The monsters have been sent home!

Yes, I sent home the monsters. I’m talking about the drawings and descriptions the students wrote, of course!

The Wonderful Ones had a fabulous Friday finishing up their project for the MUB contest with Fun4theBrain! All scanned pictures have been sent in and we have wrapped up our most successful project of the year.

The children’s writing really rose to the occasion this time. They started with drawings that were completed on Wednesday. They chose a monster on Thursday – one they thought could live and work in the Monsters Under the Bed town, then wrote their description.

Today, they took those descriptions and re-worked their drawings to the final stage. We scanned and uploaded pictures and recorded our stories all afternoon. They deserve a long restful weekend!

Enjoy our newest YouTube video! And thanks to Fun4theBrain for an incredible learning experience!

Memories, Volume 2

We recorded our second volume of memories on voicethread. Don’t forget to add your favorite memory on our pages!

Writing Memories

We are working on writing our memories. We wrote and then practiced reading our memories to partners.

Practice with partners

Practice with Partners

This is the first of three posts about our memories. We invite you to listen to our new voicethread and add your thoughts about our memories.

Celebrating Bobcat Spirit Week

We wanted to celebrate Bobcat Spirit Week by taking photos, having students record video with our new Flip camera, and writing stories. We have finally put together our post and we are ready to share!

Since this is a first time for these students to write a blog post or use the flip camera, your comments and encouragement would be appreciated! Sadie filmed the pep rally and 7 student reporters wrote about their experiences.

Devin reports: Thank you, Mr. Graham for letting the Bobcats come and join us and the Junior Bobcats. Thank you Mrs. Saunders for calling them so they would maybe come to see us.

Abigail reports: We had the Bobcats come last week to our school. We are so happy. My class loves the Bobcats. We love it.

Rachel reports: We had Black and Gold day.

Alex reports: The Bobcat Week was fun. I like the bobcat.

Addison shares: The Bobcat Pep Rally was good. Bobcats are good players. Bobcats go!

Sadie reports: At my school, I had the whole football team come to my school and it was fun. Go Bobcats!

Emma D. reports: The pep rally was fun.

Tongue Twisters

We participated in an online Tongue Twister ABC project. We signed up for letter T and wrote our tongue twister today. Twenty-five other classes will complete the remainder of the alphabet and mail us a copy of their illustrated tongue twister.

We were surprised to find letter Q tongue twister in our mailbox today! We have our first letter for the project. We will make a book with the completed alphabet, but for now, we recorded our tongue twister and illustrations.

It’s been a busy day! We recorded us singing Miss Mary Mack. Check it out on our wikispace.

We also finished Unit I math book, finished our American Symbols book we were making, finished our SOL 1.1 in our science journal, glued our first word sort, and sang a lot of songs! We had a busy, busy, fun Friday!

Wonderful Ones Write!

We have been reading a book called Legs this week. It is a story that tells how animals use their legs. We decided that we could write a book all about arms and the way we use can use our arms.

Each student wrote their own book, then I took one page from each student and made it into a slide show to create a class book.

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Verbs – Our actions

We have been talking about verbs! Remember, a verb is your action – it’s what you do!

We demonstrated verbs, wrote verbs, and even put our featured book character, Dan into action with verbs.

Sadie, Sam, Emma H.-C., and Grayson have their Dan action pictures on their own wiki page today… check out their links or the link to the student pages!

Here is a game that shows you some action words in action! It is fun to look at – try it out!

Mackenzie’s Trip to Washington, D.C.

We went to Washington, D.C. and we saw my cousins Nina, Natalie, and Nicholas.

We saw the Washington Monument. It was very tall. We saw the White House, the Capitol, the Lincoln and the Jefferson Memorials, the World War I and II Memorials, and the Korean War Memorial.

We also went to the National Gallery of Art and saw the suits of armor. We saw the Sculpture Gardens and the Smithsonian. It had the Hope Diamond and a big elephant and dinosaur skeletons and lots of fossils. It was very neat.

Mackenzie’s Story

Cats are my favorite animal. I want to be a vet when I grow up – a small animal vet so I can work on cats. I will have to work really hard to be a vet! Did you know that kittens or cats can see really good in the dark? Their eyes glow in the dark sometimes.

Mackenzie’s trip to San Francisco, California

I went to San Francisco, California to see my grandaddy Shelton. We had to drive to Charlotte, North Carolina. We had to take a plane from Charlotte, NC to Dallas, Texas and a plane from Dallas, Texas to San Francisco, CA. It was 3,000 miles!

We went to Muir Woods. We saw the oldest and tallest trees in the world. The Redwoods were the tallest trees! We saw a cute baby boy deer.

We went to Salsalito and saw lots of boats. We took a cruise ship under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz which is an old jail. Nobody ever escaped alive!! The Golden Gate Bridge isn’t really golden. It’s a reddish color. It’s supposed to be International orange.

We went down Lombard Street. It’s the crookedest road in the world. We walked up and down it. I rode a cable car which is like a caboose on a train. We saw some hang gliders. The ran off the clif and they soared everywhere.

I stuck my toe in the Pacific Ocean. It was cold!! I found a sand dollar.

It was my grandaddy’s birthday. He turned 84! It was cold and foggy in San Francisco but I had a great time!