Lil' Indians
Cambridge Elementary School
December 18, 2018
In This Issue:
- Author Visits CCS Elementary
- Spookley Day!
- Author Visits the Library
- 6th Grade Reading Group
- The Three Sisters Feast
- 5th Grade Art
- 2nd Grade Learns to Dreidel
- 4th Grade - Corn You Believe It?
- Haunted House For Sale
- Thankful Tree
- Veteran's Day in First Grade
- Instrumental Music News
- Kindergarten Art
- Sarcophagi
Author Visits CCS Elementary
On December 11, an author named James Bruchac came to our school to talk about a good story. He talked about a certain kind of folktale, a scary story. In a scary story, grownups make up stories that make you not want to misbehave or go to a forbidden place. Mr. Bruchac also talked about stories that explain things that we do not know the origin of. He said that scary stories are important because they warn kids about bad things and the consequences of misbehaving.
The visit was engaging and helped us write our own monster stories. It also helped us understand the concept of writing folktales/monster tales.
Spookley Day!
by Gabrielle Austin, 1st Grade, Mrs. Celani's class
Spookley Day was about Spookley. The first graders made pumpkins all shapes and sizes. We went to different classrooms. They turned out amazing! Spookley is a square pumpkin. In the movie all of the pumpkins laugh at Spookley. What's different in the movie is they have a contest. Spookley does not win at first. Then a storm comes, the carriage falls, the fence breaks and he saves the pumpkins. Spookley has friends now. They plant other Spookley pumpkins. The teachers put our pumpkins in the glass cases.
by Gabrielle Austin
Author Visits the Library
6th Grade Reading Group
By Brailyn Wright, 6th Grade, Mr. Flint's class
In Mr. Flints reading group, we read a book called Escape From the Tower of London, Ravenmasters Secret. This book is about a boy named Forrest who lives near the Tower of London. While working there, some new prisoners came from Scotland: a girl named Maddie, her father, and uncle. Forrest realized Scottish people were nice. He fell into a deep friendship with Maddie, while trying to save Forrest’s best friend Ned from being a chimney sweep. Forrest had to break many rules to save both Ned and Maddie.
When we were done reading this book, we started to make circle books. Obviously the books are circled. We included the 12 main parts of the story, wrote them and illustrated them with our best ability.
The Three Sisters Feast
by Sadie Mcmillan, 4th Grade, Mrs. Smith's class
Mrs. McIntosh helped the fourth grade to make a Three Sisters meal including corn, beans, and squash. Mrs. Smith told us the Native American Three Sisters folktale about three sisters each representing corn, beans or squash and an Indian boy. One sister at a time followed the little boy, until the oldest was left alone, and then she followed the boy to only find her sisters. With corn, beans, and squash we made self-grounded cornbread and a squash bean dish. The corn, beans and squash were all grown in the community garden. We are lucky to have Mrs .McIntosh work at our school !
5th Grade Art
2nd Grade Learns to Dreidel
4th Grade - Corn You Believe It?
In November, Linda Law-Saunders visited the the 4th Grade from Cornell Cooperative Extension to teach a unit called, "Corn You Believe It?" The first lesson involved math and counting corn kernels. The second lesson was related to science: students dissected a kernel of corn. In the third lesson, also science, students learned how a corn plant grows using water and nutrients. Way to GROW, 4th grade!
Lauryn Sartoris and Cody Donisthorpe
Haunted House for Sale!
In Mrs. Bell’s 2nd Grade classroom, we wrote Halloween stories about how to sell a haunted house. We made them scary. We put ghosts on the inside and outside. We put a lot of spooky stuff in our stories.
We had a visitor, Mrs. Bell’s sister, Judy Rancourt. She is a realtor who sells houses. We got to read our haunted house for sale stories to her. She tried to sell us a haunted house too! It was fun!
Pictured: Rozlynn Eldred, Lilli Dearstyne, Judy Rancourt, Max Periard, and Nola Marotta
Thankful Tree
Veteran's Day in First Grade
Instrumental Music News
The Elementary Band students have been working hard on their music to perform for the community during the Holiday season. They will be performing at the Winter Concert on Monday, December 17 at 6:30 pm in the Auditorium. (The Beginners will not be performing until the Spring.) Come enjoy the holiday season and hear them play their holiday music!
In addition, some Band students also participated in the Hubbard Hall Annual Holiday Breakfast. This year they celebrated England and they performed ‘Wassail March’. Also, Kirk Knuffke from the Bridge Arts Ensemble came to work with the Brass students. They worked on buzzing high and low notes and learned more about the cornet and trumpet.
Kindergarten Art
Sarcophagi
By Drake Webster and Carter Hamilton, 6th Grade, Mr. Flint's Class
A sarcophagus is a box-like coffin holding an Egyptian pharaoh. We took a piece of oak tag paper and folded it in the form of a box, which became our sarcophagus. The real mummification process takes 70 days. The mummies have to get mummified before they get put into their sarcophagus. We made a mummy out of clay and covered it in a cloth like material that hardens after you put it in water. Before we put it in the cloth, we put amulets on the mummy. Finally we made a funeral mask for our mummy. Now they are ready to be put into their sarcophagus and transported to their pyramid. They stay there until the “Indestructibles” call them up to the stars.
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Website: www.cambridgecsd.org
Location: 24 South Park Street, Cambridge, NY, USA
Phone: 518-677-8527 (1432)
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