SQUIRM

Squirm was a blast! Trevor was a great Itsy Bitsy and Katie was a great Ms. Muffet. Also, Lara, Olivia H., Tejasvini, and I sang a great quartet together. Everyone had a great singing voice! Also, it was cool that we were the worms. My favorite song was “Bats” because it is an exciting song and it’s a fast song. You all seemed like you practiced a lot because you all did an AWESOME job at our performance! Everyone used expression all the time and sang loudly!

What’s your favorite song? How did you like the musical? Well, I loved the play and it was EPIC and fun.

By: Maya Falodia

        

Technology in Our Class

Hi! I’m Autumn and I’m going to tell you about technology in room 125.

       First of all, I’m going to tell you about computer buddies. At the start of the year, everyone is paired up with a computer buddy. Second graders are with third graders that know a lot about computers. For example, some computer buddies are Trevor and Lara or Maya and Lily. My buddy is Roberto. Third graders help their buddies, but don’t do whatever it is we are doing for them when it’s a new learning for the second graders.

       Also, there are the computer helpers (at least that’s what I call them). They are MacLean, Nate, and Andrew. Andrew is the main helper. They help Ms. T. out whenever she runs into a problem on her computer. That’s sort of why I call them computer helpers.

       One major rule is no playing video games!

       I think the computers are a wonderful source of information. Don’t you? I hope you enjoyed my post.

       Posted by Autumn B. J

My Favorite Series

Hello! What is your favorite book? My name is Lily, and one of my favorite books is Eragon. I am going to tell you all about it.

            Have you ever heard about the Inheritance series? Have you read them? If you like action, suspense, fantasy, magic, this is the series for you. There are four books: today I will tell you about one of the four. The first book, Eragon, is about a boy who finds what he thinks is a stone that will buy him, his cousin, Roran, and his uncle, Garrow, meat for the winter. A few months later, the “stone” rocks, cracks, and releases a baby dragon!  Months pass, in which he raises the dragon, which he names Saphira, meets the old village storyteller Brom, and flees Carvahall, his home since he was a little boy. Along the way to the Varden, the organization working against the tyrant king, Galbatorix, the Ra’zac, the evil creatures that later kill his uncle Garrow, kill Brom with an arrow. As the Ra’zac are about to slaughter Eragon, a man, about Eragon’s age, scares the Ra’zac away. His name is Murtagh, and their friendship grows steadily, and together they reach the Varden. There, Murtagh reveals his greatest secret: he is the son of Morzan, the Rider who betrayed the rest of the Riders to Galbatorix. Once they enter Farthen Dur, the home of the Varden, they feel as if they have found a safe haven. Then, just months later, peace flees. What happened to the Varden? Will they survive, or die in the attempt?

            This is the first of four in the Inheritance series. The other three are Eldest, Brisingr, and Inheritance. I am on Brisingr, and it is very good. I will be doing other posts on Eldest and Brisingr, and, if I have finished it by then, Inheritance, so if you want to know more, just say so!

AR

Hi, my name is Autumn B., and I’m going to tell you about AR. AR is a reading program, it’s a program that when you read a book that’s on the AR test list, you can take a test on the book. But it’s mainly so teachers can track your reading progress. Every book is worth a couple points. They are usually worth about 3 or 4 points. Some books are worth 0.5 points, while others can be 20 points or more. The most points I ever got from a book was 29 points. Another thing in AR is the 100 point club. That is something Mrs. Irion, the librarian does. If you get 100 points or more, at an assembly, she calls out your name, for example, last year Lily made it to the 100 point club. You also get a medal and certificate. It says you made the 100 point club. Also, the books are different levels, take for example, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, that book was a very high reading level, it was 7.2. Another example is Warriors, Moonrise. It’s level 5.8. I love the AR program, and I think you will to. Hope you make the 100 point club! Posted by Autumn B.

Kids in Medicine

        Hi, my name is Autumn and I’m going to tell you about our field trip to Kids in Medicine.

       We learned all about how the heart works. We played a game where some people were red blood cells, some were white blood cells, and others were platelets. The red blood cells would carry oxygen to the brain or muscles. When they got to the brain or the muscles, they exchanged oxygen for carbon dioxide and went back to the lungs. White blood cells tried to destroy diseases and infections. Ms. T was an infection. They had to watch carefully to make sure that there were no diseases or infections. Platelets would try to block up the parts of the body that were bleeding. It took 2 or 3 platelets to block up just 1 gap. If they didn’t and a red blood cell came around, it would stay on the outside of the gap.

       We also went and learned about how to take care of our heart. We watched a funny cartoon where this guy was eating a couple dozen donuts a day. Some evil bad guy got all mad for no good reason. The donut guy was taken to the evil bad guy, and was put under so much stress that he had a heart attack. We demonstrated a heart attack by having someone crawl through a tunnel that was empty, and one that had plaque (the plaque was a bunch of yellow balls). THE PERSON HAD A HEART ATTACK! They had a heart attack because the oxygen-rich blood didn’t get to part of the heart in time.

      There was also a part where we tested our hypothesis that aerobic exercise made your heart work faster than anaerobic exercise. We tested it by doing weightlifting for 1 minute and jumping jacks for 1 minute. We also took our pulse after resting, doing weightlifting, and doing jumping jacks. My pulse for resting was 44, for weightlifting it was 76, and for jumping jacks it was 120. Our hypothesis was right!

    Of course, there was also the dissection of the pig’s heart part. We all put on gloves and a gown. We all got lab partners, like Maya and Georgia or Nate and Trevor. I was lab partners with Isabel. MacLean got Dr. Stocker! Lucky! Once everyone was paired up, we started feeling the heart and dissecting it. I thought it was fun to learn about how it works.

    We also saw a real heart and lungs from a 92-year-old woman. Her heart was covered in yellowish stuff that we learned was fat. Her lungs had black spots which we were told were parts that “died.”

    I had a wonderful time at Kids in Medicine. Do you think you’d like it, and if you’ve already gone, did you like it? I know I did. Posted by Autumn Bryant