Tutoring

Several of the kids on the high school side have been helping us with after school tutoring.  We will start back up after the holidays.  Sara has written about her experience.

Last Wednesday we did tutoring after school with the 7^th graders. When we do tutoring we do please corrects. I got Rachel Jones. Kelton Forester showed us a very easy way, well easy to him way to multiply by double digits. Nobody really understood it. Rachel tried to help me with my math but she didn’t know how to find the area of a figure.

  Charlotte Peacock had to help her figure out the problem. Rachel kept saying that she needed to come back to 4^th grade. Finally we were able to finish. Rachel said that she knew how to find the area; she said that she did area every day in Mr. Dempsy’s class. But she just didn’t get it.

The senior class cut down and decorated a tree for the media center.  Destry has written about it.

THE senior tree is so tall it looks like a giant in the building that is a sculptor of brass. It is so cool I love it is so beautiful it is a beautiful tree .There is a lot of good trees that come out of sawmill.

Honoring Our Veterans

One of the best things we've done this year is our veteran interviews.  Justin wrote about the experience.

On the 12^th of November some local Veterans came and we interviewed them. The Veterans were, Kent Montgomery, Norris Hendrix, Mr. Hedges, Mr. Ebbink, Jay Godfrey, Layton Christensen, J.L. Whipple and Rusty Jensen. We also had a bunch of cookies.

 We asked them questions like, How long did you serve and what war did you serve in, stuff like that. Some brought pictures and items. They told us  some cool stuff.

We just finished our Little Caesar's fundraiser.  Reagan D. has written about it.

For the pizza sale all elementary does it we go around to peoples houses, and you have these packets with pizza, and cookie dough. So they look through it and see what they want and they get it and pay you. The money you get if it is a check you write it out to the elementary school. Then you grab the money and go.

Oh and one thing I forgot was that in the packet there is a chart and you sign your home phone number and your name. Then we go to school and you organize the pizzas and then at the last day we pick them up. Then we go to the people houses and deliver them.

Lock Down Drill

Destry has written about our lock down drill.

THE LOCK DOWN DRILL IS NOT FUN IT IS VERY SCARY YOU HAVE TO HIDE UNDER A TABEL IT IS SCAREY. I HADE A HARD TIME FINDING A TABEL IT WAS HARD THE TABELS WERE CROUDED. I DIDN’T LIKE THE DRILL BUT IT IS FOR MY OWN SAFTEY BECAUSE MY TEACHER WANT’S TO KEEP ME SAFE. I LOVE MY TEACHER.

Thanksgiving Feast

Kaycee has written about the annual Thanksgiving Feast.

First  we got assigned what to bring Me and my sister had to bring plates a lot of people used the plates because they were bigger  and could hold  a lot. Some people had to make fruit salad or mashed potatoes. My favorite was the pie and mashed potatoes that was really good.

There was also water we could drink though I had my own bottle of water so I drank that. I really thought the food was good there was cookies, pies,  and a bunch of other foods.

Then when everyone finished we went outside to recess. I was stuffed with turkey, pie and other great foods at the feast. My friends were also stuffed everyone was stuffed with great foods. So we didn’t play much because we were so stuffed though on the other hand I was happy to sit and talk with my friends. That was the Thanksgiving feast.

The Book Fair

Sara has written about setting up for the book fair.  It will be set up until December 10.  Feel free to come to the school and do some Christmas shopping.

 Today Mrs. Christensen said that we might set up the book fair today. I really like the book fair because they have really interesting books to buy, and they aren’t that expensive. I’m really excited that we get to set it up. The past years they just didn’t sell books they also sold posters, erasers, pencils, and pointer fingers.

 They have lots of books there. We can also go after school if the school is still opened. When my sister has basketball practice and we pick her up, my mom and I can go and get books from the book fair. I can’t wait until we get to set it up, but we only get to set it up if we don’t have a list, or if we’re not caught up on our A.R. 

We have started a new program in our room.  Please feel free to join us on Thursdays at 9:30 AM.  Haylee has written about it.

This year in Mrs. Christensen’s class we are doing an elocution. We found the idea in a book called The Teachers Funeral. In the book they did it every Friday. So we do it every Thursday.

I’m  doing this blog piece for the elocution. Last week  we had some of the high schoolers came in to watch us do it. We do it every week.

This week we have to do three things. They are Language, Reading, and Writing. Last week we only had Reading and Writing. Language is new this week. That’s what we do for elocution.

This week has been Pirates vs. Ninja Spirit Week.  Destry has written about Ninja Day.

The ninja day that we are going to have tomorrow it will be so much fun. I am in luck because I am going to be a ninja for Halloween so. I hope you have a happy and fun ninja day tomorrow really it is going to be a blast with Mrs. Christensen. I am going to be a black ninja tomorrow what kind of ninja are you going to be a blue white purple red pink or black ninja?   

Haylee has written a piece about last month's book club competition.

Last month for book clubs we had four groups. We had Ellis Island, If you lived among the Cherokee, Tornados, and Phoebe the spy. Those are the books we did.

