Friday, Jan. 28

by Andrew

We had a wonderful half-day Friday! It was so fun even the work was fun!

Wed., Jan 26, 2011

We did fun stuff! Some of us got worried about their 100 stuff. We are not sure about the jar that Ethan brought in.

by Noel

The sweet smell of marshmallows!

What a great 100th day of school celebration! We had a great time today. The students had fabulous projects and presentations. We did 100 exercises, put together 100-piece puzzles, made structures out of 100 mini-marshmallows and 100 toothpicks, made art out of 100 dots, did 100 math problems, wrote about what we would do with $100, read a book about 100 days of school, and had a 100 day snack! Whew! THANK YOU to everyone who sent in supplies to help make this celebration possible (marshmallows, anyone?) and to the four moms who led the centers- Mrs. Altman, Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Marr, and Mrs. Roth. We couldn't have done it without you!!!

A picture slide show of the day is coming soon... one of our buddies from Mrs. Gagea's class is going to put together the photos into a presentation for us!

Monday, January 24

by Maxwell
We started on WordMasters. We did lots of math. We also did a Frindle worksheet. We went upstairs for social studies. Our social studies teacher is Mrs. Gagea. We have recess at 10:40, then we have lunch. We are looking forward to free time Friday. School is fun. We leave school at 2:30. We also like to go home.

Night at the Opera

Thanks again to the Altman family for inviting the students from the self-contained gifted program at Desert Cove to Arizona Opera's production of Turnadot! Here's Ms. Flores with a few of the students that attended the opera.

Friday, Jan. 21

by Ethan
We had Fun Friday. Today is Zoie's birthday. We had a spelling test. We finished a book. Someone new joined the class.

Thursday, Jan. 20

Apologies to Carter... his blog update didn't get posted yesterday. I remember typing it in, but something must have happened when publishing to the website. Here it is again:

Website update
by Carter

We saw a geography bee today. Zoie's brother Griffin won the geography bee. Noel's brother came in second place. Tyler, Connor, and David also competed.

Wednesday, Jan. 19

Today the class read more Frindle, worked on math, and watched a video about falling objects (rocks) around the world. We also typed our new spelling lists into our handheld computers to practice the words using the Spell Buddy games. Most students took home their handhelds today to practice more at home. And of course, there was more silly stories from Wayside School.
~Ms. Flores

Tuesday, January 18

by Wyatt

went to the library
had a pretest
lunch
did numbers of me
We did have science today.

Friday, Jan. 14, 2011

by Noel

We had free time!! Some of us did some thing fun! We get to take home our handheld. We got to go to assembly. Happy Martin Luther King jr. day!!!!!

Update by Aruna S.

Today Ms. Flores read a book called Wayside School. We had a fire drill inbetween Social Studies.

Wednesday, Jan. 12

By Fathima

We got to take our handhelds home. We had science today. We wrote a postcard.

Tuesday, January 11

By Zoie

Today was a half day. We had no recess today. There was snack today. We are doing a packet on Frindle. We are also reading Frindle. We made paper airplanes and origami. We went to the library.

Monday, Jan. 10

By BOSTON

we had a spelling pretest about food. we did a vocabulary on frindle.

Slugs or Snakes?

OR ????

Friday, Jan. 7, 2011

Dear parents,
We all did our spelling tests today. We got to play on our handhelds, too. We're having weird questions asked to us. Which would you eat between small garter snake or 5 big slugs? Would you rather have a snowball fight against a pro baseball pitcher or play dodge ball against a pro quarterback?

from,
Robert

Spelling Activities

This week students were able to choose from a spelling menu of various activities. Shown here are pictures of two of the options- making words out of Play-Doh and playing online spelling games with the weekly words. Good job everyone! ~Ms. Flores

News from Ms. Flores' Class (Jan. 6, 2011)

by ZACK
We got permission slips to take our handheld computer home. We watched a film about space from 2009. We finished our timeline today. We did two worksheets about adding cash for food and sports. We did a activity about space involving planets and moons. We also played on our handheld computers if we were done with work. We ate chicken and pizza.

Wednesday, January 5

by Andrew

We asked very good questions in science, started Frindle, and had fun!

Tuesday, January 4

Update by Abhinav

We got to know each other more today. We learned how to use our handhelds. We used them for spelling games and you can doodle on them and you can beam your picture to someone else's handheld.

Monday, January 3

Daily summary, by THE CLASS.
We had a pre-spelling test. Some of us got an advanced spelling list. We are starting on Ancient Greece in Social Studies. We ate lunch. We played at recess. We started to get to know each other, but we did not start science today.

Almost time to start again...

I hope everyone has had a great winter break! It is almost time to get started with school again and I am excited about getting to know you all and having some fun in the months ahead. The plan for this blog is that it will become a place that we can post about what is going on in our classroom each day. For now, please take a moment to vote on the poll on the side---- there is one poll for parents and one poll for students!

See you soon,

Ms. Flores