January 22 II, by Cyphrus

HELP! HELP! we got locked out of out of the classroom today. First, the class and I did social studies on explorers that sailed across the ocean to get new places. Then we did math on multiples. A multiple is a product of a given number and another whole number. Then we were late for yoga and only had 15 minutes of yoga! When yoga was finished we went back to the class room and finished the math that we did not finish.

Once we finished the math we went to recess when recess was finally over we read "The New Doctor" its about a new doctor that works at the village and she has a clinic that needs to learn more about Spanish and Spanish culture. Manuelita goes to the maintains to get herbs. Lupe's cousin Josefa is going to have a baby but first Josefa wanted Manuelita to come. Dr. Johnson learned from Manuelita, the healer.

Afterwards we went to lunch. For lunch we had shrimp and cheese quesadillas. When lunch and lunch recess was over, the whole class did a Reading test on The New Doctor. My score was 10 or 11 out of 13. When we finished we did a spelling test; my score was twenty out of twenty. I got my 20 out of 20 because my mom and I did a spelling test before the day the test was due. Once we finished we watched Bull Whip Griffin, which was based on the chapter book we read, By the Great Horn Spoon. Once that was over we went home.

January 22, by Christian R.

Help!Help! We got locked out of the classroom! Help we need Help! We had to stand outside for a while because someone jammed plastic into the lock.

First,we did Social Studies on explorers that sailed across the ocean to get to a new world. We did a photo story to help other students understand the concept. A photo story is almost like an art project on the computer,but it is digital. You can download pictures from a website and then we take the photo and save the picture. Then it was time for the next person to do their photo. Every table did their own photo and then recorded their voice to say what it was about.

Then, in math, we did Factors and Multiples. We made arrays on a graph sheet of paper. It was easy for me to do. Then, we did factors in our math book. It was a piece of cake !!!!!! It was very simple once you get used to it. When that was over we read "The New Doctor." It was a great story. But, that is my opinion.

At yoga we did our normal exercises. It takes about 30 minutes to start and to finish. There are 3 classes that do yoga. The yoga teachers, names are Mrs. Swanland, Mr. Kootman, and Mrs.Polyascko. The teachers are very wonderful. Especially, Mr. Kootman; he is my favorite teacher. He is also my first male teacher.

At the end of the day, we read THE GOOD DOG. It is a great story but, we only read it at the end of the day. We have to wait to read the story. Then at the end of the day we have P.E. We don't get a choice to do PE; we have to participate in it. It is our PE grade! The boys like to play WarBall!!!!!! It is my favorite PE game too!!! After that we got our stuff and went home!!

January 10, 2008- by Nic

Man, that smell is still there! It's the heater! It smells worse than a couple dozen skunks! Something must be wrong with it.

Well to start out the day we did metaphors and similes.They're really fun and easy. After, we shared our metaphors and similes with our classmates. Soon it was time for yoga. In yoga we do proper exercises that help stretch our body and it helps clear our minds. After, we did math review with multiplying a four digit number by a two digit number. After, we did our math packet for a little bit. Then it was time for recess. I went to the big toy to hang out with my friend Max. Then the bell rang; it was time to go back to class.

When we got back we finished our math packet an started another subject, language arts. We CD read ''The Bridge Dancers'' and started a water color background for an art project we are doing about the story we are reading. Then we went to lunch. I ate lunch I brought from my house and sat with Max in the lunch room. Then I went outside to the big toy to hang out again. Next, it was time to go back to class. We worked on the water color painting. When that was done we read By The Great Horn Spoon. In this chapter Jack went out hunting with his new squirl gun and came across a bear. He backed up and fell right in to a hole where he got trapped. But a man pulled him out. He was a retired highwayman he had Cut Eye Higgins coat! Jack headed back to camp to eat.

When that was done, we did science review on adaptations for the ocean, the Arctic, and the forest. Lastly, we went to P.E. and played hand ball It was really fun. People serve the ball, then the next person in line rushes up and hits the ball, then the next person does that too. Then the bell rang, we went to the class room to get our stuff and go home.

A Day in Early January- by James

Hey people see if you could solve 180 times 56; round it. Today we did multiply by two digit numbers. It was hard. Then we went to yoga .We had to do all exercises. When we came back we read "The Bridge Dancers." The story was about two sisters trying to chop fire wood. But one tries to get the axe and gets cut deeply in her leg. After, we did our CLAS book. In our CLAS book we did metaphors and similes.Then we went to recess and I played football. When we came in we did our math packets. Our math paket is review of what we learned. Then we did our reading test on "The Bridge Dancers."

