Meet at Provenzanos today!

Just a quick reminder to everyone that we are meeting at Provenzanos' place today (December 18) to practice for the Christmas Pageant! See you here :-)

Fantastic Fukuoka Mission Guide

It's finished! A huge thank you to Seiko for her amazing artwork on the cover of your amazing guidebook. I am so proud of all of your hard work - you have made an interesting and creative keepsake that you can share with English-speaking visitors whenever they come to Fukuoka. Good work, everyone!


By the way, our end-of-the-year schedule looks like this:

Saturday, December 11: meet for our class in Ropponmatsu as usual - working on Christmas party skits.
Saturday, December 18: meet at Provenzanos to practice the skits at our usual class time
Sunday, December 19: 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CHRISTMAS PARTY

Mission Accomplished!

The guide books are printed! Tomorrow, please bring 650 yen per book that you ordered. If possible, please bring EXACT CHANGE. Thanks!

What a great library!

Our library is up and running - don't forget to bring back books you are finished with and to borrow a new one (or two!). Also, have a look at the good supply of magazines we have -- there are lots of interesting articles and stories in them, too.

For Saturday, December 4

We are getting ready for the Christmas Pageant! On Saturday bring your pencils and your ideas. We need to plan out our skits, write the scripts, and think about how it will all flow on the big day.

See you Saturday!

Saturday, November 20

Doug is going to take both the blue and red groups this week because Christie will be away (conference in Nagoya). He has asked that you ask your Moms and Dads, Grandmas and Grandpas to recommend places to see/visit in Kyushu so you can contribute that information to the Around Kyushu game. It seems like he already has quite a bit of information about Fukuoka, but he needs information from other prefectures. I'll see you the following Saturday!

Ohori Adventurers

Hi everybody -
Great job today on the Ohori challenges! The only one we couldn't really do was about the swan paddle boats. Here are a few pictures from the challenges and the sushi feast that some families carried on to have...

AOOOOOOOOOH Werewolves of Tani...


Checking out the monster carp in the lake


9 kids, 66 plates of sushi - WOW!

Interesting article about bilingualism

Hey kids, show this to your parents. They might be interested:

CLICK ME!! HURRY(0.0)

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Halloween

Another memorable Halloween, with lots of interesting moments. Have a look!

Here's a link if you want to see an encore of the Werewolves of Tani ...

Click here to see it again

The Mummy Game






Other moments

Mission Guide prototype

Thanks for the great party turnout, everyone! I am going to get some Halloween party pictures posted here as soon as I can but I just wanted to post this picture I took of the first Fantastic Fukuoka Mission Guide -- hot off the presses at Kinko's and now in the hands of happy recipients Alandra and Blair of Salt Lake City, U.S.A. The book looks AMAZING and as soon as we get the cover art done (this cover is a temporary version...), I'll be having copies printed for everyone. Let's keep our thinking caps on about other interesting pages we could add to the guide in the future!

Halloween Weekend

Hi everyone!

Well, I don't know about you guys, but I am so excited about the fantastic work you've done on the Fantastic Fukuoka Mission Guide!!! I am hoping to get some samples printed this week.

NEXT WEEKEND is Halloween, and I'm not sure if everyone knows the plan, so I thought I'd make a quick note here. Saturday we'll have our usual meeting in Ropponmatsu. Christie will be absent (I have to teach some classes in the morning), so Doug will take both the Blue group and the Red group. You should all meet in the big tatami room at the Kashi Jimusho.

On Sunday, we're going to have a Halloween event based at the Provenzanos' house. Please arrive by 6:00 p.m. and wear a costume that is easy to move around in. We'll do some outdoor activities (hopefully the weather will cooperate!) and then finish up at Provenzanos'. Remember we'll have some visitors from Canada joining us this year, so get ready to welcome Angus, Kyle and Monica's cousins Alandra and Blair. We hope they like their custom made guide to Fukuoka!

Contact me or Doug if you have any questions -
Happy Halloween!

Hi tech Kidz

We had lots of computers going at our meeting this week! Everyone did a great job working with Microsoft Word to compose pages for our Fukuoka Adventure Guide. Let's meet at Provenzanos' house again next week to continue with the project. Graeme's group... don't forget your homework! You have some sentences to write. Richie and Jojo, we are looking forward to seeing the progress on your Fukuoka City page, too. If anybody wants to practice their typing skills, here is a good, free typing practice website. Try it out!

