Sunday News

Today Isabel was feeling tired and worn down (growing spurt!) and didn’t want to spend time outside. So she rested on the sofa and made her own newspaper and coupon. Enjoy!

2013-06-02 002_edited-1Newspaper for Sunday.
Weather: sunny with white clouds and blue sky.
funny news: A girl trains her dog (who is ten years old!) to b a working dog by putting 2 treats in a bag and putting it up to her dog’s nose. the dog smelt it and put her nose in the bag!

 BTW, there is more to the “funny news” but she ran out of paper!

2013-06-02 003_edited-1(coupon) Planting: Do you like flowers? Do you like planting? Use this free coupon to get one of these 3 types of flowers! daisys violets roses

Hair Book

Isabel made this awesome hair book last week before we went on vacation but then she took it to school (to show her friends) before I could get photos of it. She brought it home yesterday after school so I grabbed it before it disappeared again. Enjoy!

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Hair Book
by Isabel Espinoza
(outside front cover)

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Page 1: all hair gathered together into side braids.

Page 2: all hair is gathered into small sections and made into long braids down the back.
(the “X’s” mean to braid the hair)

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Page 3: long hair divided into small sections and then gathered, bent in half and pinned (with barrette’s) to top of head.

Page 4: long braid down back of head.

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Page 5: all (long) hair gathered to top of head and secured into a pony tail and a bow added.

Page 6: most of the hair gathered (except for one section) and braided down the back. The loose section is just loose along the side of the head.

When I asked her if she only did long hair, she had to stop and think a minute. Then went to finish her book with a few pages for people with short hair.

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Page 7: short hair curled
(she asked me to teach her how to use rollers!)

Page 8: short (or long) hair curled on the ends only.

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Page 9: short (or long) hair straight (no accessories).

Page 10: short (or long) hair small amount of hair gathered on side of head and a bow added.

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Outside back cover: Cool Style Hair

She has “used” her “Hair Book, Cool Style Hair” book on me once. I told her to surprise me with a style of her choosing. She did a new style that wasn’t even added to the book. I think a sequel is in the making…

First Grade: Day 167 – Half Day

Today is Fantastic Friday! Today is a half day for teacher in-service.

Today Isabel’s class had P.E. with the other first grade class AND the second grade class! That’s a lot of kids in the gym! They played “sharks and minnows” and “clean the yard“. They also did a few running laps around the gym.

They had one recess and then school was out at noon.

We also had a fire drill and I got to see Isabel in passing. My class did a great job following in line and keeping still and quite for several minutes during the drill. Most of the kids get a bit scared when the alarm goes off.

My class also had “Dad’s and Doughnuts“. We invited Dad’s to share doughnuts with their kids and then the kids gave their dad a gift that they made. We had a great time and 100% participation! It was so awesome to see Dad’s in the classroom.

Classwork…

Not much work was done today since it was only a half day. There are only 2 weeks and 2 days of school left in our school year for Isabel. I will be completed with my Preschool class on Friday of next week! Looking forward to summer!

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Complete the sentences with the best word.

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100% on her Bible verse this week.

First Grade: Day 166

Today is Thankful Thursday and it’s P.E. with Mrs. S.

Today’s P.E. class was cancelled due to the Preschool/Kindergarten Teddy Bear Picnic in the gym. So the class got an extra recess and extra computer lab time. Isabel liked the extra recess time best.

Classwork…

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Front: read the story and complete the sentences.
Someone spelled “sandwitch” wrong?

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Back: circle the word that matches the picture.

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Front: math work for today.

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Middle: more math work.

2013-05-30 005_edited-1Back: more math work.

New Melon

Last night we cut open our mystery melon and enjoyed it’s great flavor.

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Do you know what type of melon this is????

It’s not a honeydew.

It’s not a cantaloupe.

It’s not a casaba.

It’s not a crenshaw.

It’s a…

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Sharlyn melon!
Have you heard of it? We haven’t.

A Sharlyn melon tastes like a cantaloupe and a honeydew combined! It has a texture of vanilla ice cream so there is no need to chew, it’s creamy and smooth! You can eat all the way down to the outer rind. We all enjoyed it’s great taste and smooth cool texture.

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The seeds were all grouped together. Very clean inside this melon.

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Scooping them out was easy!

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They stayed together even after we picked them up a few times.

This special melon is a great “treat” during the summer. However it is rare and comes with a very high price, our melon was over $10.00 but worth the try! The market where we purchased it said, they only get them once a year.

Ginkgo Petrified Forest

On our way home from our trip to Moses Lake, we stopped at the Ginkgo Petrified Forest state park. Enjoy!

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Love this pattern in the rock.

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Can you count the rings?

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Isabel thought this place was cool.

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Some large pieces, some small and some bigger than this one!

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Gino loved this local piece of petrified rock.
It’s petrified fir.

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Looks like wood… but it’s rock!
So pretty.

Goose

We started watching these Canadian geese, after the female built a nest by one of the over-flow ponds on our street. She would sit on her nest morning, noon, and night, shine or rain or more rain and more rain. As we watched these birds (the male was usually close by), the excitement of seeing the goslings was something we had never seen before.

After reading about the birds on the internet, I learned that it takes 28 days for the eggs to hatch. On the day they hatch the goslings, hatch early in the morning with both parents attending. After the goslings are hatched the female will then get the goslings right into the water. 16 weeks, after they are born, the goslings can fly, that will be September!

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Our Canadian goose family grew by 4 this morning!
4 yellow goslings went for a swim, all in tow behind mommy! (I should have got a picture of that!)

I’m so excited for these birds. I have always thought Canadian geese were cool and I LOVE to hear and see them honk their way across the sky in that massive “V” pattern. We will keep watching these little babies as they grow over the next several months. There is also a family of ducks in the same pond area. So awesome!