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Our Holiday Party

After the cubs hit the pinata, they enjoyed a cookie treat.

Itwas Pajama Day at Copper Creek School. Mrs. Pruzin gave each cub their very own Christmas Bear to read books to every night.

The cubs' 4th grade buddies came to sing Christmas carols and give each cub a gift with a Christmas letter.

MERRY GRINCHMAS! (Pictures From Our Play)

"Santy Claus, Why? Why are you taking our Christmas tree, Why?"

"We Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"

These cubs are very nauseous!

Our play was a huge success. The cubs were fantastic! The parents came to watch on Tuesday night. We performed the play during the day on Tuesday for some other classes.

Bear Country News for the week of Dec. 7th

Chloe wrote: We are practicing our play. We have four Grinches and we have 6 narrators. The play was exciting and fun! The play was amazing! The Maxes had reindeer horns.

Tiffany wrote: We're doing a play. I'm Cindy in the play.

Alexis wrote: I'm a dog in the play. When the Grinch says, "Oh Max!" I come out.

Zachary wrote: We practiced the Grinch play. I am a Who in the play. It is fun. (We'll be putting on the play for our parents on Tuesday evening.) Lauren wrote: We did a holiday custom book. In the holiday custom book we learned alot about countries. It was fun. Madison wrote: On Tuesday it was reindeer day. We ate reindeer cookies. We made reindeer crafts. It was a checkerboard. We colored the board.

Colton wrote: We made a checkerboard reindeer. We had to color a checker square.

Caleb wrote: We made reindeer candles. We put brown paper on it. Then we put a candle in it and gave it to someone.

Mikayla wrote: We had reindeer day. We got to wear our reindeer shirts and made a reindeer candle. We read a reindeer story. It was a good book.

Jumana wrote: We made presents for parents. It was fun a lot. We made bags because we made reindeer candles before. And we also made wreaths for our mom and dad.

Reis wrote: We made a reindeer cookie. The head was the coookie. The eyes were chocolate chips.

Alicia wrote: On Tuesday we made reindeer crafts, like reindeer candles and a reindeer checkerboards. Reindeer Day was fun!

Jonathan wrote: We made reindeer candles. We made cookie reindeer. We are learning about reindeer.

Ben wrote: We made pickle ornaments. The legend of the pickle ornament is that whoever finds the pickle gets an extra present. The grown-up gets good luck.

Hayden wrote: We made a pickle ornament. The pickle ornament is the last one ornament they hang on the tree.

Shareya wrote: We made the pickle ornament. We decorated the pickle. It is a custom from Germany.
Megan wrote: In Nature's Treasures we got cool stuff. It was fun. There was a coconut head.

Madeleine wrote: In P.E. we ran and ran. It was good. I liked it.

Alex wrote: Last week in Art we made wood sculptures. I put on my wood sculpture 18 parts. This week in Art we made Grinches for our door.

Branden wrote: Ethan earned a trophy in A.R. for getting 35 A.R. points. I have 110 A.R. points. That's like having three trophies. Every time I move up an A.R. level I get a tamborine dance.

Ethan wrote: I became an Honors Reader this week. Guess how many points I have! I have 36. Do you like A.R. ?

Phoebe wrote: I turned into a Super Reader. I have 15 points. I got a new bead. Mrs. Pruzin did the tamborine dance. I got to pick a toy out the treasure chest. I got 100% on tests.

Mrs. Pruzin wrote: I gave the children the Star Reader Placement test in the computer lab. I am so proud of each and every child in my class. Everyone improved their A.R. Reading level. The class has read 2, 518 A.R. books.

The children made Christmas cards for their parents and for Chloe's Aunt T.K. (She is a soldier and is in Afghanastan.) They made optical illusions for their 4th grade buddies. They learned about Hanukkah and played the dreidle game with the students in Mrs. Northam's class and each other.

Bear Country News for the First Week of December

The cubs were so busy this week that they ran out of time to write for the blog, so I am writing for them. They wanted me to write that they made a wood sculpture in Art. We started practicing for our play. Each child made a "Who" to look like him/herself. They are on display in the hallway. I think they did a great job and the parents will enjoy seeing them when they come for the play next Tuesday night. Everyone wrote a retelling of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". We watched the movie of the Grinch. We made Gingerbread glyphs and learned much about our class. We made a tally sheet that showed the information that was on the glyphs. In the computer lab the children made a graph about hair color. Mrs. Pruzin was very thankful to have Mrs. Grabill and Mrs. Lawson there to help each child get this done! There was a spirit celebration on Friday and the cubs were very proud when Lauren went up to get her trophy. We should have 3 or 4 more children earning trophies in January. Our goal is for everyone in the class to earn a trophy by May.

Pruzin's Cubs News

The cubs didn't have time to write for our blog because it was a three day week and they were so busy.

We finished up our learning about the Pilgrims, the Wampanoag People and the first Thanksgiving.

The children have been taking home Tom Turkey as a book buddy for the month of November. There's a great book for them to read and then they write a fiction story about Tom. We've been enjoying the stories. When everyone has had a turn, I will publish the stories on my website in the Writing Den.

