Our Animal Adaptations

This is our presentation about animal adaptations. Please take a moment to check it out.

Our Animal Classes Presentation

My First Week of School by Hunter L

This year of school so far I learned that there are different things you can write about. You can write about such as animals, family and games. This year we also learned meanings of different words like fleet,vital and versatile. In art we learned that we can draw anything. We also learned how to do math riddles. In class we learned about how to infer and predict when reading. We learned how to figure out how to read words we don't know. We also learned how to help our self in subjects. We've also read alot of books like The Relatives came, Sideways Stories From Wayside school and My Rotten Red Headed Older Brother. In science, the class was observing which can float better, salt water or fresh water? It was saltwater. That was my first week of school.



HAVE A GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Silly Poem

The Sycamore Tree by Jordan and Justin

A fish waddled up a sycamore tree.

He could move, he could groove,

and take my house down

by the count of three!

So I better keep an eye

on that fish so sly

going up that sycamore tree!

All About the Butterfly Life Cycle

States of Matter

Here is our states of matter voicethread presentation. Please check it out.

Cereal Boxes!

The Cereal Box Book Reports were FABULOUS! I could tell that the students really worked hard on these projects. I hope they enjoyed doing them as much as we enjoyed talking about each of them. Thank you for your hard work! If you have a moment, feel free to check out their projects on the slideshow.

Famous Scientists

The Schwartzman Quartet

Habits of Good Writers

We developed a list of habits good writers display. Here is our list:

• hooks the reader and keeps them hooked
• stays focused
• is very detailed in writing
• asks questions about the topic
• uses an interesting title
• writes daily
• rereads and checks over work
• draws pictures, diagrams, charts, tables, etc.
• brainstorms ideas
• borrows ideas from other writers
• writes a lot
• uses many different words
• puts their name on their work
• writes about topics they know
• selects their genre of writing
• plans the writing piece

These are the habits of a good writer that we have observed. Do you have any ideas to add to our list?

Questions for Mrs. Robinson's Students in England

What do the uniforms look like? - Aliya

What kinds of food do you eat? - Brionna

What colors are on the uniform? - Kaylee

Do you get to use computers there? - Kayla

Why do the kids think we talk funny? - Brooke

Do you play kickball? - Justin

Do you have a P.E. coach? - Jordan

What do you like to drink? - Trevor

Who is your favorite author? - the class

What other words are different there? - Hunter

What subjects do you have in school? - the class

Thank you for sharing your trip with us!

We miss you Mrs. Robinson!

Happy National Chocolate Caramel Day

Here is our PowerPoint presentation featuring various chocolate caramels in honor of National Chocolate Caramel Day.

Report Writing

We just learned about report writing. We made a list of what we noticed about reports.

•contain pictures (real photos or drawn)
•contain detailed information
•pictures have labels and captions
•topics are divided with headings and subheadings
•contain information about real things
•sometimes have a table of contents
•sometimes reports have an index in alphabetical order
•sometimes reports have a glossary in alphabetical order
•contain lots of text
•introduces you to new words
•sometimes reports contain maps
•reports are non-fiction
•sometimes reports contain diagrams
•pictures can be found on the cover and throughout the report
•reports contain new information

We also made a list of questions.

•Do they always have to be about real things?
•How do the author’s write reports?
•Why do we have reports?
•Do author’s like writing reports?
•Do many people write reports on animals and places?
•Do reports always have introductions and new vocabulary?
•Do they author’s have to reports?
•Why do author’s write reports?

How to be a Zookeeper by Geon

Did you know how to be a zookeeper? If you don't, well you have come to the right place, me. First you call your mom or dad to go in the Jacksonville Zoo to be a zookeeper.

