Holes

In read aloud we've been reading Holes by Louis Sachar. Stanley's family is cursed by their Rotten Pig Stealing Great Great Grandfather. They think Stanley stole a famous baseball players shoes so, it sent him to Camp Green Lake. One of the counsellors Mr. Pendanski introduced Stanley to the people who were in his group. They were all boys. They go by the name of Squid, X-ray, Magnet, Armpit, Zigzag, and Zero. There used to be a lake at Camp Green Lake. Until it dried up. The story to how it dried up is... There was a teacher named Ms. Catherine Barlow. She fell in love with Sam the Onion Man. Sam was black. A lady caught them kissing and you weren't supposed to. Sam and Catherine tried running away on the lake (that used to be there). The town killed Sam and his donkey Mary Lou. Ms. Catherine Barlow became an   outlaw. She went by the name Kissin' Kate Barlow. When Stanley was digging one day he found a tube that had on it KB First Zero ran away. Then Stanley went after him. He found Zero by a boat that had written on it Mary Lou. Zero got these random stomach cramps from what he called, "splush." They climbed a mountain that Zero and Stanley called "Big Thumb." On the mountain they dug a hole and there was water. Then in the distance there it was Sam's onion patch. They went back to Camp Green Lake in the middle of the night they started digging for the loot. There was Yellow Spotted Lizards. The lizards that were on them could kill them. Will they ever find the loot? Will they escape the lizards nest? Find out in the book Holes.

Parachutes

Each group made a parachutte, but we had only certain things to make the parachutte like tissue paper,string, wax paper,straws,tape,and you had an animal attached to your parachutte and the slowest parachutte won. Ella, Liza, and Jenna's parachutte was the slowest at 6.01 seconds. The forces at work were gravity and air resistance. 

Too Big or Too Small

We have been doing resherching just right topics not toobig and not too small.  An example for too big is dogs. A too small topic is what dogs eat.  A just right topic is dog's bodies. By Parker

 

   

                                                                     

Force

We have been doing a unit about force. Force is when you move something with a push or pull. And we have been learning about friction. Friction helps you do everything except when you're trying to have fun like slides,roller skating, ice skating, and much more. We do an experiment to find out if wax paper, sand paper, fabric, or a table had more friction. The sandpaper had the most and the wax paper had the least. 

Columbia Public Schools will be holding our first late start day tomorrow (Wednesday) due to the current weather forecast and expected cold temperatures and wind chills. Students may enter the building starting at 10:05 and classes will begin at 10:20.  We will start the day with our normal routines and schedules.  Kindergarten students will still eat lunch at 10:30.  School will dismiss at the normal time.

If you have any questions you may call the office.

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Turkey problem!!!

We have been doing a problem with a turkey dinner.  The first problem was each pound cost $1.25 and it was 24 pounds. How many dollars do they spend.  People solved the problems in different ways.  Bradley and I did $1.25 x 3 = $3.75 + 25 cents = $4.00 + $1.00 = $5.00 so we did skip count till we got to 24 and the anwer is $30.00. Then we did a problem which is the same thing but an apple and carrot. The apple and carrot problem was $1.60 for the apple and $1.10 for the carrot.

 

Welcome back

Welcome back to school students. I hope you all  had a good two weeks and I hope you all had a great new year. We are all back in school again. Unfortunately it is not a lot of out door recess because it is so cold. I hope you have a great new school year!  By Harper