If I Could Write a Book...

We just got back from the library and we have books on the brain. We have been brainstorming about books we would like to write. Here is what we have come up with:

Dudley - Pirates coming to the little town to take over - like Pirates of the Caribbean
Stephen - Dunking Athletes - a book about professional dunkers
Aadil - Ladybugs - all about lady bugs
Reid - an encyclopedia about hunting and what guns to use titled How To Hunt Everything
Whit - The Gun - all about guns you use when hunting
Will - How Police Help People When they are Sick or Get Hurt - about how police are good helpers
Witt - a book about time - Clocks
Noah - Diving Athletes - a book about all the different ways to dive into a pool
Craig - a book about the song Happy and a guide to playing it on the trombone - People Singing Their Heart Out
Madoc - a book about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows part 2
Reese - Number Monster - the monster knows all about math and numbers
Kevin - National Athletes of Skiing - all about how national snow skiing athletes race each other.
Chris - a book about the movie Mr. Peabody
Michael - The Alien Goes to Earth - the alien goes to earth and meets a human friend
Renat - The Guy that was Weird - at night he is bad but in the morning he is good. He has dirt on his arms, no nose, half lips and one eye on is head.
Sohum - something about Ninja Turtles
Jackson - a book about cross bows - Hunting a Bear with a Cross Bow
Carter - a book about the Polar Express
Frank - Astronauts & Aliens - There is a spaceman in his rocket ship and an alien attacks him and he has to call the other spacemen to help. They spray the monster and he goes away. He turns the wrong way and goes to Mars and blows up the planet.

Life Cycle KWL

We are welcoming Spring today with a new science unit. We have begun our annual Life Cycle unit with the arrival of chicken eggs. We have placed them in the incubator at 100 degrees and are waiting patiently for the arrival of baby chicks in 21 days. We have just begun the unit so here are some things we Know and some things we Want to Know. We will follow up later with things we have Learned.

Here is what we know so far:

• they hatch from eggs
• they grow up after they hatch out of the eggs
• they mom has to sit on the eggs so they can be warm and crack up
• they can not fly
• it takes 21 days for the eggs to hatch
• they start in the egg super small and then they get bigger and bigger until they turn into a chicken
• if you find and egg with a red dot in it just throw it away
• not only chickens and birds can lay eggs
• "chickens aren't the only ones"
• the eggs fall out of the mom
• chickens are birds
• always when chickens hatch out they lay down because they are tired
• when chickens hatch out they are wet
• chickens don't only hatch from incubators they hatch from nests
• reptiles lay eggs too

Where is what we want to know:

• Do they ever get a little hot or cold?
• Are reptiles cold blooded when the reptiles are in the egg?
• How does the chicken hatch out of the egg with moving?
• Can baby chicks lay tiny eggs sometimes?
• Do the chicks sleep like humans?
• Do chicks look like chickens?
• Do the chicks sleep like their mother?
• Do chicks sleep with one eye open?
• Do chicks eat like their mother?
• Do the eggs warm up in the nest?
• Do all fish lay eggs?

Stay tuned for things learned...

Time for Spring Break!

We have completed 122 school days and have one more to go until a much needed Spring Break. It is always fun to hear what the boys have planned for their week off. Here is what the boys in my class have on their agenda for next week. 

Dudley - I might stay here but I might go to the beach.
Jackson - I am going to golf camp, tennis camp and Mississippi.
Sohum - I am going to India with my mom and sister but my dad is coming on another day because he has a conference. Then I am going to Mississippi.
Frank - I am going to Florida.
Aadil - I am having a staycation.
Stephen - I am going to a golf camp.
Carter - I might go on a trip.
Chris - I am going to Illinois.
Renat - I am going on a cruise.
Will - I am going to the beach.
Kevin - I am going to my grandma's in Louisiana.
Michael - I am going to Florida.
Noah - I am spending the night with my Nanny and Grindaddy.
Craig - I think I am going to Louisiana.
Whit - I am going to my new house.
Reid - I am going to my land.
Madoc - I am going to Florida.

Sounds like fun all around! We hope you have a great week next week!

Giving something up for Lent....

The Lenten season is upon us! This is a time to think about the sacrifices that Jesus made for us. As we think about the days between Ash Wednesday and Easter the boys are brainstorming about what they would give up for Lent. Here is what we have come up with.

