Snipe and Raven - rough draft of the class

Narrator 1: A long, long time ago there was a Raven and a Snipe. Raven like to pull tricks on the other animals that lived in the forest.

Narrator 2: Raven hated to work but his tricks often backfired on him.

Narrator 1: One day Raven  saw Snipe collecting Oysters on the beach.

Raven: Snipe, you must have a lot of food. I see you here every day.

Snipe: I need to collect all this food for my family, so I work hard every day.

Raven: Where is your house? I would like to visit some time.

Snipe: My house is next to the clearing with the fire pit.

RAVEN GOES TO GET FOOD

Narrator 2: So Raven set off to think of a plan to get some food. He knew Snipe had lots of food and wanted to trick Snipe into giving all of the food to Raven.

Raven: I got it! I will go to deer’s house. Deer will know how to trick Snipe.

Narrator 1: When Raven was going to Deer’s house he just forgot how to get to Snipe’s house.

Raven: Do you know the way to Snipe’s house?

Deer: No but I think that Fox knows the way. Do you want to stay and have some tea?

Raven: No thanks.

Deer:  Why are you going to Snipe’s house?

Raven: To  play a trick on her.

Deer: Okay lets go to fox’s house and learn how to get to Snipes house.

Narrator 1: So Deer took Raven to fox.

Fox: What are you doing?

Raven: I am going to Snipe’s house to play a trick on her.

Fox: Do you know where Snipe's family lives?

Raven: I do not know where Snipe's family lives.

Fox: What kind of trick?

Raven: I do not have a trick, but I want to get Snipe’s food. Snipe has a ton of yummy Oysters, clams and salmon.

Fox: I know that wolf knows many tricks.

Narrator 2: So deer, fox and Raven went to wolf’s house.

Raven gets to Snipes House

Wolf: Hello, Raven, deer and Fox!

Fox: Hi!

Wolf: What can I do for you?

Raven: I was wondering whether you could help me trick Snipe into giving me his food.

Wolf: Of course I’ll help! This is my plan. You could pretend to eat dinner with him, but then eat all his food at dinner.

Raven: That sounds like a wonderful plan! Thanks Wolf!

Narrator 1: So Fox took Raven to the beach.

Fox: I need to go back to the forest now.

Raven: Okay! Good-Bye!

Raven: I’m going to eat Snipe’s food.

Raven: Knock. Knock.

Snipe: Hello would you like to come in for dinner?

Raven: Yes, please.

Snipe: I’m going to make salmon and oysters.

Raven: Yum! Yum!

Snipe:Thank you!

Snipe: shshshsh!   My husband is sleeping!

Husband: zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Narrator: Raven was eating all of the Snipe's food.

Snipe: Raven, do you want to know how to make food magically appear?

Raven: Of course I do! How do I?

Snipe: Just do what I tell you.

Raven: Of course!

Narrator: Snipe had to think fast if she was going to keep Raven from eating all of their food.

Snipe: Close your eyes and I will give you instructions.

Raven: My eyes are closed.

Snipe: Keep your eyes closed.

Raven: Ok.

Narrator: So Snipe threw Raven out the door.

Snipe: (secretly talking to the audience) I need a plan to fool Raven. I know I will pretend to dance through the fire four times. then I will pretend to hit my knee with a rock four times.

Raven: Where are we going?

Snipe: To the fire pit. I will walk through the fire four times. Then I will bang my knee with a rock four times. Squint your eyes so the smoke does not hurt your eyes.

Narrator 1: Snipe was dancing outside the fire he was dancing like crazy. Snipe pretended to dance through the fire flames.

Snipe: (pretending) ouch, ouch, ouch

Raven: Are you done dancing yet?

Snipe: No not yet .......Now I'm done, but now I have to smash a rock against my

leg. Close your eyes while I get the rock.

Raven: Okay.

Narrator: Instead of getting a rock, Snipe went to get fish eggs and some moss. Then he went back to Raven.

Snipe:You can open your eyes now, but squint so the fire doesn’t hurt your eyes.

Raven: Okay.

