The class did a wonderful job planning and preparing for the Soiree. Our room plan was designed by DJ. It had a great flow and worked very well. The food prepared by our class was delicious! The tables were each unique and festive. When you put it all together, it was a wonderful, holiday reception with many of our friends attending and enjoying themselves. Thanks to everyone that helped us accomplish our holiday soiree! Below are pictures of our event:
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December 27, 2008
December 09, 2008
Monster Project and Tacky Turkeys
In November our class did the "Monster in the Closet" project. The students pretend to be an author writing a book about the Monster in the closet. They wrote the description of the monster as the child opened the closet door. Next, they illustrated their writing. Mrs. Minor's class did the same assignment.
Our classes then switch writing but not the illustration. The students then became an illustrator. Using the author writing, they had to interpret what the author was description and then draw the monster.
The class got together in the media center and read the description and compared the author and the illustrator's drawing. It was amazing how close some of the illustrations were. The classes realized that the author must used descriptive words for the reader to see the what the author is visualizing.
Below are two examples:
Tacky Turkey Projects
We also had a "Tacky Turkey" contest before we left for Rock Eagle. These were the best turkeys I have received for this project. It was hard to pick a winner. The winners are below with their turkeys.
First Place -
Second Place:
December 08, 2008
December 1-5
This week we looked at the pictures that we took at Rock Eagle. We had centers why ALP was gone. We made a backbone out of macaroni and lifesavers.
Thursday we had a lot to do. We gave a performance of our play, Shape-Up, Santa, for the school. Also, we did a play for the schools and parents Thursday night. On Friday we had a class spelling bee and helped our Reading Buddies make graphs in Graph Club. We also had a class with Ms. Weston our counselor.
Trevor
November 10-14
This week had to be the best. Here lets start off with our water conservation lesson. Winnie's mom came and taught us about how we waste water now and how we can save water in the future. Mrs. Cargill also gave us this sheet where we had to estimate how many gallons we think it will take to do a certain thing; such as making steel or to take a shower. We also discussed how to conserve water and some of the biggest mistakes people make that waste water. We all had so much fun with Mrs. Cargill.
Sara
