Field Trip

Our Field Trip on Earth Day was a great success. We learned about Project AWARE, an organization that takes canoes down Iowa rivers, pulls out junk and transforms it into sculptures. We loved seeing the size and details of the sculptures. It was a fantastic field trip!

Awesome Kid of the Week

Way to go, Chidy! Congratulations on being the Awesome Student of the Week! You've been very respectful and responsible. Keep up the great work!

Spelling and Vocabulary April 19-23, 2010

We will be having a spelling review this week. We have already had all these words in the last few weeks so everyone should do a fantastic job!

Spelling
grew
until
ought
balloon
dollar
window
flew
brought
tooth
pretty
sudden
spoon
happen
daughter
cook
forgot
caught
boot
taught
hello
Monday
chew
order
thought
bought

Challenge words:
brook
expect
loose
stubborn
granddaughter

Vocabulary Words:
harpoons -- spears used to hunt whales and large fish
seaworthy -- safe for sailing in
calabashes -- large, round bowls made from a gourd
awe -- a feeling of wonder and respect
hull -- the body of a boat
roiling -- moving roughly in many directions

Awesome Kid of the Week

Congratulations, Michael!! You've done an awesome job this week completing your work and helping other students. Way to go Michael!

Mix, Stir, Paint!!

Our new Artful Learning Unit is about courage. We learned that in order to invent something, it often takes a lot of courage. Today we made paint out of colored chalk and oil. We used a mortar and pestle. Then we painted on white paper!

We think Amiliana would say, "It was really hard stirring the chalk because it was hard."

Hailey A. exclaimed, "I think it was really fun and it was a little hard to mash up all the chalk."

"I was trying to beat up the chalk because it was really hard--it was very grueling," declared Hailey E.

Michael explained, "I think it was really like cooking."

"I really really liked grinding the chalk before I went to piano, " said Kennedy.

Cameron stated, "It was kind of easy because I had to crush it and mix it up a little. The best part about it was changing the color."

Karli exclaimed, "I thought the grinding part was really hard because the chalk was really hard to grind."

"I thought the hardest part was doing the grinding of the chalk because you had to push down really hard and the chalk wouldn't break," Madison shared.

Haden announced, "I never made paint out of chalk and oil and I've never seen chalk that gets mixed up with oil."

"I have never seen paint made with chalk and oil," Kierra mentioned.

Diamond explained, "I never heard of chalk mixed with oil or I never heard of a pestle."

"I've never mixed chalk before," told Jacob.
Connor mentioned, "I thought it was weird grinding the chalk because it looked weird when it was smashed up."

"I really liked grinding up the chalk," expressed Colton.

Chidy mentioned, "It was kind of hard to mix the chalk."

"The painting and the mixing were the most fun because you got to pour some oil in the broken chalk that we used from the pestle," uttered Dylan.

Blake mentioned, "When we crushed the chalk it was really easy and I liked when it was all done and we mixed the oil with the chalk because it looked weird--like orange goo."

"I have never made paint," remarked Kathy.

"I never knew you could make paint using chalk and oil," declared Camryn.

Awesome Kid of the Week

Our Awesome Kid of the Week is Hailey A.!! She is always respectful and ready to listen. Hailey always gets her work completed and tries her best. Way to go, Hailey!! Keep up the awesome work!

Vocabulary & Spelling April 5-9, 2010

We have finished the ITBS test! Woo hoo! The students did a great job of trying their very best.

This week our story is about a journey. Yunmi and Holmoni's Trip is about a journey to Korea. Our vocabulary words this week are all about journeys.

Vocabulary
bustling -- full of activity; busy
custom -- a tradition; a way of doing something that many people follow
foreigners -- people who come from another country or place
passport -- a government document that allows a person to travel in foreign countries
sightseeing -- visiting interesting places; touring
skyscrapers -- very tall buildings
vendor -- someone who sells something


Spelling Words
caught
thought
bought
laugh
through
enough
fought
daughter
taught
brought
ought
cough
Challenge Words: sought, granddaughter