Step 1 Feed the African elephants with some yellow hays. If the African elephant is sullen, bring him a mate.
Step 2 Take the elephant to a bath. He likes taking a bath in mud.
Step 3 Take a Baird's Tapir into the water but be careful because it might poop underwater.
Step 4 Baird's Tapir's eat vegetables so feed him.
Step 5 Get a broom to pick up the large poop or small poop if needed.
Step6 Feed the rhinoceros some hay. Be careful because rhinos can chase you!
Step 7 If a animal escapes at the zoo, grab your gun or weapon. Shoot the animal in the neck to make them sleep.
Step 8 If animals were sick, grab an animal medicine to make animals feel good.
Step 9 If camels or gemsbok are hungry, feed them large hays like zebras.
Step10 If a jaguar and lions are hungry, feed them some meat chow. They like the meat chow.
Step 11 If warthogs are hungry, feed them hay or vegetables.
Step 12 If the giraffes are hungry, feed them hay or green vegetables. If they are sick, feed them animal medicine to feel them better.
Step 13 Use a sleep gun to gun an escaped animal.
Step14 Feed the antelope green grass when they are hungry.
Step 15 Give monkeys bananas or vegetables to eat like bananas.
Step 16 Feed the sting rays some fish when there are hungry.
Step 17 Keep all people out of the cages. You can use and electric fence.
Step 18 Feed the foxes some small meat chow.
Step 19 Be sure to give theultures some meat. They will eat almost any kind of meat.
Step 20 Feed the capyhara some yellow hays.
Step21 Keep your zoo clean. No one likes a dirty zoo, not even the animals.
Step 22 Feed the anaconda some meat.
step 22 Take care of the baby animals when they are hungry and sick.
Step 23 If a seal other is sick, put it in the animal hospital.

That is how you can be a zookeeper. I hope you enjoy being a zookeeper. I know I would.

Our Favorite Books

     Several weeks ago, some of the students wrote a paragraph describing their favorite books. We then uploaded a picture of each book and the students read their paragraphs. We hope you enjoy our project.

Our Career Study

Here is our voicethread presentation about our career study. If you have a moment, please check out our work.

Thank you and have a super weekend!

HOW TO EAT AN OREO BY SHAUGNASSY

Doesn't the sound of vanilla OREO with the crunchy good OREO cookie with the silky good vanila cream make your mouth water? Do you want to know how to eat a tasty good vanilla OREO cookie? Well, here is how I eat a vanilla OREO with vanilla cream that tastes good.

First, when I get a vanila cookie, I pour myself a glass of creamy milk. I get a plastic white plate. So I slowly turn the top of the cookie off of the cream. After that, I dunk the top in the milk until there are vanilla cookie crumbs are in it. Then I take tiny bites off the top.

Right after that, I try not to break the cream as I slowly take the cream off the bottom. I dip the cream in the milk and eat it. It is so tasty. So then I do what I did with the top of the OREO to the bottom. That's how I eat a vanilla OREO. Next time we meet, you can tell me how you eat a vanilla OREO cookie.

How to eat an Oreo cookie by Serina

Do you want to know how to eat a delicious OREO cookie? Well here is how. First you need to get an OREO out of the pakage. Then you twirl the top off as slow as a snail. This way the Oreo won't break.

Next you get a cup and pour the milk in it. Dunk your OREO cookie top into the cool refreshing milk. Then take it out and eat it. Then get another cookie and twirl off the top of the OREO cookie and dip it in the refreshing milk. Then you eat the top again.

After that, you gently break off the creamy icing and part of the cookie in pieces.   Just be careful to leave some icing on and break off only part of the cookie.  Dip the bottom cookie in the cool, refreshing milk.  Eat it.  Last you eat the rest after you dip it in your milk.  Finally you drink what is left of your cool, refresing milk.

That is how I eat my Oreo cookie.  How do you eat it?

National Nap Day

In honor of National Nap Day which is today, take some time to take a nap. Have a good night!

Our Dioramas

As a culminating activity related to our habitat study in science, the class made dioramas of various habitats. These are their dioramas. We hope you enjoy them.

How to Independently Read by Hunter

     Do you know how to independently read? Do you ever want some quiet time? Do you ever want to read a good book? Do you want to be alone? If you do, you have come to the right person. Let me tell you how to independently read.

     First, get your bag of books and find you a quiet spot to read your bag of books. Your books should be books that you want to read. They should also be interesting.

     Next, don't touch your friends aroud you. If you happen to be sitting near another person, you need to leave them alone so you can read and concentrate. Then, try not move from where you are sitting. This way you can enjoy your book.
     Read your books over and over again until time is called. It is okay to read a book over and over again because it helps improve your fluency.
     Finally, return to your seats when signeld. Be sure to log the books you have read. You may even want to write a response to your books. That is how to indperdently read a story. I hope you take a chance and curl up with a good book.