Narrator: When Snipe hit his leg, it looked like to Raven that Snipe was hitting

his leg with a real rock.

Snipe: (hitting his leg) one, ouch, two, ouch, three, ouch, four, ouch

Snipe: Now after this time some food will appear.

Raven: Finally! ( Snipe drops the eggs. )

Raven: Food! Yay!! Yay! I am happy to share with you. Would you like the food?

(Raven gobbles up the food)

Snipe: Now it's  your turn. Start dancing through the fire. I’ll lead you.

Raven: Owwwwww, this hurts, hurts, hurts.

Snipe: You need to dance through the fire again for the magic to work. You want the magic to work don’t you!

Raven: Owwwwwwww. This hurts, hurts, hurts.

Snipe: Now you need to find the sharpest rock you can find and pang on your leg as hard as you can. Then all the food you could ever eat will magically appear at your feet.

raven: (banging the rock on his leg and crying) Ouch

Snipe: Are you giving up yet?

raven: Its not worth it!!

snipe: So are you  giving up yet?

raven: Yes!!! I’ll just go find my own food. I don’t like your magic. sa

Narrator 1 : Raven does not trust Snipe anymore.

Narrator 1: Raven no longer played tricks on Snipe.

Narrator 2: At last Raven got his own food with his friends.                                                                                          

Raven: Hey thanks Fox for showing me the way to Snipe’s house, but the trick didn’t work. Want to go get some grub with me and Deer?  

Fox: Like what kind of grub?

Raven: Oh you know crab, shrimp,and oysters.

Fox: Sounds good.

Raven: Good!

Narrator 1: The Snipes no longer trust Raven, but f you ever go to the  beach and find a quiet spot the Snipes will trust you.                         

Plays

Here are the links to the plays. You may add onto and write more in the plays. You are not to delete any section that you see. After you finish your own section, you can add dialogue to another section if you have an idea.

To see what other people have written, you can come back to this page and re-click on the link.

Assignment:

1. Type up what you have written so far
2. Add onto your story if you need to in your own section
3. Read the whole story through
4. Change any misspellings that you see or errors that you see in punctuation
5. Read another group's story or add dialogue to another section of your own story

NOTE: These links no longer work because we were having issues with people deleting things that the students had written. They are only active with a password now that is changed daily. Please email me if you would like the link and password that is currently active. sluria_ at_ pps.net

Raven and Water
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ls16GUxrbb1tkP9agwMEGIQ4hqiE2E57nVYqlR_SBc0/edit?usp=sharing

Raven and Snipe
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/13veY42EDI01HsCzfxD9Yz-dhrULEdM9sNo1QvVJPuNc/edit?usp=sharing

Orca and Eagle
 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gWrRe5msNhxvPXSAg6Hs2lNdml04Ze_5vYHl_XTsAUU/edit?usp=sharing

January 24, 2014

Important Dates:

January 27 – Teacher planning day

January 28 – Scholastic Orders Due

Friday January 31 – 12:30 IB presentation of plays

January 24, 2014

Dear Families,

Thank you for the wonderful MLK assembly. The students worked hard and were so excited to have you there!

Scholastic Orders: Please bring Scholastic Book orders on Tuesday. I have coupons for a free book for each person who orders $10. I have kept the coupons in the classroom so they don’t get lost! The free book can be worth up to $5.

IB: We are working hard on writing up our myths. If you scroll down on the blog, you can see a link to the actual myths that they are writing. Click on the link to see the writing in action. We are experimenting with using Google documents to collaborate and write together. Students have been learning a lot about how to work together as a team on a big project.

Writing: Around this point in the year, 3^rd graders start being more independent in their writing. We have a mini-lesson at the beginning of each writing time. Then students work for 10 minutes silently, by themselves. For the rest of writing time they can work with a partner, sign up for an adult conference, edit or do many other things. Finally, up to three students get to share their writing at the end of the writing time. Here is a poster of what writing time looks like! 

