Spring is in the Air!

  

Perfect PARP Week!

By Austin, Drew, Lindsey and Danny

It happened on Friday, March 8th, 2013 from 8:45-9:15 a.m. What happened? PARP Week happened! PARP Week encourages kids to read more books. Students' parents came in to our classroom to read with their children. Parents came into Room 18, which is Mrs. Moses' classroom  at Cantiague school. While the students read to their parents, Mrs. Moses came around and took pictures of the students and their parents. After we finished reading, we discussed what our book was about using a think mark. Perfect PARP Week was so much fun!
        

                    

Stamina?

By Anjali, Emma, Julia and Ashley

 What is Stamina? To us, stamina means to have confidence in ourselves. Also, to us, it means to never give up, and to keep picking yourself up even if you fall down. In April, we watched the music video and read the lyrics to, "Hall of Fame." Click on the link above and you will see it for yourself. We did this because we wanted to get ready for the ELA test by building our stamina. Mrs. Moses went on Youtube and showed us the song, "Hall Of Fame," by Will.i.am and The Script. We saw the video in our classroom on the smartboard/computer. We now know what stamina is and we will think about it everytime we are stuck on something! Never give up on your dreams and you will succeed!

Poetry is Exciting!

By Kathryn and Naima

Our class did a unit on poetry for Writer's Workshop!!!

First, class looked on cool websites such as gigglepoetry.com and poetryforkids.com to see great poems. Then we each made a cool poster with a poem on it and we shared with the class!! Next, we  read lots of poetry books and noticed what poetic devices writers use like: personification, similie, metaphor and alliteration. Finally, we created our own poems. We made poetry books of our very own. Come check them out in the hallway! Two of our favorite authors are Shelsilverstein.com. and Kenn Nesbitt. Read some poetry for yourself!


           

 

 

 

 

The Baby is Coming!

By Louisa, Jack, Harry and Vivian

It's a boy! Our teacher, Mrs. Park-Wong is having a baby boy. We had a suprise baby shower for her. We  also gave her gifts and made a class project titled, "21 Ways to be the Best Mommy Ever." Everyone gave her one tip for being a good mom. When the day was finally here (aka Friday, April 5th) ,we stuffed all the presents under Mrs. Moses's desk and hid in the room. Mrs. Park-Wong was jumping with joy when she walked in. When she saw all the baby presents she said, "Thank you!" to everyone. Finally, we had cake and fruits that Danny's mom brought in. IT WAS THE BEST BABY SHOWER EVER!

            

Animals on the Go !!!

By Hunter, Ethan, Dylan and Carly

Do you know a lot about animals?   Last month we started learning about animals in science lab with Mrs.Oddo and Mrs.Moses.  We are learning about animals and their behaviors. We learned about mammals, amphibians, birds, fish, reptiles and insects. One experiment we did was with mealworm larva.  We tried to see what area they would prefer. One experiment was to see if they would rather go to the dark, the light, sand or soil. Most of the mealworms went to the soil. The second experiment was to see if they preferred apples, organges, bran or oatmeal. Most of the worms chose oatmeal. Then we compared invertebrates and vertebrates. Vertebrates are animals with backbones and invertabrates are animals with no back bones. Next, we will be creating a diorama with animals in their habitats!

  

Math Shapes

By Matthias and Alvin Lee

Do you know about geometry? This is what we know.  Mr.P, Mrs.Moses, Mrs.Park-Wong and our classmates  all  help eachother in math.  We started geometry in March and ended  in April. We learned about angles, lines and shapes in class and at home. We were doing math so that we will practice more and  we will get smarter at math and bring more knowlege to our brains. We were using protractors and rulers so we can measure angles, shapes and lines. We also learned how to measure area and perimeter. Do you know the difference between area and perimeter?  The difference is that for area you do length times width. But for perimeter you add up the lengths of all  the sides and the sum is the answer! That is the diffrence between area and perimeter. We hope you learned a lot about geometry!