February 28

     Good morning! I am Shaugnassy from Mrs. Cowan's class. When you first come in our class, you say the pledge. At 8:40, the class has a fire drill. When the fire drill is over, we write our homework in our agendas. We then took a minute math work sheet. A minute math work sheet is a timed math test of addition facts to 18.
     Then we read a story called Ant. It was a non-fiction story about ants. Right after that, we did a graphic organizer on the story Ant. It was a web about ants. Then we had popcorn for snack. It tasted wonderful.
     After snack, we independently read for 20 mintes while waiting for lunch. When the clock hit 11:55, we lined up for lunch.
     Then the teacher picked us up and we walked back to the class. Mrs. Robinson read the class a story called TEMPLE OF THE RUBY OF FIRE by Geronimo Stilton. The light's out in the room with our head's down as we listened. When we were done with the chapter we turned back on the light.
     Then Mrs. Robinson asked the class to gather for calendar math. She got the math bag and she pulled out a jar. Out of that jar she pulled a stick with someone's name on it to do the calendar. than we got ready for are resources. It was fun! When we got back, we went home.

Sheffield's Newest Additions

Here are some snapshots of Sheffield's newest members.

Arctic Animals

Here is our voicethread we created while studying Arctic Animals. Enjoy!

February 5, 2008

     Hello!  I am Serina and I go to room 314 and so does my class.   When we got in the room in the morning,  we wrote in are agendas and did the Pledge of Allegiance.  After announcements, we went to the gathering area and practiced questioning.  Questioning is when you ask yourself questions as you read.

     Then we read with our groups and we did questioning with each other.  Then we had snack.  Today we had concoction which is cereal with pretzels.  After snack,   we went to the gathering area and talked about strong verbs for are writing.  Strong verbs are verbs that show lots of action.  Then we did are writing.

      Then we watched a noun show and went to lunch.  After lunch, we put our heads  down and Mrs. Robinson read us a book.  After we read a little bit of the book,   we did calendar math. Then we did somthing with shapes.  Then we did a page with shapes.  We had to fill in the shapes with smaller shapes. After math, we did sience and talked about animals.  Then we filled out forms about what we were talking about.  It was a Venn Diagram. Then we read a book about snakes.  Then we did a math practice sheet and got our book bags and turnd on the t. v. We waited for  announcements to come on.  After announcements, it was time to go home.  Have a great day!

January 24, 2008

     Hi, I'm Kaylee from Mrs. Cowan's class.  We had a field trip to the zoo today. We went to get on the bus and then we got off the bus.  Then we went in the educational center. We saw opossum. It was very cute to me. It was gray with soft fur.   Also, we saw a turtle.  The turtle was a cute little turtle.  Then we saw a real live alligator.  It was a baby and it was so so so adorable.  After the alligator, we saw pine snake and it was very very long.  It could blend in with the leaves.  It was very light brown and dark brown.  

     After the education center, we went to eat a picnic lunch in the play area.  It is an area where you can eat lunch and it was fun.  Next, we went to pay to get in side the zoo.   Then we got on the train.  My mom and dad and Desirae rode with me.  

     After we got off the train, we got to walk around.  My dad sat by me so we saw the alligator and giraffe.  Then we saw the elephant.  It was so big it is gray and it had big ears and it has a long tail.  Then we played in the new kids play area.  That was a blast!  Finally, we went back to school.

January 9, 2008

Good morning! I am Desirae. This morning we got a new teacher. Her name is Mrs. Robinson. She is really nice. After announcements, we began reading. Then we wrote in our reading strategies notebook. After we did that we got out are reading book and read A Trip to the Firehouse. Then we wrote what happened in the story.
Now we are doing my favorite subject, Writing. Mrs.Cowan is reading to us a cook book to snazz up our "how to" writings. She is telling us to use similes and other stuff like onomatopeia. I forgot somthing. Before writing we did snack and it was mmmm good. Now I will git back to writing. A lot of the students are writing "how to" stories except for me because I am blogging.
Now we are listening to Hunter read his story and next it will be Kaylee. We are giveing him compliments and we are going to do that with Kaylee. Hunter's title is "How to Independently Read.". Now we are listening to Jordan. Oh, I as wrong about Kaylee. Kaylee is not going to read. Now we are doing some thing like a test but not as hard. At least it is not for me.
At 11:55 we will go to lunch most of thirty minuutes for food I do not like. Some of my friends don't like the lunch. Well we are in lunch and it is really loud in the cafeteria. For lunch they had hot dog's unless you brought a bagged lunch. Well I guess I can say it was good but really I can only say my opinion because I had a bag lunch. But what I saw that bwas so funny was people are licking the hot dog's.
At 12:25 we left the cafeteria. We are going to read Chicken Sunday but Patricia Polacco. Next we will do math. In Calendar Math, we talked about the line of symmetry. We then did science. We read about the season's. Then it was time to go home.

