be in your group. I can get forty to fifty people in the room for one show. People who sign up will be given preference. Once the room is full at 6:00pm, others will have to wait for the next show at 7:00pm.
Here is a photo gallery of the artwork from a recent homework project for your viewing pleasure!
Puzzles for your amusement and irritation. Can you solve them?
Here are links to sites that cover the news and current events in grade appropriate presentations. If you know of any current event sites to add to the list please send them, and I'll publish them here.
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A collection of images and websites we will be seeing and using in class. Check this from the Boston Globe on Monday October 13th 2008
Here's a photo gallery from our local park walk on Wednesday. Hope you like them!
That's the news everyone. It's the sofas that did it! The School Committee has announced that all sofas be removed from classrooms. Both of the shame filled guilty sofas , the root cause of the thirteen class Brooks School Pandemic, have been removed from the building. ''Clearly the sofas were creeping from room to room in the dead of night spreading their creepy crawly nastiness as they went,' a school official commented today. Obviously the carpets in over fifty percent of the classrooms could not harbor the same despicable vermin. It had to be the sofas. When the kids sit three to a seat on the bus, or play tag together at recess on the splendid and vast Brooks play facility, or eat lunches shoulder to shoulder in the cozy cafetorium, or roll across the gym or local fields in healthy team sports: non of these factors are relevant. It simply has to be the sofas. Some have suggested that this action persecutes certain teaching philosophies. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is clearly a careful and reasonable response to a public health crisis in our schools. In my opinion, we should burn the sofas and the carpets - maybe even the stuffed animals and the lost and found need to go, too. If we were all to leave our coats and bags outside the school each morning, we'd have this disgusting nightmare under control in only six or seven months. mike
First draft writing now up on each page!! Final grades now in place!! I must say, the students performed unusually well on this project. Well done!
Field Trip to Saugus Iron Works
Follow the link for a photo gallery from the day. It was a fun and informative day, in my opinion.
What: To support understanding of Simple and Complex machines, and to visit National Historic Site. Where: Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site. Who: Mr. Allen, Mr. Prior, and Ms. Snow 5th grade classes When: Friday, October 3rd: Transport is by bus leaving the school at 9:00am. The trip takes about four hours. Lunch will be eaten at the site, so packed lunch and snacks need to be brought for the trip. Chaperones: Marie (Maddi's Mom) Vicki (Mikey's mom) Tanya (Jordan's mom) Alexandra (Phil's mom) Follow the link for a photo gallery from the day. It was a fun and informative day.
Photo Day info...
Mr. Simon has planned for us to have our photos taken at 8:30am on Friday. We will start taking the photos at that time, and we will take the photos of late arriving bus students last. The game plan is to be on the Field Trip bus between 8:45 and 9:00am. Our class will have our pictures taken by the evocatively named 'Photographer 1'. Saugus expect us about 9:45am.
Brass and String Instruments timetable change New time: Thursday: 12:20 - 1:05pm
Curriculum Night
Time: 8:35 - 9:00pm I'll do my best to entertain and inform! My presentation takes forty five minutes to an hour. I have requested more time every year since 1994 to no avail. I'll do my best!
Brass Band Instrument Demo
What: demo of trumpet, sax, tuba, flute for upcoming classes Where: Cafetorium, Brooks Who: Entire 5th Grade When: Monday, September 15th: 10:45 am
Teacher information:
What equipment does your child need for Mr. Allen's class?
Homework can seem rather different than you're used to in this class. Here's a guide that might help you understand my perspective. We'll spend a bunch of time on this at Curriculum Night, don't worry!
Teacher puzzles:
Where in the world is Mr. Allen? Be a geography detective with these thrilling puzzles.
Teacher adventures:
Mr Allen's 2008 summer trip to Brazil. Read the blog here if you dare!
Mr. Allen's Summer ride across America Summer, 2007 For those of you who are interested, here is the link to my blog for the TransAmerica ride from Yorktown Virginia to San Francisco, California: Summer 07 If you would like to see the route, here's a link to the maps I followed: See you on the flypaper!
West Africa Travel Journal Summer, 2006 If you would like to read about Mr. Paci, and Mr. Allen's summer in West Africa, follow this link: http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Ontheroad/. We posted pictures and journals on this site throughout the journey.
Graduate student projects 2007 - 2008:
Hear songs by sixth graders Eli, Sarah, Rachel, Conor, and Jason.
Check out the latest solo record from ninth grade Gia. It's great! Also, follow this link to Midnight Blonde's homepage for more fabulous music from older students. Just cos they're old doesn't mean they're boring!
Seventh grade band formally known as Jobasky return with a new webpage...
Check out 7th grader Nicole's latest fabulous story, 'Discovering Stacy'...
The comic musings of Mr. Massa, Hailey's cousin. Check out his work before he becomes famous...
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