October is Here!

October is Here!
by Zoe
Some pictures taken by other people too...

Our class is preparing to go outside to make straw people with the rest of the Prairie Hill communities.

Butterball is rolling.

Alaina is getting riding lessons from Ardelle.

Here is one of the straw people we made at our All School Event.

Welcome to our class Luke!

We are practicing math facts.

We like to do writing.

Do you know what a 99 sided polygon is called?

Trent is doing the astronomer's report.

Here is some more straw people.

Ian W.

Deb is giving a lesson on leaves.

A new favorite game for free time and after school!

Thanks to Sean for teaching us!

Katie helped us prepare for welcoming Luke.

Trent

Melina, Elijah, and Alexander

Lincoln rings the bell to remind us of things.

Ian W.

Alex and Gabby

This is Trent doing logical analisas.

We like to do writing.

We love to do grammar box.

Gourds. We are cleaning them everyday so they keep their color and don't mold.

The exchange game is really fun.

Evryone loves to type.

This is kallyn and Ian doing the checer board.

Some people have journles where you have to write sentenses.

The Week of September 21st

Welcome to this week's blog! Also a PHLC blog welcome to Alaina!
Pictures by Ian H. (and a few friends!)

Lots of people have been practicing their typing skills. Way to go Alexi!

Benjamin is helping Alexander put away food.

Lincoln and McKayla are reading BIG numbers!

Melina

Gabriel

Deb is helping Harper, Ava, and Elijah write down this week's deposit into our budget.

Maggie, Alaina, and Cameryn are enjoying the ponies.

Emily Weers is helping Gabriel read the big numbers in her research.

Ava is practicing a grammar box.

Ian W. and Niki are practicing multiplication on the checkerboard.

Ahhh... distributive law! Remember that? 4 (6+7) * =

Alaina riding Patches with Ardelle's help and Maggie and Kallyn's encouragement.

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!