Math: In calendar we are relating money to fractions. Here is a picture of the calendar. This next week we are working together with Ms. Hunt’s class to do math rotations. Each student will have some time with me and some time with Ms. Hunt as we deepen our understanding of equivalent fractions.

We have finished our unit on geometry. Ask your child to tell you about all of these shapes and show you’re the hand motions that go along with the shapes!

Science: We continue to study the mystery plant and the plant cycle. Everyone is very curious about the plant. Most children now believe that it is a bulb. We are also working on measuring like scientists. The plant has grown to 63 cm, but didn’t grow at all this past week. The flower is starting to open a little bit. Here are some pictures from the process.

 

Have a wonderful day,
Sacha Luria

January 8, 2014

Dear Families,

Happy New Year! It is wonderful to see everyone back at school and hear about winter breaks. I hope that you had a restful break.

Thank you so much for your generous gifts. My family has already enjoyed the Podnah's gift certificate you gave me! We had a wonderful meal. I can't wait to go to the plant store and create a new terrarium! Also, I'm enjoying read the plant book. (Especially because I can't do too much gardening this time of the year.)

IB: We continue to read myths about why the world is the way it is. Expect to see more myths on the blog in the next few weeks! We are also going to start working on a plan to present to the third grade.

Math: The new math groups are a bit smaller! We are working on the meaning of multiplication and division. In calendar we are relating money to fractions. Ask your child questions like if I have 2 dimes, what fraction of a dollar is that?

Science: We continue to study the mystery plant and the plant cycle. Everyone is very curious about the plant. Most children now believe that it is a bulb. We are also working on measuring like scientists. The plant has grown to 25 cm over the break!

Have a wonderful day,
Sacha Luria

Jack L.

       Once upon a time there was a swan. He wanted to know why the clouds weren’t puffy. He thought and thought but he couldn’t think why the clouds weren’t puffy. So he went to see Fish. But Fish said, “Clouds can’t become puffy.”  The swan said, “I don’t think that’s true.”

        Then he felt a sting. It was a bee trying to show him something. So the swan flew as high as he could go. He saw the bee trying to do something. He asked the bee, “What are you doing?” The bee answered, “You will see once I am done.”

         The swan noticed something different about the clouds. He saw something puffy sticking out. He went to get Fish. When the swan showed Fish the clouds, he was amazed. He didn’t realize the bees make the clouds swell up from their stingers.

December 13, 2013

Update from Ms. Luria

Wednesday December 18th - HW due NOTE the different day - students are writing a myth

Wednesday, December 18th - 2 hour late start

Friday December 20th - Last day before break - family sing in the classroom at 2 pm - 

                                        bring a healthy snack if you want to share

Monday, January 6th - First day back after winter break

No spelling test this week, No vocabulary test this week

Dear Families,

Students had a full week. We are into our 3rd IB unit of the year. Students are writing myths to answer questions about the northwest. Some of their questions are the following:

• Why are clouds puffy?
• Why is the ocean salty?
• Why is the sky blue?
• Why does the crow make the sound it makes?

We are reading traditional myths from Northwest cultures and writing our own myths in similar styles. 

HW: This week students are to finish writing the myth they have started in the classroom.

Friday Sing: You, and your family, are invited to our last Friday sing. We will be singing winter songs, rounds and other songs that we have been learning this year in the classroom. Come and sing along with us before the winter holiday starts. Join us at 2:00 pm for about 30 minutes of singing. Then, feel free to stay and share some treats before the end of the day. 

Headphones: Please have your child bring a baggie with a pair of headphones to use in the classroom.

Math: We are close to our goal of 100% of the students reaching mastery of subtraction! I anticipate that we will be having a math party before the end of January. Your children are working hard on mastering the basics! We also will continue our study of geometry for one more week. Our next unit will be on multiplication and word problems.

Spelling: No spelling test next week.

Feel free to write me a note, email me or call if you have any questions or concerns.

Ms. Luria

Nelson Mandela

Here is some information about Nelson Mandela that we studied in class today. Feel free to share what you learned with your family.

http://www.timeforkids.com/news/nelson-mandela-1918-2013/97361