The District Spelling Bee

We are so excited because one of the students from our class was one of the winners for Montara's Spelling Bee! So, she was able to compete in the District Spelling Bee. She studied really hard, and the words were really difficult. She told us that when she was competing in the District Spelling Bee, she was given the word "gristle", but she got nervous and messed up on the word. She still did fabulous. The best part was that she was able to eat Del Taco for lunch, provided by the district. Way to go! We're so proud of you! :)!

All Board the Polar Express!

Since we had all those snow days back in December, we weren't able to have our Polar Express Party until after we got back from Christmas Break. Although it was a month later, we still had a blast! The students all dressed up in their pyjamas and we watched the movie "The Polar Express".

Looks like they're enjoying the party!

Some students even brought a blanket for the long train ride! :)!

We also ate lots of yummy food.

We even set up our desks in the shape of a train!

Mrs. Evans even made everyone a cup of hot chocolate! Yummy!

I think the best part was that Mrs. Evans also gave out Playdoh. I think some students liked the Playdoh better than the movie!

Our parent helper and his son.

Looks like we had a good party! You can even see Mrs. Evans in the background along with our parent helper!

The best part is that everyone had fun just being together!

Snow?!!?

The Monday before Christmas Break, we had quite a surprise. . . it started snowing!! Snow is such a rare thing for us that we let the kids go out and play in the snow!

Looks like they're having fun!

Looking over the playground

Looking up at the upper playground

Can you feel the excitement from that day?

It snowed for quite a few hours. Look at how much snow we had!

Now look at the playground!

We ended up having so much snow that everyone went home right after lunch.

Then on Wednesday, we had another snowstorm with even more snow. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get to the school because of the snow, so I don't have any pictures from that day. We had so much snow that they closed the school on Thursday and Friday! What a great lead up to our Christmas Break! :)!

These are snowstorms that I'm sure we won't ever forget!

Montara's Spelling Bee

In the beginning of December, we had our 3rd grade school Spelling Bee. Each 3rd grade class had 3 contestants and they had to spell some pretty difficult words! They did great though!

It looks like some of our contestants are getting pretty nervous!

Mrs. Jones did a wonderful job of guiding the contestants along in the Spelling Bee!

Mrs. Jones sure looks happy to be helping with the Spelling Bee!

After all of their hard work, our Spelling Bee had 3 wonderful winners! Good luck to the 3 of you at the District Spelling Bee!

Turkey Projects

These are our turkey projects that we did in November. The students were given a blank outline of a turkey. The students were suppose to disguise their turkey as something else in order to save it from being eatten at Thanksgiving dinner. Then, the students had to write about why it wasn't a turkey. The projects turned out so cute! Great job guys! :)

I am not a turkeyI am a colorful candy cereal turkey. I have candy eye. My feathers are made out of Trixs. My beak is made out take you for goun my colorful cabuollarye

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Hi, my name is Mike, I am a leprechaun. I am a fairy who can reveal hidden treasure. I celebrate St. Patrick Day. I dress up once a year all in green.

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I am Not a turkey

I protect the town and arrest people that do crime and drugs. I wear a uniform with a star badge I’m a
Police girl.

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I am not a turkey. I am a silly looking ballerina. I dance like a turkey. I have blond hair. I also have blue shoes. I have a purple shirt. I am a bad dancer at ballet. I have a dog and a cat. I don’ t like to dance . That is why I am not good at dancing. But the thing I really like is to sing.

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I am not a turkey. I am a piñata boy. I come on birthday parties and I am filled with
Lots of candy. Children take turns hitting me with a stick until I break open. When that
happens they rush to the floor to fill there goodie bags.

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Look at me. I am not a turkey. I am Santa. I have a fat Belly and a little head. I am not a turkey because I am in a Santa suit. I am cheap. I don’t have any presents.

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I’m not a turkey. I’m a Viking. You can see my ax and my shield and my horns. That’s how you can tell that I am a Viking. Stop trying to eat me!

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I disguised my turkey as a girl and we are going to get now clows and shows and I am getting my hair done and my nails done. And my name is Mie and I have a brother and his name is Daniel and a sister named Nicole. And I love playing games and going to birthday parties.

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I am not a Turkey because I don’t have the tale in back. But I am
A farmer. This is my man that is not a turkey.

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I’m not a turkey. My name is Nicole and I don’t want to get eaten because people will eat me. So I am dressed as a ballerina so I won’t get eaten. I have a necklace. I like wearing my necklace because it has a little beep and I know when the people are fooling me and I have a little button in my necklace so it can tell me when the people are coming.

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I am a turkey. I love colors. It makes me beautiful today. I only love my smile. I love my smile because it makes me beautiful and it makes me to not be shy, and to not be mean to someone.

My turkey works like feather. It works when you blow the feather it moves like nothing is touching it.

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My turkey is named drew. He plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He gots black socks and blue shoes. He gots long hair and their is stars every where around Drew. He gots black shoes laces and his laces are fat.

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I am not a turkey because I have a football helmet on my head with a Saint football shirt on. I like being a football player.

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.