Room 17 Newsflash
Written by the First and Second Grade Students
Recent classroom happenings
Special Person's Day
On the day we had Special Person’s Day, we had planned to sing a song. We sang “Be Our Guest,” but it was our own version because we changed the words. It was a great time because we worked hard and we knew that. We had a picnic outside of our classroom on the grass. We were happy that we could do that because we were thinking that it was going to rain. Everyone ran out of the big, giant grass area to the playground. Some people did Go Far and some people played on the playground at John Lyman School. We came back inside for some activities that we planned for the special people. The activities were interesting to the special people. We all went down to Assembly for some shares and songs. The special people had big smiles on their faces.
Written by Isannah and Cassidy
The Spring Concert
Our class is going to do a concert on May 17th. The songs we are going to sing are "The Ants Go Marching," "Yankee Doodle," and "Row, Row, Row, Your Boat." The songs are so easy to do because we were practicing them for awhile. We worked really hard to do this concert. We have a lot of songs to sing at the concert. At the concert we have to look really pretty and really handsome because the concert is really going to be so cool. All of our parents and siblings are going to be so proud of us for doing our best and doing our hardest work. Sometimes at concerts we make mistakes and we have to stop, but that's fine, because no one's perfect at all.
Written by Brooke and Nahi
The Spring Concert
Student Edit List
Working on Chrome Books
Publishing Books
When you are publishing books, you have to go through a whole list of editing. In our classroom, the list is called the student edit list. It takes a few months to finish your book. First, you need to edit with a partner to go on typing. After you type, you go on to author page. You can either type it on the computer or you can write on paper first, then you can type. Then you go on to the dedication page. You could either write the dedication on paper or on the computer. Then you go to final edit. When you are doing final edit, you and your teacher have to sit together. You work with your teacher on spelling words right, so your book won't have wrong words in it. When the books are done you will read it to the class. Then you put it on the shelf with all the other published books.
Written by Grace and Jillian
Making Parents Day Gifts
We made Parents Day gifts for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. We called it Parent's Day gifts. We had 3 choices they were: a button tree, a nature frame, or a necklace. We also made cards. We had to wait for the cards to dry. We used a paint brush and dipped our finger into ink pads. Some of us chose to give our Father's Day gift to our father on Mother's Day and some of us chose to wait until Father's Day. We did Parent's Day because Father's Day is at the end of the year, and we have a lot of half days and we wouldn't squeeze it into a half day. We love making Parents Day gifts.
Written by Julia and Tyler
Reading The Calder Game
Calder is a boy from the book The Calder Game. In one chapter Calder gets lost! A statue has been stolen. Miss button is Chicago 7th grade teacher. Tommy and Petra are Calder's friends. Calder went missing and Tommy, Petra, and the other people are trying to find Calder. A big crow took one of Calder's graph paper designs. Pummy is a big cat who has one eye. Miss Sharp is watching over Tommy and Petra. Miss Sharp is a Secret Undercover Detective. We are so interested in this book. You should read this book too!
Written by Derek and Landon
Time and Money
We have been learning about time and money. We have learned about different coin amounts. Five pennies equal one nickel and two nickels equal one dime. Now we are going to talk about time! The hour is the little hand. The big one is the minute. We use this chant to help us remember how to tell time: The little hand has all the power, that's because it tells the hour. We have a really funny poem we were reading yesterday called "Smart." And then we played Cupcake Toss. This is how you play. You all have a cupcake tin, And there are numbers written in the cupcake liner. You take a pom pom and toss it, then put that amount of money in the cupcake liner. We hope we can study time and money next year.
Written by Bella and Madeline
Our Mobiles hanging after working with Mrs. Howes
The poem "Smart"
Some of our Calder inspired mobiles
Making Mobiles
There were four teams. Each team gets to create one mobile. You can make the mobile however you want. One team made a dog mobile, one team made an owl mobile, one team made a smiley guy mobile, and one team made a Ferris wheel car. We got to use bottle caps, cones, foam, tubes, pipe cleaners, string, and wire. We got to write our names on the foam with markers. Then we got to hot glue the pieces of the mobile together and then connect the wire with the foam and the cones and the bottle caps together.
Written by Max and Seth
Balance Circus
The 1st and 2nd graders have been working on balance circuses. There are guys with our circus. There is an elephant that can balance on the circus stage. There’s a rubber band attached to the circus, it makes a tightrope. There are amazing tricks with all guys with our circus. One time, we balanced the guy on the elephant. We balanced a guy on a rope. A guy can balance on the metal by the feet. There is a guy that has an umbrella in the circus that we made. We have been doing lots of stuff with our circuses as we learn about balancing.
Written by Piper and Griffin
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Eggs
Some of the eggs are cracked. There is a big hole in one of our eggs, so we can see the wing. The other chick that is already hatched is helping the other egg hatch. The egg is light brown. Some of the eggs are light green and dark brown. Our eggs are very cool! The first egg that hatched we named the chick Little Peep. The second one was Chippy. The third was Fluffy. The fourth one was Fuzzball. The fifth was Dark Chocolate. The sixth was named Blondie. The seventh one was named Lucky because he was lucky that he got out. We were lucky because we saw its wing came out. The chick that was named Dark Chocolate is black. The newborn chick is yellow and it already is fluffy. It is almost the same as the other chicks. It almost going into the brooder. We candled the eggs today. None of them have a chick inside of them. One was going to grow, but it did not because it grew the wrong way.
Written by Aiyana and Annabella