Shoot and...SCORE...in...Soccer!!!

Featured Blogger: Will

It's the start of the year and you know what that means...SOCCER IN THE GYM!!!!!!!!! We did shooting drills and much more.  First there were 6 goals, a goalie, and a defenseman on each goal. I got 8 points (goals) in about 20 minutes before it was time to line up. The next time we went outside and there were some people that were trying to steal your ball.  If they did you would have to be one of them and try to steal other people's balls and whoever got the most steals won. Then we were doing 3 VS 3. I was on a team with Kian and Jordin. We were playing Landon, Peter and Tessa. We won by 1 (#1!) I got much better than I was before that unit.  Coach DeMayo taught me a lot about soccer that I did not know and thanks to him I am better!

Trouble, Trouble, Trouble

Featured Blogger: Tess

Making up new words sounds impossible! Not to Nick Allan! Hi. My name is Tess Berman, and I am going to tell you about the time me and my class read Frindle by Andrew Clements.  It all started out when Nick was turning his classroom into a tropical paradise! I know! It sounds crazy and troublesome, but he did it! And his teacher was okay with it! She started to teach the girls in the class the hula!!!!!!!!!

Nick made a volleyball net out of shirts and sprinkled sand on the floor! He is a troublemaker!!!!!!  Sure you think that he went to detention a couple of times or went to the principal's office but no! He got away with it! He got away with it every single time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s because Nick was smart, very smart.  So smart, he made his teacher think that his friend Janet made a bird sound when he was doing it instead! Now Nick is in 5th grade and this is the year to get ready for middle school because it was the year of 1989! Back then, elementary school was kindergarden to 5th grade so middle school started in 6th grade.  He had two teachers for each class, except for seventh period language arts, with Ms. Granger AKA the lone Granger. Big deal, hard homework, mean teacher. Nick and Janet missed the bus because of school newspaper meeting, so they walked home from school and they were trying to walk and stay on the curb! It was hard!!!!  Janet stomped off of the curb and Nick said “HA! Twenty points for me!” But she said “No! I did it on purpose! I saw something! Look!”  

She was right. There was a golden ball point pen on the side of the road.  A couple minutes later she dropped it and Nick picked it up and said “Here is your...FRINDLE!” A what?  A frindle! It all sounded crazy but it really happened! Well in the book of course!  

The next day after school, Nick, Janet, and a bunch of other 5th grade kids, met at Nick’s house to sign an oath. It said “From now on I will only use the word Frindle and I will do everything so others will use it to.”  And then all of them signed the oath with Nick’s Frindle, and that was it!  The next day, Nick went to the penny pantry, his favorite store, and he asked the woman behind the counter to get him “a Frindle, a black one.”  She had no idea what he was talking about. Then he pointed to the rack of pens next to her and she gave him a black one and as he walked out of the store he gave her a grin and she gave him a weird look but he was already gone.  Six days later Janet came in to penny pantry and asked the same woman behind the counter to give her a Frindle and before Janet six other boys went to the same store, and asked the same women for a Frindle, and that is why she gave Janet one before she even finished her sentence! And as she walked out the door, she gave the women the same look that Nick gave to her when he was leaving the store and the women gave Janet the same weird look but still Janite was already out the door.  And then, snack ended so we stopped reading!  

So the next day we found our space in the book and we jumped right in!  So we're in the book again so now we got to the point where it was school picture day and all of the 5th graders took their individual pictures and they were about to take a group picture and when the photographer took the picture all of the kids said something that made their faces all have the same expression and it was like they were all saying the “L” sound you know what they said.  They said FRINDLE!!!!!!!!!!  The photographer was out of film so that was the only picture they could get. Ms Granger was furious because the 5th graders messed up picture day.  She stapled a sign on the bulletin board next to the office that said “anyone who says the word Frindle will have to write this sentence 100 times. I am writing this punishment with a pen.”  

So after that, a lot of things happened because of Nick’s word. A reporter came, the principal came to Nick’s house, he went on to many TV shows, and he got an interview. But it was at his house!  So after that the whole thing settled down, but on the sign that said that you have entered the town, it said “Home of the original Frindle” and they were right!

Ten years later Nick was a junior in college and I can’t tell you what happened.  You’ll just have to read the book to find out!  I have had a lot of fun spending time with you! I don’t know when I’m going to see you again. But you can still read other blogs that will be as funny as mine. But you know this is always going to be the most funny blog post you will ever read in your life!

Robots of 3Sp

Featured Blogger: Landon

 

Welcome to 3Sp! Last week we read an article about Ocean One she is an underwater diver she Has some cool stuff that helps scientist learn about the deep ocean.  It can go over 300 feet down!  Instead of having legs it has propellers to help it move faster in the water.  Scientists control the robot with joysticks.  Ocean1 is about five feet long.  It has video camera eyes on its head! Last week we got to design our own robots!  We got to name it and make three special features we used to support a problem that's in the real world.  For an example, I know that one of the problems is going mining.  Instead of people getting hurt from the hot resources or they could even die,  my robot would go mining instead. We all enjoyed and had extra fun this week in 3Sp. Hopefully you learned about what we did this week.

Teamwork

Featured Blogger: Jack

The 3Sp puzzle was very tricky but we could do it!  One day when we came into the classroom we saw these puzzle piece things on our tables.  Ms. Sprague told us to color them in and put our names on them.  Some of us thought it might be a puzzle and others didn’t.  To be honest with you I didn’t know either.  Ms. Sprague said we would do the activity at the end of the day.  Now it’s the end of the day and whoever guessed it was a puzzle was right.  Now we have to use hard work and teamwork.  Now we are done and it is up on the wall. Teamwork is AWESOME!!!

Jump Roping in Gym is Awesome

Featured Blogger: Peter

Jump roping in gym is hard.  You have to jump rope for 100 or 200 or 300 seconds.  It is hard. You are supposed to only turn your wrists and take little jumps then you can take more jumps without getting tired.  Only three people made it!  One person made the 300 seconds and two people made the 100 seconds.  I think I will be the 4th one to make the 100 club!  Bye see you next time!!

Pictures from the First Week of School!

We had fun exploring and making observations about what we hear, see, smell, and feel in the Lilja garden today!

3Sp students carefully observing a praying mantis that was found near the garden!

Go Noodle afternoon movement break!

Team building activity with puzzle pieces

Working together to make progress on the puzzle!

Biography Project

Featured Blogger: Jose

Important news citizens of Natick! The 3rd grade is doing a project at Lilja.  We have to get the project done before Portfolio Day.  I already finished the biography project but it was hard because we first have to do a scavenger hunt on an important person. For example, I did George Washington and I had to do so much research on him. We had to write a first draft. Next we have to revise and edit our first draft. Then you have to start your final draft. I did mine on the computer. Then my teacher printed my final draft. Once we finish our final draft we have to make a File Folder Project. It includes a lot of stuff like timeline of their life, all the important things they did, a glossary, a quote from the person who you did it on.  Also you have to do this thing where it says “If I could ask George Washington a question…”  Then finally I finished. So please be excited for Portfolio Day!