Teacher News

Summer Vacation is here!!
We had a really fine year.  I appreciate all the work parents did to ensure that we had plenty of funding for our end of the year trip to New York City.  It was a great experience for all of us.  Thanks also to the parents who accompanied us and enjoyed the [...]

NYC trip~~~~~~~~~ by Charlie

My group on the trip was me and Kai. Our chaperone was my dad.  My dad was also kind of a leader of the whole trip.  The reason he was that was because he knows his way around because he lives in the city.  On the trip we took a boat to Ellis Island and [...]

New York City(Ferry) Johnny

When we went to Ellis Island we took a ferry. My group was Mr. Riley, PJ, Cameron, and me. The weather was windy and  it was raining. when  gat to the first  stop statue of liberty we stay for a while. After that we went to Ellis Island are destination. It was awesome!!!!

New York City
In New York City, I had a lot of fun. Whoops, sorry. A Ton of Fun! It was SOOOOOOOO Cool! And, since it was my first time going to the Big Apple, that made it all the better! We got to go to 2 really good places to tour: Ellis Island and The [...]

:) NYC trip——————-leanne :)

The ferry to Ellis Island was rough because it rained all day! I was soaking wet all day and I forgot to bring spare batteries for my camera and I forgot my umbrella!!  When we stopped at Liberty Island I had to switch my batteries around in my camera even though I had a matter [...]

NYC TRIP -ellis island and the american museum of natural history—- gIAninA

June 18! June 18! the trip is on June 18! It’s our only one, awesome trip! We went on Ellis Island and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)!!!  On Ellis Island, we went to see the GREAT HALL, which is not so “big and great”.   Then we went to see the inspection rooms, [...]

NYC-Ellis Island-and Ferry——————————–Lillian

“Come on, let’s go up!” my dad said for the fourth time.
“Oh, fine, let me see if Sarah, Maggie, and Eleanor want to, while we are stopped.”
We were on the ferry (going to Ellis Island) and while the boat was “parked” in front of the Statue of Liberty we decided to go on the roofless [...]

Teacher News

All the details for our departure on Thursday seem to be working out well.
Thank you to all the parents who have done so much to work out the seemingly never ending details!
We have a wealth of chaperones – some traveling on the bus with us and some meeting us in NYC.  We’ll be placing our [...]

Guest Speaker ——- Isabel

Today, Lillian’s dad, Ed, came into our classroom.  He talked for a long time about slavery in the U.S.  He’s an historian, and he had a slideshow for us with lots of drawings of slaves working and being sold.  He also passed out photos of documents about a slave that was being sold.  They were [...]

Everest ——- Maggie

As a class literature group we are reading a book in the Everest series.  It is called, The Climb.  It is about four kids who are trying to make it up to the top of the world, AKA climb to the top of Mount Everest.  Some are doing it because they want to be famous, [...]