Maya and Olivia confer about the Kanji Quiz page


Here's Graeme, happy to be working on a MAC :-)


Here, Moni and Hana are hard at work on their hand-drawn illustrations


Oscar and Scott work on the design of "Food Factor"


Richie and Jojo discuss the Fukuoka City page


Nozomi and Ren (with Kyle, who isn't here at this moment) work on the Chopsticks page


Sophie, Nina, and Natsuko check out the Kappa Zushi page on Nina's iPod, while Angus takes a break from composing the Bath page to have a look...

Meet at Provenzanos next time

Hi everybody --

Great job last week (Graeme's group and Christie's group) working on the Fukuoka Adventure Guide ideas!! Doug's group will join in on the project in our next class. As we discussed, let's meet at Provenzanos' house next Saturday to keep working on the guide. Parents who are able, please bring a laptop computer (hopefully equipped with Microsoft Word). We'll get pairs of kids working with the word processing program to create the pages for the Adventure Guide. The reason we're meeting at Provenzanos' is that we have wifi here, so kids can research things online if they need to. (If the laptops don't have wifi, that's ok -- we still need the word processing capabilities.)

See you all next Saturday (October 9th) from about 10:15.

Let's build a library

Hi everybody!

I saw many of you last Saturday - it was good to see your smiling faces and hear about your summer adventures. The blue and red groups joined forces to start organizing our own library at the clubhouse -- everyone had some good ideas about how to keep track of books that are borrowed.

For this Saturday, please look around your house for English books that you don't use much anymore. Ask Mom and Dad if it's ok to lend them to the Kidz Group library. (Please don't lend anything that is very special to you - you don't HAVE to lend your books.) If you do bring some books to lend to the library for a few months, please make sure to write your name on the inside cover. Also, prepare 2 copies of a list of the books you are going to lend to the library. Keep one list yourself, in a safe place, and give me the second list when you give me your books. Remember we have lots of books at level 4 & 5 but need more at levels 1, 2 & 3.

Also, Doug showed us the ICE CREAM MAKER that he brought back from Canada this summer. We think it would be lots of fun to make some ice cream, but we need a recipe. We asked you all to see what you could find on the internet. Remember, the ice cream maker is a 5-quart Rival Frost King wooden crank-type ice cream maker. If you find a good recipe for ice cream (or sherbet or some other frozen dessert that can be made in an ice cream maker) please bring it for us to consider.

See you Saturday!
Christie

Last summer meeting

Hello Kidz and families -
As most of you know, we are planning an outing for the last class before summer vacation. With the weather being so hot, we thought it would be fun to go for a swim, and Nick & Nina recommended the Sawara public pool. We have decided to meet at the pool at 10:30 and are planning to swim for an hour or maybe a little more. Then if people are free maybe we can find somewhere nearby for lunch? (If anyone knows the area and can recommend a place, please let me know.)

I found the pool's home page (click here to see - there's a map and other information about parking, etc.)

Please let me know (by e-mail or text message is ok) if you can join us. Moms and Dads, you can come too! Brothers and sisters also welcome :-)

See you Saturday

Blue group AND Red group homework

Doug says:
Practice your news announcer-style reading AND write your goofy news story!

Christie says:
Blue group kids, I'd love to see a rough draft of your interview (4 paragraphs). See you Saturday!

Blue group homework

We spent the class time interviewing a classmate and got some good notes about that person. I'd like you to write it up into an article. Try for 4 paragraphs.

I'll try to post an example a little later...

July Schedule

Hello everyone - Last week we settled on the schedule for July, but I'm not sure if all families know about it. Here it is:

7/3 Sophie, Christie and Angus will be absent. The Blue Group (usually meets at the clubhouse) should meet with the Red Group upstairs at the Kashi Jimusho. Graeme's class will meet downstairs as usual. (Scott Wysong is going to be in charge of closing up.)

7/10 Classes as usual

7/17 Classes as usual

7/24 Noguchi kids, Wilson kids, and Nozomi will be absent. I am thinking this will be a good day for a field trip (no studying!) -- we're talking about going swimming at the Sawara pool!!

Saturday, June 19

Christie's off to CHINA from Thursday, so Doug's going to be leading both the Red and Blue classes this week. He is planning to get everybody busy doing some work in the garden (to see the planting pictures click here)

If possible, people should go straight to the Provenzanos' place so the project can get started at 10:30. Try to get there a few minutes early. It will go ahead RAIN OR SHINE, so if it's raining, be sure to bring a rain jacket. Rain or no rain, you should bring boots or shoes that are ok to get dirty. Long pants and long sleeves are a good idea because Provenzanos' mosquitoes are HUNGRY! (We have mosquito spray to help keep them away...)

