Thursday, June 12, 2008

End of the Year Fin del Año

Today was the last day of school. We recieved our awards and had a water party. It was so much fun. We sure will miss our teacher and friends this summer. See you in August!
Hoy fue el ultimo dia de clases. Recibimos nuestros premios y tuvimos una fiesta de agua. Fue muy divertido! Nos vemos en agosto.


Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Picking Up Trash Recogiendo Basura

Today we walked to the nearest river, La Posa, to pick up trash.
Hoy fuimos caminando al rio mas cerca, La Posa, para recoger basura.
We also made cards that talked about why we shouldn't throw trash because it ends up in the rivers. We handed them out to the people who live near the river.
Tambien hicimos cartas habalando de como no debemos tirar basura porque llega a los rios. Los entregamos a la gente que viven por el rio.

Monday, June 9, 2008

Cleaning Limpieza

This week is Service Week. Everyday we are doing something to serve others. Today we cleaned our classroom. Keep watching to see what we do each day!
Esta Semana es Semana de Servicio. Cada dia hacemos algo para servir a los demas. Hoy limpiamos nuestro aula. Sigue mirando para ver que hacemos cada dia.

Friday, May 30, 2008

New Classroom Aula Nueva

This week grades 3 through 10 have been doing standardize testing. Sixth grade shares a wall with us. Fifth and Fourth grades are on our other sides. The walls in this building are not sound proof. So we had to have class in the library. "At first it was hard for me to focus" said Josue, "but then I got used to it." Esta semana tercero hasta segundo de bachillerato estuvieron tomando examenes. Sexto grado comparte una pared con nostoros. Quinto y cuarto estan a los otros lados. Las paredes en este edificio pasan mucho sonido. Por eso tuvimos que coger clase en la biblioteca. "Al principio fue dificil concentrar," dijo Josue, "pero despues me acostumbre."

Monday, May 26, 2008

Last few Weeks Ultimas Semanas

We are working really hard to get through the end of the school year. We have two full weeks left of learning and then the last week is Service Week where we will do service projects everyday.
Estamos trabajando duro para terminar el ano escolar. Tenemos dos semana enteras de aprendizaje todavia y despues un Semana de Servicio. Esta es la ultima semana que vamos a pasar haciendo proyectos de servicio todos los dia.
We're almost ready for third grade!!!
Casi estamos listos para tercer grado!!!

Friday, May 9, 2008

Valuable Lessons Lecciones Valorosas


We are learning some very valuable lessons in Second grade. We are learning how to care for things whether they are ours or not. We are also learning to always tell the truth and that writing on anything but paper is not okay.

Estamos aprendiendo algunas lecciones buenas en segundo grado. Estamos aprendiendo como cuidar para todas las cosas, que sean nuestras o no. Estamos aprendiendo decir la verdad siempre y que escribiendo en algo que no es papel no esta bien.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Spelling Bee Competencia de Ortografia

Friday was the spelling bee. Crismeiry, Geremias, Adrian and Josue were all competitors against some of the students from first grade. Josue won first place. It was fun to cheer on our friends.

Viernes fue la competencia de ortografia. Crismiery, Geremias, Adrian y Josue competieron con algunos alumnos de primer grado. Josue gano primer lugar. Fue divertido animar a nuestros amigos.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

We're Busy! Estamos ocupados!

Last week a dentist came one one of the work teams. He taught us all how to brush our teeth and gave us all fluoride. Yuck!

La semana pasada vino un dentista con uno de los equipos de trabajo. El nos enseno como cepillar los dientes y nos dio florida. Aqueoroso
With the other work team we interviewed some of the people and made a book about them.

Con otro equipo, entrevistamos algunos de las personas y hicimos un libro sobre ellos.
Today we learned and practiced measuring long distances with our yard sticks.

Hoy aprendimos y practicamos medir distancias largas con nuestros palos de metro.
Also today, we learned about the third thing of matter - Gas! We did an experiment with bags full of air to learn how to describe gas.

Tambien hoy, aprendimos sobre la tercera cosa de los estados de materia - gas! Hicimos un experimento con fundas llenas de aire para aprender como describir a gas.

Monday, April 7, 2008

Mr. Mark was in an accident last week. He was hit by a car and broke his leg. He went to the hospital where they operated on his leg. Now he is at home resting. Please pray for him and his wife, Ciara who is the 5th grade teacher.

Mr. Mark estuvo en un accidente el la semana pasada. Lo chocaron y se rompio la pierna. Fue al hospital donde lo operaron en la pierna. Ahora el esta en su casa descansando. Por favor, ora por el y su esposa Ciara quien es la profa de quinto grado.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

You are Loved! Tu Eres Amado!



