The View From Saturday by SD917

This amazing book was written by E.L. Konigsburg. It tells about four children: Noah - who happened to be best man at Ethan and Nadia's grandparents' wedding; Ethan - the silent one who likes Nadia; Nadia - the red headed turtle loving girl who has a genius dog; and Julian - the wierdest person on the bus. Julian invites Noah, Nadia, and Ethan to a tea party. Mrs. Olinski is thier teacher. Shewas in an automobile accident so she is a paraplegic. She is the one sho started everything.

Arbor Day

by CB812

It was Arbor day last Friday, April 24th. We went on a field trip downtown. When we were downtown there was food, stands, and scavenger hunt. There scavenger hunt was where you had to find green slips on the trees. For food there was hot dogs, corn on the cob, chips, and pop. It was the best field trip yet.

by CM923

Arbor Day was so fun and we got delicious hot dogs and buttered corn on the cob with soda. They had stations you could go to and some of them had stuff for you. One gave you a energy saving light bulb and another gave you part of a small tree. Then they had awards for the poster contest. The grand prize was your art gets to be in a calendar. Mayor Brade handed them out to the winners. Then my group went to look for Smokey the Bear. At the end of the day we got trees and went home.

How to Eat Fried Worms by ER1212

In class we just finished a book called How to Eat Fried Worms. This book is about a boy named Billy who makes a bet with his friend Joe that he can eat 15 worms in 15 days for 50 bucks. to buy a minibike. Then guess what he does? During the he gets tricked by eating fake worms made out of beans and at a baseball game he gets home late and stuffed so he won't be hungry enough to eat the worms! Pretty sneaky huh?

This book teaches you to never give up, not eat worms, and bets are bad. You should read this book because I liked it all and you should too.

Morning Run

by AC929

You know some kids just like to be lazy and never want to be active. They jsut want to stay home and watch tv and play video games all day long. So that's why there is a morning run so kids can be strong and stay healthy and get active. So now you never have to stay in and be lazy and eat junk food all the time. Wake early, eat some healthy food and go straight to the morning run. Do four or three laps.

byNE58

The morning run is a run that is supposed to help us with a phy. ed that we do every year. If you run 2 laps every day than you get a blue star award at the end of the year. If you run 3+ laps every day than you get a gold star award at the end of the year. Sometimes you can get over 4 laps but that is usually not for the whole year. And if you did 0 laps I don't think you get anything! I think the mile run is real fun because I like to run.

Recorder Belts by BM1018

Hi, I'm BM1018 from Miss H's world famous 4th grade class and I'm going to talk to you about recorder belts. I hope you know what a recorder is.
For all of you yahoos out there who are thinking what are recorder belts - that is what I am going to tell you.
Recorder belts are kinda like Karate belts. You get one when you complete a song on the recorder. There is a red, white, yellow, green, and blue belt. When you get all of those you get a black packet with a bunch of songs. You have to play all of those to get a black belt. There's a couple more belts but they're hard to get.
This has been BM1018 reporting in on recorder belts.

Test Taking Tips by KP614

Steps When You are taking a Test

• Eat a good breakfast and get a good night's sleep
• Read all questions carefully
• HUM - Highlight the main idea, Underline the supporting details, write notes in the Margins
• Good readers read like writers and good writers write like readers.
• Double check your work
• Ask yourself "What do I already know?"
• Eliminate wrong answers
• Chewing gum reduces stress and mint stimulates the brain
• Know your math facts
• Preview the questions
• If you get stuck, skip the question and come back to it later
• Refer back to the passage
• Use pracitce materials on Miss H's website
• Drink water - its good for the brain
• Take a stretch break
• Use context clues
• Don't give up

Visit from Congressman Walz

by CB1127

Tim Walz is a congressman. He spoke at Bamber Valley. Tim Walz worked at Mankato high school and was born in West Point, Nebraska. About every week he commutes to Washington D.C. He said quote "My concern is the limited amount of resources." I think it was cool hearing from a politician.

by ER1212

On April 9th, 2009 our class got to go to an assembly and meet Tim Walz! During the assembly a fifth grader asked what his basic routine was and he said that he gets up at 6:00am. At 6:30 he goes to the gym, at 7:30 he reads ALL of the newspapers from southern Minnesota (including Rochester) on the computer and at about 8:30 he goes to meetings for the rest of the day.

Then, listen to this, he taught school in China and there are NO left handed students in China. And the Chinese people have not heard of fortune cookies! Mr. Walz also taught 4th, 6th, 11th, and 12th grades in Mankato, MN.