Cookies, cookies, cookies!

Finally on Friday, we made pumpkin cookies to see what pumpkin tasted like!  Many of us thought they were delicious!

Sink or Float?

We read a book where people were using a pumpkin as a boat.  We had a discussion about whether we think a pumpkin would actually sink or float.


We made a t-chart.  Many of  us thought it would float, although we did change our minds too!!

IT FLOATS!!

It was the week before Halloween....

It is the week before Halloween here in Kindergarten and we are very excited!  We have been doing some pumpkin investigations.

Here's what we want to know about pumpkins:

• what do the insides look like
• what do the seeds taste like
• what does pumpkin taste like
• do pumpkins sink or float

Pumpkin investigation

Opening up our pumpkins!

Inside

Dot Day - Late post

Sneak peak for Dot Day, Sept. 15

Making our mark....coming soon!!

Learning to play

Our classroom is ready!!

Remembrance Day 2015 from smatsumoto

It's a Whole New Year

We have been not very good at remembering to do our blog...  I made it my New Year's resolution to make sure we post in our blog at LEAST 1 time per week for the rest of the school year.  Hopefully everyone in Room 163 can help me to remember to follow through on my resolution.  I will post all the photos from all of the times we did not write a blog post.  It is a BRAND new year - 2015 will be GREAT!  We have some exciting things planned for our classroom...
- Miss Matsumoto

Happy New Year!
-Tyler

Today we had an assembly and it was about the Playground Matrix and I got to see my mom.
- Lyric

Hi, I am Kendra.  Today we had an assembly.  Happy New Year in 2015!  We had a busy day.  Today we had a morning message and we had a good day.  It was AWESOME!!!!
-Kendra

It's a new year!!!!  On winter break, it felt like it was soo long.  Happy New Year!  Hopefully this year we can get lots of work done.  So far this year has been a lot of fun.  The assembly today wasn't as long as a normal assembly.  This year will be exciting!
- Evva

Happy New Year!  Today we had an assembly.  It wasn't really that long.  I hope we have a lot of work done.  We haven't made blog for a LONG time.  Happy New Year!
-A.

Hi, I'm sorry we didn't post anything until now.  Today we had an assembly.  It was about the Playground Matrix and a reminder about the Hallway Matrix.
- Devlin

"ODD-tober"

This post has a MATH focus.  We have been learning about a particular thing in Math...  Our class has been learning about ODD and EVEN numbers.  We have been learning about how to tell if a number is odd or even in a number of different ways. We have also been reading some books about odd and even numbers.
- Miss Matsumoto

We've been learning about odds and evens in Math.  And we have been reading some books and they are VERY WEIRD! And our class likes learning about evens and odds because it is fun.  Evens and odds are numbers you can count with.  Evens you can count by 2s and sometimes by 5s or 10s.  There are lots of things about evens and odds that we can learn every day.  And in our class we have an estimation jar with some candy pumpkins but we already did that.  The winners were Izabel and A..  We counted our numbers and it was over 70 pumpkins, but Izabel and A. decided to share them with the class.  They decided to give us each 3 and then split the rest for them to take home.  Okay, that's it - Good-bye! - Evva


We have been working on a lot of stuff today.  Good-bye.  - Gabe

We can count the numbers to see if it's even or odd.  - Izabel

We wait to see if there is an odd one out or not when we put them in partner groups. - Devlin & Tyler

Update of Our School Year so far...