We read the script to the play that we'll be performing on Tuesday, December 15th. The play is "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".

We had 5 centers that were either about the Wampanoag's or the Pilgrims. One of them was making a table top turkey. You can see some of the finished products at the top of this post.

The turkey calling contest was fun, as always. It was especially great because Tiffany won first place in the contest for first grade. We are very proud of her!

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Pruzin's Cubs News for the Week of Nov. 16.

Jumana wrote: We had a marble jar party. It was fun. We laid down on blankets or sleeping bags.

Lauren wrote: We had a marble jar party. We laid on sleeping bags or our favorite blanket. We read books.

Phoebe wrote: We had a marble jar party. We read books at the party. We laid down in our sleeping bags. We brought a stuffed animal.

(The children earned this party and had many choices as to what the party would be. They voted and 15 out of 26 children chose this to be the party. They played with their stuffed animals during recess and read to them at the party. Many of them brought flashlights or little book lights. I turned off the lights and opened the blinds so they could read. )

Megan wrote: Art is fun. We made fun stuff. We had a piece of paper. We had a white crayon and we painted the paper.

Jonathan wrote: We made clay pots. We had to let them dry. It was fun.

Alexis wrote: Art is fun.

Alex wrote: In art we used crayon and painted on the crayon. We finished stuff.

Alicia wrote: We made clay pots. First we mixed the colors together. Then we took our finger and poked a hole in it. Then we formed the pot. It was fun. (These are the pots that the Wampanoag People made and still are making.)

Caleb wrote: We voted for a turkey caller because we have a turkey caller contest. Tiffany is it.

Ethan wrote: A couple of days ago at school Alex was the Star Reader. He read the book, Little Shark.

Katarina wrote: We did our Poetry Folders. We read it. I learned it. It was fun.

Zach wrote: In music we created a train. We played sandblocks, too.

Branden wrote: I can do division and I'm only in first grade. I sometimes need a calculator to find out what the answer is. (The children do their math first, and then they check their work with a calculator.)

Shareya wrote: We are going to type in the computer lab. It will be fun.

Ben wrote: We made a Venn diagram about a Pilgrim child and us. It looks like two circles touching each other.

Mikayla wrote: We made and Indian pouch. It got hung on the wall. I think parents will like it.

Madison wrote: At P.E. we had a substitute. His name was Mr. Koch. It is fun because he is awesome the whole P.E. We did not talk too much and we got a 5 in P.E.

Madeleine wrote: I'm a Ready Reader! It was good. I like you persons. You are good.

Reis wrote: We made clay pots. They were delicate. We had to put them in a bag.

Breydan wrote: Tiffany won the turkey calling contest. She got 7 marks to win.

Chloe wrote: We wrote letters for my aunt. She's in Afghanistan. We made a picture on the back. I brought some pictures to show what she looks like. I had three pictures.

Noah wrote: We are going to the computer lab. We are going to type.

Hayden wrote: We have read 2,085 A.R. books. I have 9 A.R. points.

Tiffany wrote: We voted for the turkey calling contest. I won.

Zachary wrote: We made a Wampanoag pouch. We colored it to make it look like wampum beads.

Colton wrote: We read 2,085 books. We worked together.

Pruzin's Cubs News for the Week of Nov. 9th

Jumana wrote: We wrote with a goose quill on a horn book. First we wrote our name on a small paper that had the Mayflower on it. It was fun.

Breydan wrote: Quills are fun. I wrote with ink.

Reis wrote: We wrote with goose quills. We made horn books with the alphabet.

Phoebe wrote: Mrs. Pruzin taught us about Pilgrims. She read a book.

Alicia wrote: We made a birch bark basket. We stamped it and then we formed it.

Alexis wrote: I wrote with a quill.

Alex wrote: In art we painted. In art we wrote.

Chloe wrote: At art we had a blank piece of paper. We made some designs on the paper, and painted it so it's pretty.

Megan wrote: Art is fun. We did painting.

Mikayla wrote: We made a color chart. We followed the directions. It was fun and it was hard.

Zach wrote: In music we played a game. It was very fun.

Lauren wrote: We're learning about Wampanoags. They wear deer skin clothes.

Madeleine wrote: Wampanoags are good at catching fish. That is so cool.

Branden wrote: We got a marble jar party for getting 100 marbles in a jar. We are going to see what we are going to do.

Caleb wrote: We earned a marble jar party. On Monday we are going to vote for our marble jar party.

Zachary wrote: We filled the marble jar. We get a marble jar party.

Tiffany wrote: We are planting a bulb. It's growing.

Jonathan wrote: We are growing a bulb. We do not know what it is.

Colton wrote: We are measuring a bulb so we can see how long it grows before we see the flower.

Katarina wrote: I am an Independent Reader. I like A.R.

Ethan wrote: In school today I moved up a level in A.R. A.R. is when you take tests on books, but not every book. Some books are not A.R.

Hayden wrote: We made cards to my baby sister. I liked it.

Ben wrote: We have a bear skin rug. We get to sit on it.

Shareya wrote: I was Student of the Week.

