SNOW DAY!

Today is a snowy day. I love snowy days, the hot chocolate, the snowman, and the sitting by the fire, it's so warm. Have you ever had a snow day? Don't you just love days like this, it's so fun.

Today I made snowmen, I had hot chocolate, and I saw some amazing snow crystals on the internet, taken by Wilson A. Bentley. That's what I did on this snowy day. What do you do on snowy days?

Posted by Corey

Writing: Ask a question

How did you celebrate your birthday? I celebrated mine at my house with my sister and my parents. It was fun! I had ice cream and chocolate cake. It was tasty.

posted by Ryan

Writing: Use a sound

"Seeeeewrrr!" We slipped down the water slide. "Hey," someone said, "water balloon fight" as balloons whizzed through the air. "Pop, bang, pop" as they hit you. "Squash" as we ran on the grass from the water . It was a water party and we were all having fun! It was my 8th birthday.


posted by Connor H

Writing: Give a Startling Fact

I had woken up to a new day about 2,190 times! It was my birthday, my 6th birthday in fact. It was 7:09 A.M, the party was at 8:00, so I had to get going. I looked outside, the blow up toy was set up. Then, I had a bowl of cereal. Next, I brushed my teeth, made my bed, got dressed, and read. I read Civil War on Sunday. Now it was time for the party and all the people I had invited were here. We started to jump on the blow up toy. Next, we played badminton. Then, we ate cake. It was time for everybody to leave. I was really tired!

Posted by Mitchell

Writing...Describe the Setting

It was dark outside, even though it was light in the room I was sitting in. There were four sleeping bags lined up on the floor. There were scissors, paper and other things you need to do crafts scattered on the floor. Also, there were beanbag chairs, some with girls, some without. Along the walls were my sister's baby cradles and clothes. In addition there was a pretend kitchen with a box of dishes. Plus, there was my piano and chair. Also, there was a couch on which there was one sleeping bag. And there was a very big closet in which there was Miranda looking for something reason all these things were on the playroom floor and couch was because it was my birthday sleepover.

Posted by Caitlin

Butterflies are Free

Yesterday we released our butterflies. Only one of them flew out the window on its own. Ms. Turchin needed to push it out but when she pushed it the butterfly flew back inside! But Ms Turchin finally got the butterfly to fly outside. Those were the only butterflies to fly outside the others wouldn't fly out the window. We released the butterflies because they were pretty old because the Painted Lady butterflies only lives about 2-3 weeks before they lay eggs and die. I learned a lot about butterflies. Did you?

Posted by: Morgan

Life Cycle of Butterflies

Today a few of our butterflies started flying. There Is a lot more meconium then last week. I predict that there will be eggs by next week. Now all the butterflies are hatched. When I got In this morning I saw breytons butterfly flying all over the box. Also this morning Zoe took out all the crumpled up dead butterflys. The life cycle of the butterfly is: egg, larva, bigger larva,
j shape, chrysylis, butterfly. Thanks for reading my blog. What's your prediction for our butterfly eggs?

posted by: Alex

Proboscis

My class is doing a word list about "butterfly vocabulary". My word is proboscis and if you don't know what a proboscis is I will tell you a little bit about it. A proboscis is a butterfly's tongue. The tongue of a butterfly is used for sucking nectar from a flower. If you have a butterfly in captivity (that is when you have a pet butterfly) you need to feed them sugarwater. To make sugar water you only need 2 things warm water and sugar then you need to mix it together so that the butterfly can suck it up easier.
See if you can find one on your butterfly.

posted by Brandon

Hermie

Yesterday my caterpillar (Hermie) started making his chrysalis, later in the day he was in his chrysalis and I put him in the butterfly house. We put sponges with sugar water in it. I feel sorry for Zoe since her caterpillar died, her new caterpillar's name is NiteLite. I hope Hermie is doing OK. Boing 747 (Breyton's caterpillar) was the first one to be in a chrysalis. I wonder where Hermie's and all the other caterpillars families are. I can't wait till next year.
Posted by Corey

Breyton's Chrysalis

This morning I came in and found that my caterpillar was in its chrysalis. Well Mitchell told me then everybody crowded. Last year my plant was the last to get flowers now my caterpillar is the first to be in its chrysalis. Over night it was in its j stage. That's how my caterpillars doing. How's yours.