We had a GREAT September at school here in Room 163.  We have been doing Daily Five and building our STAMINA.  We can read for 15 minutes in Read to Self and Read to Someone.  We are hoping to add another choice to our Daily Five in the upcoming week.  We have been writing a lot.  We have pen pals in Grade 8 from another school.  We have received letters from them and are working on our letters back to them.  In Science we have been studying body parts and have been discussing external body parts.  We are working on life-sized self-portraits with our Learning Buddies.  We also studied the artwork of Kandinsky and created our own concentric circles.  There have also been a lot of special days at our school.
- Miss Matsumoto


For October, we have been excited to get our pen pal letters from Grade 8s in a different school, but they are still in Winnipeg.  A couple days ago we got their letters and all of us read them and we started writing letters back.  And also a couple days ago, we had an assembly about Fire Prevention Week.  It started on Sunday.  For fire prevention week we got to go in this little thingy that looked like a trailer but wasn't.  It was lots of fun.  We have also been working on life-sized portraits.  Our learning buddies traced all our body parts on a big piece of paper.  And we have to add details and colour and cut them out.  And we also finished our Kandinsky art of concentric circles and we are moving on to a different art which I think everyone is art.  We had to pick up 10 leaves off the ground and we had to put them in a book and flatten them and bring them to school and put them under paper and then we colour them on the side with crayon and then we paint them and then we let them dry.  And I also want to tell you about the Hallway Matrix.  We have been learning about how to do the Hallway Matrix and walking the right way in the hallway and getting these little yellow passes.  The teachers that give them to us, they will put what we were doing right or check it off and put our names and our class on it.  And that's about the Hallway Matrix.  That's it Bye! - Evva

We have been working on our stamina on Read to Self.  And we have been doing a bunch of leaf crafts.  We've also been going out the window on the fire truck.  And we to back to our classroom.  Then we also have Learning Buddies in Grade 8 who are in Winnipeg.  - Kendra

We have snacks when we got back to our classroom.  - Nikki

We have lunch too!  And we also have gym. - Madyson

Today we have a special activity called a Writing Activity.  I think yesterday we went to a fire truck and got into a trailer and the smoke was actually made from oil.  Our pen pals have been writing to us and we got them a couple of weeks ago.  We wrote back to them.  Some of us are done and some are not.  In Music we were practicing an Aboriginal celebration and we were also practicing Aboriginal drumming and we saw a video of a party for Aboriginal people.  There was a little circle for men who were playing the Aboriginal drums.  There was a big circle for ladies and there were some gentlemen.  - A.

We also have been changing our jobs every week and we also have been changing our table spots too.  And we also have been having birthdays. - Lyric

We've been changing our meeting area spots every month and our table spots every month.  And we have been learning about our Body parts and other things.  - Elise

We've been having gym.  And we have been working on stamina.  We are still working on our pen pal letters.  - Gabe

A forgotten post...

It is a brand new school year at Bernie Wolfe!  Our classroom again is VERY special because we have both Grade 1 and 2 students in Room 163.

We have been doing Math.  We have been doing very respectful things.  - K.

We've been doing Math today.  At math we talked about patterns and the elements.  - A.

Life Cycle Videos

Hummingbird from Stacey Matsumoto on Vimeo.

Caterpillar Observation Update

Our class has been very excitedly watching our caterpillars growing and eating.  Every morning, everyone RUSHES over to see how they are doing.  We have noticed a lot of changes lately.  We also have been writing in these journals called "My Butterfly Observations".  We write about the life cycle 1 or 2 days a week.  We noticed that they have been eating and there's a lot of poop in the container!  We have been doing a lot of work on butterfly journals.  Our larvae has gotten very big now.  Our caterpillars have been getting a lot of fuzz on them.  They are molting lots of skin.  We are hoping they will make their chrysalis soon - around June 1st.  Caterpillars are getting long.  The butterflies fly to Mexico and they find a lot of butterflies.  (We read about the migration of Monarch butterflies in a book today.  They fly south for the winter to warm places like Mexico).  Right now the caterpillars are shedding their skin.  Our class is doing a live stream of our butterflies.  It's a live stream in our blog and Miss Matsumoto set up a camera to watch the caterpillars.  (A live stream is a video that shows our caterpillars in REAL time.  We hope to watch them over the weekend a bit when we are away from school  We predicted that this weekend, some may go into their chrysalis.)  The caterpillars are almost in the chrysalis stage and they are fatter.  If they turn into their pupas, they try to put all of the body into the pupa and then they wait.  The chrysalis becomes transparent, then you can see them.  Then they can go outside and they make their wings so they can fly.  I have been noticing a lot of webby stuff in the containers.  And we think that is their skin shedding.  After this, you should check out our caterpillar video that we put on our blog too!

