Wampanoag Study

Featured Blogger: Sammie

3Sp is learning about the Pilgrims and Wampanoags!  We are starting out with the Wampanoags but we will learn about the Pilgrims too!  3Sp took a field trip to Plimoth Plantation and saw how the Pilgrims and Wampanoags lived in the 1600s!  Ms. Sprague has been reading us chapters of a Magic Tree House book about the Wampanoags in social studies!

3Sp did a fun activity where you have a partner and get assigned a picture.  With the picture you had to guess what it was and answer 6 questions.  (The pictures were blurry)!  Then we had to share it.  We have packets that have things to do and stuff to learn about in them!  3Sp is doing an activity with folders that have some cards and some articles in it too!  We will be learning about what the Wampanoags did in the 1600s to survive!  We learned that girls and boys did different chores instead of the same ones!  Wampanoags lived in a wetu in the summer and in a different home in the other seasons!  3Sp had a real Wampanoag come in on December 13!

The topics for an activity we are doing are: Food, A Thankful Spirit, People Of The First Light, Hunting, Fishing, Wampanoag Homes, Wampanoag Clothing, Roles And Responsibilities, Children, Leaders, Legend Of Maushop, and Wampanoag Language!  We are doing research about every day now but not every single day!  3Sp is having so much fun!  We switch the folders every day.  We love learning about the Wampanoags in social studies.

We will learn about the Pilgrims later!!

The Wampanoag Visit

Featured Blogger: Landon

Hello! Welcome to 3Sp! This week we had a Wampanoag person come to teach us about their culture. The Wampanoag’s name was Phillip. He first taught us about animal skins and how his ancestors used them. He said that “deer skin was very useful back then.” He had animal skins like deer, skunk, and beaver and much more. He said that skunks are very good for food and how they caught skunks without getting sprayed. He said they would put a trap down and make it walk on the trap with food on it and the skunk would be in the air. You're thinking how does that help? Skunks have their place where they spray attached to their legs! So if they’re in the air they can’t spray!

Phillip said “beaver skin is perfect to hold a baby in it because it’s soft and waterproof so if a baby spills or drools it will be dry in no time! And all you need to do is bend it correctly and done.” They also made games with deer scraps like bones and a little bit of deer skin. We all had fun during the visit and i hope you learned about the Wampanoag visit this week.

Natick Rotary Club Visit

Featured Blogger: Alex

The Natick Rotary Club came came on December ninth so we get new and … FREE dictionaries. This is so cool because the dictionaries have extra cool features like the longest word in the English language has 1,909 letters, a page with lots of info of each state that's right info on EACH state, a 2016 and 2017 calendar, sign language page and MORE. There are 2 more reasons why the Natick Rotary club is awesome. 1: It is a special event and I like special events! 2: The Rotary club is in charge of all the awesome events including Natick Days AND the 4th of July parade. I hope you enjoyed this and you should get the dictionary called “A Student’s Dictionary’’.

Tiny Tiny Little Mouse

Featured Blogger: Tess

Mice can’t talk.  Or so you think!  I’m Tess Berman and I am going to tell you about when my class read a book and then saw a movie!  Whoooo!  It’s very hard to say all that, but I say we are straying from the format a bit.

“Okay class, now we are going to start the movie!  Get your clipboards if you are sitting on the rug.  Also if you are sitting on the rug, you need to sit criss-cross applesauce and have your clipboard on your lap,” said Ms. Sprague.  I sat on the rug so I could get a close-up look at the movie!

We had to fill out one page and a Venn Diagram and here are some of the questions on the sheet...What was your favorite part of the movie and the book?  And, Was the setting like you pictured?  Also, If you could change one thing in the movie, what would you change, and why?

Me and my friend, Sammie, sat next to each other when we were watching the movie and we wrote down a lot of the same things because we were helping each other so we could be done with the packet quicker so we could really enjoy the movie for pete’s sake!!!

So now let’s talk about the Venn Diagram now!  A Venn Diagram is a kind of diagram that you use to compare a bunch of these things!  You can compare...a book to the movie,  two different books, and a bunch of other things too!

