Thank you!

Thank you so much for paying attention to our blog this year. We loved posting things for you to see! By: Cheetah 

We liked to post stuff on our blog. It made us feel special that people were reading it each week. And we are glad you liked seeing what we did. By: Roly Poly

We liked seeing all your nice comments and we hope the first graders enjoy posting things next year too! They are going to be lucky to be in Second Grade. We can't wait to see what they'll post! We are excited to go to Third Grade! By: Leopard

Pentecost Doves

We learned the story of the Pentecost and created these little projects. At Pentecost the apostles were scared to do what Jesus did and share God's word because they were scared of being killed like Jesus. All of a sudden the Holy Spirit burst through the door and flames appeared over the heads of the apostles. They suddenly scared and they can speak to anyone. They could even speak to people who spoke different languages. By: Parrot

We made doves because we were learning about Pentecost. The dove is a symbol of the Holy Spirit. We have doves on our shirts because we go to Holy Spirit School. By: Cobra 

On my way... to multiplication

We read a book called, "Each orange had eight slices" and the main character was on his way to different places and he kept running into multiplication. He'd ask us questions and we'd have to solve them using multiplication sentences. They were really fun. By: Cat

Then we made our own pages and our own stories with questions. By: Roly Poly 

Making these were really fun. My partner and I wrote a page where we were on our way to the mall and we ran into mommy ducks with baby ducks. We asked our reader to use multiplication to solve how many ducks and baby ducks there were and how many little eyes the baby ducks had. It was fun writing multiplication stories. By: Hamster

It was really fun. My partner and me wrote about going to a carnival. We wanted them to solve how many people and how many balloons and how many cars. We enjoyed it. By: Humming Bird

Our Final Book Report

For our last book report we had to read a book about an animal and write a paragraph with lots of facts about the animal. Then we had to make the animal that was 3D and looked like a stuffed animal. I did a puppy. There were lots of cool animals and everyone worked really hard. By: Penguin

It was fun reading about all the different animals and learning about different animals and their habitats. I loved watching my friends present. We got pick a friend to hold our stuffed animal up while we read about our animal and answered our the questions our friends had. I did panda and he was so cute. By: Bunny

I read a book about a cheetah and I had to get paper and draw a cheetah. I cut it out and stuffing in it and stapled it closed so it was 3D. It was hard to do but it was really fun at the same time! My favorite animal is a cheetah so I liked the project. By: Cheetah

First Communion Mass

Last Wednesday, we had a Communion Mass. We had to wear our First Communion suits and dresses and we had to do the "Here I am to worship" song in two different languages. After we finished the mass, there was a big party. By: Rhino

Learning sign language was very hard but fun. There are so many different signs. We had to learn all the signs for the song, "Here I am to worship." We got to stand on the alter and sing it to the whole entire school except for the 8th graders who were gone. We got to wear our First Communion clothes, but afterwards we had to change back into our school clothes. By: Parrot

We said the words in two languages at the same time. It was hard to learn, but lots of fun. My favorite part of the song was when we signed, "King of all days" during the second verse. It was fun to make a K with my fingers. By: Penguin

Fractured Fairy Tales!

Fractured are very fun when you get to make them. You get to fracture stuff like the elves and the shoemaker. It's pretty easy if you understand the regular story and know how you want to fracture it. First, we had to pick a fairy tale we liked and then we had to brainstorm how we would change it. We had to change the setting, characters, events or perspective of the main character. We then had to look carefully at the original story and the words that repeated or the things that happened in it, so that are story would be good! We took a long time to write them and we finished this week! By: Python

Here are two of our class stories. We hope you like them! By: Grizzly Bear

The Three Little Hikers and the Big Bad Volcano

By: Tiger

Once upon a time, there lived three little hikers. The first hiker was small but loved hiking big mountains. The second hiker was curious about everything and the third hiker was great at reading a map. One day they were climbing a huge mountain in a forest in Northern California. When they got to the top of the mountain, they realized the mountain was no mountain. It was a volcano! The hikers ran down the mountain looking for anything they could use to build shelter. The first hiker found a pile of sticks for his house. After he was finished he took a nap because he was so tired. He was woken up by a loud noise. “Rumble, Tumble! The volcano has exploded!” The hiker got out of the house at the right time just before the lava came and melted the house down. He ran to his brother’s house. His brother had made a house of bricks. Once they were inside, they saw the lava was still flowing. It came down the mountain, “Rumble, Tumble! The volcano had exploded.” The lava began to melt their house. The two brothers screamed and ran out of the house to the third hiker’s house. It was made of ice! They all heard, “RUMBLE, TUMBLE! The Volcano had exploded again!” The lava started flowing even faster and the mountain started to crack. The hikers were very scared. The flowing lava got closer and closer. It almost had touched the house when it suddenly froze. The icehouse had stopped the flowing lava. They lived happily ever after, using the frozen lava as an awesome basketball court. People came from everywhere to play on it. They sold tickets and made lots of money. Just enough money to buy mountain bikes so they can ride down mountains after they hike up them. They plan to someday hike to the top of Mount Everest!