Written by EVERYONE in Room 163

Live Stream of the Butterflies

Live streaming video by Ustream

Our Butterfly Journals and Experience

Wednesday, May 21

Wednesday, May 21

Wednesday, May 21

Wednesday, May 21

Friday, May 23

Friday, May 23

Monday, May 26

Monday, May 26

Monday, May 26

On Wednesday, May 21st we got a package with larvae in it.  Larvae are lots of little, tiny caterpillars.  First they started out in a tiny egg.  And then they turned into the larva.  And they will turn into big caterpillars and then they will make a pupa and they will sleep for a bit and then when they wake up they will break through and they will become a butterfly!  - Sierra

Some caterpillars are eating nutrients.  Caterpillars eat leaves and nutrients.  Caterpillars eat a lot of them.  And the caterpillars are getting big.  Caterpillars are this size of caterpillars.  And they are going to be a butterfly soon.  If they eat a lot of nutrients or leaves. Caterpillars sleep in the pupa.  The caterpillar just sleep a while to be a butterfly.  And the caterpillar is shaking and it gets out and turns into a butterfly.  The caterpillar is in Mrs. Kochan's class on a plate.   - M.

On Wednesday, May 21st we got a package with larvae in it.  Larvae are the caterpillars when they just come out of their tiny eggs.  We got them because we are going to watch their life cycle.  When we first got them, they were REALLY tiny.  But now, they have fuzz on them and they are getting fatter and they are longer.  They are almost full grown caterpillars.  They are going to grow up to be Painted Lady Butterflies.  We are sharing our larvae with Mrs. Kochan's class.  When we got them, Miss Matsumoto, our teacher and Mrs. Kochan had to make a special food for them to eat.  It's called nutrient.  They put the nutrient in the little plastic cups and we put the larvae in them.  They had a lot of nutrient in the cups and now there isn't so much.  The larvae have ate a lot.  - Ella

On Wednesday, we got a package.  In the package was larvae.  Do you know why we have larvae?  Because we are watching their life cycles - how they hatch from their egg and then turn into butterflies.  But we didn't get to watch them hatch from their eggs, they came as larvae.  Our class and Mrs. Kochan's class are sharing the larvae so we can look at them everyday so we can see if they have grown bigger or longer.  Some of classmates can see that they have some fuzz on them.  They were small on Friday, but over the weekend they ate a lot and they grew bigger and longer.  The butterflies that they are going to grow into are Painted Lady Butterflies.  Everyday, our class and Mrs. Kochan's class goes to look at the little caterpillars to see if they have grown bigger.  We have journals to write what we have seen for the caterpillars.  Lots of the caterpillars are shedding their skin.  When they are full grown, they make their chrysalis.  When they make their chrysalis', they are going to make them on their lid.  Then we will take the lids off and put them in this tent thing for the butterflies.  We have over 30 larvae.  I think that's all you need to know for right now, bye! - Evva

On Wednesday, we got a package!  In the package there was larvae.  We got the larvae because we are learning about their life cycles.  We put the larvae in little cups and Miss Matsumoto and another teacher, Mrs. Kochan had to make some food called nutrients for them.  They used to be really small but now they are getting pretty big.  Soon they will be making a pupa.  A pupa is a chrysalis.  They are going to be sleeping in the chrysalis for a little while and when they are ready they are going to come out of the chrysalis and become butterflies.  The type of butterflies we are getting is Painted Ladies.  We also have some Butterfly Journals where we are writing about them.  When they become butterflies we are going to let them go outside.  Now we are going to be learning about some different life cycles.  - Stella  

