Monster Traps

In October, we read a great book called "The Monster Trap". The book describes a boy who creates all of these inventions to trap some pesky monsters. Our class decided that we also wanted to make our own monster traps. They first drew pictures of their trap. Next, they wrote down exactly it looks like, what is does, how it traps the monster, etc. Finally, some of the students wanted to make their traps. So they brough in their traps to share with the class. They turned out great! Nice job everyone!

"The Cement Factory Trap"

My monster trap looks like a cement factory it has cement and the wheelbarrow with the Monster. My trap does this the monster goes and gets a pizza from my frig and it is Litile sizzers hot and ready pizza and eats it then I come out and with cement he Asks me are you go to scoop me. I poured cement on hem and he was all over with.

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"The Shoe Box Trap"

My trap looks like a shoe box but its not it is like a maze it is colorful and it has food in the end of the maze witch is a rocket that blasts off in the desert and it will find its world
Th e monster smells the food. He eats the food then he will press a button then hf in the
People will like my trap tbsert then it finb desert then it finds its world I think people will like my trap.

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"The Storage Room Trap"

My trap looks likes a storage room and it is made out of paper.

And my trap you push a button and a box will make hem fly out . and I mad it on last Thursday and it is vare cool .

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"The Fan Trap"

My trap has a fan at the top . The fan sucks them up . They get stuck in a bole. My trap has tow tubes that cunecks to a bole. I climb up a later to get the monsters. It is in my room. And it is cool.

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"The Living House Trap"

MY trap look’s like a living house that look like it was a monster .my trap is kind of a house that is wonderful were one happy family that was a living happy but one day the house had change it was a busy neighborhood that was a monster world it was no happy family but there was one bright light that shine on the monster that had felt and melt the neighbor lived happy.

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"The Castle Trap"

My trap is almost like a castle the color of it is red and pink I caught it in a little cage it got posa at the bottom and I have a button I push it and this how a little cage came over my monster got cot and me and my monster got cot and I could not see the sun but some one open the top and my monster stoku and I made Bob a new home its under my bed.

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"The Acid Trap"

My trap can trap any monster that I made it has a super secret camera that recos the monster being captured the trap has abunt of super pointy stuff the trap can catch the monster under my bed in to the tube and in to the fosallis and right into the trap rar the boulder runs him over face down on super spikes and post laser and gets squashed into the spics and into the water being drowned and into the acid
Ware he will burn and will burn and burn and burn so he’ll be nice and crispy
Fore the day he’ll be so sad that I gave him a peace of candy in his little cage from the trap let me tell you how it works by high power cage it works on wires too he will be happy in his little cage

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" The House Trap"

My monster trap looks like a house and it has stairs. It also it has furniture with it to. The monster has to walk on my front porch were there is soap on it. So the monster would have to slip into my house . And there will be explosions paint . And my monster will get weaker. Then my net will fall on my monster. Then my monster disappear and me an my never heard of him again. And we were happy.

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!