It's all about toilets!

Team Smith recently wrote informational pieces of writing about an invention.  The team voted and decided that Brady and Jonathan's piece about "toilets" should be shared on the blog!

Toilets

By Brady and Jonathan

      Coming up is a story about toilets.  I will tell you and describe toilets.  Then, I will tell you about different kinds of toilets.  Then, just a few fun facts.

     Toilets are differetn colors, not just white.  There is a toilet that was made in England that had 2 trays, one with a computer on it and one with a phone.

     These are different kinds of toilets.  There are toilets that hand you toilet paper and toilets that give you a splast when you're done.

     An average person visits the toilet 2500 times per year.  The average person spends 3 whole years of their life on the toilet.  Kind George the II of Great Brittain died of falling off the toilet.

Flowerific!

Today, we made paper flowers with different kinds of colors.  We put big circles on the outside and small ones on the inside.  We hung them from the ceiling to celebrate spring!

By Niko

Hiyori Brought Geta and a Kimono

We are so lucky to have Hiyori in our class!  She brought geta (shoes) and a kimono for us to see!  It was really cool to be able to see them in person!!

Suki's Kimono

Today, we read Suki's Kimono in reading.  It was about a girl named Suki who had a kimono.  It was her first day of first grade and she wore her kimono.  Her sister's made fun of her.  During school, she danced to a song that she danced to at a festival.  At the end of the song, her teacher said very good and they started clapping.  Everyone clapped.  When she was walking home, her two sisters were talking about how nobody talked to them or noticed their shoes or anything.  But everyone noticed what Suki was wearing.

By Paige.

FIRE DRILL

We had a fire drill today!

Archives Field Trip

We got to see a letter from Milton Hershey asking his Uncle for money because his business was failing.  -Anna

We had stations and answered questions. -Noor

We got to see maps and most of the stuff was paper or videos. -Niko

We got to see a map of what our school used to look like. -Trevor

On the way back, we stopped and had a snack and a drink!  :) -Mrs. Smith

Happy Thursday

Today, we enjoyed a relaxing movie in celebration of our completion of the PSSA's.  Then, we did some St. Patrick's Day crafts!

Reminders

Just a reminder that conferences are tomorrow!  Check the wiki under "class news" for the conference schedule! 

Also, our field trip to the Archives is on Tuesday!  Students shoe wear comfortable shoes to walk and dress appropriately, rain or shine!

We love lucky charms!!!!!!!!

by trevor and alex

today we had a graph and we used lucky chrams!!!

It was awesome we used a graph to see how  many marshmellows!!!!and when we were done with that we got to eat them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PSSA ARE OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

                                                                               By:Jackson and Niko   
finaly pssa are over! now we can do are normal stuff. Pssa are kind of fun but we had to skip some things we wanted to do like spelling darts,word masters and word  master junior.IT IS GOOD PSSA ARE OVER!!!!

PSSA'S :(

By Ariana & Paige 

 This week we are having our P.S.S.A.'S! Some people think they are fun, and some people don't. We love P.S.S.A.'S! They are really long though. That's what most people don't like. At least we get yummy snacks!

Everybody loves that part!

Almost everybody is tierd after 'em :(  

Snacks,Snacks,Snacks!

by Chloe & Anna

Thanks so munch for the super good snacks!

We've been super hungry because

of the P.S.S.A 's thanks again for the

(:snacks!:)

Beautiful day!

What a beautiful day it was outside today!! The class was so busy that we didn't get to blogging today! We've been reviewing counting money and making change this week in math. In reading, we put on a reader's theatre show with Mrs. Valoczki's class. We also started new chapter books! At conferences next Friday, be sure to check out their four leaf clovers with their four special wishes on hanging in the hallway! PSSA's are next week! Thanks to parents who volunteered to bring a healthy snack! They Monday morning and afternoon and Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday morning. We'll be doing lots of crafts, games and activities next week to relax after all of their hard work on the PSSA's! Due to the time of year, I need to buckle down and increase fines in order to make an impact on student behavior. A few students were fined $100 today. I'm falling asleep typing! I better get some sleep! Lots to do tomorrow! Love, Mrs. Smith

Beetles are here!

