We're going green!

At the beginning of our narrative unit, we planted seeds. We made the committment that we would water and love these seeds into big, beautiful plants. This would encourage us to keep polishing and refining our seed pieces until they were big, beautiful stories. Many of our flower seeds didn't make it, but we discovered by pure accident that pinto beans will grow into tall, beautiful plants when nestled into dirt with a little water. Here are some of the plants that are growing in our room.

We love our donors!

This fall, Ms. Bennett wrote a grant on www.donorschoose.org to fund a book study on Dr. Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea. The grant totaled over $800. Our grant was fully funded and our books have already arrived! The students are very eager to learn about this part of the world and to study the story of how Mortenson used schools to provide these young people with an opportunity for a better life. Our furthest donation came from Norway, and our largest came from a Sonic in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In all, we had 13 donors. We love and say thank you to them all!

Planting Our Seeds

At the beginning of the school year, our classes practiced writing techniques and began filling their writer's notebooks with many different ideas. A few weeks ago, we chose one of these short writings to be our "seed piece." We discussed how as a class, we would grow these pieces into long, beautiful stories that were ready to be published in our class book, the same way that one would love and nurture a seed into a big, beautiful plant. To help remind us why we are working so hard as we write each day, we each planted a seed into our own, personally decorated "flower pots." It is our hope that as our stories develop, we will watch our plants develop and grow.

Blaine Martin's 25 books

Mrs.Frisby and the rats of NIMH

Mrs.Frisby,a field mouse gets help from a community of super intelligent rats to move her house out of the way of Mr.fitzgibbons plow.

Heather Goldens 25 book list

Eragon
By: Christaphe Paolini

Eragon a boy of 15 finds a beutiful blue stone in the Spinee (its a forest most people are scared to death of). But later the stone he finds out is not a stonebut an egg. And inside the egg is a dragon wich changes the boys life for ever. His uncle gets murdered by the Rasec. They were on a frantic such for the egg. When Eragon found the house in ruins he also found his uncle mostly dead. Then later his uncle dies and then Eragon met Brom.togeather with Saphera( the dragon) they trail the Rasec but the Rasec find them first.and they murder Brom. Eragon is saved by Murtaugh and together with the dragon venture to the Vardon. alot more happends but to find out what you need to read the book.

New moon

by; Stephanie Meyer

Edward leaves Bella. Bella hangs out with Jacob. Alice comes back to get Bella to save Edward(he thought that she was dead). Bella saves Edward. They go home.

Mauricio Alvarez's 25 books

The Fallen

Martin Luna is a 16 year old boy who is in real trouble with his mom. school, and his friends. Hector the guy who killed Marttins brother. He has to stop frankie the toughest guy around from commiting the biggest crime of his life.

ZORRO

El Zorro is the "super hero" of old old El paso.He and his Girlfriend Maria go on heroic adventures to save El paso.

ZORRO THE MARKED AVENGER

Zorro is back with new adventures and enemy's,Pedro the man who's been terrorising El paso for years has cme to an end.Zorro also finds the killer of his father.

Juan F Adame's 25 books

Albino animals

In this book it showed how some animals were albino and how some were not . If you remove an axolotl's eyes and then put them back they will be able to use them again in weeks. An albino penguin has to live in a building that has sprinklers to waddle since they can't go out to the sun.