October Book Clubs

Savanna wrote this post on our October Book Clubs before she moved. 

Our class's book club groups went great. We all learned something new from each of our groups. We had fun working together with the people that we were reading with. Everyone that was in different groups learned something different. For example the people who were reading The Cay learned that if you were blind never give up hope.

   It was great whoever gets the most points from our AR test gets a prize (which was my group by the way) We all had fun reading and learning together. Everybody earned some points on AR.

   Well I hope you get to do the same as my class did, and I hope you will have a fun time when you do what we have done. I will see you next time, Bye!

Parent Conferences

Parent Conferences were held at the beginning of November.  Braedon wrote this post to let us know about PT conferences from a kid's point of view.  Thanks to all the parents and students for attending.
I think parent  teacher  conference  went  good  for  almost everyone.  I  think  the  lowest  score  was  a  F-.The  highest  score  was  a  A+.  I  bet  everybody  got  at least  one  or  two A’s.  I  bet  about  12 people got an A+ in Mrs.C’s  class.  There are 18 people in Mrs.C’s  class.  What  did we do?  We  told  our  parents  how  we  were   doing  in  school.  Everyone is  doing  good  in  school  so  far  in  this  class. I hope that we get even better grades next time.

Walk Like an Egyptian

So every time I walk down the hall now, I'm singing the Bangles' song.  We have been talking about the ancient Egyptian culture for some time now.  We started with the book The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder.  We have done some reading and other research.  The kids always enjoy creating a personalized sarchophagus for themselves.  Here is what Sam and Kennadee had to say about the project:

Our class did sarcophagi for social studies. and we had to trace each other. Then had to make our faces and make our arms and put two items that describe ourselves in our hands for example if you were a cowboy you would put a rope in one and a branding iron in the other.

We even got to do our names in hieroglyphics on the sarcophagus and colored the sarcophagus.

Some did shoes, and giant lips, and everything they like. It was great!

               

Solar Energy

We waited for a good sunny day to build our solar cookers.  We built them in the morning and let pieces of apple cook in them all day.  We also had pieces of apple that weren't in the cooker.  At the end of the day some students had apples that had gotten so warm they had turned brown and soft.  The outside apples were still pretty crisp because of the cold day.  It was a good experiment and showed us how the sun's energy can be harnessed.

Cookies for Cancer Bake Sale

I really want the kids to do some type of service project, so I asked them about the Cookies for Kids' Cancer bake sale and they seemed pretty enthused.  Riley and Gabe presented the idea to the Student Council and we got the go ahead.  Here is a report by Sam and Charlee about the experience.

Cookies for kid’s cancer report

The cookies for kids cancer was a big success.   It was really fun; we sold tons of cookies and cinnamon rolls and other goodies. It was a good experience for the whole class. We all had shifts in our class whether it was clean up, set up, or selling.  It was extra fun knowing that we were supporting a good cause. A great thing was that everyone had fun and that was one of the main things. I hope we can do it more often and that’s not just because we got to get out of doing our work.  Every one participated.

My favorite goodie that we sold (which happened on my shift) was when we sold the cupcake with the big mustang horse on it. I really hope all of the money we raised makes those kids have a better life, and it can help them in any and every way.  Maybe someday we can do this again. 

 We had a lot of support from the community.  Even people with no real ties to the school participated both by donating and making purchases.  In the end, we will be sending $200.00 to the Kids' Cancer fund.  Our money will be doubled by the Glad Corporation.

Welcome

I am hoping to use this blog to communicate with parents and the community.  I would like to post pictures and write ups of activities we do every day in our class.  I am hoping to post some of the kids' writing and work as well.