Abby's Haunted House

Hi! I'm in the haunted house and I see a witch. She said, "Whuh-ha-ha. You are spooked." I want to get out of this house. I ran around the house and the witch followed me. I got out through the window.

Nar's Haunted House

I quietly walked in the haunted house. I saw bats sleeping upside down. When I opened a few doors I came to a little door and I saw zombies from World War II. Then I quietly walked outside. And the floor creaked as I walked out of the haunted house. It was very scary. Boo!

Rory's Haunted House

Swish! What was that? That was a bat. Goblins are everywhere. There are skeletons everywhere. I am brave. I am not scared. Go away skeletons! Go away goblins! Go away flying bats! Go away scary stuff! BOO!

Kara's Haunted House

Look! There is something creepy! What is that? I think it is a ghost. I hope not. It is a ghost! "Boo!" It said boo. I crept out.

HALLOWEEN!

Abby - I'm going to be a witch.
CJ - I'm going to be a Ninja.
Nar - I'm going to be a witch.
Rory - I'm going to be Rapunzel.
Cam - I'm going to be a Ninja.
Julius - I'm going to be Captain Jack Sparrow.
Talia - I'm going to be Cleopatra.
Kaedynce - I'm going to be a vampire beauty queen.
Nevaeh - I'm going to be a ladybug.
Matt - I'm going to be a firefighter.
Vinnie - I'm going to be a Ninja.
Bree - I'm going to be a skeleton.
Kara - I'm going to be a bow hunter.
Ava - I'm going to be Minnie Mouse.

That's what Halloween is about!     

       

POPCORN TIME

We read The Secret of Spooky House. The secret was that the monsters in the house ate popcorn. The story made us hungry! We decided we wanted to eat some popcorn. We used a hot air popper, and we got a big monster-sized bowl from the cafeteria to hold the popcorn. We watched the popcorn kernels pop. We each made two paper containers for the popcorn. We designed the containers ourselves. We used tape to hold the containers together. We had to decide which container we made would hold the most popcorn, and then our teacher filled that container. Some of our containers held 3 scoops! We each got 1 scoop of popcorn. We ate our popcorn while we listened to The Popcorn Dragon story. 

 

It's Fall!

It was a beautiful fall day, so we went for a  walk because we wanted to make pictures out of leaves. We were walking down the street near our school. We were looking down to collect leaves. We saw golden leaves, red leaves, and yellow leaves. Some leaves were still green. We found some maple helicopter seeds and some pine cones. We met a neighbor who said we could go all over this fields the next time we went out for a walk. On the way back we kicked through the crunchy, crackly leaves. It was fun!

It was a very sunny day. We traced each other's shadows outside on the playground using sidewalk chalk. Sidewalk chalk is big and thick. We stood still and made funny shapes with our body. We wrote our names on our shadows.

We wrote our Star Words all over the playground. We wrote them very big. Then we played Star Word Tag. When our teacher called a Star Word we had to run and find it. Then we stood on it. When we were finished we did a Sun Dance, then we laid in the sun to catch our breath.

 

Kuzha Pazi

Here is the song we are learning in Slovenian:

KUZHA PAZI, Z REPKOM MIGA                  The dog watches out, waves with its tail        

VSTANE, LEZHE, TACHKO DA                     stands up, lies down, gives you its paw,

HISHO CHUVA, JEZNO LAJA                        it guards the house, barks angrily

CHE NIKOGAR NI DOMA                              if no one is at home.

KO PA JURCHEK CICIBANCHEK                 When little boy Jurček    (Yurchek)

TRUDEN SE ODPRAVI SPAT                       goes to sleep all tired

KUZHA PAZI, K VRATOM LEZHE                 the doggy guards him, lies down by the door

DA NE VZAME JURCHKA TAT                    so that the thief can't steal him.

Our friends in Slovenia sent us a video.

  We are working very hard to learn this song!

Purple Day!

We had Purple Day. We wore all the purple clothing we had. We each brought in a purple surprise. We had purple plums for snack. Julius' mom sent us purple grapes. We froze them for snack in the afternoon. They were purple delicious! We made tally marks for all our purple things. There were 51 tally marks, plus all of our purple surprises! We even took a purple picture with our student teacher.

We want a purple-wonderful year!

A DOZEN DAYS IN FIRST GRADE!

Our class name is The Crickets, and we have been in First Grade for a dozen days.
 
Vinnie - I like working on my teacher's iPad.

Abby - I like watching our crickets.

Nar - I like seeing my teacher.

Brianna - I like writing, and singing at Morning Meeting.

Nevaeh - I like coloring at Choice Time.

Ava - I like singing together, especially our Peanut Butter Song.

Rory - I like being with my teacher, and reading.

CJ - I like building with the big blocks.

Talia - I like doing art and singing together.

Kaedynce - I like putting poems in our big, fat Poem Book, and I like to EEKK.

Kara - I like using Play-Doh and sharing news at Morning Meeting.

We all like using our teacher's iPad, having a sand box, spending time together, singing, being Chief Cricket, and doing Banana Split. First Grade is fun!

TIME FOR SUMMER VACATION!

I'm happy, I'm ready,

I'm silly, I'm sad,

I'm jolly, I'm jumpy,

I'm lazy, I'm glad!

I've got many feelings

Because school is done.

I'll miss many things,

But the summer is FUN!

More Crickets!

More baby crickets just hatched! Soon it will be time to set them all free in our teacher's backyard.

Red Riding Hood & the Woodcutter - by Natasha

Once upon a time Red Riding Hood went in the forest. She met a Woodcutter. He gave her 3 wishes. She went and made 3 wishes. She wished for a dolphin, and a horse, and a bird. They all lived happily ever after.

