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Our Grinch Play

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We Love Mrs. Schwartz!

Mrs. Schwartz read to the cubs on Pajama Day.  She is retiring after being the librarian at Copper Creek for 11 years.  We will miss her. She always helped the cubs find the books they wanted and recognized them with her magic wand every time they got 100% on an A.R. test. 

Bear Country's Checker Board Reindeer

Every child made a reindeer on Reindeer Day.  They also read a non-fiction book about reindeer, made a reindeer candle and listened to the book, The Wild Christmas Reindeer.

Two New Honors Readers from Bear Country

These two cubs earned enough points in the school's A.R. club to become Honors Readers.  We are very proud of them!

We've Started Preparing for the Play

The cubs were too busy to write for the blog this week.  We are putting on the play, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.  The parts are chosen, the practice has begun, and each child wrote a retelling of the book.  Here are some pictures that the children made of themselves as Whos.  I hope you enjoy them as much as we have.

Our Thanksgiving Centers

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Honors Readers in Bear Country

CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE CUBS!  We are very proud of them.  They are Honors Readers in our school's A.R. club.

Field Day Fun (2010)

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The Cubs' Report for the Week of Nov. 8th

Our class is participating in the Healthy Hawk Milers.  Here's what Mason wrote: "I did the Healthy Milers.  I did 4 or 5 laps.  You walk around a track."  One lap is 1/4 of a mile.  The class goal is to have everyone walk at least one mile.  Mrs. Pruzin is walking on Tuesdays with the children.

The students have a Poetry Folder.  They get a new poem every Friday.  Here's what Charlie wrote:  " We read a poem about Pilgrim children in our Poetry Folder."

This is what Diego wrote about Art class: "We made penguins.  We stuck sticky paper on a sponge and took it off and put it on paper and it stuck.  We made rainbows."

This is what Desirae wrote about a Thanksgiving quilt we made:  "First we think about what we are thankful for and then we wrote it. Next we traced it with a sharpie and then we colored the whole thing."  Mrs. Pruzin glued each square to make a quilt.

This is what Abby wrote about our riddle board:  "There are 9 or more riddles.  We do one each day."

Syd wrote:  "We take turns taking Tom Turkey home."  Here are some pictures of the cubs who took him home this week.

Collin wrote:  "When you bring home Little Bear you do lots of stuff like watch a movie and you write about him."  Here are some pictures of children with Little Bear.

David wrote:  In our Scholastic Newspaper we talked in the classroom about veterans.  Nubs is a dog that doesn't have ears."  Mrs. Pruzin read the children about a dog (Nubs) that was in Iraq.

Spencer wrote:  "I did related facts in Math.  Ryan wrote: "We fed the word muncher."

Christian wrote: "At recess they played tag.  I played basketall with Ed.  I played tag."

Peyton wrote:  We played with the parachute in P.E.  We got in our lines in P.E.

Jonas wrote:  In A.R. you read a book and take a test.  You type in the title and take the test."

CONGRATULATIONS TO SHREYA!  She became an Honors Reader on Friday.

We are conducting an experiment with the left over pumpkins.  Adam wrote: "First we put a mushy pumpkin in a pot.  The pumpkin grew a plant."  We put soil on the bottom of the containers before we put in the rotting pumpkins and seeds.  There is mold growing along with the new seedlings. 

The children wrote with goose quills and ink.  They made ABC hornbooks. Ed wrote: "We were learning about the Pilgrims and we wrote with quills.  We had to write our name.  We also had to write the alphabet.  Writing with quills was fun."  Here's a picture of a group of them making the hornbook:

The Cubs Report for the Week of Nov.1, 2010

Music:  In music we sang a lot of songs.  One was about a little squirrel.  (by Abby) We sang in music about the pumpkin candle.  We sang in music about the scarecrow and the tree. (By Claire) We sing in music. (By Ryan) In music we did a song. (by David)  We sing songs. (By Hector)

P.E. :  In P.E. I did Healthy Hawk Milers.  I ran to the end and got a drink. (By Syd) On Healthy Hawk Milers we ran around the track.  At P.E. we play. (By Adriana) In P.E. we talked about Healthy Hawk Milers. (By Jonas)

Art:  In art we made shapes. (By Ed) I made a penguin. (By Charlie) In art we had some paper and then we put some squares on my paper with the sponge.  We also made a pumpkin out of clay. (By Shreya) We made a penguin out of clay.  (By Amanda) We made penguins out of clay. (By Diego)

Math:  We learned about shapes. (By Peyton) We did a graph. (By Nikolas) We played Halloween math. (By Mason)

Social Studies:  We learned about the Pilgrims.  Also we learned that the girl sleeps on the floor. (By Christian F.) The Pilgrim dolls weren't that fancy.  The boy Pilgrim shot a gun. (By Collin)
We talked about how Pilgrims called dolls poppets.

Tom Turkey Goes Home with a Cub

The Cubs are taking Tom Turkey home in his special bag.  There's a book to read and his journal.  Each time he goes home the child who takes him writes a fiction story about him.  The cubs have enjoyed listening to his adventures and look forward to the rest of  the stories.  These are the cubs who took him home last week.

