Reporters: Kyle and Gavin

Shizam! In the morning we did reading. In reading we read a new book called Town Hall. It is a readers’ theatre. It happens every five weeks. We love readers’ theatre! First we picked our characters. Mayor was the best part on there. About fourteen people wanted to be mayor. But only four people could have mayor. That was Michael, William, Franky, and Alex. They are lucky. After reading we did math. We made shapes out of trapezoids. It was easy for some of the people, including us. We traced our hand and foot prints and found the area. Then we got to work on the math box.

Then we had lunch. It was chicken patty or pasta with a bosco stick. Recess time. In P.E. we played a game with clothespins. We had to put them on the back of our shirt and run around and try to steal other people’s pins. When we stole a pin, we put it on the front of our shirt. In music we practiced for our performance. We won’t tell you about it because it is a secret and you will have to come and see it to find out. The performance is Cinco de Mayo. After that we came back to our classroom and talked about life cycles. We finished our butterfly books! We made wheel of the butterfly life cycle. This day was fabulous.

Go Haley! Go James!

Reporters: Daniel K. and Solomon

This was the best day ever! WE GOT OUR PEN-PAL LETTERS! We were so happy!! In reading, we read about Chimpanzees. We went over the vocabulary words in the story. Some pictures were taken during reading. In math we were learning about money. We had a sheet with food on it with different prices. We had to put the money into our calculators using a decimal point. For lunch, we had pizza! It was awesome!

After lunch, we went to P.E and music. We had P.E. outside. We played this game called "Super Heroes vs. Villains." It was fun! Then we had science. We reviewed a life cycle of the mealworm and the caterpillar. In our butterfly books, we drew a picture of our favorite butterfly. Solomon's favorite was Palkia. That was also Daniel's favorite. Then we had social studies. We worked on our "Then and Now" packets. Back then the schools were only two rooms. Today in the schools there are about 35 classrooms! And that was our Windy Wednesday!

Go JAMES!!! (American Idol)

Reporters: Destiny H. and Katya

Nice!! This is awesome!! We are back at school. We started off our day with writing our Life is Good. We wrote about our weekends. Then we did reading. In reading we were reading a book about bees. We had a mystery guest!! Can you guess who? It was Veronika's mom! She was a great reader! She was nice! She read the book to us. We also did centers. They were kind of hard and kind of easy. We also had a spelling test.

Then we had math. We were learning about money. We had to cut out words and match them with either dollar, penny, dime, or nickel. Some of the words we had to match were 10 dimes, 100 pennies, and $0.01. It was easy! But some of the words were tricky! It was lunch time!

Science time! We observed our plants. We also observed the mealworms and the chrysalis! Some plants were growing a lot. Solomon's grew the most! It was his bean and his corn plant. We also looked at our plant books and reviewed the life cycle of a plant. The chrysalis look kind of shiny, brown, with some yellow specks. They are about the size of a paper clip. That was our story so, see yeah! Peace out!

It was Alex and Solomon's birthday on the weekend! Happy birthday!!!!

Reporters: Alex and Steve

Yayyy Yayyy! We are doing MAP testing! Today we did testing in math. It was pretty easy for some of us! Then after testing, we did guided reading. In our groups we played a game called Pictionary. It was very fun! One person is drawing a word and the other people have to try to guess the word that they are drawing. The words were spelling and robust vocabulary words. Then the rest of the time we had centers.

Yesss!! Junior Achievement came!! In Junior Achievement we learned about communities. We were voting for which mayor to takeover our town. There were three mayors. Mayor 1 wanted an animal shelter. Mayor 2 wanted Legoland. Mayor 3 wanted a soccer field. We made a list of pros and cons for each thing. After the vote, Mayor 1 won. After Junior Achievement it was lunch time!!

After lunch we had library. In library we read an award winning book called The Lion and the Mouse. It was awesome baby! We also got to check out some new books. After library, we did social studies. In social studies, we started off with centers. We had to go to each center and write about what we knew about the word. Some of the words were neighbors, neighborhood, rural, and suburban. Then we read a book called Our Grandparents' World and Ours. It was about how a kid asked his grandparents what their life was like in the old days. Today we have T.Vs and in the old day's they had T.Vs but no remotes. Wahhh!! No remotes! They had fat pencils and today we have skinny pencils! This was a wonderful, fantastic Thursday!

