Reptile Museum

We earned over $2000 by doing odd jobs, selling Heart-o-Grams, and getting donations from local businesses. Then we spent our money for a trip to the Seattle area. We left school on a bus at 8 in the morning. Our first stop was the Reptile Museum in Sultan.

Practicing Photo Points with the Third Grade

Learning how to do a photo point

These are pictures of us doing photo points and learning to do photo points. A photo point is when you take a picture of the same place one day then you do it tomorrow and the next day and the next day as many times as you want and then when you look at them all together you can see a change in the area.There are also pictures of us learning to use a compass.

Kelsey's animal story

It was a sky blue and warm April morning. While trudging to the stables I found myself wishing something awesome would happen. As I turned around I was happy to see a machine. I didn’t know what it was. As I turned it on I found out it was a changer thingy so it would change you into any animal you wanted. Today was going to be an awesome day after all.

With one excited finger I typed in the word horse and pushed go .But nothing happened so I took it to the creator to fix it. I got their and rung the door bell. He didn’t answer so I left it on the stairs with a note. Later that day the mad scientist came out of the mansion and fixed it .So then the adventure began.

Once again I typed in the word horse and pushed go. But this time it worked .I was now a huge buckskin horse. I galloped to the stables to show the stable master what had happened .When I got their it didn’t really go as I planned .The stable master noticed I didn’t have a saddle or anything so she thought I was a wild horse .She screamed and ran away .When she got to the farm house she told the farm hands and of course they came out with ropes and you Know what? They were on horses! They were going to chase me until I was far far away from the ranch! I had to hide .When coming at me fast so I just sat there. Now wait a minute I’m not going to take that I’m going to run you out of town .Oh no! Here they come run run run! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! So they ran me out of town. Besides I always was a scardy cat I couldn’t even stand up to a mouse. So they ran me out of town. Wait wait a minute hold it I see a horse band .I think I’ll go say Hi to them. Ow.

“Ok. Why did you kick me when I didn’t do anything to you?”
“ Because a cougar is coming!”
“Oh well why we are standing here? Lets go!”
“I can do that.”
“ I hope so.“
Once we ditched the cougar we started eating grass. I tried it. “YUCK! That’s nasty. Do you have any pizza or lunchables?”
“No.”
“Well I’m going to find that machine and change myself back into a human.”
So I ran to the mad scientist .I was expecting a YES! My invention worked. But no I got a big old nasty bit in my mouth. I thought to myself “oh my gosh that thing is nasty. It’s cold and hard.” Then he dragged me into his house where I spotted the machine. After I saw it he drug me into a pen with other people who had been turned into horses. One told me his plan was to bring the machine in here and turn us all back into people. Here he comes. Then he turned us all back into people and I went to the ranch.

I learned that when you see a machine DON’T TOUCH IT!

Nolan's animal story

One day it was a dry and hot day. When I came home from school I was watching T.V. There was nothing on so I went outside. I felt fine but I was growing light gray hair on me. Then I was eating some hay. Suddenly I knew something was going to happen and it was going to be cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The next day when I went to school I was walking then I turned into a donkey. I knew I could not go to school like this so I started trotting around town. Everybody looked at me funny. I started to think how animals would treat me so I was booking it south towards the MTS. Then I started picking up the language. Ehoooo,ehooo,ehooo. When I got to the MTS all the animals said sucks for you!!!!!!!
I said “Why?

The deer Bill said, “Look behind you.” There was a sign on the tree that said
“Shoot a donkey. Reward 100,000,000 bucks.” Bill said,
“I can come hide with his herd.” Aimlessly I said,
“Yes.”

An hour or two later we came to Bills herd. I came to the herd. Gave them a couple ehoos and they said “What kind of a deer is that?”
I said, “A donkey.”
They said “Bill, Bill.”
He said, “ What?”
“ Why did you bring a donkey to our herd?”
“Because he saw the donkey sine.”
The leader of the herd Kenny said, “So you will attract the hunters to our herd.”
“Bill said, “Sorry”. They suddenly we heard a nose and 10 or 11 hunters came running and shooting at me. Bill and I took off. The rest of the herd ran off too.
The hunters said, “Where is that donkey?”
The other hunter said“ I am going to smother that donkey in honey.”
I said ” Bill?”
“What?”
“They want to smother me in honey.”
“Who would want to eat a donkey?”
“Apparently them.”
“ I see.” The hunters ran off we were so happy.
I said, “ We better stay here for the night.”
“Ok.” Bill said.

Finally on Friday morning Bill and I went back to check on the herd because we kind of left them. When we got there Kenny was laying on the ground dead but he was kidding. When we got back to the herd they were so happy that we were still alive.

From that day on I learned how to dodge a bullet. I said goodbye to the deer so I went home and turned back to my normal self and called that the weirdest few days of my life.

Tylert's animal story

It was a windy and snowy February morning, when I was watching TV. I got up aimlessly looking for the remote .When I turned around I saw a tail. I knew it was going be a weird day after all.


When I sat down I wanted to turn into a cougar. With one finger I changed the channel. Instantly I changed into a cougar. I could smell vanilla and hear trees. The sun was shining on me. Then I knew I was not alone. There was an ugly donkey, an uglier duck, and a retarded chicken. The retarded chicken’s feathers were going everywhere and I wouldn’t eat any of them. The animals were grumpy and the donkey named Nolan was laughing. He said they were looking for a farmer who wanted us. They asked if I wanted to go and I said “yes.”

