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.

Viviana Reyes's 25 book list

Where the red fern grows
By: Willson Rawls

In the story a kid named Billy buy these dogs from a newspaper or magazine and they are two hound dogs.He names them Dan and Ann. Those dogs are so close that were ever Dan goes Ann goes with him too. Those dog go out at night and look for racoons.One time they went to a racoon contest and they had to find the most racoon out of everyone. So they were off to a good start but their were two racoons they could not catch. But a blood hound attacked Dan and Ann but Dan fell in a water fall and Ann went in to save Dan.Even though they did not get alot of raccons they still won the contest and Dan was ok. So Billy was happy.They also won alot of money.But at the end Ann and Dan die so Billy burries them in a shoe box and a little red fern grows in between them. Billy asks his mom why did a red fern grow in between them and she said because ""They were so close to each other". Their was a story about a little indian and a girl and they were so close to each other and a red fern growed between them when they died.