Saints Play Cast Party!

We had a party after the Saint's play. It was so much fun. There were pictures of us dressed in our Saints costumes. We got to sign each other's pictures. There were also lots of snacks! Everybody ate all of them! -Penguin

We really enjoyed eating cookies and cupcakes. I had a great time at the party. - Cheetah

We enjoyed signing people's pictures from the Saints Play. We also enjoyed eating lots of cupcakes, cookies and chocolate. There was even a giant stuffed oscar. The party made us feel like real actors!!
-Giraffe

Thank you so much to all those who helped make the cast party possible!! A special thanks to Hamster's mom from 2MC and Gumball's mom from 2LC. We loved it!!!

Native American Project

This week we learned about different Native American tribes. Miss Crowley put us in groups and our group decided which native american tribe to learn about. We used a native american nonfiction book to find answers to questions about our tribe. Then we used stickers to show on a map where our Native American tribe lived. We are going to cut out pictures and glue them onto a piece of paper and present it in front of the class. My tribe is the Apache. They are really cool because they fiercest tribe in the southwest because they would steal stuff from other tribes and fight them. They rode and horses and wore scary face paint to scare the other tribes.

I can't wait to learn about the other tribes. By: Tiger

Outside mass

This week we had an outside mass. It was in our courtyard. We sat on the chairs from the classroom. It was awesome. We sang songs about Jesus and Father Joe was the priest. The alter cloth was a beautiful white cloth that we decorated with leaves. We painted them with water colors and wrote what we were thankful for. Father Joe talked about saying thank you to people that help every day. He said to say thank you to our parents. It was a great mass. I enjoyed it.

By: Grizzly Bear

DON'T EAT TURKEY!!!

We read a book called, " A Turkey for Thanksgiving." Mr. Moose and Mrs. Moose wanted a turkey for thanksgiving. Mr. Moose goes looking for one. Then they find a turkey and the turkey thinks that they want to eat him. He starts running but he's too fat to run. So Mr. Moose says, "That's ok that you're too fat to fly." They take the turkey home and there is a surprise ending. They didn't want to eat the turkey. They just wanted him as a guest.

After the book we imagined what it would be like to be a turkey and somebody wanted to take us to Thanksgiving and eat us. So then Miss Crowley told us about persuading. She gave us strategies like trying to scare the reader, or trying to make them feel bad, or make it sound funny or fun, or using celebrities to convince the reader.

Then she gave us a paper and she said if you were a turkey how would you persuade the reader to not eat turkeys for thanksgiving. We each had to pick something that we wanted readers to eat instead. I chose ice cubes.

Check out some of the examples.
By: Penguin

Saint's Play Practice!

Everybody so so brilliant when we were practicing the play. Everybody was paying attention and being respectful of the people talking. People were helpful and mostly quiet.

We have been practicing for our Saint's play. Each person is a Saint and they are going to dress up for the show. We had to memorize our lines. and if we did, we got a homework pass. We are so excited!

At the end of the show we are going to sing a song! Check out this cool picture of Saints!
By: Horse

ART Vistas

Today I learned about how to use different kinds of lines and different kinds of paint brushes when using watercolors. And how to mix different colors. We got to paint a picture of the ocean. So we drew the sky, land and ocean. After we did that we added details.

I enjoyed it!
By: Cobra

Turkey Feathers

Check out our Turkey! It's hanging in the office hallway.

Saint Project

This week we finished working our Saints Project. All of us in the class did one. After we drew our Saints we had outline them in black sharpie. We learned how to do "see not think" drawing. Then we had to do the research about our Saint. We read an paper about them. We had to find important information like where he was born, or where he lived why he was a Saint. I worked on Saint Nicholas. I learned that his parents died when he was only 16 years old and that he could already read the bible by himself when he was five years old.

After we researched our Saints we had to write a paragraph about all of them. We had to include good punctuation and a topic sentence and a conclusion sentence.

We hung our Saint drawings and our paragraphs on the wall! It was very fun making the Saint's project.
By: King Kong

Mr. Turkey loves Subtraction

We had to subtract the numbers on his feathers. All of them had borrowing except one. -Spider

We decided that Mr. Turkey and Mr. Bones don't like each other because one likes subtraction and one likes addition and they are opposites. -Roly Poly

It was so much fun to make them. They were so colorful. It took a lot of work to solve the problems.- Baby Pig

It was really really really fun to make him. All the feathers were really pretty and had math problems on them. -Parrot

2MC wins the Spirit Bear!

Whoever shows the most spirit at Holy Spirit wins the Spirit Bear! We showed the most spirit at the Halloween rally on Tuesday. We saw people wrapping people in toilet paper for the mummy wrap. We did a pumpkin rolling competition. We guessed a teacher in a ghost costume. 2MC followed directions and cheered on our team! We also wore orange and black and Miss Crowley wore a crazy Halloween sweater and silly earrings. We showed lots of spirit and won the spirit bear!

We put him on the teacher's stool. He is going to watch us learn! Look how cute he is!!!
By: Kitten

Quotation Booklet

Quotation are used when the characters speak. The author stops talking and instead the characters start. The author shows that the character is talking by using quotation marks. We read lots of books and tallied quotation marks when we were reading. We also looked at Halloween stories and when the quotation marks showed up, we all shouted quotation mark!

The booklets were Halloween themed and I thought they were really fun because Miss Crowley taught it to us. The booklet was about going into house and meeting different creatures that talked to us. We had to say what they were saying.

Like the cat in my book he was saying, "Fish sound delicious to me!" And for the ghost it said... It shouted, "Hi, my name is Miss Crowley." My spider screamed, "I am arachnid! Not an insect!"

It was really fun and we've learned a lot about quotation marks since we've done them.

By: Bunny