Twitter Monday

We are working on writing super sentences. We will be posting them through out the day on our twitter stream.


  Mrs. Levy's Twitter

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"I had fun making towers with Samuel in the play yard," roared Rain!

"I enjoyed doing math," babbled Parsa.

"I liked doing the computer game," babbled Jakob.

"I liked reading Click Clack Moo," grinned Jules.

"Today I had fun doing the word search," roared Luke. 

"Today I liked doing the Winter writing," rejoiced Matthew.

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"Playing handball is fun," babbled Parsa.  

 "I had fun making our water cycle," roared Luke.

"I was thrilled when we went to the library," rejoiced Gia.   

"I was really happy when Mrs. McEvoy came in," roared A.J.

Friends

We have been talking a lot about friends today.  Here are some of our ideas.

"A friend is a person you are nice to," roared Ava.

"A friend is someone that you play with," babbled Amy.

"You don't hurt a friend,"  added Ethan.

"When a friend get's hurt, you help them," roared Jake.

"You don't be mean to a friend," grinned Collin.

"You should share with a friend,' rejoiced Natalie.

In our class we have started a friendship chain.  Each time someone is "caught" doing or saying something nice to another classmate, they get to put their name on a link of the paper chain.  

What is the nicest thing a friend has done for you?  

How can you be a good friend?

Oshogatsu

Today Miya's mom, Lisa Sugino came our class to tell us about Oshogatsu, the Japanese New Year celebration.   

We learned that the Japanese New Year falls on January 1st and has many traditions that have been practiced for hundreds of years.  We looked at a book that explained many of the Japanese New year symbols and traditions.

The daruma is a paper mache doll for making a wish for the new year.  You paint one eye when you make the wish, and the other eye if the wish comes true. 

Mrs. Sugino showed us a antique paddle that was used to play a game very similar to badminton. 

Another of the Oshogatsu traditions is making mochi.  To make the mochi, boiled sticky rice is put into a shallow wooden bucket-like container and patted with water by one person while another person hits it with a large wooden mallet. It forms a sticky dumpling. We had a lot of fun mashing the rice.

The picture below shows a very unique kind of mochi which is made specially for New Year called Kagami mochi.  It consists of 2 rice balls with a tangerine sitting on top.

We were able to eat some sweet mochi! 

Thank you Mrs. Sugino, we loved learning about Oshogatsu!

What did you enjoy the most in the Oshogatsu presentation?

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"I loved playing Avatar at recess with Brook, Trevor and Jack," rejoiced Nina.

"I had fun on Read Write and Type in the computer lab," roared A.J.

"I love doing math," roared Rain.

"I loved reading with the book buddies," added Ava.

Our Holiday Party!

Our Holiday Party in Room 125 on PhotoPeach

In the season of giving...

I love this time of year.  People are very busy buying and receiving presents during Hanukkah, Christmas and Kwanzaa.  In our class we are creating a special present to give to our parents (shhh! It's a secret!). 

Thinking of this reminds me of my favorite gift.  When I was 14 years old my mom gave me her high school I.D. bracelet for Christmas.  I liked it, but really I wanted something new, like a swatch watch 

 or an album. 

I put the ID bracelet in my jewelry box and there it sat gathering dust for a few years.  When I was a senior in high school, I gave the bracelet to my best friend, as a way of saying that we would be friends forever.  After a while, my friend and I lost touch; we went to college, moved to different parts of the world, and got married.  She kept the bracelet with her.  It reminded her of me even though we never got to see each other.  Many years passed, and one day when I was feeling very sad my friend brought me my mom's ID bracelet.  I was shocked.   I had completely forgotten the bracelet existed. I was amazed at how beautiful my mom's name looked engraved in the shiny silver.  It was the perfect gift.

What is the best gift you have ever received? 

What was your favorite gift and why?

Dreidel Song

I had a little dreidel,

I made it out of bread,

I did not spin my dreidel,

I ate it up instead.

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"I had fun going to library today," roared Jake.

"Starting our surprise project was fun," babbled Amy.

"I liked coloring the worksheet about the boy and girl from Mexico," roared Ethan!

"I loved reading Go Dog Go," exclaimed Yuval.

"I liked doing the super holiday sentences," rejoiced Gia.

"When Mrs. McEvoy came to class, it was great," dictated Collin.