Thursday, October 22, 2009

Red Ribbon Week


Monday:
Oct. 26 “PUT A CAP ON DRUGS”
Wear your favorite hat or cap!
Tuesday:
Oct. 27 “ SOCK IT TO DRUGS”
Wear crazy socks & bring some NEW socks to donate!
Wednesday:
Oct. 28 “DRUGS ARE UNBEARABLE”
Bring your favorite bear!
Thursday:
Oct. 29 “TOO COOL TO DO DRUGS”
Wear your RCE T-shirt for the Red Ribbon Pep Rally!
Friday:
Oct. 30 “SAY BOO to DRUGS”
Wear your Halloween T-shirt!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Writing Contest


Olive Garden is offering a writing contest for grades 1 through 12. It began on Oct. 19 and ends December 11. Students respond to the following prompt: “Describe a teacher who has inspired you in school and how they have impacted your life.” The submission should be between 50 and 250 words. Entry forms are at the Olive Garden. The student can also submit online: OliveGarden.com (click on “community” than on “Pasta Tales.”)

Parodies

Today we spoke of Parodies. A parody is a literary or musical composition imitating the characteristic style of some other work in a nonsensical manner. Parodies are fun to write, read or sing. I read an example of the popular Christmas tale – ‘Twas the Night before Christmas” before asking the kids to come up with one of their own.

‘Twas the night before Halloween
And all through the school,
Not a creature was stirring,
Not even a ghoul
The principal’s office was locked up tight.
There was just one custodian on duty that night.


Ola’s Version:


‘Twas the night before Guinndalyn’s Birthday

She was the scary skeleton of all.
She is the one that the vampires love
Most of all.
She hates the people of that Skeleton Town
She is real I tell you….
BOO!

Michael’s Version:

She was afraid of the dark
When heard a loud bark
From the three headed dog
And there came a nasty fog.

While she was cooking her toast,
She saw that evil ghost.
She was making a sandwich
As she saw that ugly witch,
Along came a black cat
Who quickly turned into a vampire
And was set on fire!

She made a new rule,
That there would be no ghoul
There that night
And he gave her a big fright!
By the way, she survived that scary, scary night!

Monday, October 19, 2009

FLIP Cameras

I am so excited to let everyone know that our FLIP cameras have arrived. This next week, I will be putting together a schedule where the kids can "check" them out to interview parents, grandparents, etc. about specific writing topics.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Modeled Drawing

Today, we were treated with a special guest. Ricky Mikelman, our Math SIS, came in and helped the class with a "comparative" problem solver. The kids were EXCELLENT! Here is an example of one of them - without the answer statement written.

Also - here is what some of the children said when they were asked to share their solutions to the problems:



Friday, October 9, 2009

Test 2

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Test

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