Little Blue Running Shorts 

By: Leopard

Once upon a time, there was a girl, who lived with her mom in a giant sandcastle on the west side of the beach. Whenever the girl went out to run she wore bright blue running shorts that had dark blue stripes. So, everyone called her Little Blue Running Shorts. One day Little Blue Running Shorts’ mom asked her to take a basket of medicine to her grandma on the south side of the beach. “Grandma isn’t feeling well. I’m sure she will love to see you.” So, her mom drew a map, so she would not get lost. As she was leaving, her mom said, “Remember to watch out for the Giant Crab and stay on the path!” Little Blue Running Shorts skipped away and took the basket of medicine to her grandma’s. On the way she saw some beautiful seashells. She thought her grandma might like them so she picked them up and put them in her basket. She didn’t realize someone else was on the beach. It was the Big Giant Crab. “Hello, little girl,” said a deep scratchy voice. “Where are you off to?” “I am off to my grandma’s house. She is sick,” said Little Blue Running Shorts. “Where does your grandma live?” asked the Crab. Little Blue Running Shorts said, “I just need to follow this path and it will take me right there!” With an evil laugh the Giant crab suggested she collect more seashells for her grandma and took off down the path. When the Giant Crab arrived at grandma’s he quickly gobbled her up. Then he climbed into her bed and put on her spare glasses and nightcap. When Little Blue Running Shorts arrived she looked at grandma and said, “Grandma, what big hands you have!” The Crab responded, “The better to hug you with.” Little Blue Running Shorts replied, “Grandma, what big eyes you have!” The Crab said, “The better to see you with!” Finally Little Blue Running Shorts said, “Grandma, What big teeth you have!” “The better to eat you with!” screamed the crab as he gobbled her up!  The Giant crab was so full that he fell asleep in grandma’s bed. Luckily for grandma and little blue running shorts, a very young teenage crab catcher came walking along. He knew grandma very well and knew that she would never leave her door open. He walked in and found the giant crab sleeping in the room. He noticed the big tummy and realized what happened! He used his sharp knife to cut the crab’s tummy open. Out jumped Grandma and Little Blue Running Shorts! They were so thankful that they gave the young crab catcher a huge hug. He and Little Blue Running Shorts became great friends and fell in love. He asked her to marry him, and she said, “Yes!” They all lived happily ever after!

© Stories Found in Today's post belong to the HSS students that wrote them. 

Moths!

Our silkworms turned turned into moths! They came out of their cocoons and they were no longer silkworms! They were moths. Everyday during Science I would tell Mrs. Wessels that they were hatching or they were laying eggs. They love to their wings in class and scare us when we are doing work. They are white and they little brown eyebrows. We had so much fun watching them grow up and become moths! It is cool to learn about life cycles!

By: Lion

Corey Rosen Schwartz

On Tuesday we got a package from Corey Rosen Schwartz! She sent us stickers and bookmarks. She saw our blog and she wanted to send them to us. It was so nice of her. We really like her books. We love all her books. My favorite book is "The Three Ninja Pigs," but lots of kids in our class like her book, "Goldi Rocks and the Three Bears" best. They are all good! You should read them! She is such a cool author! By: Cat

Multiplication Storybooks

The Multiplication Storybooks are very awesome to make. We had to write the answer and draw a picture of what it equals. By: Kitten

We had to draw pictures of the multiplication problems. It was really fun but I found it kind of hard. By: Grizzly Bear

They were so fun to do but a little bit hard. We really like learning multiplication! By: Giraffe

Delicious Adverbs and Gumball Fractions!

Adverbs were really fun! An adverb is a word that describes an adjective, a verb or another adverb and answers the question how, when or where. We made ice cream cones and we had to write sentences that had adverbs. We had lots of fun! By: Giraffe

We got to learn about adverbs! We loved learning about them by making ice cream cones. Miss Crowley told us to top off sentences with adverbs. My ice cream cone said.. He plays. He plays carefully. He plays outside. He plays today. It was lots of fun! By: Roly Poly

In Math last week we made Gumball machines that had fractions at the bottom. We told how many Gumballs we had using fractions. How you make a fraction is you put the total amount of items or pieces on the bottom and what you are looking for on the top. Fractions are cool! By: Python

It was fun to make gumball machines, using fractions. I put two of each color gumball in my machine. So I had 2/12 yellow gumballs, and 2/12 everything else! By: Parrot

Art Vistas Show!

