Birthday Celebrations

Do you know we celebrate birthdays? Well,ONLY if someone brings in birthday treats. Today we cerebrated Andrey's birthday. Andrey brought in little ice cream cups with a chocolate drizzle. Everyone went to town on that stuff (I mean everyone ate that in light speed). We all really enjoy special times like this in our class. Do you?

Posted by Joey

Birthday Celebrations

Self Portraits

Our art docent, Mrs. Piel came to our class to tell us a little about art. She showed us some pictures by a few different artists. Then, we tried by making some self portraits. We also got to color our pictures. It was very fun. My favorite artists are Leonardo Da Vinci and Vincent Van Gogh. What’s yours?

Posted by Kylie

Oral Presentations

In our class we do oral presentations. This month we did presentations called All About Me. On the oral presentations most were PowerPoint's, we told what we were interested in and what we liked to do. I liked it because I stood in front of a group.

posted by Smiley

Evacuation Hike to High Ground

Have you ever gone on a evacuation drill? I have. It is a big hill. We had to hike from the school to the hill. When we got to the top we had to wait , but we found things to do. We got to enjoy our snacks we brought up, Ms. Turchin brought joke books, and we tried to catch grasshoppers. We could have gone down on the bus , but we decided to walk back. It was fun! When we got back we were tired but still wanted to do all our work.

SPECAIL THANKS TO ANDREY'S MOM FOR JOINING US!!!!

Posted by Eva

Testing our new camera....

this was a test....using our new FLIP VIDEO camera.

My Friends

I like my class a lot. My class makes me feel good. Everyone in my class is special. The people that help me the most are the people at my group. My group is Joey, Callum, Sam and I. We work together for POD and everyone helps each other, and Callum is our group leader. He doesn't do the work for me, but he helps me understand it. Whenever I have trouble they help me. I like them all a lot.

posted by Andrey

Class Auctions

Our class has class auction's every Friday. How we do it is this...Ms. T will hold up a book or school supplies or even a little toy! Joyce usually has something at her office too. We earn money by being good at a fire drill, or an assembly, or being on your best behavior. Some kids spend their money now on auctions in class. Some kids don't by anything because they save up for the end of the year auction. At the end of the school year we have a big auction. I like auctions!

Posted by Abigail

My favorite thing....

My favorite thing in our class is math. Math is my favorite thing because I have practiced it over and over again and now it seems fun. My favorite kind of math is decimals and division. We're only on addition right now. Last year we got to doing decimals. It was fun!
Math has been my favorite subject since kindergarten. The hardest kind of math I have learned is finding the diameter of random shapes. Last year I ended doing the same kind of stuff my sister was doing and she was in 6th grade. Do you like math too?

Our Field Trip

For our class field trip last Friday we went to the Washington State corn maze. It was amazing. First you go on a hay ride, next you have four entrances to choose from.The one that my group chose was Spokane.There are so many places to go! You can go to Grand Coulee Dam, the Space Needle, and Port Angeles. Once you choose your entrance and go to the places you are supposed to go you get out Gray Harbor. It is so much fun! You should consider going there with your family.

Posted by: Aiden

Our Class Field Trip

We went to the Washington Corn Maze for our field trip last Friday, and boy was it fun! It starts with going on a hayride and then you choose which entrance you go into. My group went to Seattle, the Space Needle, on I-90, Spokane, Grand Coulee Dam,and Port Angeles in the corn maze! We went in groups of 3 or 4. My group started in Spokane, and we came out Gray Harbor. It was so much fun, maybe you can visit the Washington State corn maze.