Posted By Breyton

My Larvae

Hi. I'm Zoe, and this is Nibbles Catterpoo, Junior. Who is he, you say? He is my larvae(caterpillar). Yesterday, he spun a web. Today, it is almost gone. AMAZING! Nibbles is 3/4 inch long. The day he arrived (September 15, 2005) he was only 1 and 1/4 centimeter. Wow! Nibbles' favorite place: the wall of his cage. He seems to have lost a couple of legs. His poop is called frass. His food is called nutrient. He is a painted lady butterfly larvae. He is hairy.
We are observing them to learn about their life cycle. Uh oh, nibbles fell asleep. Sssshhhhh!
Well, bye!!!!!! Posted by Zoe

Our NEW class

Hi! I'm Caitlin and I'm going to tell you about my new classroom. I'm in the PAT class. (In case you don't know what PAT is it means Program for the Academically Talented.) My teacher is Ms. Turchin. (she's really nice) There are a lot of new kids this year for instance Kira, Bryan, Christian and Susanne. In my group(group two) I sit with Piper, Mitchell, Ryan and Me. Now I'll describe our classroom. There are twenty-three students in our class. There are eleven computers along one wall. Each person has a computer buddy or works alone without sharing their computer. Then on another wall is the classroom library. There's a lot of books in the library. My favorite books in the library are the Choose Your Own Adventure Books. They are a book where you don't read it from beginning to end, but you can choose what you want the story to be like. On the same wall as the library is Ms. Turchin's work station. Then on one wall there's the sink and the door. On that same wall is the parent volunteers table. Then on the last wall there's Ms. Turchins desk. Ms. Turchin has a computer too. She also has Elmo and the projector. Okay I bet some of you are wondering what Elmo is Elmo is some thing you can put things under and it will show up on the screen behind Ms. Turchin with the help of the projector. The projector is on Ms. Turchins right side Elmo is on her left. There are six groups in my class. Group one is on the left side of Ms. Turchin and group two (where I sit) is in front of it. Then group three is on the right side of group two. Group four is on the right side of group three. Group five is in front of group four. Finally group six is in front of Ms. Turchins desk. Andy C., Wesley, Sid and Andy S. sit at group one. As I said Mitchell, Piper, Ryan and me sit at group two. Brandon, Conner H. Corey and Kira sit at group three. Breyton, Conner B. and Matthew sit at group four. Susanne, Christian, Morgan and Garrett sit at group five. Bryan, Alex, Zoe and Jackson sit at group six. I told you a lot about my class and classroom and I'm sort of out of things to write so would you tell me about your class and your classroom now?

Visit our classroom homepage @ www.turchin.net/joan for a picture of our classroom.

Posted By Caitlin Gard

HOW MANY DAYS UNTIL SCHOOL STARTS...

Hi PAT STARS
This is the new look of Carnation Elementary.
How do you like it?
Ms. T

PS I think it will look even better when the students arrive in September.

My memories with friends

This year I have some good and O.K. memories. Some good memories are: when Caitlin walked in the door, when Alex became my friend, and when Amelia became my best friend.

First, when Caitlin walked in, because we have known each other since preschool. Also because I used too go to school with her.

Second, when Alex became my friend because he is funny, and somtimes playful. He also sits next to me so I get to spend a lot of time with him.

Thirdly, when Amelia became my best friend because she is nice and playful. I still have lot to learn about her.

Well I hope you liked my story, and my friends too. But now it is your turn to share!

Published by: Miranda

End of the Year

I have bad news, it's the end of the year! This school year has been the best school year I've ever had. I learned cursive, I learned fractions, and a whole lot more. I love this class and I wish that didn't have to leave it. I've made a lot of new friends like Breyton, Austin, Miles and evryone else in my class, I remmember on the first day of school breyton got freaked out because he didn't know where his dad was, so I helped him look. Miles helped me with computers like evrery day and me and miles help Ms. T with different things like everyday, but that's okay because Miles and I love hellping people, and Miles taught me how to use the camera and taught me how to use computers too so now I can help people with computers too. Well I had a great year at Ms. Turchins class, I hope you will.