All year we have made awesome art projects with Art Vistas. Last week they put on a show! By: Snake

One of our classmates, Grizzly Bear, won because he did a great job on his bubblegum mask! It's a funny mask because he's blowing a huge pink bubble! By: Kitten

At the Art Vistas show we saw all the art the whole school made! By: Elephant
We really enjoyed the art show! It was really fun! By: Grizzly Bear

Science Night

A Science Night in 4J we got to make these thing that roll. We made it with a straw, a rubber band, and a cap to a water bottle. Basically we made a wheel and then you would twist the straw and it would roll by itself. It didn't make electricity but it made friction. By: Bunny

At Science in 2MC we got to make moon shapes using oreos. Moon shapes are called phases. One of the shapes is called a crescent. After we finished making the shapes we got to eat the oreo. My sister and Lion's sister just ate them without making shapes. The moon is delicious! By: Rhino

At Science Night in the Science Room you got to hold snakes! There was a big iguana! I was too scared to hold one, but it was super cool! By: Cheetah

At Science Night in First Grade you got to make gunk. You had to keep squishing it until it rolled into a ball that you could bounce around. There were lots of cool colors. We had green gunk. By: King Kong and Baby Pig

In 5LB in our buddy's classroom, we learned about magnetic stuff. What we did is we put a magnet in a copper tube and it slows down! The more powerful the magnet the slower it goes. If you put a magnet  in a plastic tube, it will not work because it is not magnetic! By: Lion

We loved Science Night! By: the 2MC animals

Fractured Fairy Tale Centers

We did fractured fairy tale centers. We read a regular fairy tale and the fractured version in each center. Then we had to write the problem and solution and we had to write the evil and the good characters in them. You have to write which version you like better and how they are a different settings, events, characters or perspective.

One of the centers was the "Three Little Pig" and the "Three Ninja Pigs." Another center was, "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" and "Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs." My Favorite Fractured Fairy tale so far is the "Three Ninja Pigs" because when the pigs were training to be a ninja. We are having so much fun working with Fairy Tales! By: Dog

2MC's Dream Houses

We made our dream houses and we drew the inside of our dream houses and labeled each room in our house. We found the area and the perimeter of our houses. We had so much fun making them! It really helped us learn. By: Butterfly

Silk Worms!

During Science for the last few weeks, Mrs. Wessels gave us some silk worms. Most of them are now making cocoons. By: Hamster

Before they started making cocoons, they were eating lots and lots of leaves. Ms. Crowley got annoyed because they kept escaping and crawling all our counters. By: Cheetah

They are really really fun to have in the classroom. I am excited for them to become moths. By: Humming Bird

Holy Thursday

Today we went to church in the gym to do washing of the hands. By: Hamster

It represents how Jesus washed the feet of his disciples to show us that even if you are a leader you still have to do things for others. By: Cat

We got in a line and the person in front of us washed our hands. We had to wash the person behind us. By: Cheetah

We washed people behind us hands and said, "I will serve you." Then we dipped their hands in the water. Jesus wants us to serve others. By: Leopard

We had a Sedar meal with 2LC because Jesus was celebrating a Passover meal with his apostles at the Last Supper. By: Rhino

A Sedar meal is what they would have eaten at the Last Supper. They would have eaten greens like lettuce, the charoset, a shank bone, parsley, a bitter herb, and a hard boiled egg. By: Cheetah

The Passover that Jesus celebrated with his apostles is now called the Last Supper because Jesus was about to die on the cross and he wanted to have one last time to have a meal with his disciples, but they did not understand what was going to happen. By Lion

The Sedar Meal was yummy and I thought it was really cool to see what Jesus would have eaten at the Last Supper. By: Lion

I liked it a lot. It was fun to celebrate with 2LC. By: Hummingbird

Holy Week Wheels!

We did these Holy Week Wheels. It shows what Jesus did the week before he died. It was a wheel where you would twist it and it would show what Jesus went through. We learned about Palm Sunday. Jesus was riding a donkey. When he was riding on the donkey he was going to Jerusalem. People were waving palms at him. We also learned Holy Thursday. On Holy Thursday Jesus washed his apostles feet and they ate a meal called the Last Supper. After the supper they went to the garden to pray. Judas betrayed Jesus. He picked 30 silver coins over Jesus. Finally, we learned about Jesus dying on the cross. We read the book, "The proud tree" which was from the perspective of Rex the cross. This Sunday Jesus will rise from the dead on Easter! I am excited for Easter. It was really fun to color the wheel and they were all very very beautiful.
By: Giraffe

Working with Area and... Chalk!

We were making squares and rectangles to find the area. We had to draw columns and rows. Then we counted the squares inside our shape to find the area. By: Dog

We had lots of fun. I made a very very big rectangle. My area was 55! By: Baby Pig

Area Robots

This week we were learning Area. Area is how much squares are in a shape. We made area robots using graph paper. We had to figure out how much squares the whole robot was. My robot had a mustache. Area robots are really fun to make.

By: Tiger

Our Field Trip to City Hall

On Tuesday we went to the city hall and got to see a council man for our District. We got to ask him questions. We got to look around city hall and eat in the rotunda. The rotunda is cool because the windows open up. We got to see Scottish people playing drums. We got to go to a meeting with the mayor and city council people. A band sang a pretty song and we got to lead the pledge of allegiance. It was really cool and really fun. By: Penguin