February Book Project

L LS #24 proved she is a groovy artist with serious talent and enviable creativity.  Take a peek at her suitably psychedelic post cards highlighting her nonfictional reading choice, The Beattles. 

The Pencil Sharpener

by DF #7

Sydney is sharpening her pencil.

*Snap* it breaks!

Sydney tries again and it keeps 

Snap, snap, snapping

She throws her pencil away!

Volume and Capacity

In science today students used graduated cylinders, syringes, and beakers to measure four different water level in ml.

MF #6 and AN #21 delighted our classroom as guest readers. They chose storybooks in their native languages. AN#21 read a russian language book about a young boy who found surprises inside a tree. MF #6 read a story in french about a finicky eater who discovered she liked everything. She just needed to try it.

E23 writes her first cursive word...it.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre so please excuse typos

Spring Break

During srping break, I did chores and more boring stuff.  I went with my mom to downtown Seattle.  I went to Starbucks first. Then my mom's friend went to the hair salon to her hair.  After that we went back to Bellevue. We bought pizza there.  I walked home and I was holding the heavy purse.  My mom's friend held the cereal boox bag.  My mom was holding two boxes of pizza and a gallon of milk.  That is the only part of spring break that was goo.

Socratic Seminar

Yesterday we had a Socratic Seminar.  The statement was, "It's Digory's fault the witch came to London."  I think it was fun because we got to hear other's opinions.  When we do a Socratic Seminar we learn more about the story.  We also did a Socratic Seminar on The Magician's Nephew.
~SM #10

On Tuesday we did a Socratic Seminar.  The statement is "It's Digory's fault that Jadis has come into our world."  I think it's the Atlantean's fault because they made the box.  Some people said it was Polly's fault.  Others say it is Digory's fault.  I don't know whose fault it is.
~JR #14

Yesterday we had a Socratic Seminar.  It was about how the witch came to our world and whose fault it was.  Most people thought it was Digory's, Uncle Andrew's, and Jadis'.  Some people think it was Polly's fault for touching the ring.  I said that it was Digory's fault because he rang the bell.  I like the Socratic Seminar.  Everyone loves Socratic Seminar.
~EL #9

The Socratic Seminar was really fun because people thought that it was really Digory's fault the witch came, and other people thought it was Uncle Andrew's fault, and many other people thought it was Polly's fault.  I thought it was Uncle Andrew's fault because he told Polly to tell Digory to ring on the bell to make the witch wake up.
~ET #22

Yesterday we did a Socratic Seminar on The Magician's Nephew.  The statement was "It's Digory's fault the witch came to London."  But I think it's Uncle Andrew's fault because I think he did know the witch was going to come, so he sent the kids.  None of that would have happened if Uncle Andrew didn't make the rings.  I wonder if we have to read to find out?
~LS #20

We had a Socratic Seminar on Monday.  It's weird - once somebody came up with an idea, the other people use it.  For example, "It's the godmother's fault", then everyone uses the godmother.  We sit in a circle.  We don't raise our hands to speak.  It was kind of weird.
~DG #3