A Turkey for Thanksgiving

We read a story called, "A turkey for Thanksgiving." It was about a moose who catches a turkey for thanksgiving and the turkey is scared that he is going to eat him. We then wrote a story trying to convince people to not eat turkey for Thanksgiving. We made this cute turkey to remind us to not eat turkey. It's feathers showed us the parts of a paragraph and the best order to put them in. The sign was different for everybody. Mine said, "Don't eat turkey: Eat persimmons!" It was a cool way to practice writing paragraphs. By: Puppy

My teacher for Halloween

   

We did a fun activity about what our teacher would be for Halloween. She gave us a paper with a picture of her head. We had to draw what we thought she would be for Halloween and write a story about her. I made her look like a witch. It was a really fun activity. 

None of us got the answer correct. My teacher went as a green dinosaur for Halloween! 

By: Owl

Quotations

We learned about Quotations. So quotations are when a character is talking. You have to use punctuation to show that a character is talking. We practiced by using candy corn or mike and ikes for  the quotation marks. It helped us remember where they go and how we should use them in our sentences. We also got to eat some when we were done! By: Fox

Haunted House

We made Haunted House stories. We wrote about what happened when I visited a Haunted House. I wrote about seeing a witch, a mummy and a skeleton. I had to add lots of details and explain what happened step by step. We then made a Haunted House that flipped up and showed what our story said. I drew the witch, mummy and skeleton in my house. It was a cool project to do for Halloween. By: Bunny

Campbell Historical Museum

Today we went to the Campbell Historical Museum and we got to do lots of things. We got to see how you washed laundry in the past and we got to try it ourself. We also got to try apricot jam because Campbell used to have apricot orchards. By: capybara

We went to the Campbell Museum and we had a tea party. We learned manners and even got to wash our dishes. We had a fun time! By: Pony

We got to wash clothes. It was so much fun. By: Panda

We got to pick fake apricots from a fake tree to pretend like we were people from the past. By: Prong Horn

On the field trip we saw four old piggy banks. They were really fun because they made the penny fly. They were made out of metal and really heavy. By: Moose

We got to make bookmarks and we got to learn about sports in the past in Campbell. We learned a lot. By: Lizard

We got to barter and we traded fruits and vegetables. We traded a lot of stuff like butter, apples, eggs, pies and bread for coffee grinds, tea and for yarn. We learned that you can get stuff without paying for it. By: Bear

On our field trip, we got to make cans that have labels on them. We got to design the label for it and we got to learn how people used to put fruit in cans. By: Fox

We also had a snack. We got to spread jam on bread and eat it at our tea party. By: Shark

Today at our field trip, we got to clean clothes and we saw an old coffee grinder. By: Indominus Rex

We had a really fun time at our field at the Campbell Historical Museum. We were so glad that we went. By: Owl

Teddy Bear Baptism

Today we had a baptism for our stuffed animals. We learned how a priest baptizes people. Father Angelo helped us. This morning we brought a stuffed animal or bear to school. We made candles using a toilet paper roll. We glued paper to it and put a yellow napkin inside like a flame. We also made a gown for the teddy. During a Baptism, you have to white to show that you are being cleaned of Original Sin. Our bears got to wear white! We drew crosses on them.

Then we walked over to the church to baptize our bear. We took a picture of all of us and our bears. Then Father Angelo had us sit around him and he explained how children or adults get baptized.

He told us that baptism makes us a member of the church and one of God's children. Then he showed us the holy oil. It's called chrism, but we didn't get to smell it like the teachers did. They said it smelled sweet and beautiful. Then he explained about the candle and how it reminds us of God's
light. We showed him our candles!

Finally, he let us baptize our stuffed animals and bears.

We put some holy water on their heads and made the sign of the cross and it was a really cool and fun to learn about the special sacrament. We loved it so much! Afterwards Father Angelo came to our classroom and we showed him our baptism books. Our mommies and daddies made us books about us getting baptized. They are so special. We shared them with Father Angelo and we showed all our friends. It was a really fun day! By: Panda, Moose and T-rex

We made Maps

We made a map of a pretend city in groups. We had to add a map key, scale and a compass. Our map had roads and we used symbols to show where things were in our city. Our city was called, "Gaming City." We made Game stop and our the Earthquakes stadium. We also made a pond with squids. It was a cool city and we had lots of fun. I can't wait to see what everyone else's cities look like! It was so much fun! By: Panda

Word Family Webs

Last week we made word family webs and it was fun making the spider. We had to words on the web that had the same sound in them. For example if the sound was -at, we had to make the words, "Pat, sat, cat, and bat." We wrote the words in the parts of the web. Then we sharpied it so that we could see it from far away and we made a little spider with 8 legs for the web. We had tons of fun and they make our classroom look creepy for Halloween! By: Capybara

Sacrament Song and Foldables!

