our amarylis bulb after 4 weeks...

Our amaryllis after 4 weeks now is 40cm high
and is flopping over so we put a ruler under it. Our bud is 4cm wide and 28cm tall! Surprisingly the amaryllis hasn't been knocked over yet! I can't wait till the flower comes!

                  by:Rylan

Christmas Concert

This week at school we had a Christmas Concert it was fun. We sang Follow the Star, Christmas Rush and we Wish you a Merry Christmas. My favorite  was One Two Three Four Five Six Seven feet of Snow. There was a bake sale my mom made snow man cup cakes for half and the ether one was melted white chocolate cheep  and with green icing.


By Ayden

Our Amarylis Bulb After 2 Weeks....

It has been two weeks since we planted our Amarylis bulb.  It was 3 cm to start.  The first week, it grew 2 cm, this week it grew 3 cm, and now it is 8cm.  The plant now has 4 leaves.  Last week, it only had 3 leaves, and when we planted it, it had 2 leaves.  One of the leaves has a cut in it from someone playing with it.  We water it once a week.  We put a rock in it to decorate it.  We think it is growing fast.  Someone measures it every day.

Our Amarylis Bulb

Today we planted an Amarylis bulb.  It is like a really big seed.  It is 14 cm tall and 8 cm across.  It is shaped like Cady's pear (but a little bigger, and the pear is tastier) and a lightbulb.  The little stem is smooth like an onion. It is brown and green. It has layers like an onion.  It has roots on the bottom.   It is going to grow into a plant with red flowers.

Our Predictions:
Hana thinks the stem will grow in 60 days, that there will be 2 blooms in 69 days and they will open into a flower in 70 days.
Lexys thinks the stem will grow in 10 days, that there will be 3 blooms in 12 days and they will open into a flower in 16 days.
 Devron thinks the stem will grow in 6 days, that there will be 2 blooms in 1 week and they will open into a flower in 2-3 weeks.
 Ethan thinks the stem will grow in 7 days, that there will be 2 blooms in 14 days and they will open into a flower in 30 days.
Hayden thinks the stem will grow in 10 days, that there will be 2 blooms in 20 days and they will open into a flower in 30 days.
Ayden thinks the stem will grow in 4 days, that there will be 7 blooms in 8 days and they will open into a flower in 9 days.
Tineka thinks the stem will grow in 8 days, that there will be 6 blooms in 11 days and they will open into a flower in 19 days.
Lacie thinks the stem will grow in 7 days, that there will be 2 blooms in 20 days and they will open into a flower in 30 days.
Carlos thinks the stem will grow in 1 day, that there will be 3 blooms in 2 days and they will open into a flower in 4 days.
Cady thinks the stem will grow in 10 days, that there will be 13 blooms in 11 days and they will open into a flower in 15 days.
Nick thinks the stem will grow in 9 days, that there will be 2 blooms in 9 days and they will open into a flower in 3


days.

TWAS

Last week at school we had a spirit week.  On Monday it was pajama day.  Almost all of us wore our pajamas, it was really nice to not get dressed in the morning.  On Tuesday it was injury and sports day.  Lots of the injuries sure looked real!  On Wednesday it was partner twin day!  Hana, Nick and Hayden dressed up like their stuffies, Devron, Lexys, Tineka and some people from other classes all dressed in black, Ethan, Rylan and Ayden all dressed in white shirts and blue jeans. Lacie, her sister and lots of the teachers had anti bullying shirts on.  On Thursday it was costume day.  Ethan dressed up as Spiderman, Carlos and Nick were the Scream, Hayden was a Jedi.  Ayden was a storm trooper, Rylan was Mini Me, Devron was a gypsy, Lexys was a musketeer, Tineka and Cadance were a vampire, Lacie was a witch, Hana was Pocahontas and Mrs Johnston was a ninja turtle.  On Wednesday we did pumpkin math,  We had to weigh them, measure the height and circumference.  We also counted the seeds and graphed them.    We carved out pumpkins then wrote about what they looked like, felt like and smelled like.  It was lots of fun.  On Thursday we had our Because of Winn Dixie party. First we prepared for it by decorating.  We put up streamers, dog pictures and candles in our pumpkins.  (in the book the candles were in brown pape
r bags)   We watched the movie.  During the movie we had the same snack that they had in their party in the book.  The snacks were egg salad sandwiches, pickles, Litimus lozenges and Dump punch.  We added peanut butter sandwiches because Winn Dixie loved peanut butter.  The movie was really good.  We had lots of favorite parts.
 PS.  Thank you to all the families that supplied our treats and pumpkins!

The Scream!

The Scream is a series of four pictures by Edvard Munch.  It sold for $120million in an auction  It had warm colors in the sky, cool colors in the water, and neutral colors for the bridge and island.  We painted  a copy of this picture..  We took a picture of us pretending to scream, printed it out in black and white and put it on the picture.  It looks nice.  The pictures of us screaming are a little creepy. We also wrote about what scares us.  This is what scares us:  Lexys' closet, Ethan was spiders,  Nick was dogs, Hana was snakes, Rylan was not passing hockey try outs, Tineka was rats, Lacie was wolves, Hayden was bears, Ayden was leeches, Cadance was dolls and Carlos was spiders.

Colorful Changes

We did an experiment this week.  We put one flower in red water, one flower in blue water and we cut one flower's stem in the middle and put it in both.  We did the same with celery. After 2 days the celery and flower in blue, changed to blue.  The half and half celery changed half reddy-brown and half blue, when we broke the celery in half it looked like there were veins or little wires going through it with the color.  We broke the half and half flower's stem but 3-4E's flower was half pink and half blue.  The red celery changed to pink and the flower was very

light pink.

PS.  We also went on a hike this week to look at plants and animals living in soil and we saw a beaver!!!!  Our teacher was afraid it would bite us!!

 (so was Cadance!!)

 

T.W.A.S. (this week at school)

This week at school we had an artist writing stories with us.  Her name is Margaret Shaw-McKinnon and she is an illustrator and writer.  The books she wrote were Pod the Wood Elf, the Beechnut and Tikalia.  The first day she told us about herself and read Pod The Wood Elf.  She was 18 when she wrote Pod the Wood Elf. The second day we practiced drawing 6 faces that showed emotions.  The emotions were happy, sad, mad, jealous, in love and laughing your head off.  Then we started to brainstorm for our story.  We decided to write an animal story with a horse, a dog and a villain pig.  Each day we wrote and illustrated 1-2 pages of our story.  Each page had a different emotion, for example page 1 was happy, page 2 was sad and so on.  We didn't do jealous.  The last day we made a title page.  Here is our story:

By 3-4J