Let’s talk about the movie now!   It is called...The Tale Of Despereaux!  The movie/book is about a little mouse who had huge ears and he wasn't like the other mice.  Here are some of the things that made him different than the other mice… he tried to take cheese from all of the mouse traps, he did not scurry when he saw a knife, mouse trap, cat, etc.  But the one major thing that made him different was that he was born as a very tiny mouse and...WITH HIS EYES OPEN!!!

Now I’m going to tell you some of the things I wrote down to answer the questions on the packet.  For the part in the book I liked the best was...when Miggery Sow (the serving girl) got so big because when she was in the castle, she was fed so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, much!!!

The part in the movie I liked the best was...when the pea (the princess) “gave” Despereaux a “kiss” and then he was walking crooked (because he was in love!)  and fell off of the tablecloth!

Some things that surprised me was...there is a mouse kingdom and a huge rat city, Despereaux has a fight with a cat, and Despereaux and Roscuro (a rat) become friends!

Did the characters look like you pictured?  Explain: Pea (look two paragraphs up) has blonde hair and I thought she had red hair.  Also, I did not think the king had a beard and “short-ish”hair.  And, Miggery Sow had less “cauliflower looking” ears.  And last but not least, I thought the jailer had a beard and hair that was bright orange, and I thought he was bigger, like a giant and more friendly.  By the way, Miggery Sow was sold to a farmer and he hit her ears and that’s why they looked like pieces of cauliflower.

Did the setting look like you pictured?  Explain: The dungeon is less dark than I thought.  And, I thought that the Pea had a bigger room and I thought she had a bigger bed and a bigger everything!  Also, I thought that the stairs were made of gold!

Last but not least...if you could change one thing in the movie what would you change and why?  The threadmaster should be less creepy because his eyes are very creepy.  Also I would make the movie be more like the book because the plot of the book makes much more sense than the movie.

Goodbye my friends!  I hope you had fun when you were reading this!  You will read other blogs and they will be just as good as this one,  and possibly better,  but I hope you had fun reading this and learning about when 3Sp read The Tale Of Despereaux and then watched the movie to it as well!

Love: Tess Berman

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The War of Selling Lemonade

Featured Blogger: Braeden

Hi my name is BRAEDEN and I am going to tell you about how my class read the book, Lemonade War, by Jacqueline Davies.  This book is mostly about Evan and Jessie. They are brother and sister and they have many adventures together.  But let’s just stick to one of their adventures. So, it was a sunny day and Evan was laying down on his basement floor throwing a baseball.  It was the last 10 days of summer vacation and Evan was bored.  Evan had been trying to get away from Jessie and not play with her.  And then the doorbell rang.  “Ding dong” went the doorbell.   Evan raced upstairs so he could get there before Jessie did.  It was the mail.   A letter said that Jessie was in Evan’s class!  Evan was angry.  He did not want his 7 year old sister to be in his 4th grade class.  

Then one day later, Evan’s friend Scott came to sell lemonade with Evan. Jessie offered to help but Evan and Scott just walked away. Evan didn't even like Scott but when Evan was little, he and Scott were best buddies but when they got to elementary school, they didn’t hang out.   Evan had no other friend that was available at the time, so Evan chose to have Scott help out with the lemonade stand.  He did not want Jessie to help out because he was really mad that Jessie was in his class. She was supposed to be in third grade.  Jessie felt sad that Evan just said that to her because she knew Evan was not friends with Scott.  Jessie went to her room so she could read Charlotte’s Web and that's what she did when she got sad.  She read that book because she knew what happens next.  So she was at the part were Wilbur is going to get killed when Charlotte makes a web to save Wilbur.  Again Jessie knew what would happen but it was the best part of the book so Jessie felt a little better but was still mad at Evan for saying that to her.  It was really mean what he said.   