By: Nicholas (:

Bee Sticks

Do you know what a bee stick is? No, they are not candies. They are sticks with bees glued on them, that you use to pollinate flowers. My class made them to pollinate our flowers. The flowers we pollinated are called brassica plants, or the Wisconsin fast plants. Brassica plants belong to the crucifer family. They got their name because all of the crucifer plants have four petals arranged in a shape of a cross. Do you think that you have ever ate a crucifer plant? Well, if you have eaten Cabbage, Turnip, Collard, Watercress, Kohlrabi, Choy sum, Cauliflower, well you get my point. So if you have ever ate one of those you have eaten a crucifer plant. The 4 parts of crucifer plants are the petals and they are the thin colored parts of the plant, there is the anthers and that is the part of the flower with the pollen on it, and last but not least, there is the stigma and that is middle of the plant that has all the seeds in it. Well, I have to go pollinate my flowers... Bye.

Posted by Nick

Honey Bees

Did you know that all the worker bees are female? Hi, I'm Zoe, and I want to tell you all about bees. First, I will tell you about the life cycle. First, the Queen must lay an egg. After all, eggs cannot lay themself! Next, the larvae (LAR-vay) hatch, and are fed beebread and royal jelly (though the Queen is fed only royal jelly). Beebread is made out of pollen and nectar. Royal jelly is white, milky stuff. Finally, the adult bee emerges from the cell. Did you know that the workers fan the honey to make it? The drone is the only boy in the hive. If they do not fall in love with the queen, they get their wings clipped off and they get thrown out of the hive. Uh-oh! :-( Well, I'm VERY buzzzzz-y, so that's all I have to say!



Posted by: Zoe

Plant Growth and Development

We have started a new science unit called Plant Growth and Development.
We have our own plants and we record how our plants are doing.
We have one or two plants in each quad. There are wicks on the bottem to suck up water on this wet pad that all of are plants are on. Some have buds and flowers, and some have only buds, like mine. Some are not doing so well.
We will start learning about bees tomorrow.....stay tuned.

posted by Breyton

Duvall Citizen of the Year

Do you know what last night was? It was a very special night for me. The citizen of the year, for Duvall, was elected. Paige Denison was a nominee, for all she does in the community to help others. She works at the senior center, the church, the civic club, the library and even our classroom. There were 11 other contestants.
It was a special night. I was at the dinner, there was catering that had the best salmon ever. There was squash, and potatoes and a big salad with honey mustard dressing and raisins. It was fun and I had some chamomile tea. During dinner they anounced the citizen of the year. My mom is Paige Denison and she won the citizen of the year award. I felt proudthat she won!

By: Miles

Our Science Fair

Did you go to the Science Fair last night? I did and I loved it. I saw things that involve radios I even saw faces of the moon and also I saw something where you just flick the two switches and the lamps and light bulbs light up, and there was one on rockets and dinosaurs, and lots of others. I got my first ribbon and it was cool and my mom liked it very much. there was lots of projects not every body in the school did one but I think everybody should because I learned a lot on that project and I think every body should learn something from the science fair.

Posted by Alex

Queen of the day

Have you ever been Queen for a Day? A radio station, Warm 106.9, had a contest for which secretary was the best, and our secretary(Joyce)won. She got to go to a spa and have lunch. She also got gift certificates because she won. Our school did something special for Joyce. We set red wrapping paper across the floor for her to walk on. We also crowned her queen of the day. Everyone in the whole school came to the outside of the office and when Joyce came we bowed down to her and said "Hail Queen Joyce, hail Queen Joyce". It was quite funny. We also gave her flowers. She also had a walking stick but it was only a ruler. We watched her as she drove away to the spa. It was cool that our secretary actually won the contest. We think she is SUPER!

Posted by:
Joshua

EARTH DAY 2005

Today we talked about how not to pollute the environment, because it is Earth Day and here are some reasons:1. walk or ride your bike insted of riding in a car or if it is far away carpool with someone you know or ride a bus,2. wash your car at a carwash,3. buy or use rags instead of napkins. Have you heard of the artic wildlife refuge? Well if you have you should vote to protect the artic because people are going to drill everywhere and pollute the artic and ruin the environment.These are just a few things you can do to protect our world.