Today, we observed the properties of our new Bess beetles!  This is what we observed:
It has six legs. -Andy

They don't have antennas. -Brady

They have a shell on their back. -Noor

It looks like they have three eyes. -Gracie

It has lines on the shell. -Josh

Seed Soak Revealed!

We weighed our lima bean seeds today.  This is what we discovered:
The bean soaked up a lot of water. -Alex
It looks like a regular lima bean but it's lighter in color. -Gracie
It looks like a mushroom. -Trevor
The beans do soak up water.  All of the beans together took up 1/4th of the water.  -Andy
The inside of the bean is white.  It's not like the outside because it doesn't have a shell to it. -Paige
It's very sticky and feels weird when you're opening it. -Anna
It took 12 small cubes to balance the unsoaked seeds and 54 to balance the soaked seeds. -Brady
When it rub it together, it makes a cool noise. -Niko
It smells horrible. -Noor
It has a sprout. -Niko
It does suck up water. -Sterling
The lima beans are huge when they soak up water. -Maggie
They have a smell. -Hiyori
There's nothing inside of it.  -Josh and Gabe

Students are too busy to blog!!

Students were too busy to blog today so I thought I'd post a few quick comments to let you know about our day!

Today, we did some assessments to check progress for math.  Just about time to finish up those report cards!

We used a scale to weigh our lima bean seeds, then we soaked them in water to see if they can hold water.  We'll reweigh them tomorrow!

We finished watching Horton Hears a Who.

We rehearsed a new Reader's Theatre!! (By the way, we LOVE to act!!)
And we painted flowers to decorate our room for spring!

Gotta go help clean up! 

Conference Schedule

Conferences are scheduled for March 16th.  Times are listed on my wiki, under "Class News."

First Auction is Successful

Entry by Mrs. Smith

Team Smith had their first auction today.  I would say it was very successful!  The kiddos were excited to spend the money that they have worked so hard to save!  Some students realized that they need to SAVE, SAVE, SAVE!!!  

Read Across America Day Rocked!

Entry by Mrs. Smith

Students started off Read Across America Day by eating a special breakfast from the cafeteria!  We watched Horton Hears a Who with Mrs. Huston's class.  And that, my friends, make up our whole morning...then it was time to go!



Tyrone is King for a Day!

Entry by Mrs. Smith

Congratulations to Tyrone who got the most stickers and got to sit at Mrs. Smith's desk and be "King for a Day!"



HAPPY DR.SUESS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Yesterday and Today we where Dr.Suess crazy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday we did lots of fun things.

To be pacific we:

1. We made hats that said...I love reading because, I enjoy reading when,

I think every body should read ,and reading is important.

2.We also took pictures of us with the LORAX MUSTASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:) :) :)

3.We played Dr.Suess BINGO 6 times!!! Also we played 4 corners and the desk game (your child can explain how to play this game.)Today we played more BINGO,a lorax play and a lorax writeing prompt. The writting promt was abuot what we would do if we were the lorax.

Well have a great Dr.Suess day!!! :) :) :)

Did you know seeds grow without soil?!!

We had been doing something  called mini sprouters. We did them to see if seeds would grow without soil. All the seeds did grow at least alittle. We threw them away though because they started to smell bad. But we started : THE BIG SPROUTER! We are using the big sprouter to see if seeds will grow with only  water. And so far a cuple of the seeds have sprouter. Now there are three levels on the big sprouter. The first level has beans. The second level has beans too. The third level has sun flower seeds, pea seeds , and corn seeds.

By: Gracie

Crayfish Parts

By Ariana & Maggie

There are so many parts of a crayfish! Like swimmerets, they can be short or long. Also on a girl crayfish there is a little spot called an egg pore.  A girl crayfish has long swimmerets. Boys have short swimmerets and no egg pore. There is so much more like both of them have long and short antennas. There eyes are tiny and black.

PLAYING DR.SEUSS BOOK BINGO.

Today we played dr.seuss book bingo.Some of the books she said I did not know.It was really FUN!!!!!!!!.Some  of the books on it were Hop on Pop, Cat in the Hat comes Back, Cat in the Hat, Kings stilts, The LORAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!The lorax book was really good.there was a guy who choped down all of the trees is name is the ONCE-LER.A other book was horten hears a who.Horten hears a whoo was funny.The kangaro almost boild the speck of dust.

BY TREVOR AND GABE