Weekly Update 10/4/12

We hope you like our blog this week!  This pyramid shows that we all work together, even though it was a little painful.:)

Bottom:  Alex S., Cecelia, Ben

Middle:  Claire, Kayce

Top:  Morgan

 Morgan, Claire, Kayce, Ben, Alex S.

Front:  Cecelia

After blogging today, Mrs. Ziegenfuss took us to Mrs. Kirr's 7th grade classroom to play the cardboard games her students created for the Cardboard Challenge.  The games were really creative and fun!

Ben and Alex S. playing a ball toss game

Ben and Alex S. playing a cool foosball game complete with lights.
Can you see Ben's face peeking through the other end of the game? 

Morgan, Cecelia, Kayce, and Claire playing a timed color matching game

 We are having so much fun working in our community projects!  Right now we are researching our topics to get ideas.  Here are some of the things we're doing to help others:

Providing necessities to a homeless shelter

Annie, Patrycja, Emilia, Jackie, and Cassy

Collecting toys and supplies for animals at Kay's Animal Shelter

Cecelia, Morgan, Kayce, and Claire

Designing a nonviolent video game

Michael B., Henry, Jack S., Connor

Giving toys and treats to needy dogs

Ziran, Nathan W., Ben, Michael P.

Providing warm clothing for people

Michael K., Colin, Ben, William

Making crafts and selling them to elementary school kids to raise money to protect wildlife

Devin, Keatyn, Isabel (Owen not pictured)

Collecting new and used sports equipment for kids who can't afford it

Trey, Rocco, Matt, Jack B.

Organizing an intramural tournament to promote fitness

Paul, Alex Y., Sean

Helping prevent bullying 

Om, Alex S., Tyler

(Nathan H. not pictured)

Providing art supplies for kids who don't have them

Emma, Rhea, Carol, Lorie, Veronica

In science we made an online poster in Glogster about shadows, light, and mirrors.  Ben learned that diamonds are translucent, transparent, and opaque, too.  Alex S. learned that water is all three, too.  When water is in its liquid form it's translucent, when it's a solid it's opaque, and when it's a gas, it's transparent.  

Emilia working on her project

Kayce making her Glogster

In LA we wrote stories about superheroes saving the day, using our "ject" root words.  We also illustrated our stories.  Here are three of our favorites:

by Devin

by Michael B.

by Annie

 In Advisory today we had a special assembly with BMX biker Matt Wilhelm.  We not only saw him do cool tricks, but we also learned what it was like for him to be bullied.  He told us that if we saw someone being bullied, we should speak up and not be bystanders.  He also told us to never give up on our dreams.

We all had fun watching the tricks.

This is the great Matt Willhelm.

Matt doing a trick called the "tornado" that he did on "America's Got Talent:"

Matt jumped over our gym teachers, Ms. Renno and Mr. Craig, and luckily didn't injure them.