Good-bye Miss Oberste!

Today was Miss Oberste's last day of student teaching. We wish her all the best in her teaching career! We will miss her!

Family Reading Night!

Last night we had "Family Reading Night" funded by a grant from Target. Everyone had a great time and every child went home with a new book!! A special thank you to all my helpers who helped make it a huge success! It was lots of fun!! Thanks to all who participated!

Play-Doh Landforms

By: Chloe

We've been studying landforms in Social Studies. We made Play-Doh landforms. Each kid at a table got a thing of Play-Doh. The whole table combined their Play-Doh. We tried to make as many landforms as we could. All the table's landforms turned out to look really cool. Everybody had a very fun time. Here are some of the landforms we made: a desert, ocean, and a mesa. It was really fun and I hope I do something like that again.

What Do Chicks Look Like in Their Shell?

By: Ian

I have more news about the chicks! Apparently, they're duds. On the bright side, I asked Ms. Iten if I could take them home and crack them open! So, after school, I went to her classroom and picked six eggs. The first one was not interesting, or the second, or the third, all the way up to the fifth. But, the sixth egg actually had a dead bird! It's a good thing I was patient.

Chicks!

By: Micaela

We got our chicks in the afternoon, Ms. Iten surprised us. We got four of them. The Rock and Roll Funky Monkeys named their chick Julio Speedy Ricardo. The Spirit Tribe named theirs Chocolate Chip Cookie, Cookie, for short. The Brain Glides named theirs Peeper Loud. The Fireballs named theirs Puff Ball, Puff, for short. Julio is brown with black on the back. Cookie is all light brown. Peeper is all yellow. Puff is dark brown with white stripes on the back. I think everyone enjoyed it!

M & M Fractions

By: Angela

Yesterday we did M & M fractions with Miss Oberste. First we each got a small packet of M & M's. Then we sorted them into colors. We graphed them, then made fractions such as, however many of one color over however many M & M's you have. We traded results with a partner. I think it helped us because we had a visual. Afterward, we got to eat our M & M's. It was very fun.

Board Game!

By: Gio M.

Last week Miss Oberste taught us how to play a game. You had to have a board and a tile and this is how you play. You play on the board and you do numbers like 1,2,5,10,0. If you get the answer right you get to slide the tile and try to get it on a number besides zero. But if it falls off, it is a negative two. It was really, really fun!

Ms. Iten's Eggs!

By: Ian B.

Ms. Iten’s third grade class is taking care of chick eggs! We got the eggs on Wednesday, April 1st. We candled them and saw nothing, that’s because the embryos haven’t started developing. We will candle them again next week.

We just candled them and we saw something. “There’s a crack!” Never mind, Ms. Iten says it just dirt. The chicks should hatch soon. I have to wrap it up, so bye!

A New Student Teacher In Ms. Iten's Third Grade

By Olivia

On March 2, 2009, a TU college student teacher came to St. Pius. Her name is Miss Oberste. She will stay for two months. Her favorite color is blue and her favorite candy is M&M's. She went to school here and was in 8th grade when Ms. Iten taught her sister Maggie. She is nice and pretty. We all love her.

Lent

By Cade

For Religion class we are doing a project about Jesus. Each person in our class put a thorn in his crown. If we do a good thing, we can take out a thorn. We want to take out all the thorns before Easter.

Project Linus

By Estefania

Project Linus was so fun, we got to sew, cut, and tie. We made twenty-one blankets. Each of us got to make at least one or two blankets. We even had a partner so we could help each other. The best thing is that we made twenty-one blankets!

Eagles

By Celyn

We have been watching eagles and their eggs. Sometimes we see the eggs when they switch to get food. And, eagles were almost extinct. Once there was a bag in the nest. Eagles only live in some places.

http://tulsaworld.com/eaglecam

Email Pals

By Isabella

We have email pals at a Catholic school in Toledo, OH. They sent us an email first, then Ms. Iten read it to us. They said they liked a game called Top-It. We didn't know what that game was so we wrote them back and asked what it was and how to play it. They haven't answered us yet. They are fun to write to and hear from.

Talent Show

By Jack

Our school had a talent show. Our class did a line dance. We had lots of practice. Some people were nervous, some weren't. Some people in our class did their own, even our principal did one! Eighth grade was so funny! Everyone had a spectacular time at the talent show.

Talent

By Lauren B.

In January, Mrs. Staurovsky and Mrs. Schoeling came to help us learn a line dance that Ms. Iten learned at one of her workshops. We did our dance to "Me and My Gang." One of our favorite moves was the John Travolta move! We had a lot of fun doing it!!! Then we performed it for Catholic Schools Week!

Blog Break is Over

I took a break from the blog during the busy holiday season, but I'll start posting again.

Yesterday I went to "Hands-On Science Boot Camp" hosted by Steve Spangler. He is such an inspiring teacher. I am very excited to try out some of the new things I learned! http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/

The workshop was held at the Oklahoma Museum of Science in Oklahoma City. I was really impressed with the new updates to the facility. I had not been there in several years and I noticed several improvements. One new addition is their "Science Live" show. It is very entertaining as well as educational. If you're looking for a family day trip, I recommend the museum! http://www.sciencemuseumok.org/