Website:
http://www.thefarm1.com/page2967.asp?pagename=O%%20Maze

Computers in our class

I like my classroom because we have 12 student computers and we each have a computer buddy. One thing I really like is ATRT. ATRT is a typing program that you learn to type letters and numbers. We also do Star Reading tests. Star Reading tests tell you what your reading level is. There's also AR. Whenever you finish an AR book you take a AR test, which is like a Star Reading test. Ms. T. also has a classroom website where you can find AR books. There's one more thing I want to tell about and that's what I'm doing right now, and that's blogging. Everybody will have to blog about something. Come back and visit our blog often!
posted by Sam

Friendship

Hi I'm Alexis. Today I am going to talk about friendship. I think friendship is great. We talk a lot about friendship in our class. When you have a friend you can play with them and not feel left out. Sometimes I help some of the 2nd graders. I help them with math mostly. Also sometimes on PowerPoint's. One of my good 2nd grade friends is Kylie. She is really nice to me. She treats me with respect. But I think all of the 2nd graders are very nice. Sometimes I like to play with Kylie at recess. But I also like all the 3rd graders. Sometimes some of them need help with math. Me to sometimes. I also help the 2nd graders find AR books in the library. Still friendship is always very important. All of the 2nd graders and 3rd graders are very respectful. One of the 3rd graders is one of my good friends too. Her name is Jennifer. She is nice to me because she is really respectful to everyone. I have one friend that I have known since kindergarten. His name is Smiley. He is in my group and sometimes I can help him with math.
It's fun having friends in our class.


posted by Alexis

Graphing Snacks

We wanted to graph our class snacks to see what snack was the most popular.
Jennifer collectewd the data. Callum made the graph.We made a bar graph to see what we voted for what we had almost every morning and we found out that goldfish (of all kinds....) were the most popular snack, for kids who eat snacks in our class.

posted by Sameenah

Our Class

Here's a video of all the students in our class. ENJOY!
We are GREAT tigers!
Video made by Jennifer
Posted by Jennifer

Group Work

Welcome to Ms. Turchin's class! We do do lots of fun group work, like the Problem of the Day. Having a group is the most important because if you need help, your group members will help you. My favorite part about my group is that they are always willing to help, always smiling, respectful, always listening and encourage each other. I think that groups are a very important part of our classroom.

Posted by Jennifer on 9/9/08

PAT STARS CLASS

Welcome to our new class! We do LOTS of fun stuff like math, writing, reading, and more! I like to do math and technology. We have 12 computers in our room! I love to be in Ms. Turchin's class and I hope you do too!

Posted by Callum on 09/08/2008

PAT STARS CLASS

PAT STARS CLASS

Welcome to our new class! We will do LOTS of fun stuff like math, reading, writing, and more! We have 12 computers in our room! I like to do technology and math (Pi = 3.14159265358979323846264338327...) I like to be in this class and I hope you do too!

Posted by Callum on 09/08/2008

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Free Time

I enjoy free time. Free time is where you get to go on the computer, or read a book at your desk, or in our class library. You can have free time when your work is done, or when you choose to stay in at recess. On the computer we can do Power Point, we can work on stories that we did on our writing, we can do Kerpoof or Magic Pen. We have lots of books in our class library. You’re allowed to checkout books from our class library too. I enjoy free time and my favorite time to choose is at recess. I like to do Kerpoof. You should download the game and try it someday!


Posted by Bryn

Writing

In our classroom we do writing almostm everyday. We usually write about stuff we like to do. Here are some things I wrote about: Oregon, Birthday, Sports, and Fishing.Sometimes we have to do Poems.
This is the Writing Process: 1, Prewriting 2, Drafting 3, Revising 4, Proofreading 5, Publishing.
One time, 2nd graders had to write about an Unusual Pet, and 3rd graders had to write about Their Favorite Summer Activities. I hope you write about something you like to do, and learn something new about writing. I enjoyed writng in our class.

Posted by Sam

Oral Presentations

Hi my name is Trenton and I am going to tell you about oral presentations. Well, first I am going to tell you what oral presentations are… an oral presentation is when you get in front of the whole class and say a speech about a certain topic. You are working on speaking loud, looking at your audience and making it appealing. You can use props.It is fun to do oral presentations because there are awesome things to tell about and it is enjoyable. I learned to speak loudly in front of an audience, and tried to make it fun for them. I hope you like oral presentations like I did.


