The Week of September 14th

September 14th, 2009
First three pictures by Maria

The following pictures were taken by various students. The words are written by Jordan. Maggie was blogmaster, but was not interested.


Goals meetings with Deb in which Deb and the students discuss what lessons they should be practicing, what lessons they would like to have, and goals they would like to work towards.

Spinning Felix's wool. About 5 minutes after this picture Harper spun her hair into her yarn. It was a little exciting trying to extricate it...

Finn reading to Ian, Niki, and Lincoln.

Two spiders we were observing right outside the classroom door. They were very high up and it was a bright sunny day. Getting a picture was difficult! Thanks Niki and Harper!

Gabriel pondering.

Experiments...

A bountiful harvest in just one day from Prairie Hill's own garden! It made a lovely vegetable salad.

This is a great time of year for biology lessons on stems, leaves, flowers, and seeds.

Kallyn and Maggie wrote their own recipes. Here they are attempting to follow their own directions.

Carding wool!

Second Week of September

Second Week of September- by Harper Lawson

The treasurer collects money, records the deposit, makes change and keeps track of the budget.

We love reading! Especially on bookmobile Fridays!

We learned about wool, spinning, sheep, and yarn from Deb at together time.

We do host work.

Singing "Down by the Banks" at together time.

The Leaf Factory

Reading lessons

Writing lessons

Sewing projects are some of our favorite things to do.

Our First Week of September- by Finn
This smells funny.

Melina, Alex, and Gabby research butterflies.

Ian W. and Niki study land and sea breezes.

Me and Mark and trent and Elijah we had fun and we got to color fractions.

They wrote lots of nouns.

Jordan taught us rhythm with the boomwackers.

Ian H. watering in the garden with Henri and Liam.

Jeremy teaching.

I wrote a story about a cat and a pizza. Other people wrote sentences.

Kallyn and maggie wint to Ashfalls and Maggie got a turtle.

Here are pictures of Prairie Hill by Maria Devries.

Penguins

Penguins and Their Abilities- by Harper Lawson and Ava Baird

Penguins live in Antarctica. It has to be cold for penguins to live.
Penguins do not fly. Penguins swim with their flat wings,
stiff tail, and webbed feet. Penguins waddle on ice and snow.
Penguins flop down and slide into the water.
Penguins jump into the water when they do not have a chute.
There are many different types of penguins. The biggest is the emperor. They can grow as
as tall as a child who is six.


Note from Jordan: Sentences by Students. We are working really hard on remembering capitals, periods, spaces between letters, and excellent handwriting. As I typed them in I only corrected the direction of some letters (as it is hard to type backward letters).

Cicadas, Space, and Gardens- by Ava Baird
I hear cicadas singing. I see 2 gardens. I Went to space.

Green Trees Up- A poem by Lincoln
I see trees, green trees? I climb up the tree. Trees. Trees trees trees!

Playdate- by Elijah
Elijah and Ava had a playdate.

Prairie Hill - by McKayla
I see the wind blow in the trees and the kids wrok in the garden. the bran with the horses is here at Prairie hill. One day on my birthday, Alexi and Kallyn and Me went to the Omaha Zoo and saw the whole zoo.

Lincoln and the Cat- by Cameryn
Lincoln and the cat run to the ice cream truck.

The Cat With The Pizza- by Finn
The cat was hunGry The cat saw a pizza. The cat ate the pizza and a mouse was wathing The mouse got mad The end.