I can't wait until our butterflies grow into Painted Lady Butterflies!!!  - Lexie

Last week we got larvae in a package.  Larvae is a little innsy binsy caterpillar, but it's not fully grown.  After we got our larvae we were studying about butterflies and also we are working on Butterfly JOURNALS!  We are writing in our butterfly journals about what they butterfly's life is like.  Today, we watched a butterfly video about life cycles.  It was moving pictures of a real butterfly and words that are below the picture.  - Lara

On Wednesday, we got a package of larvae.  And we were learning about them before we got the package.  Then now today we were learning about other animals, I thought that we were just learning about butterflies, but Miss Matsumoto said that we were learning about more than just butterflies.  In June, we will have groups of three and then we are going to learn about other animals.  We have to decide as a group what animal we are doing and we have to take turns. - Lara

We got some larvae.  They've been eating nonstop.  Sometimes they rest.  They got bigger.  Some are still small.  They are going to be Painted Lady Butterflies.  - Isabella 

The Best Field Trip Ever...to the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach!!!!

The Blacksmith Shop

Heavy Harness Horses (HHH)

The Barn near the Petting Zoo

The Windmill

Welcome.  These are our pictures from our field trip to the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach.  It was really fun!  Some of us even got to buy candy from the candy store.  In Steinbach there was lots of little houses and other things.  There was even a petting zoo!  Group 2 went into the big red barn and we heard peeping, but we couldn't find the chicks.  On the wagon ride, it was really cool.  The horses were called heavy harness horses.  Steinbach is really cool.  In the windmill, it was really cool.  In the windmill, they make flour.  When we went on the wagon ride, the guy showed us lots of things that the horses can do.  When we were up in the windmill, the man pushed the windmill so that it would go.  It actually worked!!  It was really exciting to go to Steinbach for our field trip.   - Evva

We went to Steinbach and we see everything in Steinbach.  And we went to the blacksmith and the mud house and a horse ride and we have lunch and we went to the windmill.  In the mud house, he tell us a story and the mud house was old.  They used it in the winter.  We like Steinbach and we went to gym after the field trip, but we used the bus to go back from the field trip.  P.S. We have  a great field trip. From yesterday in Steinbach.- M.

Yesterday, we went to Steinbach for a field trip.  It was AWESOME!  We went inside a real windmill.  And it was cool because the miller showed us how you would make flour in the windmill.  We went on a wagon ride and while we were waiting for the other group to get back, we were watching chickens at the barn.  And I saw two lambs and a baby cow in the back.  And then we had lunch.  After lunch, my group went to the blacksmith's and we made little metal rings out of nails.  It was REALLY cool.  Then after that all the groups got free time and my group went into the General Store and bought candy.  Well, some of us bought candy with our own money, but for the people who didn't bring money, our teacher bought us some gummy bears. - Ella

Yesterday, we went to Steinbach.  We were really tired and we needed to walk very far away.  In Group 4, we went to the Blacksmith first.  We made metal rings and we even made our own rings.  The man taught us how to make the rings and he made lots of horse shoes, we even found many horse shoes nailed to the ceiling.  There was a fire there.  He used the fire and a metal thing and he was firing the metal so it easy to bend it into a horse shoe.  When we were done going to the blacksmith, we went to the mud house.  They showed us all of the things they do in the mud house and told us a story about the pioneers.  When we were waiting for the other group for the wagon ride, we went to the petting zoo.  When they were done it was our turn.  We talked all about the things they do with the horses.  Then after that we had extra time in the wagon ride because we were the last ones in the wagon ride.  Because it was lunch time, we were dropped off by the wagon by village centre.  When we were passing by, there was a lady standing there which was really scary.  It was a statue.  - Lara