When we take our A.R. tests we see how many points ad up. The winning book was Ellis Island. They got smelly pencils. They were Reagan S., Bailey, Kaycee, and Haylee.

That’s  what we did for book club.

We just finished reading Eating the Plates for story time.  Destry wrote a review of the book.

We learned about how the pilgrims survived in the promised land. They had no chairs they had to make chairs out of wood it was hard work and they had to make their own houses by themselves.  The kids had to sleep on the table if the bed was not big enough.

The mom and dad got to sleep on the bed though

And the children had to stand when a lade was in the room and they ate in front of the fire place in the summer and in the winter but in the summer wouldn’t that be really hot and it is pretty cool how they cook their food over the fire place it was a cool book but it a long time to read and there was also the baby’s crib was made out of wood that would hurt my back. They might have put blanket in the crib.

Justin wrote about the recent hike that the Webelos Scouts took with Mrs. Maynard:

Webelos Scout hike                                          10/8/14

On the 7^th the Webelos scout group went to the Pot Holes.

We had to get a fire going with a striker and pocket knife.

We had to get our dinner going on our fire. After we did that we walked from there back to the school. It was a tiring walk, but it was fun.

The kids are enjoying soccer season.  Read this post by Haylee to learn more.

This last Saturday the U-11 team played soccer in Ely. We played the color purple team. They were easy to play.

We scored 5 points. They scored 1 point.  We only had two subs, and they had five subs. We still killed them with that many subs.

Jackson scored one point. Justin scored two points. Makenna scored one point. Kasen scored one point. That’s what we did for our soccer game.

Since we have been studying weather, the kids were pretty fascinated with the flooding that happened two weekends ago.  Justin wrote a piece about that topic.  

         Flooding

The flooding from hurricane Norbert and Odilie cause California, Arizona and Nevada to flood a lot. Over 400,000,000 people without power.  2 people have died. Hotels completely destroyed. Here all the rain that we have got is all because of that hurricane madness. The roads have collapsed, cars floating away. How would you like to be swept away by water? So when a rain storm hits, make sure to have a flashlight or a candle nearby.

Haylee has written a piece about the Student of the Week program at both the high school and elementary sides of our school.  Feel free to come up and see the displays.

This year we are doing student of the week. It was the leadership class’s idea. Sarah Christensen does the Elementary student of the week. Preston Forester does the high school student of the week.

Student of the week is every week. We started the first week of school. It is the fifth week of school. So we have had five student of the week.

The students of the week for Elementary have been Makenna, Hayden H., Isabelle, Parker Erekson, and Nathan. For the high school side it has been Keaton, Aspen, Kelton, Sarah, and Gabe. That’s who has been the student of the week.

Some of the Lund kids participated in Public Lands Day.  Kaycee wrote about this fun opportunity.

National Public Lands Day

On Saturday we went to the BLM.  First we got question papers and pens.  Then we went into a room and went to a station.  We got to see arrows and animal tracks.  We also got to see Smoky Bear.

The coolest thing we got to do is shoot water out of a hose and climb in a fire truck and press buttons that made cool sounds. We also got to sit in the seats which you could make the seats go up and down. I liked when we had to hold a heavy backpack and a chainsaw.  It was awesome.

After we all got a chance to hold the chainsaw and backpack we went through a line of offices then came to a opening and sat down to eat the great food they had. After that we got ice cream at Economy Drug. That was some real good ice cream they had and that was the field trip we took. 

Wyatt has written an opinion piece about the open road race that takes place in our town.

SILVER STATE CHALLENGE

The Silver State Racing Challenge affects the community by shutting down the highway so people can’t push cows and every year someone gets hurt or dies.

I think we can fix this problem by making safer cars and making sure who’s driving can get out of the car in time or if they die on impact make better helmets and gear.

There have been 3 or 4 times someone has died.  Like this year someone burned to death.   Here are the years people have died: 2014 2012 2010.  My mom says “You would think they would stop doing the races because so many people have died.” Justin says, “It’s cool watching, but it’s very dangerous.”  He thinks they should not stop the race, they just need better equipment.        

Our school is participating in Box Tops for Education.  Reagan D. has written a post about how this program works.

We are collecting box tops for our school and they are worth ten cents each. When we turn in the box tops we get yellow slips.  Oh and when we get yellow slips we get to get in the prize box or we can get a card and are choices are a desk pass and a list eraser.

We bring the box tops in to the office and put it in a box and they count the box tops and they see if they have expired. Then they send the box tops to General Mills in Minnesota. Then the company sends a check to the school and the teachers can use the money for Moby max and Accelerated Reader. 

This year we have a table set up with our supplies and we are calling it the "Professional Station."  Dylan wrote about it--

Professional station

This year our class has a new station at the back of the room.  It is called the professional station.  At this station you will find:  graph paper, markers, pencils, lined paper, clipboards, erasers, and flash cards. 

So if you are a student in need or missing these supplies please visit the professional station the supplies are free to use until you can bring in your own.