Noah wrote: Me and Branden played football. It was fun. Branden kicked the ball high.

Madison wrote: We made birch bark baskets. Do you know how you make a basket? You fold a long side; then you fold the other side. Then you turn it and fold both sides. Last you tie each side with leather strings.

Pruzin's Cubs News for the Week of Nov. 2, 2009

Mrs. Pruzin wrote: I am very proud of these cubs. They have earned an Honors trophy in our school's A.R. club. None of them have stopped reading A.R. books. They are on their way to 100 A.R. points! One of them already has 130 points! I am also proud of my other cubs who are working so hard on reading A.R. books. I am sure they will also get a trophy by the end of the school year.

Madison wrote: At the celebration we had eight peoply have trophies because they are Honors Readers. But we were supposed to have nine people getting trophies, but Alex got his trophy yesterday because he got sick.

Alicia wrote: This week in art we made our own color wheel. In P.E. we did centers and at the Spirit Celebration I got my trophy.

Jonathan wrote: Reis got his trophy. We went to Art. We got a 3+.

Phoebe wrote: We had Art yesterday and it was fun. We had a Spirit Celebration.

Megan wrote: In the Spirit Celebration I got my trophy. In art we did fun stuff.

Branden wrote: I got my trophy in A.R. today for reading. We went to art and made a drawing.

Hayden wrote: In art we made a color wheel. Today nine children got trophies.

Ben wrote: I got an A.R. trophy. some other people got A.R. trophies.

Lauren wrote: We had a chunk word test. There were ten words. We are learning about Pilgrims.

Tiffany wrote: We went to recess. I played Mr. Bee. We are going to the computer lab.

Chloe wrote: At the Celebration I got my trophy. More people got some. Nine people got it. I love trophies. They're cool. I have 44 A.R. points.

Caleb wrote: In art we drew a triangle and put the primary colors in it. And then we put the secondary colors.

Madeleine wrote: I was bleeding when we we in the den on the rug. It was sad. Good day to you.

Zach wrote: I got my trophy. I got my math packet.

Alexis wrote: I like Mrs. Pruzin. She is the best teacher in the whole wide world, but a lot of teacher's are the best teachers, too.

Mikayla wrote: We went to the Spirit Celebration and nine people got trophies. We went to music and we made a color chart and made different colors.

Katarina wrote: We did Art. It was super fun!

Jumana wrote: We went to the Spirit Celebration. We saw a pizza. Nine kids from our class got a trophy. We are learning about Pilgrims. Pilgrims lived long ago.

Reis wrote: I got my trophy. Eight more people got their's. In art we made a color triangle.

Ethan wrote: At school we had our Spirit Celebration. Nine people in our class got a trophy. It was exciting!

Zachary wrote: I got my reading trophy. I got a game player.

Noah wrote: We had nine Honors Readers, but there was eight because Alex was sick. Zach was Honors Reader, so was Branden. Reis was one, too. Zachary was too.

Colton wrote: At art we made a color triangle and we got to color the outside of the color triangle.

Pruzin's Cubs News for the Week of Oct. 26th

Noah wrote: At Field Day we won the Relay Race. We also won the Tug-of-War contest. We beat Mrs. Thacker's class and Mrs. Mannan's class. Mrs. Pruzin won the Relay Race and the Tug-of-War three times in a row! Colton wrote: At the Field Day we won the relay race and
Tug-of-War. We won because we worked together. Madison wrote: We won Tug-of-War and the Relay Race. We worked together.
Chloe wrote: At the Harvest party there was a place where you make a part of Ben's Bells. I made a ball with a butterfly on it. Another station had where you make a bear magnet and you put clothes on the bear.

Phoebe wrote: We had a party at school. We had fun!

Ben wrote: We are writing Halloween stories that Mrs. Pruzin is typing into books.

Caleb wrote: We read about bulb plants. We planted a bulb plant. Our teacher won't say what it is.

Alexis wrote: The Harvest party was fun. I got to put my hands behind my back and I got to eat a donut.

Reis wrote: In Art we made a color triangle. The sides of the triangle were colored.

Madeleine wrote: I see the carrots. It was not growing.

Jumana wrote: In Music we did a special song for Mrs. Pruzin.

Branden wrote: I got 55 points in A.R. I like to read A.R. books so I get lots of A.R. points.

Zachary wrote: We planted a bulb. It is a surprise.

Zach wrote: We wrote Halloween stories. I wrote, "The Vampire Who Fell Out of a Gluestick." It is funny.

Mikayla wrote: We went to the den and we got a story. It was called, "Scarecrow Pete."

Tiffany wrote: We had a Harvest party. We are having fun.

Ethan wrote: I moved up a level in A.R. I was an Independent Reader. Now I am a Super Reader. The new bead was clear. Do you like A.R.?

Alicia wrote: My mom helped with Ben's bells. We helped Ben's bells by making the little beads.

Alex wrote: In art we saw wood sculptures. We made a color triangle. I finhished my Sunshine Math packet.

Katarina wrote: I got my cast off.

Lauren wrote: We did a science experiment. We cut the top of a carrot off and put it in pebbles.