Maeve, Njung’e, Max, Maddie, Kevin and Abby all have summer birthdays! Instead of having 6 sugary, non-healthy treats all in one day, we decided to have an extra 5 minutes of outdoor recess for each birthday. We had a great time playing outside in the beautiful sunshine! Happy Birthday to all of our summer birthdays and thanks for the extra recess time!
Hi. We are Katie, Clare and Jaida. (Katie was absent today. We wrote this yesterday and took the picture today. We miss Katie! We hope she gets well soon!)
We are going to tell you about our SMARTboard. Our SMARTboard is very fun. It connects to our teacher’s computer and we can write on it. We can use it to make mathcasts or play a spelling game. We can watch videos on it. We use a doc camera too. Which means you if you put a paper under the doc camera light it will show up on the SMARTboard. It is really fun.
Jalen, Joe, Ahanu and Sharif interviewed Miss Thomas, our Principal.
Here are their questions and her answers.
Boys: Do you like being Principal?
Miss Thomas: yes!
Boys: How is it being Principal?
Miss Thomas; It is cool!
Boys:How long have you been Principal at St. Stephen?
Miss Thomas: 5 years.
Boys: Is it fun being Principal?
Miss Thomas: Yes it is!
Boys: What is the best part of being Principal?
Miss Thomas: Hanging out with all the kids!
Lily, Maeve and Grace have written this blog post.
Claymation is fun.
When we are done with Claymation we get to bring our clay and stuff home. We love claymation.
We made Claymation characters. Lily made a mouse and Maeve made a cat and Grace made a butterfly. Claymation is cool.
All of our class’s Claymation videos are on this blog.
Tyler, David and Kevin have written this blog post.
Tyler loves Technology.
Kevin says the SMARTboard is fun.
David likes the wiki a lot.
We have been in the newspaper because of technology.
We like the SMARTboard. It helps us learn.
Technology is cool.
We all love technology.
I like when we get to use computers because we get to do fun things.
David is a Techie. He says PC’s are good, but Macs are better.
The End.
Hi my name is Connor and today I interviewed our gym teacher Mr. Possehl. Here are my questions and his answers.
Connor: What do you like about a gym?
Mr. Possehl: Being in a “large” classroom and teaching fun games, activities and exercises.
Connor: Why did you want to be a gym teacher?
Mr. Possehl: I really enjoy teaching groups of kids fun activities and things they can do to stay healthy.
Connor: Do you like any sports?
Mr. Possehl: I like fishing, golf and boating.
Connor: So you like jump roping?
Mr. Possehl: I like to Watch jump roping! My knees are not what they used to be.
Connor: What do you like about you?
Mr. Possehl: That I have learned as I go t older to “laugh off” many things that used to upset me.
This post is written by Abby and Maddie with help from the class.
We have been twittering with our class. We Twitter as @MrsHsClass.
Twitter is where you get to chat with other classes in other states and other countries on the computer. We are even chatting with an Astronaut. He was twittering from space.
We like to write what we are doing so the other classes can comment about what we tweet. Sometimes we comment on what they tweet.
One class in England Twittered about their SMART table. It is like a SMARTboard, but a table. It sounded very cool, but it is also very expensive!
Other classes that we follow were reading the same books we were like “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”.
We checked out the blogs of the other classes on Twitter. They gave us a link on Twitter. We gave them a link to our blog. They watched some of our videos.
Hi our names are Katie, Jaida, Tatiana and Clare and we are the blog reporters. We decided to interview Seňora VanDyke, our Spanish teacher. We have Spanish three days a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We wanted to interview her because she is fun and nice. We like Spanish. When we get 3 stars in Spanish we get a game day. On game day we play 7-up, quiet ball, and 4 corners. We watch good movies sometimes like “Toy Story” and “Peter Pan”, but in Spanish! When it is someone’s birthday we sing “Happy Birthday” in Spanish.
Here are our questions and Seňora’s answers.
Question 1: Do you speak Spanish at home?
Seňora: no
Qestion 2: Do you like teaching Spanish? Is it fun?
Seňora: Yes! I have a lot of fun with the students.
Question 3: Were you told you had to teach Spanish?
Seňora: No. I got to choose what I wanted to teach. I can also teach Math.
Question 4: When did you learn all this Spanish?
Seňora: When I was in 7th grade I took Spanish for the first time and I liked it. I kept taking it every year including taking Spanish in college.
We are excited about walking to Jersey Junction Ice Cream Parlor for an ice cream cone on Wednesday. We love ice cream! Here are some of the flavors we will choose: Cookie Dough, Mint, Cake Batter, Watermelon Sherbet, Superman, Moose Tracks, Playdough, Strawberry Shortcake, Lemon, Orange Sherbet, Vanilla, and Chocolate.
We think Jersey Junction looks like Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory! It has a train and lots of candy.
(Also - Chris VanAlsburg’s, the author of Polar Express, mom used to own Jersey Junction many years ago!) Here is a video of the Jersey Junction Train!
We have been reading a lot this year. We read books and earn points by taking tests on the computer. This program is called Accelerated Reader. On Thursday we will have an auction with our AR points. We can’t wait! We will use our AR points like money to bid on stuff our parents sent in like jump ropes, kites, books, puzzles, small action figures, legos, candy, and lots more.
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