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Our Class Story

Mrs. Lant’s Class Story

Based on the story Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Written on December 9, 2009

One day in the deep blue sea, the three dolphins were eating their seaweed and watercress salad. The salad was too bitter, and they needed to get and get some vinegar and sea salt.  While they were gone, a beautiful mermaid name Marisa swam by.

She went inside the coral house, because she was looking for her lost sea shell. She saw the salad, and she tried the first one and it was too bitter. The next one was too sour, and the little one was just right. So, she ate it all up.

She saw some football helmets that looked colorful. She tried Papa Dolphin’s helmet on and it was too big. She tried Mama Dolphin helmet on, and it was too soft and tight. But she found Baby Dolphin’s helmet, and it was perfect!

Next, she found some beds made of rocks, coral and covered in sea anemone. She tried the big bed, but it was too lumpy and rough. Then, she tried Mama Dolphin’s bed but it was too itchy and soft.  She tried Baby Dolphin’s bed, and it was awesome! So, she fell asleep.

The Dolphin family came home with vinegar and sea salt. They saw the salad had been tasted. Then, Baby Dolphins said, “Someone ate all of my salad. And it was really good seaweed salad!”  They saw that their football helmets were tried on, and Baby Dolphin’s helmet was missing. Dun, dun, dun………….

Then, Marisa the Mermaid woke up and saw the dolphins, and the dolphins got excited. They accidentally slapped her across the face with their tails. They were so excited that they spilled sea salt and vinegar all over her! She screamed and swam away!

Then the Dolphins watch the Miami Dolphin’s game!

Catalogs and Magazines are Being Collected!

The school is having a contest to see how many catalogs and magazines each class can collect. The class who collects the most will win a prize. These magazines and catalogs will be recycled in our bin. We will be collecting the items until Dec. 18th. So, please send in any catalogs and magazines that you don’t need.

Donation boxes are ready to go!

Thank you for all of your help and generosity! The boxes will be taken to East Cleveland this week. Mrs. Lambacher from Central School will do the transporting. She came on Monday to get the boxes but had to come back with a bigger vehicle!

New posts in this blog

I have added a new category to the blog. It’s called “Teacher’s Monthly Newsletter”. When you click on it, you will see the new November Chalk Talk. Future editions will be posted here also. You will also receive a paper copy once a month.

More interviews were added to the category called “Interviews”. There are only three more interviews that need to be typed and posted.

Thank you for all of your generous Donation Box donations. The items brought in were creative, lovely and generous. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

There is a cute turkey story in the blogroll section of the frong page. Younger siblings would enjoy this story as well.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Lunch menu change for Nov. 3rd

The cafeteria will be serving Mozzarella sticks. The rest of the day’s menu will be the same.

Getting to Know You!

The students have been interviewing each other as well as friends and relatives. Please view our interviews on the category link called “Interviews”. All of the interviews haven’t been posted yet, but most of them are there.

Thanks to all of the parents who participated in our Halloween Party. A special thanks goes to Mrs. Craciun for organizing the party. We also thank all of the parents who sent in desserts, food, treat bags and drinks. Everyone did a fantastic job! The party was so enjoyable for the kids!

Our holiday service project has begun. Students wrote letters to family and friends requesting donations. Several of our Social Studies standards are being met with this project. And best of all, the students are helping children in need in the Cleveland Schools. Please send in all donations by November 17th. We will assemble and decorate the donation boxes before the teachers take them to Citizen’s Academy in Cleveland. Please be sure to send in new or like new donations. If you have extra donations, Mrs. Jagielo and I will be making extra boxes. Thank you for being so supportive!

Happy Halloween!

La Brea Tar Pits website

We are studying the La Brea Tar pits in our Word Wisdom book. The website has a children’s area with stories. Here is the address: http://www.tarpits.org/

Our Scarecrow

Scarecrow on Display

On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Jagielo will be pounding our scarecrow pole into the ground. Our Crowbot will be on display at Halloween on the Heights on Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 17-18).  Mrs. Jagielo’s Beach themed scarecrow and surfboard will also be on display. Many thanks go to Jack’s mom, Mrs. Craciun, for helping us waterproof the scarecrow.

Scholastic book orders are due oct. 21st. You can now go online and order books or send in a check and order form to school. The Scholastic username is   mrslant  . And the password is    NewBooks  . Marianne Jones is coordinating the book orders each month. Thanks for your help.

The States Play was performed today in class. Mrs. Boczulak’s class came over to watch it. We had a microphone set up for the students to use. Each students recited one or two verses of a 50 verse play. We were proud of the students!

The Apple Head project has made a turn for the worse. Sometimes, great ideas don’t yield great results. After waiting for the heads to dehydrate, we have noticed some mold growing. Although we soaked them in lemon water with salt, the heads are looking quite scary. We will probably have to throw them away. But we will use this as a lesson in the scientific method. I’ll save the plastic bottles for future use.

Planet reports are on our blog!

All planet reports are now posted on this blog. Just look under the Research category on the right side of this page.  Students have begun a new unit. We are now learning about people and places in Social Studies. We started by creating murals. Some murals are about suburbs, urban areas, and rural areas.

Next week in Language Arts, we will be reading many short stories. We will be working on reading comprehension, compound words, and context clues. I will unveil next week’s featured author on Monday.

On Friday, we will be having a class store.  A few parents have sent in donations. Thank you! If you come across any toys or trinkets at home that you’d like to donate, please do.

The students have been earning class money for various things. Some examples include: quickly taking out your books, working quietly, making good use of your time, helping to clean up our room and more.

Fall Festival was a huge success. It was so nice to see many of you! Justin earned the lunch with the teacher at the auction. He invited Jasper to join him. Today, we had our pizza lunch with cupcakes. Thanks for bidding!

Thanks to all of you for buying tons of raffles tickets and t-shirts. All of the contributions will be used wisely by the PSO. If you haven’t joined yet, please do! Every dollar counts!