Haiti Needs Our Help!
We made a video to tell what we are doing to help Haiti and to inspire others to help. After you watch the video, please leave a comment telling us what you are doing to help Haiti and please share the link to this video with others and help us spread the word!
If you have trouble viewing the video below, follow this link.
This video was made with help from our teacher. We took turns in front of and behind the camera to film the parts of the video.
We were inspired after watching and singing along to “We are the World” from USA for Africa. Thank you for helping us help Haiti!
Today’s blog reporters are Kyle, Matthew and Tyler. They decided to ask their classmates how they feel about what has happened in Haiti.
Haiti was hit with a major earthquake last week and another major aftershock hit today. The people of Haiti are suffering and many have died. Their homes are destroyed and they had trouble getting food and water. We are very sad for them. Here are the thoughts of some of our classmates.
Michigan feels sad for them. (Kyle and Matthew)
Please pray for Haiti everyday. (Tyler)
I feel bad about the people of Haiti. (Caroline)
I will pray for Haiti. (Emma)
I will give them money. (Liam)
I will wear my Haiti T-Shirt to show support. (Aidan)
Haiti is a beautiful country. (Da’von)
Haiti has good people. (Isabella)
I will pray for the people. (Caillou)
I feel sorry for the people. (Cecelia)
We will help you. (MacKenzie)
God Bless the People of Haiti! (Whole Class)
Our school already has a Haiti connection. We are sister schools with St. Francois d’Assise in Cerca la Source, Haiti which is about 100 miles NE of the capital where the earthquake was centered. On Tuesdays we wear our Blue Tie-dyed Haiti T-shirts as our uniform shirt to show our support for our sister school. We will continue to wear our shirts on Tuesdays in support of the entire country of Haiti. We will also pray for Haiti and we will donate money to help the people of Haiti. We each wrote how we will help the people of Haiti.
Mr. Dan visited our school today to teach us about the Iditarod. The Iditarod is a dog sled race across Alaska. The first Iditarod race was in 1973. Mr. Dan showed us the equipment and tools you need. You need a heavy coat, heavy gloves, special boots, a fur lined hat, goggles, snowshoes, booties for the dogs’ feet, and a flashlight that you wear on your head. The Sleds are now made of plastic. They used to be made of wood. The sled has two important bags in it. One is a doggy bag. If one of the dogs is hurt or ill and needs to ride, they put them in the bag with their head sticking out. The other bag holds snacks and beverages for the musher. Two other important tools the musher needs is a knife to cut the dogs’ meat and an axe.
We got to see and pet the dogs when we went outside. They were very gentle and a little noisy. We loved seeing and petting the dogs. It was cool because all the dogs were girls but one. The girl dogs were 2 or 3 years old. The boy dog was 12 years old. It was interesting to learn about Iditarod. Some of us think that we would like to be in the Iditarod someday.
The second graders share the ways they follow the 4th Commandment – Honor Thy Father and Mother. I Honor my parents when…
I Do my chores. Liam
I Help my mom and dad when they are sick. Isabella
I Clean up the house. Cameron
I Tell my mom and dad the truth. Aidan
I Listen to my mom and dad. Liam
I Tell my mom and dad the truth. Jason
I Clean my room .Caroline R.
I love and respect them. Carolinef
I do my chores. Isabelle
I Help my mom and dad around the house.–ClaireC
I Wash the dishes. Hamilton
I Clear the table.Claire H.
I Make my mom food in the bed by Caillou.
I Make my bed and clean my room. by tyler
I Help around the house. by Matthew.
I Honor my parents when I Go to sleep. Eduardo
I Honor my parents when I Vacuum. Kyle
I honor my parents when I do what they say. Cecelia
I honor my parents when I clean up the house. Cameron
I honor my parents when I Help. Ethan
I Behave and when I clean up my room. MacKenzie
I Tell the truth. Da’von
I Clean my room. Aaron
I Help them when they need it. Audrey
I Do my chores. Sophie
I Feed my cats.—–YuMei
My mom and dad say to do something I will do it. Emma
We enjoyed our trip to Frederik Meijer Gardens this morning. We began with a guided tour of the indoor gardens including the tropical conservatory, carnivorous, and arid gardens. We saw a cactus as big and round as a bean bag chair and Bamboo trees that grew so tall they had to keep them trimmed! We saw Venus Flytraps and found out that they only grow gigantic in the movies.
Then Mr. B taught us about the parts of plants by relating them to our household chores and items. We found out a stem is like a garden hose, a seed is like an egg, a scarf is like a flower. We also acted like the different parts of a plant. Curling up in a ball to be a seed or standing tall to be a stem.
The last part of our visit was viewing the Holiday trees still on display. We saw Christmas trees decorated to represent countries and customs all over the world. The African tree was the coolest!
Today we learned about plants and seeds.
We learned that a plant has many parts including the roots, stem, leaf, flower and seed.
We took apart a lima bean seed to see the seed parts.
We saw the seed coat, baby plant and food part of the seed.
We will plant some of lima bean seeds and watch them grow.
Mrs. Gage our new classroom helper read a beautiful book to us. It was called The Reason for a Flower by Ruth Heller. We are happy to have Mrs. Gage with us! She will be in our classroom MWF afternoons and T-TH mornings.
As part of the Winter Wonderland Project, the second graders illustrated a Christmas Song on the computer. We then recorded ourselves singing the song to accompany our pictures. We chose to sing and illustrate Away in Manger.
Merry Christmas!
Each year as winter arrives, we hope that it will bring beautiful snow and at least one or two snow days. Students and teachers enjoy the days that we get to sleep a little longer, bake cookies and play in the newly fallen snow. This year we have already had 4 snow days! The first was over a week ago on a Friday. The next three were just last week and we had three snow days in a row! We enjoy school and learning, but we love snow days too! Here we share how we like to spend our time on Snow Days.
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