Posted by: Trenton

My Teacher

Hi my name is Alexis and I am blogging about my teacher, Ms. Turchin. She is awesome! She is really cool, fantastic, amazing, and fun! She just makes my day. But the bad thing is that school is out in 5 days! So, I will not be able to see her over the summer. We have a lot of fun together. But one thing I love about coming to school is I get to see her. So you should be in Ms. Turchin’s class.
Here are some of the subject’s in our class: math, writing, problem of the day, D. O .L, science, reading, PowerPoint’s too. So if you think you want to be in Ms. Turchins class be in the PAT program. Oh, and Ms. Turchin is really nice too.

Posted by Alexis

Class Play

Hi my name is Logan and I am doing my blog on the CLASS MUSICAL called "The Emperors New Clothes". (I was the emperor.)
It was really, really fun, even though I had to walk on stage with only long john underwear on! The story was about Guido and Luigi, they tricked me, and they made me an invisible suit of clothes (really there wasn’t any clothes at all!!!!) In the end I went on a parade with long john underwear and everyone finally noticed I HAD NOTHING ON AT ALL. I learned a lesson about being greedy.I gave most of my clothes to the needy, and kept a few outfits for myself. I really enjoyed being the emperor and getting to be in our class play.

Posted by Logan

State Powerpoints

Hello my name is Eva and I’m bogging about state power points. This year we studied U.S.A. Everyone picked a state and did a power point presentation on their state. We had to Google the information. If you want, you can make a commercial on photo story or on your power point. I learned Alabama’s symbols and some places to visit in New York and hope you learn something to, in the future about the 50 United States.

Posted by Eva

P.O.D.

Hi I’m Jake and one of my favorite things is P.O.D. In our class we do P.O.D. in our group. P.O.D. stands for Problem Of the Day. In my group there is John, Callum, Aiden, and me. We have either groups of three or four. Working in my group is fun and sometimes really challenging. I think P.O.D. is really fun and I know I will miss it next year in Ms. Isler’s class.


Posted by: Jake

Class Picnic

Hi I’m Katie and I’m doing a blog about our class picnic. We play games and eat lunch at McDonald Park. Some of the games we play are the egg drop, water balloon silent ball, and pinata. The egg drop is where you get a partner and throw an egg back and forth. Silent ball is where you throw the ball to someone and they try to catch it, only we played it with water balloons. We also did a pinata. It is so much fun

Posted by Katie

Dedimals and Fractions

Doing fractions and decimals was one of my favorite things we did in math. It was a little tricky, but it was fun. We learned fractions first then we started doing decimals. When we first did fractions, we learned simple fractions.
Then, we moved on to adding and subtracting fractions. Then on to decimals! We actually started off doing turning things into decimals. Then we started adding and subtracting decimals. I am glad I am going here next year.

Posted by Maggie

COMPUTERS,

Hi my name is Kelsey and I am going to tell you about some things we do on our computers. First, we get assigned to a computer with a buddy. We have 12 computers. With your buddy you find out who is taller and who is shorter. If you are taller you are the gold star person if you are shorter you are the silver star person. At recess we can play on Power Point or play games online like Kerpoof and Magic pen. After lunch recess, if it is gold star day the person who is gold star gets to go on the computer for 20 minute, then you switch and the silver star person gets to go on for 20 minutes. During the 20 minutes you work on your state report or ATRT (a typing game). We have fun with computers in our class everyday.

Posted by Kelsey

Reading

Hi, I’m Aiden and I am blogging about reading. In our classroom, we read a
average of 20 minutes after second recess. We even have to put down in our planner
to read 20-30 minutes. Why I like reading is because it takes me into a world never
discovered. I hope that no one ever stops reading.

Posted by: Aiden

Mad Minute

At about 10:30 every day we do Mad Minute. It’s where you have 1 minute to do 30 problems. Every time you beat a Level (which is about 15 pages) you go on to the next. Here are some of the Levels: addition, multiplication, division, and reducing fractions and I don’t think anyone gets any farther then that. In the middle of the year right after winter break if you’re still on addition you get to go onto multiplication. Then after the timer goes of we bring home a Mad Minute page to practice at home with. I think this is FUN!

Posted by Lynzee

MATH

One of my favorite subjects in class is math.
The math in our class is fun! We get to do a lot of math in our day!

