Sticker Contest Motivates Kids!

Entry by Mrs. Smith

Today, I encouraged my students to have good behavior by motivating them with stickers!  Stickers were passed out for kids that were following directions, staying on task, getting their work done and being kind to others.  Check out these sticker collectors!

And the winner is.....



by jackson and gabe.

So today we watched dr.suess videos! We watched sneetches they were so funny .Green eggs ham max was funny. horton hears of whoo was awsome . It is all thanks to dr. seuss.

Students pair up with Mrs. Huston's class to get ready for Read Across America Day!

Gracie as The Lorax!

Brady as The Lorax!

This morning, Team Smith paired up with Team Huston to get prepared for Read Across America Day!  We watched a few of the classics, Green Eggs and Ham, The Sneetches and Horton Hears a Who.  Then, we made Cat in the Hat hats that expressed our love for reading!  Finally, we took pictures of us as "The Lorax" for our Lorax event on Friday!

Read Across America Day

Posted by Mrs. Smith

Friday is Read Across America Day!  Students are encouraged to wear red and white.  We get a special Read Across America breakfast and will be doing a school-wide Drop Everything And Read!  There will also be a trivia contest-Name two books that Dr. Seuss wrote!  Looking forward to the celebration!





Do you want to babysit a crayfish?

Interested in taking a crayfish home to "babysit" it?!  If you think your child is responsible and ready to take care of a crayfish, please email me and let me know and you might be the lucky babysitter for one night!

Photo and blog entry by Andy

Spring has sprung! We just got a seed sprouter .Three levels of awesome seeds! Sunflower seed, pea seed and corn seed are on the bottom. The two other levels are bean seed. It is green. the very bottom is filled with water.Two seeds have sprouted. water drains down the seed sprouter. The two seeds that sprouted were the bean seeds.

Let your kids count some change!

Today, we reviewed counting money.  Many kiddos are still struggling to count change up to $2.00 and bills and change up to $5.00.  If you have some extra change, let them count it!  Practice makes consistency!  Once they've mastered counting money, help them practice making change from $5.00.

Professional Development

Just wanted to let you know that I'm in a professional development training today so there won't be any student blog entries. 

They'll still be learning a lot and enjoying the crayfish! :)

Crayfish

By Maggie A Destiny

Today one of are crayfish lost one of there claws.

We have started naming our crayfish:Curly:Ranger:Gunner:Bobby:Gunner 2:Gunner 3:Weensy:and pleage of aleanges.

Gunner reaches to pinch us when we try to pick up.

Bob is a big pincher.

Ranger is the meanest one in the group.

Naming Crayfish.

                                                            By : Brady & Gabe
We have started naming our crayfish with these names: Curly, Bob, Ranger, Gunner, Bobby, Gunner 2, Gunner3, Weensy and I Pledge Of Aliegence Guy.Curly curls up when we pick  him up . Bob is the  biggest and likes to pinch. Gunner reaches to pinch us when we pick him up. Ranger is the second biggest and the meanest. Bobby is a one pincher guy who is very friendly. Gunner is pretty much just like Gunner. Gunner 3 is just like the others. Weensy is a mini guy. And I Pledge Of Aliegence Guy always has his claws up when we try to pick him up.

Tropical Fruit Day in Cafeteria

Today at lunch a guy came and gave us tropical fruit.They were all different oranges, including blood oranges.  They all have vitamin c.They are all citrus fruits. They were very good.We had like 5.They were all awesome.

by jax & trev

A girl or a boy?

By Niko and Jonathan

Today we learned if a crayfish is a girl or a boy. A girl would have a dot called a eggpour.A boy has less and short spinerits.                                    

                                                                               This is a boy

                                      

                        

                                             Picture taken by Andy

We created fraction sundaes! Yum!

                             By Ariana & Paige

Guess what we did? We made sundeas, and every scoop was a fraction. We decorated a black sheet of construction paper, with chalk. Then we put the fraction cards on the black sheet of paper. Then we pasted the sundaes on the paper too.  We hung them in the hallway so everyone can see them. That's what we did with the fraction sundeas.

A Nice Day at Hershey Elementary School

BY Trevor & Jackson

Today at hershey Elementry school. It is 60 degrees outside.Alot of people were playing outside.And people are wearing shorts and t shirts.And after lunch we go to recess yay!!!!!!!:).

Jax & Trev  are going to play kick ball outside at recess.

 Flowers are blomming.The flowers are yawning.The sun is shining.I bet kids are playing out side.

Want to see a picture  of the brightness of the day.

Did you know crayfish eat cat food?

By Gracie and Chloe

Some crayfish are very stuborn they won't eat. Our crayfish get scared when we are with them. So they don't eat or do much. But some are mean. They try to pinch you and they get  mad. Alot of people have gotten pinched. ( Mostly Trevor and sometimes Gabe ) Some of the crayfish have tried to eat the cat food.

Nate the Great

By Anna & Destiny

Tuesday,February,21,2012

Nate the Great solves another Mystery

The Mystery of the missing painting.

Nate the Great eats pancakes,

makes a friend, finds out

he's not a dog lover,not a

cat lover either and

finds out you can have imaginary

friends and be grown up.

Mad Crayfish

                                                 By: Hiyori & Maggie                                                       

The Crayfish were really cranky today!We had a lot of mad Crayfish in the bins while they were on our desks.A few people got pinched while they were trying to pick them up.Others almost got pinched but they were lucky.There were two Crayfish in each bin there was a big Crayfish and a small Crayfish.The big Crayfish protected the little ones and tryed to keep us away from the little Crayfish.

Sprouting Seeds!

By: Brady &  Jonathan

      Today when we were investigating our amazing seeds we noticed that they sprouted. We think there were about 50-70 seeds sprouted. ( In other words most of them out of all of them sprouted.) They were a little softer than the first time we saw and felt them. More of the sunflower and pea seeds sprouted than others. Two days ago when we got the seeds we got 7 of each seed. The seeds sprouting spot is very exciting! There were these seeds: Bush Been seed, Pea seed, Sunflower seed and Corn seed. The corn seed hasn't been able to sprout .   

CRAYFISH HAVE ARRIVED!!!

Entry by Mrs. Smith

Our crayfish arrived today!  All 12 of them!  The kiddos saw Mrs. Baker come in the classroom with a big white box marked, "Perishable."  Needless to say, we had trouble focusing the rest of the afternoon!  We received 12 crayfish of all different sizes.  I was impressed with how many kids were willing to pick them up right off the bat!  We have such a brave class!!  If any parents would like to come to see our new class pets (for now!!) you are welcome to come and bring siblings on Friday, 2/ 24 at 8:30am or 3:15pm.  We are so excited for the journey with our new crayfish to begin! 

Trevor held up our crayfish for a photo!