I glanced out my window and a polar bear was in my yard...

Here is another blog worthy post from author #7. The students were supposed to finish the story about a polar bear in their yard. #7's story goes like this:

I was in my room upstairs, and I glanced out my window and saw a polar bear. At first I was scared to go out again, but once I realized it was friendly I wasn't scared anymore. I got to ride on his back and played fun, cool games.

If I started to get cold he would warm me up by giving me a warm hug. I would also take him on walks when he had a lot of energy. When my mom said, "Time to take him to the zoo", I was sad. I told him I would always come and visit him whenever I could.



Extra Credit Questions:



1. What level of the house was I in?



2. When I got cold what would the polar bear do?



3. How do you think I could tell it was a friendly bear?



4. When I took him to the zoo what do you think I would do to see him again?

Extra Credit and Rice!

Room 205 recently read a book entitled Everybody Cooks Rice by Norah Dooley.

In the story, a brother and sister go around from house to house in their neighborhood and sample all kinds of rice. As they go to each house, they realize that Everybody Cooks Rice.

As we made connections to this story, we realized that our classmates also have a number of ways their families cook rice. How does your family cook rice?

If you would like to share your family tradition with our class, please feel free to bring in just enough rice for each student to have one taste. We would love to expand our horizons and learn more about the diverse cultural traditions within our classroom community!

Social Studies Extra Credit Opportunities

Opportunity #1: Students may submit up to five items for our class' Regions Scrapbook. Students should bring in a picture (one that we can keep) or draw a picture of a place they have been. The picture should include a caption that describes the region/location and characteristics of that place. They should tell how the land or climate of that region effects life there. We will compile each scrapbook item into a class book to help us learn more about our country's regions.



Opportunity #2: Students may read about two letters in the book D is for Democracy and write a summary of the content. This one must be done at school because I have checked the book out from the library.

Please encourage your student to take advantage of this opportunity to raise his or her S/S grade! The last day to turn in this Chapter 2 Extra Credit is this Thursday, October 1st.

Word of the Day Week 3

Room 205 is becoming quite skilled at using our words of the day! Below you will find this week's words:

• tuition
• tamper
• flourish
• vigorous

Can you use any of these words in a sentence? Do you know what part of speech they are? Do you want extra credit?...Answer these questions if you do!