Yesterday, our class and two other classes went on a field trip to Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach.  It was REALLY fun.  They told us what it was like a long time ago and what they had to do a long time ago and what they could play with a long time ago.  First Group 2 made little rag dolls.  Then we drew faces on them.  The boys got little black round things for hats and girls got lace for bonnets.  Then Group 2 went on a wagon ride.  The man told us about the horses.  The horses are called HHH, short for heavy harness horses.  Then we got in the wagon and we went on a wagon ride.  After that, we went to the blacksmith.  There we saw a guy making a rose out of metal.  Then we made rings.  We had to hammer one side into an oval and also the other side.  Then we lifted it up and we had a ring.  Then we had lunch.  I tripped and I fell and I got a bad scab on my knee.  Oh no!   Then Group 2 went to a place called Semlin.  That's a mud house.  We went inside and a long time ago that used to be a house.  The guy inside of it showed us around and then he read us a story called "Sush".  It was about a girl who moved to Canada that was the only house.  Then we had some free time, and then we went to the petting zoo and the General Store.  Our entire Group 2 got candy.  Then we went back to school.  - Stella

Yesterday we went to the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach.  We went with two other classes, Miss Hogue and Mrs. Kochan's, but Mrs. Kochan didn't come because she got hit in the head with Frisbee and she broke her nose bone.  And we went there on a bus.  In Steinbach, we went to the village centre to put our backpacks down and then we went to different places.  First we went to the Blacksmith.  We made rings.  It was really hard for some of us to make rings, but it wasn't hard for me - it was easy.  Next we went to the mud house.  There was a guy and he asked us some questions.  And when we went inside, I was thinking that I wouldn't want to live in there!  He told us a story inside.  After we went to make dolls.  First we were supposed to have this rag and then we put a cotton ball near the top in the middle and the we grabbed the corners and pulled it over the cotton ball until we couldn't see it.  Then you need a partner and you are supposed to hold the cotton ball.  Shayla was my partner and she helped me try to tie a knot.  She need a bit of help.  So then we were supposed to tie knots from the two corners and when I lifted mine up, mine looked like an angel.  And I did the knots all by myself.  And then we went on our wagon ride...to be continued...-Lexie

Yesterday was our field trip day.  We went to the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach.  I was in Group 3 with Ella and Skylar and other people.  We were at our first stop, the mud house.  We went inside and then we didn't see any mud as walls.  But I looked at the corner top and there was a bit of mud.  After we explored the mud house, a guy read us a story.  It was called Sush.  After he read the story, we went to make dolls.  -Lara

Wellness Day, Pizza Lunch and More!

Yesterday it was Wellness Day.  And I am going to Brandon because it's Thursday and I am going to visit Thomas.  And then it's no school tomorrow.  We play freeze tag in Gym.  We have pizza for lunch.  They have pizza lunch and the bake sale.  My dad and my brothers are going to Brandon after school.  We go to bowling and I got a score and a split.  - M.

It was Wellness Day yesterday.  I went to Face Painting and Fudge making.  Also yesterday they told they people who were making fudge they would get their fudge tomorrow, but then we got it today because today is tomorrow from yesterday.  It's no school tomorrow, YAY!  We are working on a blog journal entry which we need our journals on KidBlog.  Me and Lexie are working on the Valentine's Fairy.  It's about a bad fairy who curses Valentine's.  Uh oh!  We are also working on Starry Night pictures.  I am on my answer thing-a-ma-jig.  - Lara

Today some of us had pizza because today was Pizza Lunch.  Yesterday was Wellness Day.  I picked Bowling, Fudge making and face painting.  I got to go Bowling.   It was GLOW BOWLING!  - Ella

