We also wrote some Turkey Talk stories. Listen as we read them. You can hear the rest of the class’s stories on our wiki.
http://harju.wikispaces.com/Turkey+Talk

We have been doing I.O.W.A. testing. I do not like it. We watched some movies too. We like that. We love school. We like to read. We like to learn new stuff. We love second grade. We love techie stuff.
We are making giraffes in art and we made pictures of Golden Headed Tamarins. We are learning about subtraction and addition. I.O.W.A. test is easy but sometimes it is hard and we are doing good in the I.O.W.A. test.

Here is a stop motion video of the students during a morning of testing.

You can view our entry by following this link. You can rate it (5 stars
please) and leave a comment. Voting will occur only for the top 5 in
each grade level after November 17. Enjoy!

http://eimakeover09.shycast.com/submission/show/276/

Here are some pictures of the Zoo Visit.


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At 8:30 in the morning we Skyped with a class in Virginia. After we Skyped with them we had a spelling test then we went to Spanish. At Spanish we watched a movie. After Spanish we went to computer class. In computer class we went to www.buildyourwildself.com on the computer. After computer class we checked our homework folders, heard a story and went to lunch.

Our Skype call with Virginia
A Skype call is when you talk and see someone online on the computer and they can see us too. Trantwood Elemntary 3rd graders in Virginia, Beach Virginia called us to talk about our story. (See the blog post below)
We read our story and showed our pictures and they read the next part of the story to us. Kids in California will write the third part of the story. They also asked us questions like “What is your favorite subject?”, “Have you ever been on a plane?” and “What wildlife do you see in Michigan?” It was fun. We hope we can Skype with them again.
Be sure to visit http://writeyourstory.wikispaces.com/ to read the next part of the story. We are story 6. Here are some of the pictures we drew to go with our part of the story.

Below is the first part of the story that we wrote on Tuesday. All of the 2nd graders contributed to this shared writing experience. We are excited because the school in Viriginia that is writing the next section is going to share it with us through a Skype call on Firday! It will be our first Skype call.

Once upon a time a boy and a girl took a trip to the zoo. They walked around looking at all the animals.
They stopped at the monkey cage. There was only one monkey in the cage. The monkey looked sad.
The children wanted to cheer him up so they opened his cage to give him some of their lunch and the monkey sneaked out.
The monkey climbed in the boy’s backpack and hid. The boy and the girl did not know what happened to the monkey so they just went home. At home the boy opened his backpack and the monkey jumped out. The boy said, “We must take you back to the zoo!”
The monkey said, “I know how to get there, quickly. We need to hop on a plane.” The boy and girl packed a suitcase and a snack and followed the monkey to the airport. They hopped on a plane and thought they were going to the zoo.
When the plane landed they saw trees instead of cages of animals. The boy and girl cried, “What’s going on here?”
The monkey replied, “We are in the jungle. I need to find my family. Will you help me?”