January 8, 2008

HELLO! My name is Kayla with my friend Celine from Mrs.Cowan`s 2nd Grade class. This morning the class had to write in our agendas. This is when you write your homework for today.
The class did reading vocabulary next. Our words for this week are vivid, brilliant, illusion, quirky, transform, bewilder, and solution. We played on Quizlet to study the words.
The class read the A Trip to the Firehouse. Then they had snacks. After snack, the class worked on functional writing. Functional writing is writing instructions or "how to's". Then the class did the Daily Language Review.
The class went to lunch. After lunch, the class did math on the board we learned about centimeters. We played a math game with problems like this 91+8+1=100.
WE THANKED Mrs.Cowan for letting us play speedball since we could not go out. It had been raining .The class finally lined up to go to Mrs.Boyles for music. We sorted our bookbags. The class began playing speedball with Mrs. Boyles. We stayed at Mrs.Boyles for dismissal.

January 4, 2008

     Greetings! Our names is Justin and Jasper from Mrs. Cowan's class in room 314.  This morning we did centers for Friday.  Group 1 did listening center.  That is when you listen to a story with headphones.  Group 2 did computers.   They played reading games.  Group 3 had big books.   That is when you read the big books.  Group 4 did buddy reading (reading with a friend). Group 5 played a reading game.  Group 6 went to the library center for 30 minutes. 

     On Monday, Group 1 will do buddy reading. Group 2 will do reading games.  Group 3 will do libary center. Group 4 will do listining center.  Group 5 will do big books.  Group 6 will do independent reading.  Each center was friendly and quiet. 

     Then we visited the lunch room to talk to a fireman.   That was very interesting.  Next we had a reading test on the story we read this week.  We read Chinatown.   After the reading test, we went to lunch.  We then took a math test.  Then we did fun Friday.  Fun Friday is free time we earn each week.  See you on Monday.

January 3, 2008

      Hello! This is Trevor and Jordan. We are 2nd graders. Our Teacher is Mrs.Cowan. She's REALLY nice. First we write in our homework in our agendas. Next we get stickers in our agendas. Then we went to the cafeteria and we disussed the rules with Mr. Lauzon. He went over the Panther Sounds. He did not call them rules. He called them behavior standards.
     Next we came back to our portable. We had to take a reading test.It was kind of hard. We had to be detailed in our writing. Then we had good hot chocolate and three kinds of cookies for a snack. The hot choclate was very warm which was nice since it was so cold. It made us feel warmer.
     After that, we did math. We had to add with big numbers. It took us about 30 minutes to do. Then we went to lunch. The food was okay. Our drinks tasted colder because it was cold outside.
     Then we did independent reading. Independent reading is reading your own books from your bookbag. They are sorted by levels. Next we read The Graves Family by Patricia Polacco. It was different then some of us predicted. That book was out of this world!
     Guess what we did next? We went to the library. We colored and checked out new books. Jordan got a dinosaur book and Trevor got a kid book. Then we made cards for Mema. We hope she gets well soon. The day was fun and we learned a lot. Then it was time for dismissal. See you tomorrow!

Welcome Back!

     Hello! This is Jasper and Justin from Mrs. Cowan's class. We wrote our homework in our agendas. After that, we went over the Panther Sounds. 0 is SLEEPING or No Noise. 1 is PURRING or whispering. 2 is GROWLING or talking regularly. 3 is HOWLING or talking loud/screaming.
     Then, this morning our class read the Book of the Month. It is called By My Brother's Side by Tiki and Ronde Barber. It was surprising! It was surprising because Tiki's leg got better so he could play football with his brother. We wrote a response to the story and write our connections, noticings, and wonderings.
     Then our class went to independently reading our books. Do you know how to independent reading? That is when you read a book by yourself. Then we logged our books. We read Chinatown next. It was about a boy and his grandmother's walking trip around Chinatown.
     Our class went to lunch. After lunch, Mrs. Siu, Jasper s mom, came with cupcakes, cookies and toys for the class. Then Mrs.Siu left. Then we did Math and Social Studies. We played Roll to a 100 in math today. It was a game about adding large numbers to equal 100. We learned about resources in Social Studies. Finally, we got ready to go home. That is what we did today. We'll see you tomorrow!