Last Week

Hi my name is Kaleb and I am here to talk about last week. Last week was pretty fun for all the students of Igiugig because we had a Valentine's Day Dinner at the Igiugig School. All the girls got dressed up and were servers while the boys were either working in the store or being cheese boys. The parents made spaghetti in the kitchen and it was really, really good. We ate spaghetti and all the workers got to eat free. While we were eating, we got to watch the love movie Lady and the Tramp. The dinner went untill 7:30pm because no one watched it.

Kaleb and Caleb working in the student store.

Andrew sturing spaghetti.

Mr. Creepy being creepy.

The spaghetti crew   in a picture.

Andrew crying because he got fired.

Andrew feels better now and is holding Erika.

The second thing that was fun this week was skyping with some of the kids in Boston. They asked a lot of questions which was good because they probably learned a lot about us and I know we did as well. I think we should do it every week at least once, but that's up to the teachers, not me. Our kids can't wait to meet them in Boston.

Well that's all for this week. For more come back and read our blog in two weeks--next week is spring break! Good bye.

Battles & Slumber Parties!

Hi we are Kaylee, Kiara and Benise, we are Team Party Rock in 2nd grade battle of the books.

We won our first battle! Each battle has 16 questions, we had three battles! We got tired of all those battles! FFEEWWEEE. Our other Battle Book teams were Team Keil, the BOB cats, Team Wolverine and Dolly Ann. We battled on Skype, it was really fun.

After all the battles were done we had a spend the night at the school. We had lots of snacks and we played lots of games. On the second movie we passed out. We watched Mr. Poppers Penguins and Narnia. We played lots of games, like dodgeball, ghost in the graveyard and capture the flag- WHOLE SCHOOL!

In dodgeball Benise was the only one left, Andrew called, "pass over the ball" and when Benise did Kaleb caught it and we lost.

We also play wii, Mario and Star Wars and we set up the mats and we slept on the mats. We were going crazy until Andrew said, "Settle down and watch a movie, and relax."

Kaylee and Dolly under a blanket

The wild Caleb, hatching his eggs

Josephine sleepyhead

Kiara drinking her popcorn

Dodgeball

Andrew being crazy

Everyone Gaming

Team Party Rock, rocking a battle.

BOB cats

Team Wolverine

Mr. Keil

This past week & Battle Books madness!

The student government is hosting a movie night tonight at 6:00 there will be snacks, drinks and much more...

We also had a LSAC meeting at the school with Andrew and some parents of Igiugig, at the meeting we give a report about what we are doing in student government and Andrew gives one about school.

Dolly Ann also won her Battle of the Books Competition, she got 39 points.

The other kids are in battle of the books and battle on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  Here are som pictures of them practicing:

 3rd and 4th grade team Kaleb, Jolynn and Katelyn.

 Look at all of those practice questions!

 Caleb writng answers

 Coach Hill quizzing 1st and 2nd graders

 Keilan reading

Kaylee reading

Fishing for Water and Writing Poems

By: Charmaine A.S. and Josephine D.

This week we got fresh water for the fish from the lake, twice. 

 Keilan W bringing water to the tote.

 Walking back to the truck.

 Charmaine A.S bringing water to the tote.

 Katelyn G on the 4-Wheeler, and Benise T walking back to get in line for water.

 Standing in line.

Caleb D bringing water to the tote.

We also wrote Cinquains. First, we started off with writing about animals. It didn't take us long to figure out which animals we wanted to write about. I think we wrote them in less than 15 minutes. (The poems aren't very long, they're only 5 lines.) Then we wrote on about ourselves.

Here's an example of one that Kiara N wrote:

Kiara

Smart, funny

Running, jumping, exercising

Jumping in the water

Helper

There are also four new students at Igiugig School this semester! Bobby G he's in kindergarten, Katelyn G Bobby's sister, she's in the 3rd grade, Josephine D In the 9th grade, and Charmaine A.S in the 10th grade. 

Blankets, Movies, & Eggs

Hi.  This is Benise and Dolly.
 We have been making blankets and also we have been making a movie, and a lot of eggs have hatched.

The blankets are made out of fleece.  The whole class is making them for the Christmas Bazaar.  They are colorful and warm.  We make them by tying knots and we have to do a lot of cutting.  Well, we first lay down the fabrics and line them up until they are both even. Then we cut the four corners out and then start cutting fringes out on all the sides about 1 inch.  Then start knotting. 

Laying out the fabrics

Knotting my favorite blanket

All of the blankets that are done

Benise & Kaylee knotting blankets

Andrew helping Dolly cut

 Our movie that we are making is only going to be about 15 minutes. We have made and came up with the whole movie. We didn't use any script, we made it all up and made the movie from all our ideas. We filmed outside and inside and we came up with the costumes and made the props. The movie is a secret so you have to come to our Bazaar to see what it is about!

Betsey making lights

Kiara the artist

Keilan trying on high heals

Kiara, Bense, & Kaylee helping out on props

Well, the eggs are silver salmons, also known as coho. A lot of eggs have hatched and many have died. We are out getting clean water for them almost every other day.  Right now they are called alevin, they have a yoke sack and they have not yet grown fins.  

The eggs when they first got here

The class watching them hatch

Keilan eying the eggs

Aiden showing the eggs