Tuesday, 2/26/08 Reported By: Mychae'l

Today, we came inside and started our Day1 and 2 observations for our eggs. After, that we did religion. In religion we learned about Catherine of Siena and Good Pope John. Next, we did the morning announcements. Once that was done, we wrote our special intention. Afterwards, we read Little By Little By Jean Little. Following, we did Reading Question.

Finally, we did how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. How to make a peanut butter and jelly is when you write the directions to how to pb&j sandwich and your partner reads it to you. Then, it was recess finally! After, recess we came inside and did math. During math, we did math notes to learned big words for our surveys. Then, we went around to our classmate’s desk and fill out their survey questions.

Once that was finished, it was lunchtime. When lunch was done we came inside and talked about San Carlos and San Antonio mission. At 2:00 it was social studies time. In social studies we read pg: 118-123 in our social studies books. After, we wrote are homework in our agenda, did our Tuesday packet and went home.

Another great day in the fourth day class.

 

     

Monday, 2/25/08 Reported By: Grant

When I arrived at school at 7:25 a.m, I played until the bell rang.  After the bell rang, Ms. Jensen picked us up to go to our classroom.  When we got in, we all double-checked our own paragraphs on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Next, we read page 159 in our Religion Book.  Afterwards, we corrected our Chapter 10 Religion Test.

         After Religion, we did our Spelling Pretest.  We also corrected the pretest.  I only got one wrong!  But luckily it was a pretest.  Then, we graded our “Vocabulary Word of the Week.”  My vocabulary word was “vital.” 

         After that, we collected dirt for our Science Project.  All of our hands got dirty.  It was kind of fun.  Then, we went back inside.  Ms. Jensen read a few pages of, “Among the Hidden.”  Finally, it was Recess!

         After recess, we did our Science Project.  We used the dirt we collected, soil, seeds, water, and the eggs we dyed last week.  First, we put the dirt and soil in the eggs. Then, we put seeds in the eggs. Last Ms. Jensen watered them.

         Then, we did more Science.  We talked about the Three States of Matter (solids, liquids, and gases).  We also talked about atoms, and how Matter is made.  We talked about that for a long time. Finally, it was lunch!

         It was Music after lunch.  First, we sang for a little bit.  Then, we talked about chord tones.  Finally, we did recorder tests.  I didn’t want to do one though.  After that, we did a little bit more of our Science Project.   We only wrote down our hypothesis and predictions.  We also talked about what we need to do for homework.

         Then, we talked about our Math Project we have to do.  We only talked about the surveying, and graphing.  Next, we wrote our homework.  Finally, we cleaned up, packed up, and went home. Wow!  What a long day of school!  

Thursday, 2/21/08 Reported By: Asha

     In the morning when we arrived in the classroom we did our D.O.L.(Daily Oral Language) and our special intention for the day. My special intention for the day was for the homeless. When we finished our morning work we did reading stations until it was time for snack, then we played handball.

     After snack around 10:50am we did our math class work and found out that we were to do three lessons of math homework tonight. Then we had our reading stations.  Our reading stations are picture dictionary, reading comprehension, language arts and a computer test.  I did reading comprehension and picture dictionary. We had one more thing to do before lunch. We went to visit the ladies at the Women’s Club Luncheon. We made colored tissue flowers for them. Each person in our classroom made two flowers. The flowers I made were red, pink and orange.  Each lady received one flower.  The ladies said they really liked the lovely flowers.

     The luncheon made me hungry. It is time for our lunch. We played a game of tag after lunch.  Then we went back up to the classroom.  Each student had to blow all the egg white and yolk out of the egg shell without breaking it.  Next we dyed each egg and decorated them with sequins and markers.  Then we put each egg back into the egg cartons to dry. 

    Afterwards, we watched a show called Tim and Moby where we learned more about science.  Then we cleaned up and read a few pages in “Among the Hidden” and finally it was time to go home.

Wednesday, 2/20/08 Reported By: Brooke

The day was rainy.  I had to go upstairs to my classroom.  Ms. Jensen had to watch over the fourth and up grades because it was raining outside.  One of the teachers came in the classroom and asked for all the kids that were fifth and up to come to his classroom.  I asked Ms. Jensen if I could go on the computer.  She said “ yes”.   All this happened before school started.  Then the bell rang, and everyone went to their classroom.

Next, the class had to do D.O.L. (daily oral language). In D.O.L. we corrected a paragraph full of mistakes,  we used a pencil then we used a red correcting pen.  Afterwards was religion.  We got ready for our religion test tomorrow.  We did a chapter review and made  corrections.  After that,  there was  stations.  In stations we did reading comprehension, picture dictionary, computers, and language arts. Picture dictionary is a dictionary with pictures.  I finished everything except the coloring for picture dictionary.  Then we had snack.  Snack had to be inside because it was raining.  We went to the 7^th grade classroom for snack. Once that was done, Math.  In math we learned about ratios.  Ratios means a way of describing a relationship between two numbers.  We used clay to figure it out.  We made little circles out of the clay.

