Student of the Week for the Week of February 7, 2011

Congratulations to our Student of the Week for the week of February 7, 2011. Our Student of the Week has been safe in and out of the classroom. She is aware of her surroundings and makes sure she walks and looks where she is going. She says excuse me and waits for others to pass. She has been responsible with her learning. She works independently in the classroom, looks, listens and is focused. She turns in her work on time and does her homework consistently. She has been respectful to her peers and teachers. She listens and respects others' opinions. She follows directions the first time they are given. Keep up the great work!

Field Trip to the Los Angeles Zoo

On February 20, 2009, we went to the Los Angeles Zoo. With digital cameras, we went all over the place and took pictures of some of the animals we saw. We also took pictures of ourselves.

100 Days of School

On February 18, 2009, we reached 100 Days of School! We celebrated by wearing "100 Days of School " glasses that we made ourselves using paper, crayons, and scissors.

We took pictures of ourselves for this fun day. You are seeing some of those pictures after it was made into a comic strip using PikiStrips.com. If you look carefully, you will see our February calendar numbers are the faces of two of our Presidents.

We have learned so much in 100 Days, but our teacher says we will be doing a lot more. We are excited because we are going to the Los Angeles Zoo. We are also going to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday in our school. Later, we will be kicking off our Spring break with an egg hunt. We hope you come back and see what we are doing in our class!

Our Journey Plans

We have been learning about journeys and have been reading Captain Bill Pinkney's Journey. We looked at his trip using Google Earth. We also looked at a map to plan our own journeys. See where we decided to go below or view it in Google Earth by clicking here.

Our Plant Terrarium

We are learning about plants. Miss Mach has been helping us with our terrariums and we will be uploading new pictures of what we observe. Come back here weekly to see what we see.

Silkworms Spin Cocoons

Over the weekend some of our silkworms spun silk into cocoons. We were surprised to find that the silk was yellow. A while back when we first began looking at our silkworms, our teacher showed us pictures of silkworm cocoons, and we saw that they could be white or yellow. But we thought these would be white just like the real examples our teacher brought in from last year's group of silkworms. We wonder why some cocoons are white and others are yellow. We are hoping to see at least one of our silkworms as an adult before school lets out on June 20. If one does, we'll make sure we take a picture and share it. Can you find the cocoon hidden in the photograph taken by our student of the month?

Presentations on Wind

We've finally finished our projects on wind. For the past month, we used our digital cameras to capture images that represented what we created in our storyboards. Third grade students then came in to help us type the words for our wind stories, which we pasted into PowerPoint presentations. Below is a look at our work from storyboards to finished digital photographs uploaded into Google Docs. Enjoy!

Group 1 Presentation



Group 2 Presentation



Group 3 Presentation



Group 4 Presentation



Group 5 Presentation