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Our Trip to Buckelew Farm (2010)

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Our Harvest Party Centers

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A Very Busy Week in Bear Country

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We went to Buckelew Farm on Wednesday.  Here's what the cubs wrote about the trip:
"I rode the bus to the pumpkin patch.  My field trip was fun. Buckelew Farm was my first field trip. It was fun riding on the bus with my friends. I liked reading on the bus. I ate my snack.  We rode a wagon to the patch.  I saw a snake.  There were a lot of pumpkins. The scarecrows were scary.  I had big fun!  It was a nice and warm day.  There were orange, green, yellow, striped, red, big, small and cracked pumpkins.  I rode a wagon to the pumpkin patch.  The wagon ride was fun. I went to the bathroom there and I did not like it because it was smelly!   I picked a medium sized pumpkin.  I liked picking my pumpkin.  I picked a wierd pumpkin.  I didn't like that our first trip was cancelled.  I picked the best pumpkin! After we got our pumpkins we had lunch.  My mom played with us.  I liked when my mom came with us.  I loved it. It was a fun day.  It was a good day.  I had a great time at the farm. My trip was amazing. I wish I could go there again. Thank you Mrs. Pruzin."

We had 5 centers for our Harvest Party on Friday afternoon.  This is a picture of the cubs and Mrs. Pruzin at the end of the day.  As you can see everyone had fun playing candy corn bingo, doing bat bowling, making clay beads for Ben'sBells, making a pumpkin magnet and trying to eat a donut hanging from a string!

Here are some other things that we did this week as written by some cubs: "We got a pumpkin mat and we did everything with our pumpkins. At school we measured our pumpkins. We got a 5 in Art.  I played tag with Ed and I went on the swings. We made a pumpkin out of clay in Art. "

We have been learning about autumn, pumpkins and plants.  We also made pumpkin glyphs.  Below are some pictures that show our learning during the month of October.

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Here's the Picture from the Rally

Unity Rally

We are outside ready to take a picutre with the whole school and our visitors.

Authors , A.R. Dancers & Busy Times

The cubs were so busy this week!  There wasn't time for them to write.  Our school had a Peace Conference.  We did an activity each day.  On Friday the whole school had a Unity Rally.  There was music, a speaker, a slideshow and the grand finale was outside.  A helicopter came to take a picture of the symbol we all formed.  Doves were set free and we watched them fly together for several minutes.

Our trip to Buckelew Farm was rained out.  The cubs were so dissappointed.  We'll be going on Wednesday.  Hopefully it won't rain.

Our pumpkin seeds grew into seedlings and that was very exciting!  The cubs wrote and drew about them in their plant logs.

Many children took A.R. tests this week.  Children who get 100% on their A.R. tests do the A.R. dance at the end of the day.  Here are two pictures of the cubs dancing.

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"I got 100% on my A.R. test....YEAH!"


Some children wrote books at home.  The cubs always enjoy the books.

 

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A Mother Goose Day in Bear Country

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The Cubs Report for the Week of Sept. 20th

P.E.:
 At P.E. we played games.  The games were fun.  Games are exercise for you. (Adam)
We played dodge ball.  We didn't win because we kept touching the ball, so we didn't win. (Claire)
In P.E. we did a game called opposum.  It was fun if someone tags me. (Collin)

Math:
We did minus.  We did plus. (Charlie)
At math we drew apples. (Adriana)
We made apple hats.  It was fun. (Sophie)
In math we learned subtraction.  It was fun!  I did math!  Yes, it was fun! Yes! Yes! (Mason)

Science and Social Studies:
We colored apple trees in all the seasons.  (Nicolas)
We wondered if an apple and a carrot was going to change. (Crisitian H.)

Recess: 
At recess we played with our reading buddies. (Michael)
At recess we played all day. Recess is fun.  On Friday we played jumprope. (David)

Art:
In art we made a sunset.  We made practice sunset.  Then we made a real one.  (Jonas)

In the library I took an A.R. test and I took a book home.  Mrs. Schwart read me a book. (Shreya)

Music:
In music we sing and sing and we play a game.  (Amanda)
In music we played the old gray cat.  It was really fun.  We had to hide a mouse and the would try to find it. (Abby)

Writing:
We wrote about apples.  We learned about the core and the  seeds. (Peyton)

Language Arts:
At the SMARTboard we played "Guess the Covered Word".  I liked it.  I didn't get a turn, but that was okay.  But I liked it still.(Spencer)
At the middle of the day we did "Guess the Covered Word" with apple facts. (Alexandra)
We read to our reading buddies.  I like to read.  Reading is fun. (Megan)
In Self Selected Reading we read and we read to our reading buddies. (Bethania)
I read Ten Apples Up On Top.  I read the Foot Book.  I read the book about fish.  (Hector)

Hawk Walk:
At the Hawk Walk we walked for a really long time.  I got to spray the principal with food except for silly string. (Vincent)
The Hawk Walk was great.  The Hawk Walk is a big celebration.  In the end Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Skillman get a mess. (Ed)

THE HAWK WALK (2010)

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