Mrs. Perry - Starbucks
Mrs. Thomas - Diet Coke
Kevin - video games
Noah - Legos
Carter - my special Lovey
Dudley - video games
Sohum - Lego Star Wars Attack of the Clones set
Chris - Lightening McQueen
Michael - Skittles
Reid - my tractor
Witt - Lego Movie Melting Room Set
Stephen - TV
Craig - Nerf Guns
Renat - Target
Whit - dirt bike
Jackson - my mini motorcycle
Aadil - pancakes
Will - going to the playroom
Madoc - Minecraft
Frank - Lego Storm Trooper Alarm Clock

While we don't all celebrate Lent, it is good to give up something special every once in a while. If you go without it for a bit I bet you will appreciate it even more. 

I See, I Think, I Wonder - 2014 Olympics

I See:

• fireworks
• thousands of people
• something on fire in the middle
• people shooting fireworks
• a light
• a lot of people cheering
• 100 blue lights
• Purple Lines
• the stadium
• the red sky
• sparks
• fire coming out of rocket things on the outside
• sparklers 
• black in the sky
• tv cameras
• purple on the ground

I think: 

• there are 5,000 people there
• this is in Memphis
• those things in the sky are jumbo trons
• it is Russia
• there are 10 million people watching on TV
• in the circle people are ice skating
• it just started because the fire just shot
• there are some people standing on stage
•  that this is in Moscow, Russia
• the people on the stage came out from the sides
• that this is the first game of the Olympics
• they are running laps around the hill
• that the little blue lines on the side are bleachers
• the fireworks are dynamite
• it is night time

 I wonder:

• if they celebrate Valentine's Day
• if all those people are watching guys ice skate
• if they are skiing there
• if that is a special light in the middle
• if all the people are watching the guys riding their snow boards
• if some people are cheering for the other team and some people are not
• if there is lightening in the sky
• if the fire ball in the middle is shooting the fireworks out
• if they are celebrating something
• if they dark stuff is black goo that they put in the air
• if that is steam in the sky coming from the fireworks
• how many laps they do when they are racing
• if the performance is one hour
• if the stadium is 1000 feet wide
• if everyone in the USA is watching
• if they are using real fire
• if this is in Chicago
• if they are 572 people in the stadium
• if they speak a language
• if they are doing the National Anthem
• if there are 500,000 people there

Will you be my Valentine?

We are less than a week away from Valentine's Day! 

We have been thinking a lot of those friends and family we love and how we can celebrate them.

 Who is your Valentine and what would you like to give them?

Dudley - my Mom - a heart that I saw at the store
Jackson - my sister Alana - a heart that I saw at the store that has Skittles in it
Sohum - my friend Chris - a Lego Star Wars set
Will - my friend Sohum - a Ninja Turtle mask
Chis - my friend Chip - a Ninja Turtle and a Ninja Turtle stuffy
Stephen - my girlfriend - an infinity scarf
Carter - my sister Sarah - all of my candy that I got from Halloween
Reese - my parents - a gift card to American Express
Renat - my friend Will, a dinosaur set
Kevin - my girlfriend Adaela - a box of chocolates
Madoc - my brother Matt - a box of Pokemon cards
Michael - my sister Mary Susan - a box of rings
Aadil - my brother Fawwaz - a box of caramel
Noah - my brother Samuel - a Hot Wheels car
Craig - my girlfriend Paxon - a Barbie Doll
Witt - my brother Wilson - this thing that goes with a video game
Reid - my friend Landon - a box of chocolates

Blogging Brainstorm

Today our blog will be about Blog ideas! We are having trouble finding a great blog idea so our blog idea will just be brainstorming (or spitballing as we call it in our classroom).

Here are some things the boys would like to blog about:
Dudley - Space
Jackson - Tackle Football
Sohum - Frosty the Snowman
Carter - Bugs - How do bees sting?
Stephen - Rockets - What is inside?
Will - The Military - How do they get so brave to do that?
Frank - Pizza - How do get the cheese in the crust?
Madoc - James Madison because he is a part of my dads side of the family.
Renat - Dinosaurs - What kids eat meat and what kind eat leaves?
Reese - Money - Who is on all of the dollars and coins?
Aadil - How to be a better basketball player.
Michael - Mountains - How to they get so pointy?
Kevin - How to robots work?
Reid - Hunting - How do learn about hunting?
Whit - How does a volcano erupt?
Witt - How long does it take you to pass all the levels on Reading Eggs?
Craig - Nelson Mandela
Noah - How do they make stuff where you can hear inside bodies?