By:Brandon

Yellow Park ( aka Fred Hocker Park)

Hi! I was just thinking about todays outing to yellow park. We went and had lunch there. Then we finished and played for a while. My favorite part was the bars. I also liked it Nick's dad pushed us on the merry-go-round. Mrs.Rich's class came to. I liked hanging upside down. On the way back we played follow the leader. We went around a tree, through a gate, over a chain link fence, through another gate, around a few trees, down the sidewalk, back to school, into the teacher's lounge, and back to the classroom. Well thats what happened there. I hope you get to go to. It's fun!
posted by
Miranda

SPRING BREAK

Hi Everybody...how's your break going?

Ms. T

Cambodian New Year's

Today Andy's mom came in to talk about Cambodian New Year. Cambodain New Year is April 14to16. Andy's family went to Cambodia and adoped Rachel Andy's sister. In Cambodia everybodys birthday is on Cambodian New Year and also in Cambodia there are lots of land mines in Cambodia because in the Vietnam War the Vietnam were planting land mines and the Americans were too and there is still land mines there today so if you go be careful. The day 1 the day of the New Year like I said today is evrybody birthday. Day 2, Vana bat is the day when lots of people like to pray. Day 3 is when people wash the statues and dress them like Monks. They treat the statues like humans.
Happy New Year.
posted by Mitchell

Jamestown S' Klallam Indian Tribe

On April 1st,Liam's mom came and talked about the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe. Her dad's dad was 100% S'Klallam, which made her dad half Indian, which made her 4th Indian, which makes Liam one 8th Indian. Their tribe is located on the Olympic Peninsula near Jamestown. Way back in 1789 there were 3,000 Indians in the tribe, but then a ship came into the harbor at Jamestown with a lot of people with the Smallpox disease. After that ship came, alot of Indians died. There were then, in 1862,1,300 Indians. In 1855 the Point no Point treaty was signed forcing them to give up their land to white settlers. They made the Indians go to reservations.In Port Angeles or on the Hood Canal, but if the tribe didn't want to live on a reservation the government was giving a little money to the tribe so they could live on their own but not in the white peoples way. The land they got to live on was dry and like a plain so the Indians couldn't hunt or grow crops. We think it's amazing their tribe never lived on a reservation. In 1981 they started a service for the elders of their tribe with some of the money from the government. The elders got to go first every time the tribe did something like ate a meal. If there was no more cake left for the other people, too bad. Liam's mom also brought things in to show us. She brought in a mini model ofa canoe, she said that canoes where almost always made out of cedar because it was stronger than any other wood. She also brought in baskets, also made of cedar. The way they make baskets is they use a tool and strip the bark of the tree with it. Then they soak the bark about 4 times, and then it's soft enough to woven into baskets. They make the baskets colored by taking some berries and smash them so the juice of the berries comes out then they soak the Cedar in the juice then they weave the baskets. She also brought a medicine bag. You're never supposed to look in a medicine or it will bring you bad luck. She also brought in a lot of beadwork. She brought in a necklace and a pair of earrings. We think it would havebeen hard to make one of those necklaces because the beads were so tiny! Well we told what we know, and you still want to know more! Well why don't you visit their website or visit where they sell a lot of Indian things in Jamestown on the Olympic Peninsula.
posted by Allie and Caitlin

Would I like to be on the Oregon Trail?

Today we are writing about why, or why not, we would have wanted to go on the Oregon Trail. I want to for a couple reasons, and I don't want to for a couple reasons. I want to because you get to see lots of diffrent places, you get to meet diffrent people, and you get to ride in a wagon. I don't want to beecause if you're going through water the wagon might fall over in the water. Your animals might die, then you have nothing to pull the wagon and you might die. That is some resons why, and why not, I want to be on the Oregon Trail. Would you have liked to be on the Oregon Trail?

postd by Austin

The Science Fair

Do you have a science fair every year? I do. Well if you do, are you thinking of a plan? I am, it's called The Yolks on You, and of course I have to go through the scientific method, What! you don't know what it is. Well I guese I'll tell you, First is the ques and I'm gonna tell you a litle about it. First, I'm going to tell you the materials: small jars, distilled water, fresh raw eggs, egg cups or narrow glasses, tweezers, spoon,knife, clear plastic drinking sraws, candle, matces, modeling clay, salt, and a ruler. This is what you do,fill a jar to just below the rim with distilled water. Next place the pointed end of the egg in the cup or glass. Use a spoon to gentaly tap the ronded end of the egg to crack the shell, don't tap to hard because you don't want to crack the shell.Well I don't want to tell you to much about it. Well, I told you about my science fair project. Tell me about yours


posted by Nicholas

Oh the Places You'll Go....