A reading test is where you answer the questions about the story. After that we did our spelling test. I got 20 out of 20. After that we did a project until lunch. The project was a water color tear art.

When we came in from lunch we read our class chapter book, By The Great Horn Spoon. The story was about a kid named Jack and a butler named Praisworthy trying to get in the gold rush.Then we did our spelling and vocab books. In our books we did the /c/ and /s/ sound.Then we had HOT time. HOT time is where you get to go outside and play any game you want, but only if you finish your work. We played close game of football and it was 23 to 22.

January 8, 2008- by Christian L.

We started the day today with the heater on and it was mad and making grumbling noices that smelled like fire. In math, we did a multiplication game. Nic won all our points and I only got one point for doing one multiplication problem. After that we did our math quiz and it took us 20 mintutes to do it and some people got sent outside because they were not done in time.

In Open Court reading we read the Bridge Dancers and one young girl got cut by an axe. When we lined up for yoga we were too noisy and we were late. After lunch we read our class chapter book it was about when Praisworthy punched a highwayman with the gold on his fingers. After that, we did P.E. We played handball and we only had eight minutes to play. Then we went home and did HOMEWORK!

December 20- by Kianna

Yesterday, Mr. Kootman called in sick. Everybody thought he made an excuse just to get away from us kids. So Mr. Kootman asked our student teacher ( Ms. Sarina) to take over for the day. Right now Mr. Kootman wants to see how fast I am by doing a blog in one day. I started taking notes yesterday.... and I think I'm going to succeed on it. Because we have a lot of fast typers in my class. But he chose me because he had pride in me. Let's stop talking about this and go into the real world.

In math we took a multiplication test. Some of the problems were: 9x4;9x9;5x3; and some other stuff. My class's average is 85%. last time we had 83%. After the test we opened our math book and we're on 11.5. The lesson was called Solving Simpler Problems. It was like: 96x31. Instead of doing 96x31... it's going' to be much harder with that math on your paper. We rounded the factors just did 100x30. We had to do those types of problems on our white boards.

Afterwards, we read Sewed up his Heart. Sewed up his Heart is about a man named Mr. Cornish getting stabbed in the heart. He went straight to the hospital to get sewed up. A Dr. named Dr. Dan decided he'll operate because he faced a challenge. Then, Ms Sarina picked a stick . My number is 24 when she said " Kianna, what is the story about?" And guess what I said? Murder. Where did I get the word murder from? No one was murdered.

After, Mr. Kootman & Ms. Sarina decided that we have to draw Dr. Dan out of words. He told us to draw him lightly and then on the lines write who Dr. Dan was about. When that was over we did apostrophes. For my class and I, apostrophes were like review to us. The two places we need to remember apostrophes are for contractions and for possessive nouns. We did apostrophes for at least 20 min.

Once we finished that, we went to lunch. Then, Ms. Sarina read By The Great Horn Spoon. We're on chapter 10 called The Rogue Out-Rouged. We didn't start it yet but we will after lunch.

On December 20 we will have a party, well.. Mr. Kootman wouldn't call it a party..... OK it's a party kind-of. HO! HO! HO! MERRY CHRISTMAS, JOYOUS KWANZAA & A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

December 13- by Demar

I did not know we were famous!!!!!! 1,2,3. HOW many people are gonna walk through the door! The superintendent of Fallbrook schools and two principals came to our room and a special person named Ms. Lucy. Today our class learned to multiply by 4 digit numbers; Mr. Kootman said I rocked it. I thought it was hard. Then we got ready to go to yoga. When we arrived some one told us that the kindergarteners were practicing their play. Then we tried to go out side but it was way to cold. Once we came back, the homework checkers checked our homework. Oh! did I mention that we had a math quiz? After that, we had reccess; I got beat up in football.

Once we came back from reccess we read The Milkmaid and Her Pail. We learned a lot about fables; we even made a circle map about it. I thought it was cool because fables have been passed on for years and years. Once we finished, we did vocabulary, we had a lot of words. We each choose our own words. My words were antibodies,microbes,plague and sterilize. Once we were done with our words we stepped right in to our C.L.A.S book. We were just doing review but I did not think so. Then we went to lunch.

At lunch they had hamburgers, pbj, and yogurt with graham crackers. After, we read our very new class chapter book The Great Horn Spoon. The chapter was about a kid named Jack and his butler, Praisworthy, searching for a thief on the boat who stole their money. So Praisworthy made an exellent idea to find the thief.

