CJ

I used 100 legos  and   made   a  truck. My  mom   helped  me   and   my   sister   helped me  too.

The Polar Regions

We are learning about the Polar Regions. Here's what we learned:

ARCTIC
The Arctic is frozen ocean. It is very cold. It is also called the North Pole. Polar bears live there. Some other animals that live there are whales, narwhals, snowy owls, puffins, lemmings, seals, arctic fox, snowshoe hares, and wolves. We live close to the Arctic circle.

ANTARCTICA
Antarctica is a continent. It is frozen land. It is even colder than the Arctic. It is the coldest place on earth. Peguins live there. They have never seen polar bears. Only scientists live in Antarctica because it is too cold. 

Both places are have sunshine all the time for 6 months, and darkness all the time for 6 months. We can't imagine playing on our playground in the dark, or going to school in the dark.

Vinnie

I  used  100   popsicle sticks and made a tool box! My mom helped me.

Happy 100 Day Rory

I used 100 pompoms and made a rainbow. My mom and Meme put the hot glue gun on.

Julius

I used 100 stickers  and  Carter  helped and Mom too. I  made  a safari  and a pirate cove.

Nar

I    used   100    grains    of        rice       and       made        a         musical        egg  shaker, with   my   mom.

Bree

I used 100 Legos  and made  a  house.   I    did  it  by  myself.                                       

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?