Yesterday we went bowling.  We went to a very far place and we went bowling there.  It was glow bowling.  We dyed eggs yesterday too.  So we had a lot of fun things when we did lots of things in the morning and then in the afternoon.  Many people went to the bowling.  We went to a bus and we  went to a seat.  Three people were allowed to sit in one chair.  There was just 1 student behind our seat and 2 teachers in the other seat.  If we were noisy and getting up and making poor choices, we have to sit with the lovely teachers.  We watched Despicable Me, Jimmy Neutron and Ice Age.  After we had a snack.  We had cheesies, popcorn and Sun Chips. - Lara

Yesterday was Wellness Day and it was REALLY FUN!  Tonight is Family Fun Night and I think that lots of people are going.  For Wellness Day a lot of people went bowling and we had to take a bus to the bowling alley.  Bowling was glow in the dark bowling.  Some people's clothing lit up.  It was really cool!  Bowling is really fun.  In the computer lab, we are doing journal entries on our KidBlogs.  I am only half-way done on mine.  School is really fun, don't you think? - Evva

Me and Lara are making adventure books.  We are making a very special book and I am going to give you a sneak peak.  It's something to do with snow...  Let's carry on.  These are all the books we have made so far: Adventures, The Lost Puppy, Fairy Dust, The Best Christmas Ever and we're working on The Valentine's Fairy.  The other two books that are before the Valentine's Fairy are called: Lara Lost Her Shoe and Stuck in a Comic.  Stuck in a Comic is where the whole book is a comic - I'm hoping we get there soon.  And there is one more book surprise, but we haven't made it yet.  But we are still going to do the series.  - Lexie

Yesterday I went bowling for Wellness Day.  It was so much fun!  In school, after bowling we got to watch a movie and have a snack.  The snack were really yummy.   - Isabella

Yesterday was Wellness Day in our school.  All the students and the teachers were able to participate in different activities for Wellness Day.  I helped other teachers take 60 students from Grade 1 and 2 BOWLING!  I even got to bowl, which was very fun.  I think that everyone had a great day.  We have been working on adding more to our personal KidBlogs.  We are working on adding pictures to our blogs.  It is taking a bit of time, but I know that it will be GREAT! 

Math Month and More...

At school in the morning, we've been doing math story problems.  And in the afternoon.  - Isabella

In school we've been doing math story problems.  And in the afternoons, we solve them.  School is a lot of fun.  We learn stuff and right now we are learning about measurement.  On Friday, it was Ella's birthday.  Ella's birthday was a lot of fun. Grade 1s and 2s do different math story problems.  Grade 2s do all of them and grade 1s do only some of them.  With math story problems, we can learn a lot.  They are really fun to do.  What do you like to do at school? - Evva


I can't wait til Easter!  Easter is on Monday.  I'm SO EXCITED!  In school in the morning we are doing math story problems.  Math story problems are when Miss Matsumoto types up problems and we write them down in our math journals.  In the afternoon, we solve them. - Sierra

We do math work stations and math problems in the afternoon.  And we solve the problem.  We just do KidBlog and we are doing our math journals.  We had to do KidBlog using our journal.  We will do our math journals in the morning and we have a good time in the morning with our math journals.  - M.


It is starting to feel like Spring FINALLY!  The snow melted a lot.  At recess I saw a lot of grass.  This month we are doing lots of math story problems because April is Math Month.  - Ella


Last week we were measuring stuff.  We were all in different little groups and we had to measure the same things.  Before we measured them, we had to write down our estimate for how many counters would be equal to the things we measured.  Then we would put in our estimate and see if it was equal to the thing we were measuring.  If it was not equal, we might have to take some out or put some more in.  We were using counters that look like beans to measure.  In the morning, we are doing math story problems.  We are writing them down in our math journals.  Some of us don't have any paper in our math journals, so we had to get some more journals.  The grade 1s get to do two and the grade 2s get to do three.   - Stella