The Sacrament song teaches us about the seven sacraments. We learned all about them! We sang a song and we got to do hand motions when we sing.

We also made this cool poster. We had to draw a picture and glue it on the poster. We loved singing and we loved working hard on the project! We hope you like the project and our song! By: Fox

Applesauce

Today, we made applesauce in class and the directions were:

First, you cut the apples and peel them. Then, you put them in a crockpot. You add on top white sugar, brown sugar, water and cinnamon. Then, you stir it. Then, you turn the crock pot on and leave it in the corner of the classroom. It stayed there and cooked for the whole day. We stirred it right after lunch, then we let it cool. Finally, we ate it. We thought it was delicious! and we loved it! By: Dragon

Gizdich Ranch

We went on our first field trip to Gizdich Ranch. I loved the tour. We got to pick apples and learn about Johhnny appleseed. We learned that he wore a pot on his head. Then we got to watch a video about how they made apple juice. Then, we got try the apples and apple juice. It was so yummy. Next,  the farmer let us walk in the refrigerator. It was cold, but fun. Then we went to the store and we got to buy stuff there. Finally, it was time to go. We drive back to school. We had a great time on our trip! 

This is a picture of some of the apples they grow there. 

This is a picture of the sign at their bakery. They make awesome pies. That is cartoon of farmer who helped us on our tour. 

This is a picture of the orchard and the windmill.

Look at the apples we picked. We had so much fun! By: Owl 

Math Museum

This week we walking in a Math Museum. There was math problems all over our room. There was counting by 5's , 1's, 10's and 100's. We had to solve number patterns. There mystery blanks and we had to solve them. We walked around with a piece of paper and a whiteboard and found all over the math problems. Then we answered them. It was lots of fun to do math this way! By: Deer

Penguin Art

We read the book, "One cool friend." Then we drew a penguin. We outlined it in sharpie and colored it with crayons. We had to write words in the background. We wrote words that like cool, friendly, funny because they were words that described what kinds of friends we want. I wrote loving and smart. Then we got to use watercolors to paint the background. I love them. They look awesome on the cabinets. By: Horse.

Learning in Math

We have learned about odds and evens. We worked on an odds and even sort. We had to solve math problems and sort them.

We also learned about tens and ones. We talked about value and what that means. Its hard but we're starting to get it. Mrs. Patel and Miss Crowley let us use whiteboards to practice.

We also did a little bit about the hundreds, tens and ones. We also played math minute on the computers and ST Math on the iPads. We like doing Rotations in Math time. By Basking Shark, and T-rex

School Theme

This year's theme, "Trust in the Lord with all your Heart," This means believing God and doing what we can to follow him. We can be kind and helpful to others. We can be nice and listen in church. We made beautiful hearts to help us remember. We colored with markers and sprayed them with water. Then Miss Crowley cut them into hearts and we glued them together and wrote the theme on them. We also got to make videos using the iPads where we talked about the theme and what we learned. We are excited that it is our theme this year. By: Indominus Rex and Deer

Can you Guess the Second grader!?

This is our "Can you Guess the Second grader" wall. We learned how to draw people using lines and erasing the lines later. Then we colored them very nicely and used a sharpie to outline them. We drew ourselves. Now they look very good. We hung them on the wall. Next them is our "All About Me" writings. We wrote what our favorite color is and what our favorite movie is. We made them so we can learn more about each other and so our parents have to guess which one is us for Back to School Night. We had lots of fun making this wall! By: Capybara 

We are excited to "Bee" in 2nd grade!!

We made the bees to tell how excited we are for second grade. We had to put the eyes on and put them together with glue. Some people wrote that they are excited because the teacher is fun and nice. Other people wrote that they want to learn math and multiplication. We can't wait for a great year.
By:  Owl