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Reading Stone Fox

Featured Blogger: Abby

Hi my name is Abigail Homer and I’m in 3sp and in reading we are reading Stone Fox.

And what happened was ……

First little Willy and grandfather are the main characters. grandfather gets sick and the farm is almost ready to harvest, so little willy does the farm by himself. ( they grow potatoes)  Next little Willy finds they have no money and grandfather might die. Then this man showed up at their house and said that they need to pay taxes ($500) or they have to sell the farm and everyone said to sell the farm, but little Willy doesn’t know what to do. A little later Little Willy finds a poster about a dog sled race and Searchlight and little Willy are really good at dog sled races. And this year it just is $500. So little Willy signed up. When he was going out of the building he saw Stone Fox. He's going to be facing him in the race with him (Stone Fox did not speak).  That night it happened, Grandfather was out of medicine. Little Willy went to tell Doc Smith. She said go see Lester (the storekeeper). When Little Willy got there he knocked and Lester came out and gave Willy the medicine. Get ready to be shocked if you read the end!  My class read the book at snack time and for read aloud and we really liked it!

The Pilgrims

Featured Blogger: Arnav

Hi, I’m Arnav, and I’m doing a blog on the Pilgrims. In our Pilgrim unit we have been using/reading books, stations, and workbooks to learn all about the Pilgrims.  And because we have been using so many tools we have learned a lot about them after only 2 days.

We've learned that the Pilgrims went on a long journey to the new world because the King of England was treating them very badly. They spent many years finding a boat to hold all of them to travel to the new world in only one trip. Finally after many years they found a boat called the Speedwell. But after a few days they had realized that the Speedwell could not hold everybody so they had to search for a new boat.

Finally after many months they found a ship called The Mayflower. The Mayflower was only meant to carry stuff like clothes and lumber but it could hold people too. The Mayflower was so big that the people who built the  Mayflower told the Pilgrims that they had to work for them for 7 years to pay a ride on it. The Pilgrims did not agree, but that was the only way to make it to the new world. Many of the people thought that the Mayflower was not going to be sturdy enough to hold 132 people because it was only meant to carry clothes and lumber. But then they realized that all the clothes and lumber had weighed almost as much as all the Pilgrims did so they got their confidence back and sailed on the Mayflower. The voyage lasted one month. Many of the Pilgrims were hungry,  there was very very little food so the Pilgrims could only eat a little bit each day. After a month and a half the Pilgrims ran out of food. So they had to eat a hard biscuit that the Captains called Hardtack. They ate for a month a half and then they reached the New World. First, they explored the New World. Everything was good at first, but then they met a group of people called the Wampanoags. The Pilgrims got very very mad but they realized that the natives had so much corn so the Pilgrims planned to steal it. First, they built a house. Then they gathered up metal, quiet shoes for spying, and wood to hide under so they could steal the corn more easily. After a few days they were ready to go on the mission. They ran back to their house. After a long spy mission, they gobbled up all the corn as fast as they could. When the Wampanoag woke up they realized that they didn't have any corn so they walked around their place and they found the Pilgrims. The Native Americans were mad, but they were also worried at the same time. Why? Because they knew the Pilgrims had guns. That scared the Wampanoags. Because they thought the guns were very very dangerous.  But they still got into a very big fight that lasted 4 days. The Wampanoag had won!!!!!!!! Then the Pilgrims admitted that they had stolen their corn and paid them back for the corn. After that, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people were good friends. They gave each other food, and they helped build each other's houses. If one of their houses fell down they would help each other fix it. They hunted together, they shared all of their festivals, they shared in their beliefs and they did a lot of other stuff together too. It is so amazing how the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people became such good friends just by a corn mission.