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.

Science Experiments

Right now for science we are studying geology.  To make things more interesting, I found some edible activities for each of the rock types.  Rachael wrote about our experiments:

Science

     Experiments

Two days ago and last Thursday we made science experiments. On Thursday we did volcanoes. The lava was made of corn syrup and red food coloring.

When Kennadee and I put the syrup on our volcano it went on one side because we couldn’t get it on the very top of the volcano.

On Monday we made cookies and had to make them look like sedimentary rocks. When we put them in the oven one of the cookies EXPLODED. The one that exploded was full of red sprinkles. The cookie that exploded was Rielly’s (at least that is what we think).