Publishing Our Stories

We have been furiously publishing our stories in preparation for tomorrow's publishing celebration. We planned, drafted, revised and illustrated. Some of us have published two and three stories. For example, Antwan finished his story about a scary nightmare. And Lena finished her Sea Lion memoir. Isabel R. has written a second story called "The Zippity Zappity Neopets and the Case of the Swimming Korbat." There are also stories about four year olds driving cars, pet funerals, going to school in Japan, friends moving away, getting a yellow belt, seeing a scary stinky rat and lots more. Come to the classroom and read them sometime!!

Nikita and Leila doing a partner revision

Mapping from Home to School

We've been working on maps that trace our trips from home to school.
Students used small manipulatives to tell a story about how they travel to school, starting with home, what they saw along the way, and how they got to school.

Lifting a Crayon Without Lifting a Crayon

In science we have been exploring and building mechanisms with pivots, gears, pulleys and now - water wheels. Today the challenge was to find a way to lift a crayon just by squirting some water. [Andrew]

Adam

Alain

Ibuki

MAPS

Right now we are focusing on maps. We are drawing maps of everything. We made cities out of pattern blocks, Legos and just plain blocks, and then we had to draw maps of them. And Nichole drew our classroom, but she didn't add everything to it, and we had draw the rest and put an X next to our table spot on the map (it was a map right), and then Nichole handed them back out, but she had shuffled them so we didn't get our own, and we had to try to find the table, and we had to sit in that person's table-spot. And we had to make a map of each other's lunch box and make a key. Do you want me to tell you what a key is? You say yes? OK, I will tell you. You draw a picture of somthing in the corner of a paper that has pictures of the things that you drew and it says what they are and that's all for now bye. [Isabel R.]