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.

Pruzin's Cubs News for Oct. 19, 2009

Ethan wrote: At Buckelew Farm I picked a big pumpkin. It was so big! It was bigger than my body!

Shareya wrote: I found a pumpkin on the ground.

Ben wrote: We went to Buckelew Farm. We picked pumpkins. I picked a gourd.

Unknown wrote: We went to the pumpkin patch. We picked pumpkins

Zachary wrote: We had a hawk walk. I got to get the principal messy.
Alicia wrote: We had a Hawk Walk and there was music. Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Skillman got dirty with mustard and pies and silly string and other stuff.
Chloe wrote: The Hawk Walk had music and they had a place where you get Mrs. Walker and Mrs. Skillman messy. A boy in our class got to get them messy. They had pie and chocolate syrup and strawberry syrup, and silly string. We got to have otter pops. It was fun.

Jumana wrote: We went to the Hawk Walk. It was fun. The hawk high-fived us. They sprayed us with silly string. We had to walk.

Mikayla wrote: We are having our buddies come to the classroom to measure our pumpkins. Our buddies are going to do something with us. They might ask us to come to their classroom. I think we will have fun.

Branden wrote: Today our 4th grade buddies are coming to our class because we are measuring and weighing our pumpkins today.
Unknown wrote: We got our report cards. She gave out surprises. (Mrs Pruzin wrote: I gave each child 2 awards.)

Katarina wrote: We did cheers in P.E. Then we did tug-of-war. We did exercises.
Madeleine wrote: We did the graph. It was cool. I liked it. It was awesome!
Unknown wrote: We made a glyph of pumpkins. It was fun. I liked it.
Lauren wrote: We watched a movie about pumpkins. We learned a lot.
Alex wrote: We watched a movie that was from a book. It was not all from a book.
Phoebe wrote: We worked in our plant log this week. We used our magnifying glass.
Alexis wrote: We wrote in the plant log. The plant log was fun.
Caleb wrote: We get pizza because we are celebrating Megan's birthday. We get ice cream because we had the most box tops.
Megan wrote: We get ice cream. We don't know which kind it is. We get pizza.

Madison wrote: We will have a pizza party and a ice cream party, too! Megan put a party. She's celebrating her birthday for a pizza party. The ice cream party is for the box tops. Our class won the box tops because Mrs. Dickert gave all her old box tops to us.
Zach wrote: We got ice cream with pizza. It was yummy. Before we got it, I died for it!
Noah wrote: I am so glad that Mrs. Ellerd got pizza for the classroom. We have ice cream.
Colton wrote: We get to have pizza and ice cream. We got to have pizza and ice cream because we wont the box tops party.
Reis wrote: We got ice cream because we had the most box tops. We got pizza for Megan's birthday.

Pruzin's Cubs News for the Week of October 5

Reis wrote: I danced on the table with Branden because I became an Honors Reader and Mrs. Pruzin danced on the table.

Jonathan wrote: We are trying to get a class pet. We do not know what the class pet is. Do you? We have to start to get 4's and 5's in our Special Classes. I wonder what it is. I wonder if it is a rabbit. I do not care. I wonder if who's job it will be to feed the pet.
Breydan wrote: I read with my teacher. .

Noah wrote: We went on the Smartboard. We went to Spelling City.

Zach wrote: I got 40 points in A.R. and got a bead! I liked it!

Zachary wrote: I danced on the table with Mrs. Pruzin.

Tiffany wrote: We read a big book about pumpkins. In the big book it said you can make pumpkin pie.

Shareya wrote: I took an A.R. test.

Lauren wrote: I became a Super Reader. Now I have 3 beads on my A.R. buddy.

Ethan wrote: In the library I took an A.R. test on "Biscuit Visits the City: and I got 100%. Do you like A.R. ?

Megan wrote: At art we had a test of the primary colors, then secondary colors. It was fun doing it.

Madison wrote: In art we took a test to see how we did to see the primary colors and the secondary colors.

Hayden wrote: In P.E. we played tug of war. We played rings. We practiced for field day.

Katarina wrote: We did instruments in Music. It was fun.

Ben wrote: In math sometimes we worked on patterns. Sometimes we worked on math packets.

Phoebe wrote: I turned into a Ready Reader and it was fun.

Alicia wrote: In P.E. we practiced for field day. What we did was we practiced tug of war. Then we practiced all of the relay races.

Jumana wrote: I became an Independent Reader. When you are an Independent Reader you get a bead on your A.R. buddy.

Caleb wrote: We planted seeds. They were pumpkin seeds. We put them in the sun. Then we wrote in a plant log.

Branden wrote: Me and Reis danced on the table to the chicken dance. Why---because Reis and I got 35 points in A.R. and we got to dance on the table!

Alex wrote: We planted a seed. It was a pumpkin seed. We wrote in a book. In the morning we do the pledge. We have a silence time.

Mrs. Pruzin wrote: You can see how successful these children are in our school's A.R. club by clicking on the title of this post. It will take you to the A.R. link of my website. Every child in the class is participating in the program. Our goal is for the entire class to earn an honors trophy.

Pruzin's Cubs News for the Week of Sept. 28th

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

Reis wrote: We did an experiment about two seeds. One of the seeds turned brown and split. The other one just split.

Madeleine wrote: The Hawk Walk is fun. It is fun to do the Hawk Walk.

Mikayla wrote: When we go to Music we listen to the music and then we give our name cards to a student. We listen to the teacher so we know all the instructions and most people listened. Everyone did good.

Lauren wrote: In Art we drew either a cat, a dog, or a bear. I drew a bear. We had to color it. We can't leave any white. Then she sends them to a company.

Noah wrote: I had to do my homework outside. I also had to read a seed book.

Alicia wrote: At the spirit celebration Wilbur came and we screamed, "U of A". Also, the boy cheerleaders and one of the girl cheerleaders came. Wilbur and one of the boy cheerleaders sprayed Mrs. Walker with sticky strings.

Jonathan wrote: We are going to be planting a seed. I want to plant the Baby's Breath.

Chloe wrote: At recess there was a puddle and lots of bees were in it. There were some in the trash can and in the other one, too. The bees were following me.

Megan wrote: I got Little Bear. I got to bring Little Bear home.

Zachary wrote: I am an Honors Reader. At the next spirit celebration I will get my trophy.

Alex wrote: In P.E. we got a 4, which is better than a 3! We usually get a 3+.

Colton wrote: I'm almost and Independent Reader.

Katarina wrote: I broke my arm when I was at PAL. I was in the grass.

Caleb wrote: Today I got a trophy. It is cool. Oh Yeah!

Breydan wrote: I got two points in A.R.

Tiffany wrote: We made pictures out of seeds.

Ethan wrote: I became a Ready Reader and stuffed animal I got was a cheetah.

Jumana wrote: I need four more points to be an Independent Reader.

Branden wrote: We had a scorpion in the library today!

Hayden wrote: In guided reading we read "The Carrot Seed" and "The Seed".

Alexis wrote: I read the book called "Biscuit".

Madison wrote: In P.E. we went around the tree and other stuff. We followed the white line and we did different stuff. We ran across to the other cone. We skip, run and walk.