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January
2004 Second
Issue
The Half-A-Moon
Inn
By Robin
Our
class is reading a book called The Half-A-Moon Inn, by Paul
Fleischman. It is about a boy named Aaron who is mute, which means he
can't talk. Aaron and his mom always go to a town called Craftsbury to
trade wool for oats, lamp oil, and more wool. Tomorrow is Aaron's
birthday and he is going to turn twelve. His mom is going to let Aaron
stay home because she thinks he is responsible enough. Aaron's mother
said, "and I'll be home by noon tomorrow, just as always. And not a
moment later." Then it starts to snow and Aaron's mother is late.
Aaron gets scared and goes off to look for her. Aaron gets lost on the
way and meets a ragman. Then he goes a long way from home and goes to
the Half-A-Moon Inn. There he meets a mean old lady named Miss
Grackle. She makes Aaron work and changes his name to Sam. Miss
Grackle is a money thief. That is how far we have read. We can't wait
until we finish the book!
Third Graders
Take On Recorders
By Zachary
Playing recorders can be really fun! A basic
recorder has a thumb rest and eight holes including one on the back.
Ms. Matthews has us put smiley face stickers over the recorder holes.
We put smiley face stickers over the holes so we don't accidentally
lift our finger off the hole. When we learn a note we take that
sticker off. We have already learned low C and low D. Soon we will
learn to play "Hot Cross Buns".
Ms. Matthews jokingly told us that she likes to torture the third
graders, but not the kindergarten, first or second graders. She also
said she likes to torture the fourth graders every now and then, but
fifth graders she liked to torture the most! The third graders don't
think it's torture, we think it's fun!
Pilgrims
By Savannah
In Social Studies we have been studying the Pilgrims. We watched a
move, read books, and took tests. This helped me remember all of the
facts.
I learned about a Pilgrim girl named Sarah Morton. Every morning she
put on ten "overgarments". "Overgarment" is another name for clothes.
On Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim men played a game to see who was the
strongest. They had to throw a log as hard as they could. Whoever
threw the log the farthest was the strongest!
The Pilgrims had a very hard life. Even the children worked hard. I
liked learning about how they lived. I am grateful for having an
easier life.
Chemistry
By David
We are learning chemistry in school. We go to Mrs. Barker's class to
do it. Her class comes to our classroom for Social Studies at the same
time we are in their room for Science. We are separated into groups.
Each group has a bucket with the tools they need for chemistry inside
it. Each group needs a tray, four or five pairs of goggles depending
on how many people are in your group, five mini containers with
different powders in them, and five mini spoons for each container.
There are ten stickers of five different colors. One color goes on
each spoon and cup. We need the stickers so we won't mix the powders
together by mistake while we are observing. Then you are ready to
begin.
We observed the powders and mixed them with water. Some were gooey,
some did not mix; they just made bubbles, and some were clear. We
won't find what the powders are until the end of the unit.
Book Sorting
By Ashley
We have
been talking about different genres and doing book sorting with Dr.
Springer-Kotelnikov. We finished sorting all of the fiction books and
we put the fiction books in colorful bins. Lately, we have been
sorting non-fiction books into categories like science and biography.
Our classroom library looks great!
Multiplication and
Division
By Spencer
Our class started studying multiplication and division.
Multiplication and division are fun to do. To check your work when you
divide, you multiply to get your answer. To check you work when you
multiply, you divide to get your answer. Here is an example of
division:
6÷3
= 2
I like multiplication and division better than addition and
subtraction because it is a challenge.
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