Halloween Time!

We had an awesome day on Halloween! In the morning we had our costume parade where we were able to see all of the students' costumes.

Here we are waiting to feed the scarecrow our canned food. The canned food went towards those families who need food.

Look at all those costumes waiting in the costume parade!

These are the 3 blind mice (Mrs. Evans, Mrs. Wilson, and Mrs. Mazzola) and the farmer's wife (Mrs. Holliday). Mrs. Holliday is holding our tails because she in the story of "The 3 Blind Mice" she cuts off our tails with a carving knife.



Another student as we're waiting in the Costume Parade.


A wonderful class picture! Can you feel the excitement of Halloween?

Look at all those costumes! We have a werewolf, devil, bride, witch, cat, alien, soldier, skeleton, Hannah Montana, skeleton, Pippi Longstocking, and a Ghostbuster. Their costumes were all so creative!

Look at all the food that was donated for our Halloween party! The students all had plenty of yummy goodies to eat.

Here are some of the students during our Halloween party. We watched "The Charlie Brown Halloween" while we ate lots of yummy food! What fun!

These students look like they're having a great time!

More students having fun at the party.

Say "cheese" guys!

Don't they look so happy?

He's so excited he's jumping for joy! I think these students are ready for some trick-or-treating!

All in all, we had a good Halloween. It was a bit rainy during our costume parade, but the rain helped to create a more "Halloween" mood! What a good day it was!

Rotary Club

This year, the Rotary Club donated dictionaries for every 3rd grader at Montara Elementary School. We were really excited because we do a lot of dictionary skills in 3rd grade. The students were very excited to open their dictionaries and find: a US map, the largest words in the English language, measurement tools, grammar rules, etc. Thank you so much Rotary Club! We really appreciate it!

Pond Pal of the Week

This was our Pond Pal of the week a few weeks ago. She shared with us some gloves that were red with black dots. She told us that they were her favorite gloves. They looked like ladybugs! What a cool thing to share! Thanks!

The Keeping Quilt

In October, we read the story "The Keeping Quilt" by Patricia Pollacco. The story describes a keeping quilt that is passed down, through the family, from generation to generation. Mrs. Blake, one of our Kindergarten teachers, has her own keeping quilt and she shared her quilt and her story with us!

Her keeping quilt dates all the way to the Civil War! During the Civil War, her family and their house was going to be attacked by the soldiers. The Mama of the family tied the family's silver into her hair and wrapped her hair. Then she grabbed the quilt, wrapped the youngest baby into the quilt and ran into a nearby cave. The soldiers were coming, and bullets were flying at Mama, but she made it safely into a cave, along with the silver, the baby, and the quilt.

Ever since then, this quilt is only passed down to girls in the family whose name is "Mary". Mrs. Blake's name is Marylee, and so she received the blanket from her grandmother! This quilt is hand stitched and is dyed from crushed up berries and leaves.

What a beautiful quilt! Thank you for sharing it with us, Mrs. Blake!

Red Ribbon Week

For Red Ribbon Week, the Marine Base came and put on an assembly for us. They showed us a cool video which explained how Red Ribbon Week got started. Then they asked us some questions about the video. Lastly, they gave us some cool souvenirs! Thanks Marine Base! :)!

Fire Prevention Week

Recently, we had Fire Prevention Week and we had an assembly about it! 2 Firefighters from our local firehouse came and showed us how to us a fire extinguisher, what to do if there's a fire, and what to do if we catch on fire. One firefighter even came out in his full uniform. He looked a little scary, but we know that he's just trying to do his job. It was an awesome assembly! Now we know how to be fire safe!

Frankensteins in Room 14!

We have way too much fun in Room 14. For Art on Friday on October 3rd we had Frankensteins. The students were given green and black paper and they were told to make their own Frankensteins. Some made theirs cute and friendly, others made theirs scary and gross! Either way, they turned out fun! Then the students wanted to make scary faces with their Frankensteins. Ooohhhh scary! Enjoy!