Abbie+Reporter+April+26th

Hi my friends!!! I am Abbie G. and I will be your hostess for once again cold and cloudy spring day, April 26, 2011. It has been quite an interesting day in the Moline class. In the morning orchestra left for their rehearsal and that left only half the class. We had a starter, then we went to music, then we did social studies and went to the computer lab. Later on the orchestra students rejoined the band and we continued on to math, and last we did science. The class also learned some very exciting news at the end of the day. Now I must get on with this report and give you some details.

As I said, the orchestra had a rehearsal for their concert in the morning and they left as soon as we began school so it our class only had half for the whole morning. Half the class is 12 kids just to let you know, except we got news that changes that. But I will get to that later. Right now I must explain what us band students did while the others were away. Before music we did a starter that was matrix logics, pretty much using the details we were provided to find the facts. It was very enjoyable, at least to most of us.

Finally we took a break and went to music. Since there was no orchestra at the moment and they were off enjoying their rehearsal, the band got to finish their testing on the xylophones and even retest. I got 4s on all my testing, like most. We are going to start our ukelele unit next. Tomorrow the orchestra students will finish their testing. It was a very musical morning for both sections of the class.

After music we did social studies. We got out our colossal American Nation history book and read the first two parts of chapter 5. When we finished reading that we answered questions in the book on a piece of paper. I must add the fact that we are currently learning of the pre-revolutionary war including the French and Indian war. We also read chapter 7 of our Colonies to Country book, which happens to be written by a very good writer since she makes everything so interesting. We also went to the computer lab and began our business letters to our picked state in which we would request info and a few souvenirs. My state is Oregon and I really do love Oregon, which is why I picked it. Most of the people got their football team’s state, but some of us shared a state and got to pick a different one. So instead of getting Florida I got Oregon and Suzie got Florida, which I am totally fine with. Near the end of the computer lab time the orchestra arrived and the day continued on.

We also did science today. Since the class has currently been learning about structures, skyscrapers in general, we watched a Building Big video. We learned about the Eiffel Tower, a lot of foreign place skyscrapers, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and plenty more of the tallest buildings. Then we answered questions on what we just learned. I find that learning about skyscrapers can be fascinating.

Anyways, I must tell you of the big surprise we got. Tomorrow we will have a new student entering the class!!! YAY!!!! I’m so very excited!!!! It’s going to be so cool!!! By the way, her name is Emma. Well I just think this is so fantastic!!! I just can’t wait. What an amazing day it has been. So long!!!