PRUZIN'S CUBS NEWS FOR SEPT. 21-25

Madeleine wrote: I liked the apple contest. I was the judge.

Noah wrote: At the apple eating contest, Jonathon won. Mikayla won. Jonathan was so happy. Mikayla was excited!

Katarina wrote: I was judge. I didn't bring an apple.

Lauren wrote: In the apple eating contest Ethan lost his tooth. In music weplayed grizzly bear.

Ethan wrote: We had an apple eating contest and I lost my tooth. I got a certificate.

Ben wrote: We had an apple eating contest. In Art we made pictures. to put on magnets. contest. I won a certificate.

Jonathan wrote: I won the apple eating contest. I won a certificate.

Alex wrote: In A.R. I have a lot of points because I have been going to the library a lot.
In the apple eating contest I was cheering Reis on.

Mikayla wrote: I won the apple eating contest and I got a certificate. We lost a lot of recess time.

Chloe wrote: When Ethan did the contest his tooth was wiggly. He wiggled and his tooth came out. It was bleeding. In Art we made a picture. We couldn't have white showing. I made a cat and I colored it. Then the company is going to take a picture and make it into something. You can make it on a mug. That's what I was going to do.


Tiffany wrote: We had fun at the apple eating contest. We read library books at the Library. We drew animals at Art. We went to P.E. We did subtraction.

Branden wrote: In the apple eating contest I was in second place. Yesterday in Art I had a bloody nose.

Caleb wrote: We had an apple eating contest. I am getting a trophy. In Art we wrote a picture. The art teacher is going to send them to a special company.

Reis wrote: We had an apple eating contest. One person lost their tooth. In Art we made pictures. I made a bear.

Colton wrote: After the apple eating contest my tooth started to bleed. I had fun at the apple eating contest.

Phoebe wrote: We made a book. It was fun!

Jumana wrote: We read a Scholastic News. It taught us about apples.

Alicia wrote: In Art we colored a white piece of paper. Next week our art teacher said she was going to mail it to a company and they would make them into magnets.

Breydan wrote: In P.E. we stretched and ran around the quarter mile.

Megan wrote: Art is fun. We made animals and Mrs. Meyers is going to send it to somebody. Next week we have to finish it and do something else.

Zach wrote: In Music we played a game. I liked it!

Zachary wrote: In Art we drew animals. The art teacher is going to mail the pictures to a company.

Hayden wrote: In Art we got to choose one of these: a bear, a cat, a dog.

Shareya wrote: In Art we drew animals.

Alexis wrote: In Art I colored a dog. Ethan lost his tooth.

Madison wrote: In Art we looked at our paper and we made one of them. We colored it and then we took all the blue and we made the sky. We took all the green and we colored grass.

Mrs. Pruzin wrote: We really did many other things this week. I let the children choose what to write about instead of making sure that most subject areas were reported on. I guess this shows that the Apple Eating Contest and Art were the children's favorite events this week.

PRUZIN'S CUBS NEWS FOR SEPT. 14-18

Phoebe wrote: We went to our fourth grade buddies class and it was fun. I got to paint, too. It was a paper plate.

(A note from Mrs. Pruzin: Our fourth grade buddy class taught us about the life cycle of a dandelion. This was a follow up activity after we listened to a book and then read a paper that showed the life cycle.)

Jonathan wrote: We learned about the life cycle of dandelions in our buddy class. The dandelion becomes a beautiful flower.

Ben wrote: We did an experiment about an apple in water. The apple floated. We put a carrot in water. The carrot sunk.

Zach wrote: We learned about the Constitution. The constitution is about the rules of the U.S.A. One of the rules in our class is you have to be kind.

Reis wrote: We did an experiment about an apple and a carrot. The carrot sank to the bottom of the container and the apple floated.

Tiffany wrote: We played on the playground. We played on the swingset. We were being funny on the swingset. It was fun!

Jumana wrote: I got a new math packet. I had to do adding and I like it.

Noah wrote: My name is Noah. I'm good at tetherball. Me and Ethan played. It is fun!

Branden wrote: I love to go to the Library because I like to get lots of points for A.R. at lunch!

Katarina wrote: We went to the Library and we checked out books at the Library.

Ethan wrote: In centers I read a book with math and it was hard.

Zachary wrote: When Breydan was Star of the Week he fainted. He had to go to the Health Office.

Chloe wrote: We pick a book and read it. When you read you have to read it two times. Then you can take a test on it. You might get 100% or 90% or 80% or 70% or @20%.

(Mrs. Pruzin wrote: This is during our Self Selected Reading block.)

Colton wrote: I got a reading buddy because I got 5 points and I got a charm.

Alexis wrote: I love the Library. It is fun to read.

Madison wrote: In math we subtract. We were addding and we did addition sentences. We also did number sentences. We did it on the smartboard.

Alex wrote: I like math because I have a regrouping math packet. In regrouping you have to take or add to tens, hundreds and ones.