All kids should ask their parents to take them to Provenzanos' place and pick them up at the end of class in Ropponmatsu. If anyone doesn't know where the Provenzanos live (Oscar? Kai?), you should go there with Doug.

Graeme's class will be held in Ropponmatsu as usual (Rei, Moni, Maya, Hana, and Shinjyu should go to Ropponmatsu as usual). The big kids will come back from the gardening project and finish up the class by making SMOOTHIES!!

Doug says that for homework you should bring a drawing showing your idea for building a bamboo fence (or cage) covered with netting to protect our corn from the hungry crows. Try to think of a way to make the cage strong, so it won't wobble.

I am looking forward to hearing about the project and seeing your masterpiece when I get back from China!

Homework for the Blue Group -- finish for June 12

Hello, newspaper readers!

Reading and understanding a newspaper article is great, but it's even better if you can combine the information with what you already know about the subject. SO, I would like to take a close look at one more story in our Newsademic newspaper. I would like you to read it and answer a few comprehension questions about it, then we are going to discuss the topic in class on Saturday.

I have chosen the story "Global Forest Loss" on page 12 and 13, because I think we have all heard about the problem of global warming. I also think that you guys probably have some good ideas about what kind of changes we need to make to stop the problem from getting worse. I'd like to talk about these points.

So, to start with, read the story through and answer these questions in your notebook or on a piece of paper. All of the information to answer the questions is in the article BUT... When you write your answers, try NOT to copy them directly from the story. Try to write similar information in your own words - it's called "paraphrasing".

For example, if the question is: What did American scientists write a report about?

You might copy the answer from the text like this:

"The report describes how much of the Earth's forests have been 'lost' over a five year period."

BUT that is basically stealing the writer's words. It is better to think about what those words mean and then write them in your own words. For example:

"The scientists wrote about the amount of forest that has disappeared from the Earth in the last five years."

Do your best! Here are your questions:

1. In what ways are trees important to living things on Earth? (There are 3 reasons given in the article)

2. How did the researchers figure out how much forest was lost?

3. What are some differences between boreal forests and rainforests?

4. What does GFCL stand for?

5. Which type of forest has greater GFCL? What are 2 reasons why that kind of forest has greater GFCL?

And finally, make a note of any ideas you have about how we can reduce the amount of forest lost every year. ANY ideas are ok -- things individual people can do, or laws that countries can make. Stretch your imagination!

Homework for Saturday, June 5

Hey, Kidz Groupers...

Well, today was our first day with the new split-group format. The red group was working with Doug on a story about the Venus Flytrap, while the blue group was reading newspapers over in the clubhouse. Blue group members, I have sent the homework assignment to your parents' e-mail addresses already. Please ask them about it.

Red group members, this is what Doug has given you for homework:

1. Read the Venus Flytrap story out loud for Mom or Dad (or Granny or Grandpa...) a total of 5 times this week. (Don't do 5 times in a row! Try it just once or twice a day for the best practice.)

2. Answer the questions about the story.

3. Somewhere on the paper (maybe on the back), write these words 10 times each:

digestive
fascinating
endangered
ordinary

Please do a journal entry, too.

See you next Saturday!

Homework for May 29

Hi everybody!

Sorry we missed the lesson last week. I heard you guys were listening to that cool World Cup song -- it is such a catchy song that I haven't been able to get it out of my head. I even wake up in the morning with it playing in my mind... (it's starting to drive me crazy!)

Anyway, Doug said that you guys read the Jupiter story together, but that several of the kids hadn't had enough time to do the questions about the story, so I'm going to ask you to finish those up for next week.

Doug also told me that he didn't have time to check your journals, so I will look at them on the 29th. You don't have to write a new journal entry - I will just look at the one from last week.

Finally, Doug said he asked you guys to find out a little more about the guy who wrote "Wavin' Flag", so I want to ask you to find some specific information. You can search the internet for this information, and please write it on a separate piece of paper so I can have a look at your answers. I'd like you to write your answers in FULL SENTENCES, please.

The musician's name is K'naan. The song's name is "Wavin' Flag".

1. Where was K'naan born?

2. What is K'naan's full name?

3. At what age did he leave the country of his birth?

4. What country did his family immigrate to? (If you don't know the meaning of the word "immigrate", check your dictionary.)

5. How many different versions of Wavin' Flag can you find on YouTube? (Describe how they are different from each other.) Which one do you like the best?

