Class Results - Election Surveys

To get a better look at the Election Issues data we collected this week, I averaged the results from all 20 graphs, and plotted a graph for the whole class.  This shows the results of surveying 200 adults - a pretty decently sized sample for our Beauclerc community.

Clearly, Education, Jobs/Economy, and Health Care are the biggest issues facing our community.  Considering that Florida is the single most important state in the Election and Jacksonville is one of the most important areas of Florida in terms of deciding who wins Florida's electoral votes, it will be no surprise to see President Obama and Governor Romney visiting our area over and over again over then next month and a half!  And it's also no wonder why these three issues are the ones that they'll be talking about the most.

Starting Tuesday, we'll be taking much closer looks at the issues, beginning with the ones that the class has determined to be the most important.

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Election Surveys

Yesterday, students averaged the results from their Election Surveys and graphed the results. The data was very diversified, but there were a few trends. "Education" and "Jobs/Economy" were the two highest ranked issues in almost every survey, with "Health Care" and "Poverty" coming in close behind. Starting next week, we'll be taking a closer look at each of these issues, exploring why they're so important, debating over ideas for fixing the problems, and checking out what President Obama and Governor Romney have to say about them.



























































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Computer Centers - September 14th

Use the following links to complete your three Computer Centers for today.

• Vocabulary Quiz - Make sure to tell Mr. Seise if you got 100% so you can earn your Bonus Money
• Solar System Statistics - Use the website to complete the table.  Click on each planet to get information specific to that planet.  Under each planet's page, click on "Stats" to get some of the information you need.  You can also click on "Planet Stats" on the main page to get even more information to complete your table.  While on the website, also check out the pages "Planet Sizes" and "Planets & Stars" to see some models that compare the sizes of the planets.  Once you've collected all of the information, answer the question at the bottom of the sheet. 
• MangaHigh - Log In and work on the challenges that Mr. Sofferin has assigned.  If you complete all the challenges, you may play other games/challenges on either MangaHigh or IXL.  Remember, at the end of the month, you will receive extra bonus money for tasks completed on both sites!  

The New Newbies

Yesterday, we were fortunate in room 40 to get 4 brand new students! Meet the newest Superstars - Kipp, Jaymes, and Elizabeth from Ms. Stokes' class, along with Anthony, who comes to us from another Duval school.




Of course, with all these new kids, we had to redo our class picture. Somebody nudge Darentz and tell him to look at the camera instead of at Klea!



Oh, and here are my two favorite fourth grade teachers, Mrs. Donnelly and Mrs. Jenkins, photo-bombing our class picture!



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Marine Science Center

Monday is our big trip to the Marine Science Center!  This is a great field trip that's both a lot of fun and very educational!  There are a few important things you need to remember for Monday:

• Bring a bagged or boxed lunch 


• Bring a colorful, nicely decorated milk jug, with the top part cut out - This is for collecting shells on the beach.  See below for some pictures of milk jugs from previous years.


• OPTIONAL - You may bring some money for the gift shop at the Marine Science Center.  Mainly they have things like shark-tooth necklaces other jewelry. 

Lots of New Students!

Today we had a huge and wonderful surprise as FOUR new students joined the Sofferin's Superstars - bringing our class up to 22 students! 

Our first new student, Anthony, joined us first thing in the morning from another Duval School.  Anthony was very excited to join our class and I think he's going to fit in very nicely! 

In the afternoon, we got three more great kids!  Unfortunately, due to the low numbers of kids in fifth grade and the high number of kids in Kindergarten, Ms. Stokes had to change grade levels.  That meant her kids had to be split up among the other classes.  It was a very sad day for Ms. Stokes and her class, but a happy day for us, as we got three brand new Sofferin's Superstars - Jaymes, Elizabeth, and Kipp! 

I guess now that Abdullah's gone and we have four more newbies, I'll need to change the picture at the top of the blog.  Check back tomorrow for an update!