Snowflakes

Snowflakes are really cool and fun to make. Cut out a circle, fold it two times and cut out designs, open it up and there you go - now you have a snowflake! Most of the time you have a really cool one. You know if you have at least five you could get a peice of paper and trace them, maybe color the background mostly one color and that's how you make snowflakes.

It's A Book Report

I'm blogging about my book report. The title is Diary of a Whimpy Kid the first book. It was very hard because I did it two days before it was due. I got two pieces of a hanger and beaded them then we had to bend the ends up. I tied the pieces together with string,drew characters and strung them. I also drew the cover of the book and put the title on it and I drew the setting whitch was the school. Finally I did my favorite part which was when Rowley gave Greg a tricycle and Greg didn't know what to do with it but they finally found a game to play. Greg had a football and Rowley rode the tricycle down a hill and Greg had to try to knock him off he kept trying to get him off but he couldn't. After a while he finally got him off. That was my favorite part so far but I think the second book will be a little better. I taped it on the ribbon at the top. You know it was pretty hard because it had to be very balanced so that it wouldn't tip over. There were six characters Manny, Greg, Rowley, Rodrick, Mom and Dad and a few more but those were the main characters. And at the top where I tied it I curled the ends of the ribbon.



It was a fun book report to do.







By Zoe

MY FIRST SNOWBOARD

My first snowboard. Snowboarding is hard to do,because well if the wind is blowing you could get hurt. Last year my cousin Jamie went up to the Elk mountain and hurt herself really bad and that was her first time up at the mountain that year. Well a day or two ago I got my very own snowboard. It's called Blush. The colors are white, gray, black, pink and purple the bindings are white and my boots are white and pink and that was the time I got my first snowboard.

My Weekend

On my weekend I went to my Dad's house.We had a good time,it was fun.We went to the house and played wii.We played Mario cart it was fun.We love to play wii. I can't wait until my dad gets a new game. I don't now what it is called but I've heard it will be fun. My dad could be at the store. When he is at the store my dad is good at wii. We play it all the time. It is fun. We take it to N.J. It is cool because I play with the dog Haley. She is so cute. She sleeps with me and my sister in my brothers room on the floor and the bed. She will jump on the bed. She will go in her cage. She will get under the blanket when there is a thunder storm. She is very scared but she was with me in the bed. My sister was on the floor. She said she was good down on the floor but she said that what she wanted was her bear. It was from our MOM. I got a little bear from my Dad, it's cute and he is a good picker for kids in stuffy animals. He is good with a lot of things like building a house and a lot more but I don't now any more. But he can't do one thing that adults can't do, he can't do a hand stand and a split. My Mom is good at running. She did track.We had a race - I won! We found a dead rabbit, a coyote ate it. The coyote came out of the woods. It ran as fast as my dog Sam.

Art Class!

Yesterday in Caitlins class they were painting. A few weeks ago they drew shapes, cut them out, and then traced them on a big white paper making different patterns. The next step was to paint them in shades of grey by mixing white and black. Then they will add one color which they also will mix with white and black to make different shades. The pictures are starting to come out really nice.

Today in Michaels class they are making snow flakes and putting them in patterns on a big piece of paper which they then will color in.

Of course there were also some other things made out of paper!

My Grandpa's Dog

My Grandpa's dog runs away a lot. He chases the cat. When we get him he barks and bites. His name is Mickey. He doesn't like the mailman. That is surprising because he is 15 years old to us but to him he is 105 years old. He is an old dog. He broke the mail mans finger.

Bubba and Lenny

Bubba is a Red Eared Slider. I never saw Bubba slide or Lenny, he is a Red Eared Slider too. Lenny is my turtle. I only see Lenny like once every two weeks because he is at my mom's boyfriends house:(. Bubba eats fish, worms if we find one and turtle food. I love just sitting by turtles when they eat and just do anything. My mom's boyfriend talks to Lenny:). I don't know if anybody talks to Bubba. I love turtles and dogs. The one day I told Lenny "some day you will have half land half water". That day already came, I think it wasn't fun for him. It wasn't, he snapped either at Jason or my mom. I wonder what would happen if I brought Lenny into the classroom and put him in the same tank as Bubba? Bubba has two fish in her tank right now. Lenny has nothing in his tank.




By Megan

judo

Yesterday I went to judo.We had a ball war.Then Jen got mad at Daniel,Nick,Dominick and me.Matthew was not there.When we got on the mat we did gorilla walks.I am a yellow belt.I did it 12 months.