148÷5=29 R. 3

MATH IN MS. T’S CLASS IS FUN! The math is not always easy, sometimes it’s really hard. If the math was always easy it wouldn’t be fun! My favorite thing I learned was how to regroup.

Posted by: Callum

Auctions

My name is Hayden. One of my most favorite things in the class is auctions.
During the school year, we earn money for doing what we are told, doing something to help, and we earn it in our planner. We call these bonuses. For doing something we aren't supposed to, we lose money. We call these fines. Usually, every Wednesday, we have an auction. With the money that we have in our ledgers, we buy some things. At the end of the year, we have our end of the year auction, people donate a LOT of things for it. Here are some things we have for this year. An Icee maker, a milkshake maker, a Webkinz, LOTS of stuffed animals, a water gun, and much, much, more. Auctions are really fun!

Posted by Hayden

Playing Bingo

In out class we have been playing BINGO; we played two different types of bingo: Multiplication bingo, and Amazing American Bingo. In multiplication bingo you fill your card with answers to multiplication problems. Players call out a fact and if you have the answer to that fact on your paper you put a bingo chip on. When we play Amazing American bingo you have a list of people who made a difference in our country. Each student has a person who they did an oral report on, that person, say it was me, will call out something like this: "I was a Native American princess who was married to John Rolfe, had a son named Thomas, and help make peace...." I would say for Pocahontas. Everyone has the same list of people and wherever you put that person on you bingo card you put a chip on that square. There were fifty Amazing Americans in the book set so we did this twice, each time the same way. When we play bingo sometimes we do four corners, postage stamp, and other different ways to play bingo. Your not aways lucky either. When we used to play multiplication bingo, my friend, Kelsey was always lucky. In Amazing American bingo it's pretty mixed up. I won twice. Once in Multiplication bingo, I got a ring from the Treasure Chest, and once Amazing American bingo, I got pink toy fish that I named Bingo for obvious reasons. When you get a bingo, you shout "BINGO!" you call out the names or numbers under you counters making a BINGO. If you are right, you go to the Treasure Chest (courtesy of Trenton) It's filled with all sorts of things! Playing BINGO in this class has been fun.

Posted by Jaime

Friendship

At the beginning of the year, I didn't know many people. Then we got computer buddies. My computer buddy is Bryn. I got to know Bryn and the other people who where on the computer next to me, so I got to know Abigail (or Abby) and Kelsey. Now we are all good friends. I also made friends with third graders. Having a third grade friend is helpful because they help you with hard things. Plus, if you don't have someone to play with at recess, the second grade girls have third grade buddies, and my buddy is Lynzee.

Posted by Jennifer

The P.A.T Family Picnic

Every year we have a P.A.T Family Picnic at the end of the school year. I remember the picnic for the year of 2008. Unfortunatly it was in the rainiest part of the year so we had to have it inside. Me and Jaime flew a paper airplane that said, "Vote Jaime!" It gave Reed the idea to start the Carnation Elementary Airforce. After I had been walking around awhile, and doing almost absolutly nothing, Jaime ran up to me and said, "Gracie, my poster for the school election is falling down!" I did not want it to have it fall down completely so I hurried down the hall to get Jaime some tape. I slid through the door to the hallway, and turned around to jiggle the handle to make sure that it was not locked. But, due to my bad luck the door was locked. I ran down the hallway and jiggled the other handle of the other door. It was locked to. I started to get scared. What if the other door was not locked? Slowly, I put my hand on the handle, and thank goodness it was not locked. I had to run through the passageway behind the school and all the way to the door on the other side of the school. I came in to the multi-purpose room huffing and puffing. Luckily, Jaime got someone else to get the tape. I noticed that more and more people were arriving in the multi-purpose room. The Carnation Elementary Air force was going outside because of two reasons. Number one, the sun was finally shining, and number two, there was clean-up going on in the multi-purpose room. I took my shoes off and ran outside. It was true! It was true! The sun was finally shining! But, the field was soaking wet! Oh well, I liked it that way. Only Lynzee was out there at the time. Pretty soon Kelsey, Jaime, and Katie came outside. By the time that happened I could barely feel my feet. As my dad came I thought I did not want to leave, but it had been a very long day.

posted by Gracie