Back to School Night

Reagan D. wrote about our back to school night and potluck:  

Lund school had an open house. We ate hot dogs , hamburgers ,cookies, salad, brown, chips, pasta, and it was so good. Then  me, Sara, and Haylee they both sat with me. Then after we were done eating we went down to the playground and  we played on the monkey bars, the slide, and on the swings. We stayed down there until it was time to go home.

Destry has written a piece about our weekly Spanish class, which is taught by Mrs. Griffin.

We are learning new Spanish words in Spanish class.

Like red is rojo;  purple is violet .

Wyatt and Jackson are good at Spanish.

I am kind of good at it, but not that much.

Justin is really good too.  Hyrum is good also.  Dylan is awesome.

Anyway we are awesome at Spanish. I think we will all

Get an A at Spanish. Spanish is cool.  I love Spanish.

The elementary teachers and Mrs. Farnsworth spent two weeks learning a new language program called Spalding.  Haylee has written about how our class is doing the program.

This year in grade school we are doing Spalding. We learn phonograms and rules for letters. We also do different kinds of sentences too.

Other things we do is write in our writing notebooks. We do spelling. We do a lot of cursive with our writing.

A couple other things we do are review our phonograms by writing them. We do practicing by writing them in our writing notebooks and grading them ourselves. We also do tests to see if we know our phonograms. That’s what we do with Spalding.

Mr. Hedges has started a new program called Family Lunch.  On the first Monday of the month, parents can eat lunch with their kids in the lunchroom.  Justin has written about the program.

Family Lunch

      On September 8 the moms and dads came if they could to lunch at 11:30. My mom came, but my dad was at work.

      In our class   6/14 moms or dads came. Out of all the classes 10 parents came, but some brothers and sisters are in different classes.

This quarter we are studying weather for science.  Isabelle has written about one part of our study, which is keeping weather notebooks.

Science /Weather note book

For science we are doing weather note books.  Every day we fill out our note books. In the weather note books we put the date, sky appearance, the wind, precipitation, and temperature.  On every Thursday Mrs. Christensen checks our note books. Mrs. Christensen grades it on neatness and if you complete it every day. During the weekends we take the weather notebooks home and do them. The next Thursday she checks it again and gives us our grades.

We have had some changes in our school staff this year.  Reagan S.  has interviewed our new staff and written about them.

We have 3 new teachers. One of them is Mr. Ebbink.

Mr. Ebbink teaches English, social studies, and journalism in the high school.

He is the new Jr. High volleyball coach.

He knows how to speak Chinese.

Connie is not completely new but now instead of just music, she also teaches P.E.

Now computer class is a special, so Connie teaches specials 3 days a week.

Mr. Hedges is the new principal.

He does on line classes.

His favorite place to teach is Lund.

He has been teaching for 17 years.

His favorite thing to do is spend time with his family.

Those are the three new teachers and their information.

I hope everyone has a fun  school year! 

We have spent our social studies time so far this year studying the Constitution since September 17 is Constitution Day.  This week we have come up with some laws that we think would be good for our class and we have made a class constitution.  Wyatt has written about the experience:

      The Constitution

This year we are making a constitution for our class. It has laws and ways to help out people with math and stuff. I think the best one is the bullying; I made it :D. I like when we make the laws and I get to talk British :P. At recesses  we make other parts sometimes. Sometimes people mess around and it makes me mad D: 

Our schedule is a lot different than it was last year.  Jackson has written a piece to let you know what our day is like.

School Schedule 

When we get to school we go to recess. When we get back we go straight to specials. When we get back we do spelling and right after, we do writing. Then we read for 30 min then we go to lunch.

After  lunch recess we have story time. Right  after story time we do math then go to read to the 1^st graders. When we go back we do social studies. Right after social studies we go to recess. When we came back we do science then finally went home.           

My class loves the Edmodo website.  Kaycee has written about the things we use it for.

About Edmodo
First you login and you make up a password.
If you can’t make up a password your teacher will give you one. Once you login you can send notes only to the class or your teacher. You can post pictures and videos. The teacher can also post assignments and games. You can also talk with your teacher about assignments. The fun thing is that you can get a profile picture and joke around with the class. Also you get to post pictures of a trip or a vacation though you don’t have to. Also there’s a bad thing about Edmodo if you lose your password you have to find a new one. Though that doesn’t usually happen.  If you do login to Edmodo I hope you have a great time posting pictures and videos. Also joking around with friends and doing assignments that your teacher posts. So have a great time  going on to Edmodo and posting fun stuff. 

This year my class is spending time each day reading with the first graders.  Sara wrote about the experience...

Reading with the first graders is the best thing in school so far. If you don’t have a job then you can go and read with them. I like to read with them a lot; it’s so fun.
 The first time I had a job so I couldn’t go. The next day I checked if I had a job and. . . . I did.
So the next I checked and then finally I didn’t have a job.
 I was so excited. To go and read with them. When we got to their classroom the first graders
were finishing up with Math. Then the first graders picked who they wanted to be with. Jessie Hooley and Sariah picked me.
 The first graders picked out what book we wanted and then we read it to them.
Then after about an hour we would go back to our class. Before we left, the first graders said thank you, and that was the best time.