It is almost Easter!  And it is almost Wellness Day too.  Wellness Day is when we get to pick our stations and then when it's Wellness Day we get to go to the stations.  Some of us may have the stations we picked, and some of us won't.  Now I am talking about Easter again because my teacher, she said maybe next week on Tuesday we could decorate eggs.  And there is also a sad part this week, because our teacher is going to be away for two days!  Also it is Good Friday this week.  We are also doing Math Story Problems because it is Math Month.  Also we are measuring things.  Things that we are measuring are cards, an eraser, a spoon, a baseball, a red ball and a jar and I think that's it.  - Lara


Me and Lara are making a book called the Valentine's Fairy.  We are going to make a good fairy and a bad fairy.  The bad fairy is trying to make the good fairy bad with her.  In the computer lab today we picked a journal entry from our journal and we wrote it down on our KidBlog.  In my journal I am making a chapter book.  The chapter book is called, The Adventures of Lara and Lexie.  They go on tons of adventures. On the first page, Lara runs out of milk!  I can't wait until I am done The Adventures of Lara and Lexie.  Also, about the Valentine's Fairy, we are making other books and the other books are called: Lara Lost Her Shoe and Stuck in a Comic. - Lexie


During Spring Break, I didn't get to do a lot of things that I wanted to do.  Because we needed to clean the house every day.  On Wednesday, I just went to the dentist.  On Friday, we went to my Tita's house.  - Lara


I can't believe that it's going to be Spring.  December is too cold because it gets too cold and it's going to be a blizzard.  Happy Spring! - Skylar

The first day of Spring?

From March, just before Spring Break.

We have not posted anything on our class blog in far too long!  We have been very busy working on our personal blogs which are housed on KidBlog.  We have not posted anything here for OVER a MONTH!  We have a lot to share.  We had two very popular authors of the month.  These authors are VERY funny.  Hopefully someone will share who the authors were.  We are busy preparing for our Student-Led Conferences next week.  Pretty soon, it will be Spring Break...although...it does NOT look or feel like spring - especially TODAY!!!
- Miss Matsumoto

It is almost my birthday!  Next week on the 25th will be my birthday.  It is ALMOST Spring Break.  I can sleep in, but I like waking up early so I have more time to play for the day.  That's all.  - Lara

When we finish our quality comments, you press submit comments.  We will finish our KidBlog quality comments.  Our Kidblog has to be saved or if you are finished your KidBlog, you just press "Publish".  We finished our Winnipeg blog and we finished our Math story problems.  We just learned how to skip with the skipping rope. We did a chin-mill and we do the helicopter.  - M.

In a few weeks it's Spring Break.  I am very excited because I am going to Brandon.  - Stella

On Spring Break I will ride my bike.  I hope it's Spring and I hope it's not snowing on Spring Break.  - Skylar

We haven't done our class blog in a long time.  I hope there's no more snow before Spring Break.  I am really excited for Spring Break, but I have to go to daycare.  But sometimes daycare takes us on field trips and they are really fun.  A lot of times in the computer lab, we have been working on our KidBlog and our Storybirds.  We have been commenting on people's KidBlogs and replying to what other people have said on our comments.  Hopefully soon we can go outside with Spring jackets and there's no more snow, and we don't have to wear mittens, ski pants, scarves or boots, toques or jackets. - Evva

It's FINALLY SPRING.  It doesn't really feel like spring.  I can't wait until Spring Break so I don't always have to sleep early.  - Prince


It's the 2nd day of Spring, but none of us think it feels like that AT ALL!  There's still snow EVERYWHERE and today it WAS SNOWING!  Miss Matsumoto wanted one of us to say who our authors of the month were - it was Mo Willems and Melanie Watt.  All of us LOVE those books.  Because Mo Willems writes the Knuffle Bunny books and Elephant and Piggie books.  And Melanie Watt writes the Scaredy Squirrel and Chester books.  I am excited for Spring Break too because then I get to SLEEP in.  But sometimes I don't like to sleep in... I like to get up early and bug my parents who like to sleep in.  And when I get up I do cartwheels and sommersaults and then my sister gets up and tells me to BE QUIET!  - Ella