Reporters: Daniel, Hunter, and William

221 Tuesday! Today is Test Tuesday, why can't it be Wacky Wednesday? Right in the morning we put our backpacks on the hooks. Some people put their stuff on Gavin's hook so he threw it off! It was hilarious! In the morning we were learning about weight in math. Why can't women tell you how much they weigh? Men will never know! We weighed Jasmine and found out her weight. Also in math, everyone brought up two items that they thought weighed the same. We brought our items up to our teacher to have her weigh them. Only two people won. They were Kyle and William. It was very hard! In reading we drew the bugs that we thought were the most interesting. Some people drew a flies, hairy spiders, and bees. Someone had a tarantula in their house and held it! Franky, Steve, Destiny, and William brought apples for our mealworm friends!

After lunch, we had gym and music. We ran the half mile. It took some us 3:16 and some took longer and took 6:36. Then we had Science. We learned about caterpillars and mealworms. We learned how the larvae morphed. We also talked about egg, seed, sprout, and seedlings. This is a plant life cycle. That wraps up our taco Tuesday. (haha we didn't have tacos)

This is the plant life cycle from our book!

Reporters: Michael and Steve

Shizam! What an awesome two days! We started off our day with reading. We did guided reading and centers. DING DING DING!! We had a disaster drill! Our class went downstairs and had to go by the wall. Then we had to cover our heads and necks with our hands. We were kneeling on the ground. We were so uncomfortable! We were so relieved it was just a drill though. After the disaster drill we came upstairs and finished reading. Then we had Junior Achievement. Yay yay! We love having Junior Achievement. We looked at maps. We also got fake money because we were pretending to be people working in a community. It was AWESOME! Then we had math and learned about measurements and area. LUNCH TIME! After lunch we didn't have any specials. We were angry! But it's okay because we learned more about butterflies and mealworms

Ohhh yeahhh! Friday was a good day. We had guided reading. Then we learned about mealworms. Mealworms turn into beetles. They also eat a lot. Our mealworms arrived to our class on Friday afternoon! They are gross looking! They are brown and are pointy. Some people wanted to touch them. Then we had lunch. After lunch we had gym and music. In gym we did centers. We played basketball, jumped over things, practiced balancing, and went on carts. In music we practiced songs for our musical! Our musical is May 5th! We are so excited! In science in the afternoon we observed our caterpillars. They got so chubby! Then it was our favorite part of the day...the luck of the draw! Dun dun dunnnnnn! We wanted to see who the winners would be. Shizam! Kyle and Solomon won sit by a friend. Thomas won sitting at a teacher's desk. Gavin and Jasmine won a homework pass. And some other people won! We had an awesome Thursday and Friday!

We had indoor recess because of the weather. Check out some of the things we were doing!

Our drawings of what we would do if we say a purple cow!

The purple cow!

Reporters: The Entire Class

We had the best day ever at the Fiber Craft field trip!!! We went on the bus. We were early so we had to wait on the bus for a little bit. When we walked into the doors we met two ladies. Their names were Rachel and Shannon. We each got a name tag.

First, we made people out of foam. The foam people had paper shirts that had a place where we wrote our names, our age, our favorite color, and our favorite things. After we were done with the foam people, we went into the warehouse. Oh my gosh!! There were boxes everywhere!!!!!! We saw a shrink wrapping machine! That is a plastic roll that was attached to a machine and it rolls around the boxes so the boxes stay together. That was cool! Then we got to walk on a semi truck where they put the boxes. After we were on the truck, we walked across the whole warehouse and counted our steps. It took us 200 steps to get across!! We saw them putting the boxes up and down on a machine. The machine is called a forklift. All of us went back to the place where we made the foam people.

Then we made different things made out of foam. We made some dinosaurs. Then we did a thing to check our nose. It was a sniff project. We had to smell something and match the sticker with the smell. We also made St. Patrick’s Day projects. Then we ate lunch. It was nice that they paid for our lunch! After lunch we watched a movie. At the end they gave us goodie bags! We were so excited! They were so nice. Our class had the best field trip ever!

Some of the foam people!

Here is some examples of the shamrocks for our pen pal letters!

Here is a group working hard on their urban poster!

GO HALEY!!

Here is our ice cream scoops displayed in the hall!

Working hard on the scoops!