Guess what today was? I'll give you a clue, he wrote OH THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! If you guessed Dr. Seuss's birthday, you're right! (It was also opposite day, but that's not what I'm supposed to be telling you.)

"Oh the Places You'll Go, by Dr. Seuss" Heather Turchin said over the phone. She's my teacher's daughter. On the 2nd of March, it was Dr. Seuss's B-day! But we weren't in school then, so we're celebrating it now, Mar.4, 05. My teacher's favorite story that Dr. Seuss made is Oh the places You'll Go. So, she had her daughter read the book over the speaker phone, while Ms. T showed us the pictures with the book she has. Heather went on reading the book, and when she was done, we said thank you. Once we hung up the phone (and Heather did to), Ms T asked everyone what the book was telling you. I said "It says that you should be happy, and some moments will be better than others will be, and that you can make good choices or bad choices. No one chooses what you do, you decide."

Have you ever read this story by Dr. Seuss? Well, if you haven't there is a very important lesson in it. That is, that you won't always win, but you won't always loose, in other words, do your personal best! You'll have bad days and you'll have good days. You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes, no one chooses where you go or what you do. If you have ever been in the waithing place, than you probably made the wrong choice. For the waiting place is when you are waiting to get something done, like doing your homework for example. So, you'd better get moving!

Well, I think you have a pretty good idea what the book is about. If you want to find out the rest of the book, you should read it!!!!!!!

Posted by: Amelia and Kathryn

All About Ezra Meeker

Today we had a guest speaker in our class. His name is Mr. Bob Minich, he's Amelia'a uncle. He talked about the Meeker's (Ezra and Eliza).
When Ezra was about 5-8 he moved to Indiana because his parents wanted a better farm. He married the girl next door her name was Eliza James. One time there was the worst winter there ever was in 1851 and they were stuck between it all! So they went on the Oregon Trail to Oregon. Marian their first son went on the trip when he was not more than 7 weeks old! So they had to put him in a basket and tied him to two other baskets of bread and other stuff in the back. But then he (Ezra) ended up looking for a farm in Pualipe! They all met up on the farm Jacob (Ezra's father),Oliver (Ezra's brother) and of course Eliza. After that they all started a store in Stilcome. One time they sent Oliver to San Francisco (California) go get a bunch of food for them and the store. But when he came home there was a storm and the boat sank down so did Oliver and all their savings! That's why they named their youngest daughter Olive (to rember him). After they got 87 dollars selling hops they got more acres and was making about 15,000 a year ever since Europe didn't grow any hops and wanted Beer (not the kind that we have today but it used to be nutricise and was like a liquedy bread. Beer was very important then because the water was bad an germy and lots of people even died from it! When he was grown about 40-50 he lived in a cabin and one time he took Eliza to Queen Victoria! When they got back she said as they opened the door "I want a new house" "Huh" he said back "Yeah I want a better house." Then they moved to a mansion that Eliza built herself. Today it's still here you should go visit it sometime soon. Well gotta go bye.

Posted by Rachel

Museum of Flight

Did you know that today we went to the Museum of Flight? It was fun, we saw the Boeing model 80, Lockhead M/D-21 "Blackbird",Boeing 737,and Douglas DC3. We got to ride in a Blue Angel and a Blackbird.
My group had four kids and one adult. My chaperone was Kevin's dad. In my group there were Kevin, Mitchell, Me, and Zoe. There were four other groups in my class. We saw a movie about space and lots of other things too! That what we did. Have you gone to the Museum of Flight?