At the lemonade stand Scott was hot and thirsty so he drank some lemonade.  Evan said “hey cut it out do not drink any more lemonade. We are here to sell lemonade not to drink it!”  But Evan did want a nice and cold glass of lemonade too but it was for the customers.  Then back at the house Jessie was trying to find someone to do a lemonade stand with. Then she remembered that Evan had a friend named Megan. Jessie had never met her but Jessie had listened to many good stories about her so Jessie went to Megan’s house. That's when Jessie started to think about how in 2nd grade some mean kids started a club named wild hot jelly beans. When they started that club Jessie was in it but then the whole class joined but like a month later Jessie found out that the club’s real name was “We Hate Jessie.”  Jessie was really sad but then at home Jessie told Evan and evan said to not go near them so Jessie rang the doorbell of Megan’s house.  To get more information read the book!  When we finished we read Tale Of Despereaux but I liked the Lemonade War better but I still liked the Tale Of Despereaux.  Read the next blog to find out more about the Tale Of Despereaux!

Plimoth Plantation

Featured Blogger: Gavin

Hey 3Sp parents we’re going to Plimoth Plantation!!!  YEEESSS!  1 hour 30 minute bus ride there.  At least it felt like that.  Let’s see what’s in there.  Wampanoag village!!!  Fact: did you know that deer skin is used in most of their clothes?  Wampanoags used summer houses to live in and different houses for arguments and discussions.  In the Pilgrim village, they had cows and chickens.  Me (Gavin), Alex and Will had the BEST CHAPERONE EVER!  Our chaperone was Alex’s grandmother.  She gave us bread--correction white bread.  We all ate lunch with the class and took the 1 hour 30 minute bus ride back to school. Ok this time it was actually that long.  Everybody had fun on the field trip!     

          

From the one and only:

Gavin Denning

The Publishing Party

Featured Blogger: Jessica

Everyone is so excited for the Publishing Party. I shouldn't even get started with the people who really wanted it. They were the most excited people in the whole entire class and a lot of people were very excited but I knew they were the most excited of everybody else.  I could tell by their faces but I don't think they exactly wanted to listen to other people’s stories. I think they just want the popcorn Ms. Sprague is buying us for the Publishing Party.  I think Ms. Sprague is just buying popcorn so everybody will stay silent because it’s always really loud so if we get popcorn we can’t really speak.

A few days later...

It was the day of the Publishing Party.  At morning meeting Ms. Sprague told everyone that it was the day of the Publishing Party.  A good amount of boys and a good amount of the girls were really quiet. They raised their hands and made the silent signal, so everyone would stay silent and then everyone did stay silent.

A few hours later...

It was a period away from the Publishing Party.  Everyone finished their lunches and lined up to go back to the classroom for recess.

A half an hour later...

We went in from recess and everybody realized that it was time for the Publishing Party.  Actually, it was just a few kids, they said this  “guys it’s time for the Publishing Party!” Everybody went wild. Ms. Sprague said “settle down everyone, settle down” and everybody did. Then Ms. Sprague said to everybody that  they needed to sit at their table spot and she would call tables up to get their popcorn then get their book in their binder and sit in a circle on the rug. Then everybody rushed over to get their book in their binder and sit on the rug to share their stories. Then Ms. Sprague picked about 5 kids names out of the fish bowl  and they all said that they didn’t want to, then finally somebody said they wanted to. Everyone was so excited. Ms. Sprague said to be silent, so everybody started eating their popcorn and being quiet. Then the first person shared and everyone listened, but after the person that went first finished their story about 5 people after that person got called from the fish bowl before. So they didn't want to go but only half the class got to share and I was one of the people that had to wait until the next two periods. The person that I was next to was the next one to go but then we had to stop.

After the periods...

It was finally time for everyone else that was going to share including me.  I was so excited but also kind of scared because I didn't want everyone to think my story was too long.  So when it was my turn I just read aloud to everyone and hoped they didn’t get bored with my story.   So I read pretty quick so I didn’t take too long and before I knew it I was done and I heard somebody say this “that was an amazing story.” After that everyone went, and that is the end of the Publishing Party!!!