Homework for May 22

The Provenzanos will be absent this week because we have a kodomokai event in our neighborhood, but I'd like you to continue with a few more pages in BrainQuest. We're almost done!!

Please do the reading on pages 104 and 105, and pages 74 and 75, too (I think those will go quickly!). Finally, a journal entry for Doug to have a look at.

Have a good day!

Homework for May 15

Page 71 in the BrainQuest book turned out to be quite interesting, didn't it? Let's get a couple more pages done in the Language Arts section before next week: please do pages 72 and 73 AND a journal entry. A couple of the kids said that they liked writing made-up stories like we did today, but they wanted to start the stories with their OWN ideas, not using the story starters. So, if you would like to do some story writing in your journal, that would be great! I'd love to read your creative stories. (If you want to write about usual journal stuff, that's ok, too.)

Gardeners!

Here are a few photos of the brief planting party we had a couple of weeks ago:



HOWEVER, about a week after we planted the okra and the corn, Sophie, Maya and I went up to check on things and the okra was GONE!!!! Well, actually, there were 2 shriveled plants, but the others were simply gone. I have no idea what happened to them. Then, after class today, Nozomi told me that her grandpa had gone up to the garden this very morning to plant Japanese pumpkin! I looked up there and there seem to be about 4 plants. I hope they do better than the okra!!

Golden Week

Hi everyone -- this is just a quick reminder that we will NOT meet tomorrow, May 1. We will start again the following Saturday, May 8. I will think of some great homework between now and then, but for starters, of COURSE, I'd like to read TWO journal entries. Remember to use your dictionary if you are having trouble spelling words!

Happy Golden Week!

Homework for Saturday, April 24

Journals, please!!!

Garden Update

Nozomi's grandpa says it's time to plant! He's going to bring seedlings for us to plant (hooray!) SO, after our class, let's have lunch as usual, then people who have time can come to the Provenzanos' house for a PLANTING PARTY!!!

Homework for Saturday, April 17 -- you need the internet!

I heard that you did some treasure hunting last week. I’m sorry I missed it! Your treasure hunt involved currency from different countries, so I thought you should do some research about that. Please read about World Currencies and choose 2 research assignments to do.
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World Currencies

Countries around the world each have their own standard units of exchange. Some are worth more than the Japanese Yen. Some are worth less. They all have names. A few are called dollars, but many have names tied to the history or culture of the individual country. When a traveler enters a country, the currency of that country is needed to pay for food and shelter, transportation and entertainment, goods and services. To get the correct currency before leaving, a traveler must go to a bank and exchange the money from his country for the standard unit of exchange for the country he is traveling in.

An extensive list of the currencies of the world is available at www.xe.com/ucc or www.x-rates.com.

Research Assignments – use the internet for your research (you can ask Mom and Dad to help, of course). Choose TWO questions and answer them in your notebook. (If your notebook is full, you can do this on lined paper.)

1. The standard unit of exchange in Guatemala is the quetzal. What is a quetzal? Why do you think Guatemala honors the quetzal?
2. How many of countries use the dollar as the standard unit of exchange?
3. Pakistan uses the rupee as its standard unit of exchange. What other country uses the rupee? Why do you think these two countries both use the same standard unit of exchange?
4. Most of the countries that are a part of the European Union use a currency called the euro. How many countries use the euro? What countries in the European Union do NOT use the euro?

FINALLY – Doug said that we might have some visitors from other countries in class on Saturday. To prepare for their visit, please write 3 questions that you would like to ask them. Write the questions in your JOURNAL. (You don’t have to do another journal entry – just the questions.)

Excellent observing in the park!

I was really pleased with everyone's efforts to describe interesting things they observed in the park today. Wasn't it beautiful with all the cherry blossoms? Here are some of the great sentences you produced:

I see Kai's hand moving with a pencil.

I see an old man with a cool bike that does not fit him.

I feel a warm wind blowing on my back.

I hear leaves crushing together when you step on them.

The stone feels smooth and hard.

The new bright green leaves and the light pink cherry blossoms are swaying in the wind so much that it seems like they are dancing together.

Geocaching is like a very challenging easter egg hunt, where the person who hides it is the Easter bunny and ther person who tries to find the geocache is the person looking for eggs.

Pigeons are flying and walking around the shrine.

I hear a dog singing a song.

We felt the bumpy, strong and hard path with our hands.

We saw a cat climbing a rock. It was cool.