Posted by Rebecca

Art Docent Program

Today Mrs. Wilhelm (My mom) came in to talk about Robert Motherwell. He was one of the first abstract expressionists and artist. He was born on January 24, 1915 in Aberdeen, Washington. He died on July 16, 1991 when he was 76 years old. What we did for art today we were abtract expressionists.We used watercolors and a cloth then we painted. Some people just did colors. Some people flung their paint on the paper. But then some people expressed themselves. After that some people just painted pictures for there parents or someone else. If you are mad you probably used black, dark blue, or dark green. If you are happy you probaly used yellow, orange, or light green. Today I thought was a fun day. Do you think it would be fun?

Posted by: Rachel

The Last Four Chapters of Lewis and Clark and ME

Have you ever read the book Lewis and Clark and Me? Well today our class read the last four chapters of Lewis and Clark and Me. The first thing you're probobly wondering is who is ME? Me is the dog, Seamen, that accompanied Lewis & Clark on there journey. The first of the four chapters is called Kidnapped! The next is called Deer the third is called My Favorite Words, and the last is Afterword.

Kidnapped is the first chapter of the four chapters that I am going to tell you about. In this chapter the dog, Seaman, gets kidnapped by the indians. I'll read a little out of it: Most of the the the men I was traveling with did not try to get back the things the Indians took. Lewis sead it wasn't worth starting an Indian fight over. Then one day, the Indians stole something that was worth fighting over. That thing was ME! I was outside the camp sniffing after a squirrl when the first Indian appered. I smelled him before I saw him but I didn't think anything of it. As you would guess they had treats for Seamon, beavor. So they put a rope around his neck and lured him towards thier camp. They almost got him too, but they heard voices and fled, but Seamon stayed put.

The next chapter is Deer. One night one of the men from the party went out to the salt lick to check for deer there was one there. This man, Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor, had killed a few deer in the last few days but this one was about twice as big as the ones he had cought before. Seamon chased him to the river then the men shot him.

The last chapter is called My Favorite Words. I'll read a little of that too: I've seen dogs with good men. And dogs with men who are just plain mean. Most dogs hope for a man they can understand. It's great when you know what you're supposed to do. Lewis knew exactly what I could do, and he let me do it. In fact, it got so that Lewis didn't have to tell me what he wanted me to do. I knew.

If you want to read the whole thing of each and every chapter, read the book! Believe me, you want to read it.

posted by Amelia

Geotechnical Engineering

Today my dad came in to talk about soils. He works at Golder Associates.
Here is a bit that I learned about soil. First, I will tell you about erosion. Erosion is when a rock is on the beach gets pounded by the waves for years then the rock gets smaller and smaller until it is reduced to sand, and silt.
Next, I will tell you what type of ground you need to build buildings on. You need to build them on hard ground because if you build it on soft ground it will tip over. My dad also showed us a picture of a landslide in Japan. That is some of the stuff I learned what did you learn?
Posted by Morgan

A Special Note

Today in class I got a special note! The class learned how to write informal notes. My note said...

Dear Allie,
You're special because you're going to DisneyLand! Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! :(
Love,
Kathryn

If you don't know what DisneyLand is, I will tell you. DisneyLand is a theme park. Kathryn is my friend she is really nice.

Posted by Allie

People of the Year...Who are they?

People of the Year: Bloggers
According to ABC News, you guys are People of the Year. Good work. "This week, their influence has become readily apparent. Dozens of bloggers have been filing firsthand reports from the areas devastated by southern Asia's deadly tsunamis."

Great Job ALLSTARS!!!!

posted by Ms. T

Our New Science Unit...SOILS

We started a new science unit. It's about SOILS. We have these bags with some grass, a little bit of soil, a piece of fruit or vegetables, and a worm. We have a book about rot. It's called What Rot! Nature's Mighty Recycler. Do you know how rot helps soil? It takes the things it rots and makes it soil. Did you know that worms help soil? Well they do. Their castings help the soil. Without soil there wouldn't be plants, trees, or even some animals. Did you know all that? Well, yes or no, now you do. I feel very good about knowing this stuff. Do you?

posted by Kevin

Lewis and Clark and me: A Dog's Tale (cont.)

Chapter 4:A Buffalo Calf

This is about a silly buffalo calf who is scared of Seaman and huddles with Lewis for protection. What a silly calf! in the end, Seaman befriends the calf, but Lewis has to leave the calf behind when they go on their ship. that made me feel sad!

