- We have jalapenos and pumpkins growing in our Kinder Garden!
- The Poppers made jalapeno corn muffins and the Snappers made pumpkin soup!
- Just by looking at these pictures, can you tell the story of how we made our special snack?
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- Snappers: We chopped
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- onions
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- celery
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- and carrots.
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- We scooped out the inside of the pumpkin and cooked the pumpkin to make it soft .
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- We took the seeds out and roasted them. Then we put all the ingredients together and cooked them up into a delicious soup!
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- Poppers: “We watered the plants. When they grew, we picked the jalapenos. You twist them to get them off the vine. Then we started to make jalapeno corn muffins.”
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- “We chopped the jalapenos. We put them in a bowl. You can’t touch your eyes after you touch jalapenos because the seeds might sting and burn your eyes.”
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- We mixed the jalapenos into the Jiffy box mix. We traded three jalapenos for one egg from Ms. Eleni in the Kitchen.
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- “We put butter all over the pan so they wouldn’t stick”
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- “We scooped the muffins into the pan.”
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- We took them out and served them with the pumpkin soup!
We have friends all around the world. They are all kids. They are all 4 and 5 and 6 year old kids. We can talk to them through the computer. They send us movies and we can hear their voices sometimes or we can visit them on their blog. We can type to them on twitter email and the birds will take a short message to them or we can write to them on our newspaper blog.
This is a movie our friends in England made! They are pulling a giant turnip out of their garden! Look!
F2’s Enormous Turnip from Nicola fitzpatrick on Vimeo.
First we watched the movie about Caine’s Arcade. Then we got to work on our own designs. We wrote the directions:
Then we got to work making our games:
On Friday, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th graders are coming to play our games and we will get to play theirs! Stay tuned for more!
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Today we went outside and took some photographs of our garden. Earlier in the week, we read a book about “How Pumpkins Grow.” Can you tell the story of how a pumpkin grows just by looking at the pictures?
A very interesting thing about pumpkins is that they need water to grow. We have a big container that we use to collect water we need for our garden. It is in a very wet spot near the playground.
There is a puddle near there. We built a puddle pond for the animals. We put some moss in it.
Someone found a piece of a wrapper on the playground. We don’t think it’s nature. We also found some bright green rocks near the bridge. We don’t think they are nature because they are green.
We sorted our collections into things we thought were nature and things we thought weren’t.
Tic-Tac-Toe! 3 in a row! You be X and I’ll be O!
This summer, Ms Echternacht went to Robot Camp with her teacher friends. We learned how to make robots dance! See how we are working to make this robot do the Hokey-Pokey!
What are robots like? Can you be a robot? Robots must be told exactly what to do. They can’t move unless someone bosses them around! Let’s play robot!
Begin! Go forward robot! Sing robot! Go backwards robot! Now end.
Can you be the boss of a robot? Try it!
There is a brand new movie about Eric Carle! You can check out a preview here!
What can YOU invent?
The teenagers in our Middle School made these games!
Their games were so good they were the only girls who won a prize!
How do you make a computer game?! Can YOU make a computer game? You can learn how right here!
Stay tuned for more developments in this ongoing project!
Now that you can fold a few things, the next step is to teach others how to fold origami!
How to Fold a Dog:
How to Fold a Cup:
And after you know it very well, see if you can unfold the paper and trace the lines:
Mrs Amosa taught us about ANZAC Day last Wednesday. ANZAC Day happens each April 25th in the far away lands of Australia, New Zealand, and Turkey. It is a day of remembrance over a terrible battle fought a long, long, long time ago in World War I.
ANZAC Day is about two friends who tried to do something they thought was good but a third friend came and got mad at them for it and hurt them. Everyone felt so sad and bad about the fighting, people from many different lands still remember it today. Our friends in Indonesia told us about it too:
Wednesday is ANZAC day. Today we are wearing flowers in commemoration. Wednesday morning at sunrise there will be a parade.
How do you feel after fighting with a friend? This one was so bad everyone is still feeling bad about it, even though it was a long time ago. What can you do to be a good friend to someone who feels sorry after a fight?
Mrs Amosa made special ANZAC cookies after our talk to remember the importance of being kind. Here is the recipe! People make these special cookies to remember how to be a good friend.
1 cup plain flour1 cup rolled oats1 cup desiccated coconut (not sweetened)3/4 cup brown sugar125 g butter2 tbsp golden syrup (I used blue agave syrup from Trader Joe’s – – closest thing I could find)2 tbsp water1 tsp baking sodaPreheat oven to 325F
- Sift flour then add other dry ingredients (except baking soda)
- Put butter, syrup & water in small saucepan over medium heat until all ingredients are melted. Stir in baking soda.
- Add all ingredients together and stir until combined
- Roll level tablespoons of mix into balls and place on non-stick tray, flatten with fork.
- Bake 10 minutes or until golden brown, set aside on tray for 5 minutes then transfer to wire rack.
- Eat the cookies and think of some kind words to say to a friend!
Mr Ben’s class in Indonesia teaches us how to Play: Stuck in the Mud!
We told them:
“Thank You for teaching us how to play stuck in the mud. Actually we can get stuck in the mud today because it is raining.”
We read The Lorax by Dr Seuss. It took us three days to read it because good readers take their time to dive deeply into reading. When we first started reading, many of us said, “Oh the movie is so funny!” Is the book a funny book?
Soon after we read the book, Alexandra decided to bring these boxes into school and a team chose to work together to re-create the land of the Lorax:
Holes were poked into the boxes where the team dropped macaroni beads into the boxes to “re-plant the Truffula trees”
Each time we started the story, we reviewed what happened. Here is what we said:
“The Once-ler just wants money”
“The Lorax wants to help the earth”
“The Lorax is trying to help the world- the fishes and the bears and the good water. The green guy just wants to be rich” -KS
“The Lorax was trying to stop the Once-ler because he was trying to get too much money and cutting down the Truffula trees and then no one could get anything so he had to send his friends away” -FK
“They were making sweaters from the trees to get rich.” -AS
“The fish had to walk on their fins. The pipe house was making the water all muddy” -GK
“This is a fiction story but this happens in real life” -EP
“The factory-he was making Thneeds so he could be rich but then at the end he got sad.” -SF
“The Once-ler is selling Thneeds because he wants lots of money and he’s getting out of control” -SH
“The Once-ler is telling the story- it cost .15 cents and a nail and a shell of a great, great, snail” -SS
“He was talking on the whisper-phone- he wanted it to be a secret” -TS
“We don’t know what (the Once-lers) face looks like” -CV
Teacher: Why? Why did Dr Seuss decide to hide the face of the Once-ler?
“Some people who get out of control about money hide their face!” -KC
Here is a video of The Lorax by Cat in the Hat Productions
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