Since there is a women luncheon tomorrow and we were going to visit.  We had to make colorful tissue paper flowers.  The colors I used were light purple, light blue and dark purple.  The flowers were beautiful. Afterwards we had lunch.  Since the ground was wet, we had lunch inside. Once we finished lunch, we had P.E.  We changed into our P.E. clothes, and went outside to play “Capture the Flag” and “Kick ball”, it was really fun. When we finished, we went to our classroom to do Tuesday packets.  Tuesday packets are little bags full of our homework, test, and classwork.  Since it was a short week, instead of the Tuesday packets being taken home on Tuesday, they were taken home on Wednesday.  After Tuesday packets, we watched some of our California Missions movie. The movie talked about the church and chapel, who built it, where the bodies are laid in the cemetery,  and what  priest did, what monks and Indians did too.  Also, what earthquakes and nature has destroyed. Finally, it was time to go home. We packed up and Ms. Jensen read a few pages of “Among the Hidden”.  Another great day at St. Timothy School!!!!!!!!!

Tuesday, 2/19/08 Reported By: Selena

Today was a busy day.  As usual, we started out doing DOL (Daily Oral Language).  Then we shared our Special Intentions and I prayed for the homeless in Ethiopia.   Once we finished Special Intentions, we read “Jensen’s Journalist Notepad” and went right into Religion.   During this time, we talked about people calling on God and how people worship God.  I learned that you can talk to God by praying, listening to the preacher talk about God’s word and to worship God.

Following Religion, Ms. Jensen gave us a Pre-Spelling test and once again, I missed one word –

(“Mountain”).   I spelled it “monutain.  I guess I confused the letters.     Once that was done, we did Language Arts and worked on plural and possessive nouns.  Our book for the week is Off and Running about a girl named Miata who runs for president of her class and wins, but she finds out that she has to work a little harder because Rudy, her component is in the lead.   

After lunch, we had music, one of my favorite times of the day.  Mr. Howl came to our class and we played our recorders and we had Test 1 - most of the class passed.  Yippee!!!  That was fun!

In Math, we divided fractions.  Math is not one of my favorite subjects, but again I am beginning to like it a little more.  When that was over, we corrected our Reading Test from last week and watch a movie about the twenty-one missions.  I think we are going to be doing a mission project soon.  We’re learning a lot about them in class.

Finally, it was the end of the day.  Everyone cleaned up and got ready to go home or, if you signed up to be on the basketball team, you went to practice.  Asha, Nina and I went to basketball practice and we had so much fun.  I love basketball and soccer. 

 

We’ll that was the end of great day!    

Woowho!!!

Thursday, 2/14/08 Reported By: Kimberley

At 8:00 a.m. everybody went to their homeroom class. The morning announcements were made over the intercom and the Morning Prayer after that we did D.O.L (daily oral language). Then we said our special intentions, I prayed for all the endangered animals. After that we did our Reading test and Vocabulary test and any other work we did not finish. I had finished all my work.

Finally it was snack time which lasted for 20 minutes. Almost everybody in the class played handball on the fence. After snack we were suppose to do our math but we finished our project for Valentine’s Day. Afterwards, Ms. Jensen picked everybody’s new date to be Ms. Jensen’s Journalist for the day; she gave everyone three new dates. Wow! Good job Ms.Jensen.

Then it was lunch time. Hurray! Hurray! We ate lunch first then everybody played handball again. After lunch we learned our math lessons for homework tonight which are #104 and #105, An we had time to start our homework. I finished all my math homework. The last writing subject we did for the day was the most fascinating things about our field trip to the La Brea Tar Pits. The most fascinating thing to me was learning about the extinct animals of the Ice Age.

Finally, it was time for our Valentine’s Day Party. Thanks’ to Ms.Jensen and the parents who helped us have a successful party. At the party some people handed out goody bags like me. We finished our movie about the Panda that we have been looking at. After we finished the movie, it we started at new movie called Muppets from Space. Then Ms.Jensen said it is time for “Everybody to clean up”. We cleaned up and after that everybody knew it was time to go home. 

Wednesday, 2/13/08 Reported By: Nina

Today was a fun filled and exciting day at our school!  We first came into the class and unpacked our backpacks.  When we came in Ms. Jensen had a religion worksheet on the board for us to complete. Next, we went into Ms. Hauser’s room to take class pictures.   Meanwhile, the parent volunteer drivers began to show up in class.  We were going on a field trip to the La Brea Tar Pits.   Finally, Ms. Jensen separated out the students into groups.  

When we arrived at the La Brea Tar Pits we were running up and down the hill that was a lot of fun.  We then walk to the other side of the building towards the entrance.  When we walked we saw a movie it was a “Sneak Peak” at what we were going to see during our visit.  After the movie ended our guide came and let us out into the Museum.

We first looked at the Harlan’s ground sloth.   We discovered that it was six feet high.  We also learned that it was an herbivore.   Next we learn about Bison and how it mostly ran away from predators and actually fighting them.   We also learned about the Saber Tooth cat, American Lion, Columbian Mammoth, and the Camel.   Finally, we walked to Tar Pit 91 it is the only Tar Pit that they still find bones in.  

Before leaving the Tar Pits we had a chance to go the Gift Shop and purchase some souvenirs.  Afterwards we all went to McDonalds and most of us ate Fish-O-Fillet.  Finally everyone headed to the cars and drove back to St. Timothy School.  When arrived at school we went to our Physical Education class with Coach Beloz.   We had an accident occur and someone accidentally fell on the floor and they had blood on their knees.    Meanwhile we played a nice game of pitcher’s hand.  Finally we were ready to go home.   Another complete and exciting day at St. Timothy School came to an end.