Today's Journal: Birthday Cake

I hate chocolate birthday cake. I love angel food cake. I love it even more with maple frosting. On each person's birthday we get it. My Mimi makes it. My mom makes other good cakes. Every time we eat cake I eat the frosting last.

Margaret

Today's Journal: If I had a camera

I have a camera. It used to be my mom's. I have this one picture that looks like a ghost sunset. I would take pictures of my brother doing something embarrassing. I would show it to his friens. My mom hates getting her pictures taken. I take pictures of my garden.

Emma

Field Trip to the Statehouse

We had a wonderful field trip on Friday to the Vermont State House. We had been studying the branches of government, and how laws are made. We sat in on a session in the House of Representatives. We were introduced by our Rep. Ira Trombley. We met and spoke with our Senator Dick Mazza, our Reps. Mitzi Johnson and Ira Trombley and Lt. Governor Brian Dubie.

The children were very respectful, inquisitive and knowledgeable. Thanks so much to Michele, Audrey, Missy, Tracy, Justin, and Kenny for driving and chaperoning!

Once I had a bad cold.I could not go to school for like 1 week.I loved when I stayed home.It was fun.But when I had that bad cold I was in kindergarten.I loved kindergarten because we used to have naptime. I love naptime. It was nice and quiet.

Meghan

Next week's theme: Mountains

Next week's theme is Mountains. We are going to learn about glacial erosion, the 7 highest peaks, and watch the Planet Earth DVD on mountains. We are also going to read a book called Everest. It is by Gordon Korman. It is a story about a 13 year old boy who wants to be the youngest person to summit Everest.

If you want to do some research ahead of time or along with your student please feel free!

Tracy

Student Journals

If I Found $50.00
If I found $50.00 I would save it for a vacation. Then I start getting more and more money. Then one day more green $50.00 bills turned into $500.00 dollar bills. I was the first one to get it, but then it started raining $50.00 bills and everybody came to get them. Then I was so rich. I became the President and bought the world.

Darien


The Best Taste in the World
The best taste in the world is pizza because it is so good. But blueberries are better than pizza. Why do they call blueberries blueberries, when they call raspberries, redberries? I don't know why...
The End

Damian


Before I Go to School
Before I go to school I eat breakfast. I also take a shower. then I go out and visit the workers in my barn for my dad. I like throwing snowballs at them. It is fun. Then they try to lock me outside. They are just devils.


Rudd

Field Trip

Packets with information about our field trip went home yesterday. Included in the packet are some details on rules and expectations and our itinerary. Please ask your student for it at home.

T

Government

This week in honor of the Inaguration, we are studying how our governement works. We learned that there are three branches of government in both our state and our nation. There are checks and balances so no one person has too much power.

We are visiting the Statehouse on Friday to see Vermont's legislature in action. Mitzi Johnson has agreed to meet with us over lunch and we will have a tour of the Statehouse.

Thanks to parents for sending in permission slips and driving us there!

Leonardo da Vinci

This week we are studying things related to Leonardo da Vinci. We will be doing a web quest on him tomorrow. We will be visiting this website.

http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/LeoHomePage.html

Kids should be working on their project for Friday. As we are learning, da Vinci was an incredibly creative person, so the projects are an opportunity to show your own creativity as well as what you learned about as you were studying. Project sheets went home last Friday, but I will resend them home today as well.

Have fun! I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Student Journaling

Sorry, we have gotten behind a little in publishing journal entries. Here are a bunch!

I am curious when...
I am curious when I find Josy's cookies on the floor of the barn. It makes me think she might be eating it. I am not curious when Josy's nose is in the bag. I do not let her near the bag. She tried to eat an apple when I was not looking. Patch ate carrots out of my back pocket. He could not get a full carrot. He got half.

Molly


Nicknames
My nickname is KK. I do not know why people call me KK. But is must be because my name starts with a K. My best friend Jame in my old school called me la it took me a long time to figure out why she called me that. But one day I was spelling my name and I notesed the last to letters in my name are la. I do not know why people give other people nick names it is really weird. I called my friend Jame J dog because her name starts with a J.

Kayla


Trees
Trees help us breathe. They give us oxygen and we need oxygen. People keep on cutting down trees to build houses. At home I have a necklace that says hug a tree. In California there are trees that are called red trees. You can drive through them.

Hannah


Waffles
Some waffles are round and others are square. I like the kind that you pour the mix into a waffle presser. If I have a choice between pancakes and waffles I would pick pancakes usually, I put syrup and whip cream, and butter on them, but I don't like strawberries on them. I have a very old waffle presser at home. Waffles are yellow and taste eggy.

Tatum

Themes Glorious Themes!

In order to create a little spice and focus, I have developed (and am still developing) some themes of instruction for the remainder of the year. If you want to do some research, preteaching, or have some resources to share, here are my plans for the future....

Week of January
5 Green Mountain Hero (Green Mountain Boys, VT history, Catamounts)
12 Leonardo da Vinci (Art, science, inventions)
19 3 branches of government ( a trip to the Vermont State House is in the planning stages)
26 Mountains (erosion, 7 highest peaks...)

Week of February
2 Solids
9 Liquids
16 Gases (states of matter, atoms, molecules)

Week of March
2 Iditarod
9 Iditarod (Alaska, resources, winter, time)
16 Ireland (Land, people, history)
23 Maple sugaring (hopefully visit to a sugar house)

That's what we have in the wings so far. Please let me know if you have any other ideas or resources!

Tracy