January+and+February+News

Check out the news in Room 102. We learn many new things each day. Our daily news reporters will tell the story of what we are learning.
= = =   = = MEET REPORTER JOSSELINE AND REPORTER ANDRE! = = = = __Monday, January 11th__: = = Happy New Year, Penpals! We hope you had a great holiday and are ready for 2010! = = = = __Tuesday, January 12th:__ = =Dear Chinese buddies,= =Thank you for the pencils and the snacks! We loved everything, but we did not care too much for the seaweed! You can check out our special slide show we are making for you to say "THANK YOU" on our slide shows page. It's not up yet, but should soon be ready to go....check back next week!=

=__Friday, January 15th__:= =Dear China buddies,= =Today we used tangram puzzles to create pictures of animals. We also tried to make the perfect square. Jacob was the first one to make the square without looking at a picture of it. It was very hard to do!!!! But we learned to stick with it and never give up!! It was a good math and life lesson for us! You should try it sometime.= = = =__Tuesday, January 19th__:= =Dear China buddies,= =Did you ever go to the Ice Festival in China? We read all about it today in our Scholastic News! There are hotels made out of ice, ice castles, and sliding boards made of ice. Wow!!! That sounds so cool! You are very lucky to live in China. There are so many neat places to see and things to do there! Have fun!=

==__Tuesday, February 16th:__== ==Dear China Buddies,== ==Gung Hey Fat Choy! Happy New Year to all of you! Sorry we haven't been keeping up lately, but we have had a lot of snow here! We haven't been at school much, and when we do come in, we usually have a two hour delay and it becomes a very short day. We heard you celebrated your DAY 100, and we saw pictures of it. You sure had a great day. Today is our Day 100, too! We all brought in 100 pieces of food and mixed it together to make a DAY 100 TRAIL MIX snack. It was great! We will be going on your blogs and writing back to you soon!Enjoy your holiday vacation!==

==__Wednesday, February 17th:__== ==Dear China Buddies,== ==We hope you get a chance to watch our video clips of Who Am I? and our troll stories. We also made a Thank You slide show for you to watch on our slide shows page. We hope you like it. We have been busy at school learning about nouns and awesome adjectives. It helps us to become better writers. We had fun using adjectives to write poems about nouns. We are also learning a lot about the first and sixteenth presidents of our country, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We are learning about them because our country just celebrated Presidents' Day on Monday. This month both presidents have birthdays! Isn't that something? Well, we have to go now, and get back to learning. It is so nice to share with you!==

==__Thursday, February 18th:__== ==Dear China Buddies,== ==We are working on a play about teaching the world to sing. We will perform the play on March 11th for our parents and the whole school! Our school is also raising money to help Haiti...it's called, "Hearts for Haiti. Did you have a Valentine's party?==

===__Wednesday, February 23rd:__=== ===Dear China Buddies,=== ===We are having a big snow storm on Thursday and Friday of this week, so we might not be at school for a while. We hope you had a chance to look at our slide shows and videos. We are also working on writing back to you on your blogs. Some of us are not finished yet. Your songs were so cool! We are going to be writing snow day stories with all of this snow we have had! Maybe we can read them to you when we are finished! We are also learning about "vivid verbs". We can use them to help us paint a picture with our words when we write our stories. We are also learning how to subtract double digit numbers with trading (borrowing). Its' fun! We make houses for the tens and ones to help us understand the concept. Hope you are having fun learning, too! We love to hear all about it! Also, our school raised $2,047.69 last week to help Haiti! WOW!===