Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Buddy Reading

Last Friday, we had partner reading with Mrs. Baughman's second grade class. We read books to each other and had a fantastic time. We can't wait to read with them again!

Written by: Daniel, Tyhowon and Brianna

Jack's Reading


Today we came back from lunch and Jack wanted to read a book out loud to us. He read us There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell. Great job, Jack!

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The Native American Suprise

A Native American man came to our school. He showed us a lot of cool and neat things. He brought a real tepee and set it up in the gym. We learned that they wore wolf fur and hides to chase the buffalo off the cliffs. He shared with us that they couldn’t talk to other people who were not in their family because it was considered rude. They drank out of buffalo bladders, buffalo horns and buffalo stomachs. We also learned that they burned buffalo poop in their fires because it helped keep in the fire burning. We thought he was awesome!
By: Riley, Rashaan, Alyssa, Anthony, Luis


Native American Paintings





We made Native American paintings in class. We are learning a lot about Native Americans. We used their symbols for our writing. We wrote legends about Native Americans. Our class, used paper bags for our stories. Then we wrote the stories in our words.
By: Jack and Adam

Monday, November 3, 2008

Happy Halloween!

On Halloween we had a parade. Everyone lined up and walked around the school with their costumes on. At our Halloween party we played a game that you stuck an eye on a monster. We played mummy bowling. Our class made a craft that looked like a pumpkin fence. Also, we played toss the rings on the tag pole pumpkin. Our class played Halloween BINGO and we won gloves, cauldrons, socks and spider rings. We all had lot of FUN!

Written by: Riley, Amanda, Maha and Monica

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Pumpkin Day






Last Friday we had pumpkin day! We took out all of the pumpkin seeds from our class pumpkin. There were 230 seeds in all. We made pumpkin pie in a bag. It was fantastic! The whole class made 3D pumpkins. We also wrote describing words about our pumpkins from Goebberts. Then we wrote a paragraph about our pumpkins!

Written by: Josh, Stephanie and Tristan

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Mealworms



We have mealworms in our classroom. When they came they were mealworms larva. They live in wheat germ in a vial. Mealworms eat small pieces of sweet potatoes. After they are larvae they turn in to a pupa. Then they turn into a Darkling beetle. Mealworm larvae have six legs ,two eyes and two antennas. We use our magnifying glasses to see them closer. We have a scientist book where we write observations and draw pictures.

Writen by: Kaley, Destiny, Jennifer and Amaris

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Goebbert's Pumpkin Farm

We went to the Goebbert’s Pumpkin Farm last Thursday! Our class got to pick out pumpkins. We put them in a bag and we also got some gourds. The hayride was fun for the whole class! We saw sheep, lambs, pigs, chickens, rabbits, goats, peacocks, llamas, bees and ducks. We also played in their two mazes. At Goebbert’s there is a pumpkin eating dinosaur that loves to eat pumpkins. The dinosaur also blew smoke at us too! We had SO much fun at Goebbert’s today.

Written by: Our Class

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Smoke Trailer

On October 14th our class went outside to a trailer. We wached a video about EDITH, which stands for exit drill in the home. Then we went to another room. A firefighter talked to us. He told us how to get out of the house if there is a fire. We got to praitce getting out by pretending we were sleeping, a pretend fire alarm, and getting out of the window.
By: Amanda



Veteran's Day


At the assembly on October 10th we saw a lot of veterans. Then Mr. Woods, a veteran came in our class room. Mr. Woods was in the army and he was in the tank. He told us that in the Mess Hall you could not talk and if you talked everybody would have to stand up and eat. Also when the general came in your room he would bounce a quarter on top of your bed if the quarter did not come back he would mess up your bed.

By: Sunny

Monday, October 13, 2008

Baseball Day


We all wore our favorite baseball teams colors! Some of us were Chicago Cubs fans and others of us were Chicago White Sox fans.


Sunday, October 12, 2008

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