Today we got some love from California. Grades 1 - 6 recieved buttons that said "You are Loved." In Second grade we talked about how much people can love us like our families & our friends, but how God's love is so much bigger than that. We learned how God the Father loves us so much that he sent his ONLY son Jesus to die for us! That love is bigger than any human love!

Hoy recibimos amor de California. Primer hasta sexto grado recibieron butones que dicen "Eres amado." En segundo grado hablamos de como las personas nos pueden amar, como nuestras familias y amigos, pero el amor de Dios es mucho mas grande que eso. Aprendimos como Dios el Padre, nos ama tanto que mando a su UNICO hijo Jesus para morir para nosotros! Ese amor es mucho mas grande que cualquier amor humano!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Celebration!!!

We had our celebration because we finished our project of Australian animals. Here is a small video of what we did. Check out the pictures on Miss Tara's Photos page.

Tuvimos nuestra celebracion porque terminamos nuestro proyecto de animales en Australia. Aqui esta un video breve de lo que hicimos. Mira las fotos en la pagina de "Miss Tara's Photos."

Monday, March 3, 2008

Good Work! Buen Trabajo!


While Miss Tara has been in the Capital studying at her class, we've been working really hard at finishing our own zoo. Mr. Mark has been awesome and helps us a lot. Our presentation will be next Tuesday.

Mientras que Miss Tara esta en la capital estudiando en su clase, nosotros estamos trabajando mucho en nuestro zoologico. Mr. Mark nos ha ayudado much y nos trata super bien. Nuestra presentacion sera el otro martes.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Independence Day Dia de Independencia



Today we celebrated our Independence Day!
Hoy celebramos Dia de Independencia!

Friday, February 22, 2008

Zoo! Zoologico!

We went to the Zoo! Fuimos al zoologico!

After 3 hours on a bus, and a snack, we went and saw animals we have never seen before!
Despues de 3 horas en un autobus, y una merienda, fuimos a ver aniamles que nunca hemos visto antes!

There was lots of trash at the zoo.
Habia mucha basura en el zoologico.

So we picked up as much as we could.
Entonces, recogimos la mas que pudimos.

It was so much fun. Check out our pictures on Miss Tara's Photo page.
Fue muy divertido. Busca las fotos en la pagina de Miss Tara's Photos.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

More Animal Work!

Today we worked some more on our animals. We made the arms, legs, heads and tails. Then we were supposed to cover them with more glue and tissue paper. I am not sure it is going to work, but we are trying anyway! Check out all the pictures on Miss Tara's Picture Page; under School Pics.
Hoy trabajamos en nuestros animales. Hicimos los brazos, piernas, cola y cabeza. Despues tuvimos que cubrirlos con mas ega y papel. No estoy segura que va a funcionar, pero lo intentaremos como quiera. Busca las fotos en la pagina "Miss Tara's Pictures"; bajo "School Pictures."

Friday, February 15, 2008




We've been working very hard on drawing our animals. Today we finally finished and picked our very best drawing. We were so tired of drawing our animal, but it is what helped us to do a great job.

Hemos estado trabajando mucho en dibujar nuestros animales. Hoy, finalmente, terminamos y elegimos nuestro mejor dibujo. Estuvimos muy cansados de dibujar el mismo animal tantas veces, pero al final fue lo que nos ayudo de hacer un buen trabajo.

Friday, February 8, 2008

Paper Mache






Today we started work on our animals. We blew up balloons, tied them to string, and then got really messy! We covered them with newspaper dipped in glue, water & flour. On Monday they will be firm enough to begin adding the rest of the parts of the animal, like the arms, legs & head.

Hoy empezamos el trabajo de nuestros animales. Soplamos bejigas (globos), las amaramos con hilo y despues hicimos un reguerro! Las cubrimos con periodico mojado de ega, agua y harina. Lunes deben ser suficientemente firmes para conectar las otras partes del animal, por ejemplo los brazos, piernas y cabeza.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

We have started our expedition. We are studying about Australian animals. Each one of us has an animal that we will become an expert on. Here are some of our first drafts.
Hemos empezado nuestra expedicion. Estudiamos sobre animales de Australia. Cada uno de nosotros tenemos un animal del cual seremos expertos. Aqui hay algunos de los primeros borradores.

We are also raising money to help pay for our trip to the capital to visit the only zoo in the country. We need to raise $5000RD and we have $1000RD with only two weeks to go! We are selling snacks at recess time.
Estamos levantando fondos para ayudar a pagar por nuestro viaje a la capital al unico zoologico en el pais. Tenemos que levantar $5000RD y tenemos $1000RD faltando solamente dos semanas. Estamos vendiendo merienda en la hora de recreo.