An ingredient I would add is confidence.

Recipe for a Good Life

Recipes for a Good Life

In school we are working on recipes to make a good life. It is just like a food recipe but instead of ingredients like sugar or butter we use things like family that make a good life. Kyle showed us her grandmother’s recipes that were worn and in little old containers. She passed them around so everyone could take a look at them. Some of them were hand written in cursive and some were typed on a typewriter. We brainstormed verbs that had to with cooking.  Some of them were mix, stir, sprinkle, and chop.  We also brainstormed measurement words like cups and pinches.  Then we worked on computers to make an ingredients list and then added directions.

What would you include in a recipe for a good life?

Posted by Alise P.

Where Children Sleep

In our class we’ve been comparing how different parts of the world live. We’ve looked at what possessions people have and looked at what people eat in a week. Now, we are looking at how children around the world sleep. First, we made a list of ten or more things a stranger would see if they walked into our bedrooms and saw all of our stuff. Then, we saw pictures of children around the world from a book by James Mollison's called Where Children Sleep with pictures of bedrooms. It was sad to see how some of the kids only had one room houses, or lived outside. There was one kid in Rome who slept on a mattress outside. I couldn’t imagine sleeping outside. There were only three kids that I was able to relate to. I was shocked to find that out.

Posted by Max P.

Our Vision for The Year on Animoto

We got the idea for our Animoto on Twitter, from a teacher in Madison, WI, Pernille Ripp. Mrs. Ripp used Animoto to make a class mission, so we thought we would use her idea and make a Room 22 Vision for the Year. This Animoto was also an adventure. It was completely kid made. This first thing that happened was that the song called Good Life by OneRepublic was a little inappropriate for school so one of the kids in our class' dad edited the song on a software program called Audacity and soon after that word was no longer part of the Animoto video. When the Animoto was completely cleaned up we watched it and are class dignity was restored! That's how we made our Animoto.


Post by Henry S