Lauren wrote: We read Mr. Brown's Magnificent Apple Tree. In the story a family of mice keep taking his apples.

Megan wrote: Guided Reading is fun. We read Mr. Brown's Magnificent Apple Tree. We were about to read Apples.

Hayden wrote: In Guided Reading we had Mr. Brown's Magnificent Apple Tree. Each morning he counted: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Caleb wrote: Idioms are things you say. "You are the apple of my eye" means you mean a lot to me. Every day we do a new one.

Mikayla wrote: I went on the slide because I love the slide. I wrote a book about insects because I want to tell about insects. I like to read about Biscuit books because that book is the easiest book. I love math because it can help me to learn more things about math. I love all the kids in the class. I love the book about Mr. Brown because the book was the funniest book ever!

PRUZIN'S CUBS NEWS FOR SEPT. 8-11

Katerina wrote: I have fun at the Mother Goose Festival.

Hayden wrote: We had a Mother Goose Festival.

Branden wrote: We had a Mother Goose Festival and we had our 4th grade buddies. They watched us do Mother Goose rhymes.

Tiffany wrote: We said nursery rhymes. I was good at it. It was fun.

Chloe wrote: At the festival our buddies came and watched us sing in the classroom. Mine was "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary". I had flowers in my hand.

Ben wrote: A rooster came to our classroom. It had no home.

Ethan wrote: When we read we had a rooster visit.

Caleb wrote: A rooster came to the class to make a connection. It was 3 months old.

Alicia wrote: We had a rooster come in our class because we read a story about a rooster.

Phoebe wrote: A rooster came. I got my A.R. buddy and we had a Mother Goose Festival.

Noah wrote: The rooster can fly a little bit.

Alex wrote: In math I got a new packet.

Lauren wrote: I like art because it is fun and we do fun stuff. Also, our teacher is fun.

Madeleine wrote: I got sick a lot.

Zach wrote: Breydan had his birthday and Phoebe had one too.

Shareya wrote: The A.R. buddies are great.

Megan wrote: Self Selected Reading time is fun because we read and we get to take tests. I went to Bisbee this week. I liked Bisbee. It was fun.

Colton wrote: I have a lizard in my back yard that eats my pineapple.

Jumana wrote: There was a snake in our playground. It was scary.

Reis wrote: We saw a snake on the playground.

Zachary wrote: A snake was on the playground.

Madison wrote: There was a rattlesnake on the playground. We were all scared.

Mikayla wrote: There was a snake on the playground.

Breydan wrote: There was a snake on the playground.

Alexis wrote: Breydan is great at football.

Pruzin's Cubs News for the Week of Aug. 31, 2009

Chloe wrote: "We have a word muncher and when people come up they have to say that word. What is the mystery word." Colton wrote: We have a word muncher that eats words. We got a new smartboard." Ethan wrote: "I got to feed the word muncher and it bit me! I had lots of fun."

Zach wrote: "In P.E. we played tag. In music we sang. I had my birthday. We had science about eggs."

Jonathan wrote: "We got a "5" in Art. We got a smartboard. We have a word muncher."

Noah wrote: "When we got to see the smartboard we were excited!"

Ben wrote: "We had Zach's birthday! We had P.E. and Zero the Hero came. We had Art, too. We had Mother Goose puppets. We went to the Library."

Alex wrote: " On September 6th it was Zach's birthday. On September 2nd Zero the Hero came out."

Shareya wrote: " We have a smartboard."

Lauren wrote: " Today it was the Spirit Celebration and my mom came. We are having a lot of fun. I wish she could stay longer than she does." (A note from Mrs. Pruzin: Lauren's mom stays all day every time we have a spirit celebration.)

Breydan wrote: "My teacher is having a birthday."

Alicia wrote: "We went to the library! And we checked out books. It was fun! I like Copper Creek."

Tiffany wrote: "We are going to do science. We are experimenting on eggs."

Zachary wrote: "We had our first Science Class." (A note from Mrs. Pruzin: This was our 2nd science lesson. It was the first time we used the Scientific method as we did an experiment.)

Caleb wrote: "We are going to do a Science project with eggs. We are going to put an egg in plain water and put an egg in salt water."

Megan wrote: "We are going to do an egg experiment. It was Zach's birthday today."

Branden wrote: "Did you know that I have a 3rd grade math packet? Did you know that I'm the tetherball champ of first grade?" (A note from Mrs. Pruzin: It's really a first grade math packet, but it's very advanced and I have told the kids that they are doing math that 3rd graders are doing.)

Mikayla wrote: "I can't wait for the egg experiment because I want to learn more about eggs. I love eggs."

Phoebe wrote: "We are going to do an experiment about an egg."

Jumana wrote: "We are going to do science. In science we are going to learn about eggs.

Hayden wrote: We got a new smartboard. We call it a Teddy board."

Katarina wrote: "I like Art. We have fun. In Art wer drew pictures."

Reis wrote: " I just became a Ready Reader yesterday."