Chapter 5: Beavers

This is a story about a beaverwho almost killed seaman. "boom!" The sound of Drouillard's rifle rang in Seaman's ears. Then he dove into the water to try to catch a very large beaver. The bad news is: the beaver bit Seaman's leg and cut an artery! Ouch!

Chapter 6: Buffalo

This is a story about a buffalo who almost killed Lewis! But it was Seaman to the rescue. If the sentinel couldn't do it, Seaman could!!!! He scared the buffalo away. Yay, Seaman!

If you want to hear more read this book, or check back here for the final chapters.

posted by ZOE

Observing: my shoes

"I like these shoes Mom" I said. "But Mom" my little sister yelled "I want to get the kind I liked". "Your sister is the one going to school" my Mom said. "I know but I am going to school to"! "We'll get the kind your sister wanted". " No fair"! When we left the shop my sister was crying but I knew she would eventuly like them. That was the conversation we had in the shoes store.Now let me tell you about my shoes. My shoes are

1, Pearl white (well they used to be.)
2, Very dirty (that's why their not pearl white.)
3, Skechers
4, They have been used a lot
5, They have white shoelaces
6. My shoes are size four
7. They have a blue stripe down the front
8. They have a blue lining
9. They have a white toe

They were very pretty when we bought them but now their partly brown, partly white, but they are still my favorite, and I like to wear them every day. I bet that when my sister said that she wanted the other kind, she didn't know that she would like these some day!

view my shoe....




posted by Caitlin

Louis and Clark and Me...A Dog's Tale

Have you ever read this book, Louis and Clark and Me...A Dog's Tale. We started it in class.
Today we read chapter one, two and three of the book by Laurie Myers.
In chapter one it starts with the dog explaining the setting, sitting on a dock with his owner. It talks about his old owner selling Seaman (that's the dogs name) for $20 to Lewis Meriweather. Then, they start the expedition.
In chapter two it talks about their journey down the river, and after about an hour of sailing they run into a whole bunch of swimming squirrels. Seaman catches a whole pile of them and then the crew has them for dinner.
In chapter 3 it talks about when they encounter their first indians. One of them calls Seaman "bear", and then Lewis and Clark show the indian some tricks that Seaman does.
They tell the indian that Seaman is a dog and then the indian says "Bear-Dog." He wanted to trade 3 beaver skins for Seaman, but Lewis said "no trade".
I like this book because the main character is a dog. It's interesting because it tells about history too. I suggest you read it! What do you think will happen next?

By: Andy Chronister

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Yesterday we didn't have school! Cool, right? I thought so, but do you know why we didn't have school? I do, so I'll tell you.
First, there was a guy named Martin Luther King. He was born on January 15, 1929. Martin Luther King is famous because he made speeches to the community. He made speeches about the races of people, and that people should be treated equally. His most important speach, he siad "I have a dream that someday my children will be judged by content of their character, not by the color of their skin". Because, back then, black and white weren't allowed in the same school, or even the same bathroom for crying out loud!
Martin Luther King was starting to make a difference in the country. When one day, he was standing on the balcony of a hotel, when someone shot him. He died at the age of 39, on January 17, 1968. Ater he had died, people made a holiday for him. He made a big impact in our country, and now, black and white can live together in peace.
I respect what Martin Luther King did for our country. I hope you do too.

Posted By Kathryn

Saturn's moon: Titan

Earlier this school year, during our study of the planets, we became aware of the NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) mission to land a probe on Saturn's moon Titan. The Huygens probe, ( Huygens discovered Saturn's moon Titan), was launched aboard the Cassini spacecraft in 1997. The probe landed successfully and photos are available....check them out.

Ms.T

Cassini-Huygens Home

New Year's Resolutions (Goals)

Today we're writing about our New Year's goals. I have lots of goals but today I'm only going to share some with you. My first goal is working on writing in school. I like journaling, and I want to write more in my journal. My next goal is to keep my room more tidy because when friends come over for just twenty minutes....boom crash Boom! as soon they leave my room is a mess. And my very last goal is going outside more often and walking to the lake. I have a lot more goals. But maybe next time I can share all of them with you. What are your goals ?

posted by Alex