Tomorrow's homework

Hi everyone -- if you haven't done The Emperor's Clothes, then please read it and do the questions (last week's homework). AND, if you have a chance I'd love to read a journal entry! Sorry for the last minute assignment AGAIN.

Last-minute homework

Reading! The Emperor's New Clothes, pages 102-103

See you tomorrow!

Gardening Day

Hi everybody -

I would like you to get ready for the BIG GARDENING DAY! I found a great website to help us all learn about gardening, and before Saturday I'd like you to do these things:

1. look at this page

I'm sending you on a mission to find out about soil! Read the first page and click on "Case Brief" to find out our goals and some ideas about soil. Continue with "Facts of the Case", and read through the next couple of pages. Stop after you read "Mysteries: Take a Closer Look. What is Soil?"

You don't have to print anything out - Doug will ask you some questions about what you have learned when you see him on Saturday.

ABOUT SATURDAY:

Please meet at the usual place in Ropponmatsu. Doug will organize you for a map-reading adventure to Provenzanos' house! When you arrive at Provenzanos', you'll get started with the gardening. Moms and Dads, please drop kids off in Ropponmatsu, but pick them up at Provenzanos' place around 12:00. You can bring a bento to eat at our house after gardening, if you like.

THINGS TO BRING:
- Shoes to wear in the garden (rubber boots are best)
- Working gloves
- A shovel if you have one
- A bento and a drink if you plan to stay for lunch

I'm sorry I won't be around to help! Have a good time and I'll see you in two weeks.

P.S. The biography project is ON HOLD till next week when I get back. You don't have to work on it UNLESS you haven't done your outline yet.

P.P.S. When I see you again, I hope to read TWO journal entries!! Thanks!

Let's outliine that biography!

Hi everybody -

Most people brought their biography notes to class last week (and some people even brought the whole biography! wow!). Now I'd like you to use those notes to prepare an outline about the person you researched. Please look at page 128 in the BrainQuest book to remind yourself how to outline your biography. You can divide up the information you found in any way you like. For example:

I. Paragraph 1 - Introduce John Lennon
a. birthplace, birthdate
b. brief story of childhood
c. first experience with music

II. Paragraph 2 - the Beatles
a. band members
b. date started/finished
c. famous songs and world wide popularity

III. Paragraph 3 - Solo
a. Yoko Ono
b. famous songs
c. peace activities

IV. Paragraph 4 - conclusion
a. death
b. popularity today
c. how he contributed to music and society

Then, if you still have time, go ahead and write the topic sentences for each paragraph. That will give you a good base to go on to finish your biography next week. Please bring your outline to class next week.

ALSO, let's knock off a couple of pages in that BrainQuest book - pages 27 and 66. If you have already finished those pages (Angus?!), you can work in the science section - pages 290, 291, 292, and 293.

See you Saturday!

Christie

Biography homework

You guys did a pretty good job yesterday thinking of people to research and preparing research questions for our biography activity. For homework, I'm going to ask you to think of someone you want to find out more about. It can be a musician, an actor, a world leader, a scientist, an artist, a ballet dancer!, or anyone else you are interested in! Yesterday we had to focus on people from history because our encyclopedia are a little old, but this time you are going to use the INTERNET and you can research ANYBODY you like!! The information sources are endless.

So, to start, try a mind map if you like, with your person at the center. On your mind map, brainstorm the things you want to know about that person.

(this list of questions comes from this website) Some questions you might want to think about include:

* What makes this person special or interesting?
* What kind of effect did he or she have on the world? other people?
* What are the adjectives you would most use to describe the person?
* What examples from their life illustrate those qualities?
* What events shaped or changed this person's life?
* Did he or she overcome obstacles? Take risks? Get lucky?
* Would the world be better or worse if this person hadn't lived? How and why?


Once you have a good list of questions, start finding your information. You can search for your person's name using Google, or you can try these websites that are for kids:

Fact Monster

Encyclopedia Brittanica (you'll have to click on "free trial" to use this one - British content)

Yahoo Kids Encyclopedia

InfoPlease (this one seems very heavily American...)

For some Canadian content try the Canadian Encyclopedia


I'm sure you can find other sources, too. Do some reading and take notes about your research questions. If you find some really interesting information that is NOT related to your research questions, that's ok!! Write it down anyway. When you take your notes, make sure you write down the website that you used to get your information. This is an important part of research.

Next week, bring
1. Your research questions
2. The information you found to answer the questions
3. The website addresses that you used to get your information

We'll talk more about how to put it all together in a biography.

Happy researching!

