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!