Merry Christmas!

What We've Been Learning

We have been learning a lot lately that we wanted to share with you. Mike, Makayla, Madisyn, and Mrs. Tharp wrote about what we have been studying, learning, and doing.  We have been doing a lot of writing.  We had lessons on dignity for all and writing assignments that made us think about how the characters in the book we were reading were responsible and showed respect for each other.  We wrote about a respectful or responsible person we know, or a time when we acted responsibly.  We wrote about our 12 favorite things and participated in a Day of Blogging on 12.12.12.  We worked hard to reply to all of the comments on our blog.  We did lots of writing!

We finished our history unit on Henry Hudson.  We learned about elements, compounds, and mixtures in science.  We did math in a lot of different ways.  We worked on the computer, on the board, and some of us still really like worksheets.  We finished the book " The Boy Who Ran For President".  We liked it a lot.  It was about a boy our age who ran for president and actually won!  

We did Christmas bowling in gym and earlier we had some fun with a parachute.  We also learned soccer and hockey skills.  We finished some cool Christmas projects in Art class.  We used water colors to paint our own Christmas trees, and other techniques to create some unique tiling effects on ornaments and decorations.  Miss Tharp ordered one of our famous cookie platters for students in the YALT program at Daemen College, and so we made brownies and rice crispy treats. In Home and Careers we made some really fun Christmas cards using recycled cards.  We also started a fun Friday where we get to choose which station we want to go to.  We have games, snacks, nail polish etc.

Mrs. Tharp signed us up for 2 new sites, Zondle and Magna High, to help make learning fun at school and home!  We all love working on edmodo whenever we have time.  The apps are fun and we like sending messages to each other.  Some of us were able to join an edmodo group with students from other states and countries that we are working with on a project.  We liked meeting them and sending messages to them.  It turns out we like a lot of the same things - computers, sports, games, TV, and we even like some of the same books.

Monkeys Visit Our School

Mike wrote about our assembly yesterday:

Yesterday at school we had some special visitors.  They were MONKEYS!  We learned a lot from the “monkey guy”.  Monkeys should not be kept as pets.  To get one you have to get a special permit.

New world monkeys are different in shape, size, and color and they can be a pain.  The older one that came would not follow directions, she would throw her food especially mushrooms, and she would take the other monkeys food. 

Baby pygmy marmoset monkeys are small.   We saw one that only weighed 8 oz. and was the size of a pop can.   They don’t get to much bigger than that.  Their body length is between 130 to 370 mm or 5-14 inches long, and their tail is between to 150 to 420 mm or 6-15 inches long.  

Japanese macaque monkeys are medium sized.   They are found living in cold regions of the world. They are the world’s most northern living monkey species.  They adapt incredibly to their surroundings.

It was a very fun assembly (funny too), and we liked it!  

Noel's Day of Blogging 12.12.12

Noel’s 12 Favorite Things:

Pittsburg Steelers, Football, Chicago Bulls, Basketball, Kickball, Computer, Pictures, Candy bars, Applesauce, Soccer, Hockey, and Games.

Andrew's Day of Blogging 12.12.12

Andrew’s 12 Favorite things:

Ice cream,  riding in the snow storm, racing diesel trains,  tractor mowers,  race cars, vans, red fire trucks, mail trucks, trucks, laptops, and computers.

Day of Blogging 12.12.12

We took part in a special day of blogging with classes across the country and around the world.  Our whole class compiled this list of places they'd like to visit.  Some students wrote individual posts about their favorite things.  Please feel free to comment, but only use students' first names.  Thank you, Mrs. Tharp

Places our class would like to visit:

The Titanic museum,  Hollywood, Splash Lagoon (Hotel with water slide), The mall, Florida (Universal studios and the beach), Paris, Germany, Chicago, New York City, Hawaii, Washington DC. and Canada.  We dream big!

Carlito's Day of Blogging 12.12.12

Carlito’s  12 Favorite Things:

I like Thomas trains toys  because I can fix them. I like hot food. I like tacos. I like to cook. I like to joke around a lot. Blue is my favorite color. I like videos games. I like being silly. I like orange. I like my house. I like TV.  I like computer.