Next we did science and learned what is the pistol and what is the stamen,we even played a game of pictionary. Hunter figured out the most. When we were done we got ready for P.E. where we played a game of War Ball. You already know I got crushed. Then we packed up and went home.

December 17- by Mattison

WATCH OUT IT IS ALMOST CHRISTMAS! HOHOHO MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! On Wednesday we did a Review/test on chapter 10,then we moved on to Chapter 11, which is called Understand Multiplication. After math we went to yoga, but the kindergarteners were practicing a play for the parents so we went to class to finish up what we were doing. I was sad cause we couldn't go to yoga. Today we are learning Multiply by Multiples of 10. Before recess we did our Math Packet on lesson 1. When we came in from recess we started reading Medicine Past and Present. It is very long. It is about some diseases: cowpox,and smallpox. It is also about people getting really sick. A lot of people are getting sick from cowpox,and are having to go to the Hospital in the story.

After that we did a test on Medicine Past and Present.Then when we were done with that we went to lunch; it was good. I got ice cream. After lunch we read our class chapter book called By The Great Horn Spoon. Some of the characters are Praiseworthy,Captain Swain, Mr.Azariah Jones,Aunt Arabella and Jack. After that we did Science. Science was on lesson 4- What is an Adaption.

We did not do Social Studies today. After we did Science we were going to go to P.E,but we didn't because everyone was being too noisy and we didn't have enough time. We usually have Yoga on Tuesdays and Thursdays,but we did not go Tuesday and Thursday.

Some of us had to do vocab and clues chart for Homework; I was one of them. Vocab is is where you learn about some words out of the story you will be reading next,and then you write down the words that you learned and you look them up in the glossary. And a clues chart is where you trace your hand and then you write down the author, the genre, the title and the key vocab and,finally the picture clues.

December 4- by Arabelle

Today we were lucky to have some guests. One of them was Ms.D, a teacher from another school, the other was Ms.Sarina, our student teacher. They watched us do our morning work which was math. During math we did a review on chapter nine, which was on expressions using multiplication. After that, we took the real test!

After the test, we went to yoga and we were the first there so we got to be on the stage for yoga,witch was kind of cool. When yoga was over we had a little more time to finish the test because some people were not finished.

In reading and writing, Ms.Sarina read "Salt". The story "Salt" is about a man named Ivan who was not trusted by his father. But he found pure Russian salt and sold it to a king. Ivan also won the heart of the beautiful princess, the daughter of the king.

When we were done with the story we did an activity with it.The activity was where we give the character a bit of advice and it was really fun. After that activity, it was time for lunch. Reina, Sami and I played an animal game because we LOVE ANIMALS.

After lunch Ms.Sarina read Room One. In Room One, Ted found out how he could save April and her family.The next day Ted found them in an abandoned house next door to the Anderson's house. Ted and his mom planned to pick up April, Alexa, and Artie but they were not there!After Ms.Sarina was done reading everyone started whining, but Ms.Sarina could not read any more because it would be the end of the book. Mr.Kootman had to get the class quiet so we could move on with the day.

At the time that was done we moved on to science were we learned about ecosystems on and off of land and it was pretty fun learning that because we learned stuff we never knew. When we got done with all of our science we were all ready to go home. So everyone got there homework and backpacks said " I will see you later "and every one had to go home and took off.

December 3, 2007- by Skye

NEWS LISTEN UP!!!!! First, at about 9:35am we had a practice test on chapter 9 in math and we went over some of the problems from the trimester test. Then, we did our vocab+clues chart for our new story Salt; some of our words are: uncharted, merchandise, and procession. A procession is a neat line of people or cars.

Next,our student teacher, Mrs.Sarina, played with the Smart Board; she was crazy. After snack we worked in our spelling and vocab book and learned about Plot in our C.L.A.S book (which took a good hour maybe). Then, Mr.Kootman taught a comprehension review on the Oregon Trail.... it was kind of like a test.

At 12:15 we went to lunch and we had a chicken sandwich. At lunch recess most of the kids (including me) played handball. Once that was done, we read Room One where Ted was still helping April and her family. Ted thinks the family is on the run. Last, we did science and we learned about ecosystems. An ecosystem is the habitat around you. If you don't know what an ecosystem or a habitat is then listen. Well a habitat is a home. An ecosystem is the living or nonliving things around you (dun,dun,dun)!! Then, we packed up our homework, and went home.