Little Red Riding Hood and the Witch from Hansel & Gretel - by Alanna

Once upon a time in a far, far away place, Little Red Riding Hood visited the witch from Hansel and Gretel. She is my mother and we had dinner together tonight. And my mother ate me! Wahahahaha! Nooooooo, mommy! Don't eat me please. Mom don't eat me. The Wolf came in. The Wolf ate my mother. And we lived happily ever after.

Custard and the Gingerbread Man - by Hunter

Once upon a time Custard went into the Gingerbread Man's story. I ran so fast that I caught him. He said, "Don't cook me!" but I cooked him for lunch with my fire breathing breath. He was tasty. He tasted like a banana. It was good. I lived happily ever after.

Our Beach Trip

We went to Pine Point Beach with the whole first grade. We went beach combing and we found shells, crab legs, driftwood, a whole crab, lots of different seaweed, and feathers. Natasha became an expert at finding razor clams, and Dakota became an expert at finding whole sand dollars. We saw barnacles on the rocks, rocks, seagulls, someone fishing, big waves and small waves, and the tide line. The tide was going out and we learned how to tell that. Alanna made a sand castle with drips. Jase, Hunter, and Daniel wrote their names in the sand. Laney, Brooke and Emma wrote in the sand and drew pictures in the sand. We dug tunnels and made the water go into different places. We dug big, deep, holes too. We went wading up to our ankles. The water was a lot warmer than we expected. It was an awesome day!

Custard the Dragon Meets King Midas - by Dan

Once upon a time Custard the Dragon went to visit King Midas. He was very scared! King Midas is very greedy! King Midas touched Custard. "Hot!" yelled Custard, and he turned into gold. King Midas was happy to have a gold dragon statue. Mustard convinced King Midas to pour a bucket of water on Custard. "Thank you," said Custard. They lived happily ever after.

The Witch, King Midas, and Thumbelina - by Lillian

Once upon a time there lived the Witch, King Midas, and Thumbelina. We all went in the woods. We found an apple tree. King Midas picked an apple and turned into gold. The Witch touched an apple and then it rotted. When Thumbelina touched an apple it was covered with butterflies. We picked so many! We had 100 pies! We had them for a month. We got sick of them, so we decided to sell the last one. And a tiny ladybug flew by. They all went home, and they lived happily ever after.

The Witch - by Jaidyn

Once upon a time a Witch went into Thumbelina's story. The Witch found a girl that was small. Then she picked her up and then along came little Red Riding Hood, and she said, "Hi, Witch." The Custard came along, "Roar, roar, ROAR!" Then along came the Gingerbread Man and I ate him. He was so tasty. I lived happily ever after with Thumbelina.

Thumbelina's Big Adventure in the Candy House - by Laney

Once upon a time Thumbelina was walking in the woods. She saw a house of candy, so she went inside and saw a witch. The witch was nice for one day, until she said, "I will eat you up, Thumbelina!" So I ran and pushed her into the oven. Thumbelina was so surprised to see her father waiting for her! They sat down at the table. Her Dad said, "Can you use your powers to make us rich?" "Yes," said Thumbelina. And they lived happily ever after.

The Gingerbread Man and the Wolf - by Dana

Hi, I'm the Gingerbread Man. I am going into Red Riding Hood's story. I'd better watch out for the Big Bad Wolf. Oh, oh, let's just get on with the story. AAAHHHH! The Big Bad Wolf! Ugh! And little Red Riding Hood as well. They're trying to eat me! Help! Oh no! I hear something coming. The Wolf is catching up, but that doesn't stop me. I'll go faster. Oh no! I'm going too fast, I can't see, aaahhh! Stop! I can help you. Oh! A woodcutter. Well, will you eat me too? No! 

Was that a good story, or what?

Thumbelina and the Witch - by Joddi

Once upon a time Thumbelina went to a witch's house. The Witch was from Hansel and Gretal and she made Thumbelina eat the house. Thumbelina didn't know she was a witch, but she found out that she was from her voice. "Start the oven!" said the Witch. "No! I will not," said Thumbelina. "Yes you will!" So Thumbelina kicked her into the oven and ate her, and lived happily every after.

The Gingerbread Man and Custard - by Jase

Once upon a time there was a Gingerbread Man and a dragon named Custard. But one day the Gingerbread Man went into the story Custard the Dragon. The Gingerbread Man was scared of the dog and the cat and the mouse and mostly the dragon because he almost ate him up. But they became friends, so they played all day and all night and they lived happily ever after.

Red Riding Hood Meets Custard, the Dragon - by Brooke

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Red Riding Hood. That's me! I went into a different story called Custard, the Dragon. I met the dragon and Belinda, Ink, Blink and Mustard. I asked Belinda if I could live with her. She said yes and I was very happy. Every morning I had cereal for breakfast. Custard had a little piece of the pirate. Ink had cat food and Blink had little pieces of food. Belinda had the same thing I had. She had cereal just like me. It was yummy Honey Combs. Then everybody wanted to play ball, so we played for an hour before lunch. Then we had lunch. We had ham and cheese sandwiches and they were really good. They had ranch dressing on them. We had punch for a drink. It was delicious. Then we went to play a game of tag outside. Custard was It. He chased us. He ran as fast as he could. He got Belinda and Ink, but not me. Then he got Blink and I was the only one left. Then it was supper. It was an awesome day and we lived happily ever after!

The Gingerbread Man and Blink - by Coty

Once upon a time I met a man who was a cookie. I wasn't hungry, so I didn't try to eat him. We became friends until I fell and hit my head. I did not remember anything. He reminded me that I was his friend and we lived happily ever after as friends.