The Squirrel Attack [A True Story]

On Wednesday, I got home and there was a bite in a tomato. Chocolate wrappers were all over the floor. And Christmas tree ornaments on the floor. It was kind of funny.
On Thursday, it happened again this time it put cocoa powder all over the floor. And it put papers all over the floor. He even ate my mom's vitamin case ,but he spit the vitamins out. So we caught him on my mom's bed. He ran under the bed ,and hid there. My dad caught him in our garbage can. He took him outside on our wall. He died of something toxic to squirrels. Over the weekend no other squirrels came to my house . By Jack

Jack's Book Report

The book I read was Tow Sawyer. The author was Mark Twain. The setting was in a small town in the 1800 hundreds. The characters were Tom, Huck, Becky, Sid, Ben, Aunt Polly, and Mrs. Thatcher. My favorite part was when Tom and Huck discovered the treasure. My picture was Tom white washing the fence. I rate this book 4 1/2 stars.

The Story About 3 Ft Snow And The New Girl.

The day we saw the new girl, we were in circle. Our teacher Jeri said listen up everyone. There is going to be a new girl in our class. Her name is Amy. She has blond hair and pink streaks. Everyone introduce yourself. Everyone said their name and state. Then we showed her around. And while we were showing her around, I told her tomorrow there is going to be a 3 ft snow storm. I told her tomorrow you should put your snow suit and coat on. Then we did everything and then we did our kaper and I shared my kaper and we went home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Story Teller!

Yesterday I told the story of the World Tree, Yggdrasil.

It was the opening lesson for our next project which is Norse Mythology.

I told about the Gods and the Giants, and about the Nine worlds that you can find in Yggdrasil.

The costume is a type of Viking Age clothing for women. A costume I actually have worn at a Viking festival in my hometown, some years back. Oh my, when I think about it - it's 16 years ago!!! Well, the outfit still fits! I'm glad I could use it again to make the lesson a little more interesting and authentic.

I think they all thought the story was quite interesting and exciting and I'm looking forward to working on this project with the students.

The Battle.

A long, long time ago there was a chicken named Fatty and The Foot. Who ever saw The Foot would die! So no one would look at him.But someone did. But he did not die but the Fat Chicken killed him. The Foot was surprised. But a kid named Eragon he tried to kill him but he did not die. 

The Chicken and the Foot moved to China. A mouse said "hello!" No one heard him .They walked away. The mouse followed them. They did not know. So the mouse jumped on the Foot. He died. One of his friends came with the Cave Carnivore and tried to kill The Foot. He did not die. Then someone in a weird metal suit came. His name was Logan. The Foot was surprised that he did not die. The Fat Chicken killed him.

Then ten people came with tanks. Then the battle came on! The Foot & the Fat Chicken killed everyone that tried to kill him.They thought they killed everyone.

To be continued...

The End by Tyler

Megan's Book Report

My book report was on Puppy Place Bear by Ellen Miles. I got a picture of my neighbor's dog down the street, he's named Cruz. The book was about a Husky and Cruz is a Husky so it just worked:). For my mobile my dad has a lot of wire because he's an electrician and we soldered it to make it stick together. My dog Haley was afraid of the fire that we used so she went on her bed on the floor.(The bed is out of insides because she ripped it all out).Back to the book report they were talking about a sled race and they rode a dog sled and they said Hike,Holt and something else.the characters were Lizzy, Charles, The Bean, Mom, Dad, Fern, Tim Carter, Bear, Cordelia and Dorothy. My favorite part was when they found Bear in the snow pile and I drew Bear in the snow pile, Fern's snow shoe, and Lizzy screming Bear! I also drew a big picture of Bear. I put the names in sleds. I rated this book five stars! That's my book report.

Megan

Traveling Words!

I picked up an idea from a teacher in Sweden.

Make a notebook out of lined paper.

It should only be able to hold two to three words on each line.

The topic is to write what comes to mind when you see the short word the previous writer chose.

You can write a little story.

A poem.

A riddle.

A question.

Anything that comes to mind when you see the word.

When you have written your lines,

choose a new word.

A short word,

for the next writer.

If you want to you can sign your entry.

The students really took this to their hearts.

They are Reading.

And Writing.

And Thinking.

And Communicating.

So if you are visiting our classroom, please read our Traveling Words.

It's always up on the board.

Unless someone is writing in it, that is!

Hi its Alex here bloging about my LEGO. I call it the Cave Carnivore. I got a set that is like it but I took off the wheels.Here is a picture of it. Isn't it cool. It took me two months to build it.I like it alot!!

I hope my team wins.Please leave comments!!

Legos'!

Right now we're building Legos' for a contest. 
The Everhart Museum will have a Lego exhibit in the spring and they want students to send in pictures of Lego Art. The art works will then be juried and the ones picked will be hung in the museums Gallery One.

The kids in the class are all excited and are coming up with great creative ideas.
Whenever our art teacher Michael comes into the class room, all they want to do is work on their Lego Art.
Wonderful, isn't it!

