The ending of January...

Wow!  January has flown by!!  I cannot believe that tomorrow is the very last day of the month.  We have been tracking the weather on a weather graph and unfortunately most of January has been cold, windy and cloudy.  We are hoping for better for February.  In fact, we will be checking to see if the groundhog sees a shadow on the weekend.  In order to help our class and others cope with this extreme weather, we have written our own survival guides for winter.

- Miss Matsumoto

Today is Day 6, Thursday, January 30th, 2014.  We just started writing back to our pen pals from University.  No one is done yet.  Also, we have Library. - A.

I can't believe January is ALMOST OVER!!!  Can you believe it?  We have been working on survival guides, but first we put a T-chart in our journals of like and dislike.  We are writing letters to our pen pals.  Every time they write a letter, we write back.  Ummm... - Lara

We sent our Flat stories and our Flat characters to our university pen pals.  They took pictures of our flat characters at the university.  Their school is HUGE!  In their school they have a Tim Hortons and a museum!  And they wrote notes to us and now we are writing notes back to them.  We are hoping that they can make Flat stories and characters like we did and we can take pictures  at our school.  And then we can write them a note.  We also have pen pals in Thailand.  It's fun having pen pals.  In our school, the grade eights are selling candy grams for Valentine's.  A candy gram is a lollipop that you can give to whoever you want for a little present.  To buy one, you only need to give the grade eights 25 cents.  - Ella

I can't believe it.  It's almost the end of the month of January!  After the weekend it will be Groundhog Day.  The ground hog will pop out and see its shadow!  Then after Ground Hog's Day it will be Valentine's Day.   - Skylar

It is almost Groundhog Day.  That is when it is Jonavyn's birthday.  It is probably very exciting for Jonavyn.  We are very excited because it is almost the end of January.  We have been writing letters to our University pen pals.  They have written letters back to us.  We have pen pals in Thailand too.  It is fun having lots of pen pals.  We wrote Flat stories and drew Flat characters.  We are hoping they can make their own flat stories and flat characters.  We wrote a class letter not too long ago to our university pen pals.  We haven't been writing letters to our Thailand pen pals, but I am hoping we can soon. - Evva

Skype and Pen Pal Letters

We have had a very exciting few weeks.  Last week our class had a special visitor on Friday.  This visitor was the author of the Howard B. Wigglebottom books, Howard Binkow.  He couldn't actually come to our classroom because he lives in Florida, but he visited our classroom using Skype!  We were able to see and speak with him.  He read us 2 of his books and showed us the new TV he is hoping to put on TV soon!  We really enjoyed his visit and hope to Skype with others soon!  We also received our pen pal letters from our University pen pals.  They took our Flat Characters all around the university and sent us pictures of them!  Also, some people in our class are working on making groups of ten with leftovers. - Miss Matsumoto

This week has been exciting for us.  A long time ago we wrote our Flat stories and drew Flat Characters.  We sent them to our university pen pals.  They took them around their university.  Our whole class sent them a note saying we would like them to write their own flat stories and draw their own flat characters.  We have some pen pals in Thailand.  They want to know more about snow, because they don't have snow in Thailand.  They want us to tell them more about snow, so we did.   - Evva

Yesterday we do Library.  We took books out.  Then we bring books to the library.  I took out Elephant and Piggie.  It is a funny book.  We will do our art today after Agendas and after recess. - M.

We are making snow globes.  I brought a bear from Madagascar on a really little tricycle.  Our pen pals gave their letters to us because we made them Flat stories and they took pictures all around the university so we could see what it looked like.  In my letter it said my flat character snuck into the cookie case.  I like my letter and I can't wait for my next letter! - Lara