Sharing our wagons and stories with our buddies!

Sharing our wagons and stories with our buddies!

Buddies share their wagon stories.

Noa, Wendy and Parker tell the class the story of their wagon.

Alex discusses the wagon he, Evelina and Grace created.

Walker checks out the contents of a wagon.

Our Oregon Trail museum!

Reading some of our Oregon Trail diaries.

Evelina and Tati check out one of the class prairie schooners.

The inside of Lizzy, Julia and Patrick's wagon.

Our Trip to Green-Wood Cemetery!

The students saw and discussed some amazing sculptures and memorials during our trip to Green-Wood on March 11th.  Please look at some of the photos that Alex's mom took during the trip.

I love these wagons!

Taking the trolley to Green-Wood!

Looking at the founder of the ASPCA's monument.

Steve shows us the etchings on the monument on Dewitt Clinton's grave.

Steve explains the tradition of leaving baseballs by this gravestone.

"Authentically" aged journal pages.

Staining our Oregon Trail journals.

Wagon making!

Alex made a bunk bed for his group's wagon.

Parker and Noa craft items for their wagon.

Wendy is making people for her group's wagon.

Cutting fabric for our wagons.

Read -a- Thon Winners

Congratulations, Class 5-307! You read SO many minutes.  In fact, you read the most minutes in the whole school.   And congratulations to Noa for reading over 5,000 minutes and reading the most minutes in the 5th grade!

Read-a-Thon Winners:
3-5th, congrats to Noa - 5-307

Winning classes that will get to read to Principal Havlik are:

PK -110 - with 3,306 minutes
K-109 - won with 6571 minutes
1-202 - won with 6,374 minutes
2-207 won with 7,399 minutes
3-304 won with 30,168 minutes
4-303 won with 28,600 minutes
5-307 won with 48,451 minutes