Victoria's Adventures with Swinger

Swinger and Me!

           

When I came home with Swinger I gave him a tour of the house and introduced him to my family. Then at 6 pm I went to Paige’s house on a sleepover party with Swinger, he had a crush on Sunny, Kayleigh’s stuffed animal. We played many games, danced to music and watched Night at the Museum last but Swinger was really scared when the creatures turned to life. We even stayed up really late. Then on Saturday Swinger went to Polish School with me. He learned new Polish words and about Christmas in Poland. On Sunday Swinger and I woke up at 12:30 pm. We ate a big breakfast and later we started decorating the Christmas tree. At night he took a bath in the washing machine and then I read him a bedtime story and we went to sleep. My family and I will really miss Swinger a lot!

Paige's Personal Narrative

The students recently completed their personal narratives in writing. They were given the opportunity to share their stories with their classmates. The students loved how animated one student was while sharing her personal narrative and decided that it should be featured on our blog. Enjoy Paige's presentation of The Best Story Ever.

Paige

December Crandall Chronicle

Our Strange Clock

Our classroom clock has a unique characteristic. For some unknown reason our clock freezes for about a minute at 58 minutes after the hour randomly throughout the day. The minute hand then races to catch up to the current time. For over a month the students have been collecting data and documenting the times that we have observed the clock freezing. We spent some time during math on Friday to graph our data and analyze our findings. Below are photos of the students working to complete their graphs along with pictures of the completed graphs.

Isobel's Adventures with Swinger

My Time with Swinger

On Friday after school, I went to Macy Goodman’s house to play. Macy is in Mrs. Berg’s class. We played with American Girl Dolls and Swinger was the pet monkey.

On Saturday, Katie Neal (she is in Mrs. Berg’s class too) came over to play. Katie and I made a “preview” for our web show “Iizzatie.” Swinger played as the little ballerina’s stuffed monkey; the stuffed monkey went everywhere with her. The little ballerina thought the old man’s antlers were devil ears. Katie and I dressed up in costumes and acted out skits.

On Sunday, I took Swinger with me to Woodfield Mall to get my ears pierced. Swinger wanted to get his ears pierced too, but I told him he wasn’t old enough. So he sat on my lap and Macy G’s lap, and we got our ears pierced. We had dinner too at the Cheesecake Factory; he had bread for dinner and cheesecake for dinner. When Swinger got home Sunday evening, he dove into the washing machine for a bath. He thought it was quite nice. Swinger was really tired after his long, busy weekend.

 

 

How many minutes old are you?

During math on Monday students practiced reading and saying large numbers by calculating their age in minutes and even seconds. Once students determined how many minutes old they were on their last birthday, they added the additional minutes from the leap years that occurred within the past eight years.

I gave the students an additional challenge to calculate how old my grandpa is in minutes. They eagerly calculated that he was 48,880,800 minutes or 2,932,848,000 seconds old!

December Book Order

Book Orders are due today! If you did not send in the order to school, you can still order online.
Remember to write me a note if you would like me to keep your order a secret from your child!

Class Code = GRNPB