Homework Due May 18th - Last day of class.  


Please write your answers these questions and bring them to class:

1.      What was the most interesting thing you learned in our class this year? 

       2.  What assignments or class activities did you think were the most enjoyable and helpful for learning? Why or how? 

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Choose one paragraph from the story you wrote to read to the class.  You will each do a reading in front of the class from your newly published short story!

Homework Due May 11th.

1.  Read My Side of the Mountain pages 131 (beginning at the section called "In Which I have a good look at winter and find Spring in the Snow") and read to the top of page 148 (do not start the new section on that page.)  

2.  See you Friday! 

There is no homework for this week ! See you Friday!

Homework Due April 27th.

We will be meeting at Ms. Elzinga's house this Friday, April 27th, from 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Please have your parents drop you off at:
103 Tamworth Drive 78213 at 9:00a.m.
At 10:30 a.m. I will drive you back to Friday School and drop you off!  

Make sure Ms. Elzinga has your signed release form or I won't be able to drive you in my car and your parent will need to pick you up at my home at 10:20 a.m.!  Thank you! 

Here is a picture of the Great Horned Owl that Sam Found watching him from a tree.:

Homework Due April 20th

IMPORTANT:  Ms. Elzinga is inviting you to have class in 2 weeks (on April 27th) at her home which is 1.5 miles from Friday School.  We will meet at 9:00am at my home and after we do some reading and some fun projects, I will drive you back to Friday School by 10:30 a.m.   
Please print and have your parent sign this Consent and Release form.  Bring the Form to class on Friday, 4/20.
On April 27th (not this Friday), please have your parents drop you off at my home:
103 Tamworth Drive 78213 at 9:00am (30 minutes later than class usually starts. )  See the Consent and Release form for pickup/drop-off details. 

Sam has made a new friend, the Barron Weasel.

When Bando comes to visit the Barrow is not keen on having another visitor in the camp.  Here is a youtube clip of a baby weasel living in a home, doing a war dance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzBZCao0kLE

Sam and Bando make willow whistles.  Here is a whistle made out of a willow:

Frightful is growing into a well-trained bird.  She now looks like this.

Here is a photo of some of the equipment Sam may have used to help train her.

Here are some photos of Jesse James.

Due April 13th

Read these notes about My Side of the Mountain:

Sam is surviving by finding his own food to live on.  He had a whole field of wild strawberries before the little old lady came and picked them for her jam.

He also makes acorn pancakes. Here is a picture of a book of recipes to make with Acorns.  What do you think, would you make something from this book? 

Here is a link about how to gather acorns and a make acorn flour safely. Click on this sentence and read how to make acorn flour.   Is this a simple or very complex process?  

If you are brave enough to try this, here is a recipe for Acorn Pancakes!

You have to be very careful when finding food to eat in the wild.  Sam has a guide to help him identify poison plants and has done lots of research in the library to learn what he can and can’t eat.  He took a plant guide with him like this one that shows some edible weeds:

Here is a picture of what Frightful looks like at the moment.  Isn’t he cute!

As he grows older he will darken in color and grow into a magnificent bird!  Here is a youtube clip of a Falcon trainer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4VmZIIpEUY

Watch this youtube clip for a short summary of the story so far 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSmFOBIk_yI

Homework Due April 6th.

We have started the story, MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN - READ THE NOTES BELOW!

Sam Gribley is 15 Years old when he runs away from his crowded house in New York City to the Catskill Mountains.  They are a real place in America!  Here is a link to the official tourism site for the Catskill Mountains.  What can you learn about the Mountains from looking on this website?

http://www.visitthecatskills.com/

Make some notes about what you learn and bring them to class!

Sam makes his home in a Hemlock Tree.  This is a picture of a Hemlock Tree.

Here are some ideas of what a hollowed out tree house might look like.

Here is a video of how to make a fire using flint and steel – remember you MUST have an adult with you if you are going to try this at home!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW_m7tKTMK8

Here is a map of the Gribley’s Farm on the Mountain.

Homework Due March 30th.

1.  CONGRATULATIONS to Zoe who turned in her story and brought her drawings!

2.  Congratulations to Gianna and Nate who turned in their stories. (We missed you! Hope you are feeling better!)  Be sure to bring a printed copy of your story on Friday and your pictures.  Look at last weeks homework to make sure you know how to label your pictures.  

3. Mia- please email me your story as soon as possible - all stories are going to the copy editor this Wednesday and I want your story to be in our book! Also, bring a printed copy of your story to class and all of your drawings correctly labeled. 

4.  Gianna and Nate - please read the first chapter of My Side of the Mountian - we read this in class last week.

5.  ALL - bring your copy of My Side of the Mountain to class!

There is no class on Friday, March 16th!

Enjoy your Spring Break

This homework is to do on the week AFTER March 16th and is due:

Homework Due March 22^nd – THURSDAY by email.

1. EMAIL your completed, edited story attached to an email as either a WORD or Google docs document no later than March 22^nd – THURSDAY, by 6pm.  This allows me to get it to the designer so that we can get it published before the end of the year. 

 2   Complete your DRAWINGS for your story.  Make sure they are Portrait and BLACK ink on white. Bring them to class in a folder.  Print a copy of the story you have emailed to Mrs. Elzinga and number the pages.   On the back of each drawing, lightly in pencil, number your picture and include a page number that corresponds with the page this picture goes with.  On the story that you printed, put the picture number near the place in the story that the picture goes. 

 

Click this LINK to get an example of how to label pictures and printed story. Bring this to class on Friday, March 23rd (but don't forget - the edited story is due to me by email on March 22nd!

3.  Bring your copy of My Side of the Mountain to class on 3/23!

 

3.Bring this book to class on 2-23!