Teachers put on a play about courage

At the Monday assembly hosted by Ms. Blemker.  March 18, 2013.

Highlights of the week for Tim

We did Song Dynasty Brush Painting.  It was really fun, especially doing the bird.  When we were reading Scholastic, there were two parts in the magazine and they were really interesting.  One article was about a giant squid named Karkin and the other one was about a tsunami.  And, the tsunami flooded Japan but brought things to the US.  It snowed today!!!

I'm reading a book called Ribsy.  It is about a dog and he went shopping with Henry, his mom and his dad.  They Henry and his mom went to the shopping mall as Ribsy waited in the car.  Then there was this dog that was barking and the dog's owner tried to get the dog to stop barking.  They left and then Ribsy wanted to go with Henry, his mom, and his dad but he got lost in a rain storm.  There were these five girls that found him, then they took him  home.  When the family got to their house, they had a one year old baby and his name was George.  I don't know what happened next because I haven't go to that part yet.

Highlights of the Week for Ian

The highlights of my week was my dad's birthday, having sleepover with friends, learning about the Song Dynasty, and Yuan Dynasty.

I learned about the inventions of the Song Dynasty, some of them are the windmill and landmine.  In the Yuan Dynasty, Genghis Khan took over China and his son, Kublai Kahn finish conquering territories.  They came from Mongolia.  They were really fierce, stubborn probably, warriors. 

On Saturday, I went to the international district and my mom went to Uwajimaia.  We bought coconut water for my dad's birthday.  My dad at that time was up skiing at Cristal.  We took photographs we were hoping to turn into a bulletin board with pictures but we turned into a slide show instead.



slideshow of international district

Highlights of the week for Carys

My highlights are learning about the Song Dynasty and Chinese Brush Painting.  We also learned about the four treasure of China - ink stone, mulberry paper, ink brush, and ink stick.  It was a very fun week learning about China.  We painted lizards and bamboo leaves.  It was really fun to learn to hold the brush; it made you feel like you were in ancient China.  I also painted a flower. 

We have new small groups and we have mini books to focus on.  It is really fun. One was about Texas and the other was about Massachusetts.  It was fun to learn about different states.  We generated ideas for our non fiction writing.  I generated horses, flowers, nature, and the four treasures of China. I did so many post-its I forgot the rest.

Karthik's Highlights of the Week

I had fun with Josiah and the Cat in the Hat Reading Group.  And I had fun when I was reading to Max outside in the hallways with Ms. Carolyn.  Max had fun with me.  In writing, I was writing with Ms. Kathleen and I remember at recess, Charlie and I played tag.  I learned in the Song Dynasty when rice was introduced, the rice fields were in water.  The Chinese grow fishes in the rice fields and the fishes eat the mosquitoes and the people eat the fishes.  The fishes also poop in the water and the poop fertilized the rice.  The rice sucks up the water and the water level becomes lower as the fishes get eaten.  When the water is all used up, it is time to eat the rice (harvest time). 

In the Song Dynasty, they also introduced footbinding for women.  They break the edge of their feet, roll them under so they have small feet.  They call these feet lotuses because the small dainty feet look nice.  We also did poems.

Henry's Highlights of the Week

I had a good time on Monday, President's Day.  The small group was really fun because we go to eat cupcakes while reading.  On Thursday, we went to art and we read this book about Rembrandt.  It was really cool.  And before she showed us the book, we saw these three pictures and they are really really dark so we had to turn off the lights. The first one was of lots and lots of people and they were protecting this castle, I think.  The second picture had a big dark cloud on one corner and sun on the other corner.   There was a generous tree in the middle of the picture.  The third picture was a man putting his hand on a sculpture of an older man.

I'm looking forward to loosing a tooth.

Audrey's Highlights of the week

This week we finished our mini-plays after we performed to the kindergarteners.  Monday we launched a new kind of reading which is non-fiction.  We started doing scripts for plays. I was excited cause I could actually make a play!  Then we performed our Kung Ming and the 100,000 Arrows play in front of the second graders and kindergarteners.  And some parents, teachers, and the principal.  I enjoyed the play but it was kind of weird because I was a dancer and the other dancer wasn't there so I was the only dancer.  I was so excited to do that play because we had been practicing for so long that I want to start a new play. 

And today is Valentines! I'm excited to see what people have done with their Valentines.