Some pics of what we're doing RIGHT NOW:

We're not finished yet! Still have time to work on it!

The Intermediate class room

We do many things in the Intermediate class room. Like Math 2 and Language 2, Handwriting, and Language and Social Studies. Those are just some of the many things we do in the Intermediate class room. Now some of us are entering a Lego contest if any of us win we could get our work in the Everhart Museum!!!!!! How cool could that be !!!!!! I am entering the contest. I am building my stuffed green monkey Sprite. I really hope my Lego monkey wins. Our deadline is December second. I can't wait untill then! But only 5 entries can be accepted from every class. Even if my Lego monkey is accepted I would be soooo happy!!!!!

by B.

Native American Tribes!

Wednesday the students presented their group works on Native American Tribes. We started this project when we were at the park in October. There we made a lot of hands on-activities about Native Americans and some of these things we've had on display outside the school office.

Back at school the groups started their research work about four different tribes.

The tribes were: Lenape, Erie, Algonquin and Iroqois.

They had to find out about the kinds of food they ate, what clothes they wore, what kind of transportation they used and how they lived. Some of them also found out about certain games they played. For the presentation they made costumes and other props to show the audience what they learned.

We learned a lot about the tribes and all the groups did great presentations.

Here are some pictures of some of the things we have made during this project!

Ceremonial Rattles

Mosaics

Weaving

God's Eyes'

Our display in the hall.

Weavings, rattles, God's Eyes', pottery, mosaics on display.

For the presentations some of the students made specific props for their tribe.

A Lenape necklace in purple and white, originally made of shells, but here made of small beads.

And a long house from the Iroqouis.

Pretty nice work, isn't it?

Tacos vs. Steaks

One time in an evil land Steaks ruled the world and were very rich. The Tacos lived in a village, and were very poor. Then the Tacos decided to invade the Steaks, but they had a long adventure. The first adventure took place in a bubbly swamp. The second adventure took place in an evil land. The third adventure was a war with the Steaks. So the Tacos left the village, and left on there journey. The Tacos didn't bring much food so they knew they had to travel very quickly. So if the Tacos didn't travel quickly enough they would be goners. So the Tacos got to the bubbly swamp. There were only three hundred- two Tacos and fifteen Tacos died in the bubbly swamp so two hundred eighty-seven Tacos lived.The Tacos had five miles until the evil land. The Tacos walked one mile a day. The Tacos knew they had three days worth of food, and had to travel faster. The next day, they traveled one.six miles, but they had two. four miles left to travel. The Tacos had two days worth of food left. Meanwhile the Steaks were counting their money, but they had no idea the Tacos were coming. The Tacos walked one.three miles that day. The Tacos had one days worth of food left. The Tacos had to go .nine miles, and they did. The Tacos got to the castle, and ate. Then the war started, and the Tacos got their weapons like guns, arrows, and shields. The Tacos went, and invaded the Steaks mansion. The Tacos started a war two hundred eighty seven vs. One hundred eight the people were being killed very quickly. So the people left were two hundred thirty-two vs. fifty-three hours passed it was then two hundred vs. one. Everyone was ready to kill the last Steak. . . and they did. The Tacos took the Steaks money, and went back to their village. First the Tacos bought lots of food. Then the Tacos had a big feast. Then the Tacos all bought very nice houses. Then the Tacos lived happily ever after.

The End

By Jack

The story of Eragon

I first saw Eragon, a k a the Bearded Dragon, in CA. I was looking around and I was about to get a gecko but I heard a tapping and I looked up. I heard that it can wave to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think they're awesome and they can dance!!! I even put him in my moms ears, she jumped and Eragon fell into my moms bra! I thought she was dancing. I was going to name him Beyonce but I thought of the movie Eragon and it just clicked. My dogs aren't crazy about him. I am going to have to walk Eragon very very soon :). He is very calm if you put him on your shirt and run around the room he will stay. They eat apples,crickets and pellets. The boys have black spots and the girls have no beard. They get very very big.

The sad thing is they only live for ten years :(

Here is a picture of him:).

By; Alex R.

Did You Lose Your Jaw And Is It Yours?

My mom found this in the yard.We were playing baseball,I hit a homerun and she almost stepped on it. She said "Megan come here" or something like that. I said "what did you find - a skull?" She said, well I don't know what she said actually.We looked around but we couldn't find anything else :(. We think it's a woodchuck.Did anyone lose their jaw? If you know what it is please comment us.

Megan

Economy Class!

Right now the kids are listening to Harold.
He's teaching them about the stock exchange and how stocks and bonds work.
Very interesting to listen to I must say. The kids have really good questions too!

/Anki

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