Kara

I  used  100  hearts and  made big heart.  My  mom helped me.

Abby

I used 100 pieces of candy and made a heart. My dad helped.

Ava

I  used 100  Legos and  made  a heart  and     my Mom    and  Dad helped.

Kaedynce

I  used 100  legos  and  made  a  house    and  my mom and my brother helped. My brother was a little impatient!

Matthew

I   used    100    Legos and    made     a     boat. My uncle Jon helped.

Happy 100 day Talia

I used 100 beads with a string and made a necklace  with no help.

Nevaeh's 100 Project

I used 100 stickers and made a collage. I did it by myself.

100th Day of School

We are 100 days smarter! We made cool projects with 100 things. Some of us worked alone, and some of us had help from our families. 

We clapped 100 times, and we wrote a fun message with 100 words. We put it in the hallway for everyone to read. We read books about 100. We liked 100 Hungry Ants. We read a poem called 100 is a Lot. Our teacher hid 100 numbers and we had to find them.  We went home after lunch because it was snowing a lot. 

It was Nar's idea to make this post 100 words!

Learning Place Value

We are using Base 10 blocks. The long skinny ones are 10, the little ones are one, and the big flat ones are 100. They are called flats, longs, and cubes. We are building with them.

Practicing spelling b-e-c-a-u-s-e

We practiced spelling "because" with play dough. We made long snakes first. Next we made the letters.

 This was f-u-n!

New Song from Slovenia

Here is the new song our friends in Slovenia sent us. We are working hard to learn this one. We like sharing songs!

Zajček dolgoušček,
bel imaš kožušček,
hitre tačke, ostre zobke,
dolge brke, repek siv.

S kravico stanuješ,
v hlevu poskakuješ,
repo glodaš in korenje,
deteljico in krompir.

Vsakemu uideš,
k meni vselej prideš,
s smrčkom vohaš, prst poližeš,
potlej pa vesel zbežiš. 

The translation goes a bit like this:

Long-eared bunny ,
You have white fur,
speedy paws, sharp teeth,
long whiskers, gray tail.

You live with cow,
jump around the barn,
nibble turnips and carrots,
clover and potatoes.

You escape from everyone
but always come to me,
you smell with your nose, lick my finger
and then run away happily.

Playing Before and After

We are playing a math game called Before and After. You each get 6 cards, and you each put 1 card on the top. Now you see if you have a number that is before or after.

We worked in pairs and groups. It was fun and the cards were colorful, and we wrinkled our brains with numbers. We worked hard at the game. We are getting better at games!

Happy New Year from the Crickets!

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukkah, and Happy New Year
 from The Crickets! We dressed as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer for our school holiday party. It was wonderful!

Vesel božič to our friends in Slovenia!

Love and Hope

A light of love and hope for the children and teachers of Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Thanksgiving

Abby - I am thankful for our teacher, and our friends, and our parents, and the library.
Nevaeh - I am thankful for having great parents that give me things like my lessons, and my whole family, ABCs, and numbers.
Matt - I am thankful for my teacher, my family, and my aunt, and everybody else.
Ava - I am thankful for my mom and my daddy, and my cats and dogs.
Nar - I am thankful for the world, and for Thanksgiving, and for all the good things people have done in the past years, and for people.
CJ - I am thankful for my brother, and my family, and my aunt and grammy, and for homework.
Bree - I am thankful for everyone, and my family, and my friends, writing, and learning to be techies.
Rory - I am thankful for my family, my teacher, Thanksgiving, and my friends.
Kara - I am thankful for the world, and the trees.
Talia -  I am thankful for my mom, dad, Thanksgiving, my grammy and poppa, and Maddy, my dog, and my cats.
Julius  - I am thankful for my mom.
Kaedynce - I am thankful for my friends, my family, and the whole entire world, and my teacher, and nature. 
Camren - I am thankful for the earth, and for books and stories.
Vinnie - I am thankful that I can help other people, and I am thankful for my family, and my pets.

We are all thankful for:
our friends in Slovenia, life, our IWB, books and stories, our blog, Tweets, our school, art, our warm beds, earth, God, Jesus, food, polite words, singing together, music, our teacher's iPad, learning to read,  new friends we meet.

We're thankful for the chance to give thanks together at Thanksgiving! 




  



   






 

Happy 50th Day of School

Today is the 50th day of school! We brainstormed 50 words about our classroom. We are half way to 100 days!

For The Pine Cones, our friends in Slovenia

 

We worked very hard on this. We learned it! We really like this song. Thank you for sharing it. Would you please send us another song? 

Our Monsters

We made silly monsters by using an app on our teacher's iPad. We enjoyed making them look silly. We printed them and wrote about them. We had fun and we gave our monsters silly names like Scrambled Socks.

Nevaeh's Haunted House

In the haunted house there's ghosts that go around in circles and crash! Oh no, zombies! Run !!! Ahhh, thump... ouchy!  Oh no! I'm going to get chased by zombies again. They chase me around the kitchen, and bats flew in my hair. And I hit the exit.

Ava's Haunted House

 

I am a ghost. A scary, scary ghost. I live in the haunted house. There are monsters in there. You don't go in there. It's really, really scary. I'm warning you! Boo!!! Grrrr!!! Rahhhrrr!!! What's that? It's a ghost! The ghost tripped over a rock and I hid behind the door. I left.

Talia's Haunted House

I tiptoed in the haunted house and I saw bats flying everywhere. I went in the closet and saw a monster. It growled at me. A skeleton was following me around wherever I went, but I escaped and sailed across the sea all the way to Maine.

CJ's Haunted House

I went into a haunted house and there was a monster. There was an owl, and there was a ghost. They chased me out of the house!

Bree's Haunted House

Me and my friend went to the Haunted House. Drip! We heard something. It was Frankenstein washing his hands. We thought that was crazy. Then we saw bats. They were flying. We thought that was normal. They chased us to California. It was not a nice trip!

Vinnie's Haunted House

There was a ghost in my house. Booooo! Booooo!