Homework for Saturday, Feb. 20

Hi guys! Let's keep on with BrainQuest... pages 64 and 65 (just a little bit this time because I am posting this at the last minute!)

See you tomorrow!

p.s. as usual, I'd also like to read a journal entry!!!

Homework for Feb 13

I'm back!! Did you miss me? I had a great time in Thailand and Cambodia. I am slowly posting some pictures of my trip on my other blog - have a look at some scenes from Cambodia if you are interested: click here

So this Saturday I'd like to have a quick look at the BrainQuest pages you did while I was away, and I'd also like to look at your journals. There should be TWO journal entries that you did while I was away plus ONE MORE for this week (a total of THREE journal entries... can you handle it?!).

This Saturday is Maya's birthday (no presents necessary) and I heard a rumor that there might be a cake or something like that... hope you can stay for a little while after class for something sweet.

Looking forward to hearing all your news on Saturday!

Homework while Christie's away

Hi everybody -
You did a good job on the shared reading activity last class. I KNEW it wouldn't kill the boys and the girls to work together!

I am going to miss 2 Saturdays in a row, but I'd like you guys to keep working on the BrainQuest book while I am away. For the first Saturday, please do:

- Pages 24 and 25
- pages 60 and 61 (read the Brain Boxes for hints about the language rules)
- a journal entry

And for the second Saturday, please do:

- Pages 98 and 99
- Pages 62 and 63
- a journal entry

I know this is more homework than usual, but I think it's time to finish up the BrainQuest book. I think you'll do a great job, but if you have any questions or problems, please check with Mom or Dad at home, or you can ask Doug in class. See you on February 13!! (Maya's birthday!)

Homework for Saturday, January 23

Hi everybody - hope you're having a good week. For this Saturday, I'd like to get a few pages done in our BrainQuest book. Please try the crossword puzzle with antonym clues on pages 22 and 23 (see the brain box on p. 23 if you don't remember what an antonym is...). Also I'm going to ask you to do pages 54 to 57 (Yes! 4 pages!) in the language arts section. I'd ALSO love to read a journal entry...

See you Saturday!

p.s. here are some of the pictures I took last week:

Internet stuff

Hi everybody! How about that snow today... makes me want to go skiing!

Well, I have been looking around on the internet and have found some interesting links for you guys to try. They are fun and also educational :-)

First, to improve your typing skills, click here to try some fun games and lessons. Try doing just the "home row" first, and then as you get better at it, try the upper row and the lower row.

Spelling games:

Click here for a find-a-word style spelling game where you race against the clock to click on letters to spell out words. (Some of the words were a little hard, but you can look at the word as you click letters to spell it)

Click here to go to Big IQ Kids free spelling program. This website has a lot of advertising, and the computer generated voice is a little annoying, BUT the lesson is pretty good. Look at the right side of the page at the top and you can see a place to select a word list to practice. Choose a grade level that you feel comfortable with (for example, our BrainQuest book is Grade 3 level), and choose lesson 1. It will give you a word list to practice. Then you can click "Learn" at the bottom right hand side of the page. It will help you read each word on the list, give it to you in a sentence, and ask you to spell it. If you complete the lesson, you earn a game coin to use later. After you "Learn", you can "Practice" and you can even take a "Test" to make sure you've learned the word list well. After you have earned a few game coins, go to the games and try them out!

If I find any more I will post them here later.

Have fun! See you Saturday.

(p.s. please do a journal entry)

Mochi Tsuki Photos

(Don't forget to look at the homework information two posts down...)

We had such a beautiful day for the mochi tsuki - thanks to everyone's hard work, we got it all pounded! Good job, gang...

Library Visit Photos

It was nice to see everyone at the library, and I think we had a successful visit even though the very nervous library lady wasn't so sure we should all be in that room! Here are some photos of us enjoying the books we found:

Happy New Year! Let's meet this Saturday, Jan 9th

Hi everyone! I am just writing to say that I'm looking forward to seeing all of you at our first meeting of 2010. I HOPE that Doug remembered to tell the folks next door that we need the key...

Anyway, to get ready for our meeting, I'd like you to do a couple of journal entries. Please write about TWO events during your winter holiday. Remember to double space your stories! Please bring your BrainQuest book and we'll figure out what we have left to do in there. Also, please bring a DICTIONARY - it has been a while since we've done some work with dictionaries, so let's brush up our skills.

Watch the blog for pictures of the mochi tsuki at the farm - I will try to get them posted soon!

See you Saturday -
Christie