When morning came, we were walking toward a house. There was a farmer feeding horses, so we went to see if he wanted us. He said “uh a cougar!” So we left and then we saw another farm. They had a big house! We went over to his house. The chicken flew up on top of their house and the farmer didn’t want us either.

Finally, we found a fat hillbilly who wanted some animals so he found us and took us home. We were happy that we had an owner. The donkey ate in his stable, the duck went into the creek to swim, the chicken laid eggs in the barn and I went to the woods and was hunting deer.

From that day on we learned to never go to real farmer. They already had enough animals and we needed an owner.

Erin's animal story

It was a hot and windy summer day when I walked to the store. I was wishing something would happen, so I walked in the store. Then something fishy had happened. That was the weirdest day I ever had.

It was another day. I was getting some food from the store because my mom wanted me to go to get corn and spinach so I grabbed them, bought it and went to the counter and bought them. The same people were laughing at me even the man behind the counter. Then I ran home thinking that was the weirdest day.
latter that night I saw I was growing a tail so I screamed. I was watching TV and my mom was making popcorn. My mom ran down the hall with the popcorn and she spilt the popcorn getting a little bit on the ground. She asked me”what is the matter?” That was the weirdest day.
The next morning I found myself feeling my body’s soft fur so I could not sleep. Then I woke up and put my clothes on and brushed my teeth and went down the stairs and ate my breakfast and my mom was laughing at me. When I looked in the mirror and I turned into a panda bear.
Now you know how I turned into a panda bear so that was the weirdest day I ever had.

Shark boy

Shark Boy
By Dalton Moser
March 21, 2008
In the middle of the daytime, at 12 am, I was swimming in the water when I met Max. Then he looked at me. Then he snuck me home without mom and dad looking at me and Shark Boy. Then I saw a glowing light. It was Lava Girl. The day after that a kid, Linus, picked on me and pushed me because he wanted my journal. He worked for Mr. Electric and to kill Shark Boy and Lava Girl but Shark Boy got shocked by electric eels where linus got them but before that happened they asked me to come with them to stop Mr. Electric from taking the kids from school to space. The kids were at an amusement park. The kids were riding on a roller coaster which Mr. Electric tied them to the seats. But at the end this girl kills the electric guy and then everybody was happy. At the end of the movie Shark Boy and Lava Girl get together again but they are happy again. The end.

Courtney's animal story

It was a cold and chilly December evening. Grandpa was telling a story. He started. Once upon a time, a little grey wolf was walking to his grandma’s cottage on the other side of the woods… I could tell this was a very bizarre story. Later that day, that same little grey wolf was lost in the woods. He did not know that he was lost. He could not see grandma’s house. He could hear the nightingale’s singing. He could smell the brisk morning. He couldn’t wait to share his mothers homemade blackberry jam, (his grandmother’s favorite) and whole wheat rolls fresh out of the oven. It finally hit him that he was really lost. He heard a bush rattle. A huge girl came marching proudly into the area. She stopped. She looked at him. And he screamed. He was terrified. He had never seen anything uglier in his life. She stood there. He stopped screaming. “You aren’t going to eat me?” he asked. “No, of course not” she replied with a very annoyed tone. “Who are you” he asked. “I am Mrs. Petersen” she replied like she was teaching class. She offered to take me to my grandmother’s. Since she was a teacher, more like my mother with glasses. They walked and walked until they came to a fork in the road. She suggested

Bens Story

CHAPTER 1: HOW IT STARTED.

It was a brisk and muggy October morning. My two brothers, my sister, and I, had just moved. Our new house had belonged to our great, great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. Jared and I walked into the kitchen. We found some plaster on the wall. Jared smashed it with his bat and it revealed a dumbwaiter so we went up. We found a secret room and a book that said: Arthur spiderwick’s field guide to the fantastical world around you. We also found a stone that had a hole drilled through it. We went back down and Jared put the stone on his eye. And saw a bunch of bad mythical creatures. A witch fired a blast of magical energy from her wand. It missed Jared but hit me………….


CHAPTER 2: EPP…………

I looked at myself and I screamed: I’m an eagle!

Taylor's Brochure

Nolan's Brochure

Brady's Brochure

Ben's Brochure

Revolutionary 4th grade feast

4th grade Revolutionary study

Each student chose a Revolutionary character, read a biography and made a brochure explaining their life. They each dressed up as their person, had their picture taken and had a "Revolutionary" Halloween party.

Mr. Grillo's Thirdgrade

Third Grade Posters On The University of Washington Website Click HERE

http://depts.washington.edu/natmap/projects/waterville/bio/insects/

Gavin's Art Work

Bug Graphs

Bug Information 2007

June 1, 2007

June 1, 2007

Dear Parents,

We have been doing tons of exciting stuff this week! We can’t wait to tell you! If you don’t read this letter you will never know! Here we go.

First we have been writing to second graders about third grade. It is really kinda hard but it is kinda easy too. It is hard because we have to revise and to the entire paper by ourselves and its kinda easy because we have practiced and wrote a lot this year.

Our class has been working on bug research. We like this because we get to go outside and use a GPS. The GPS told us how many satellites are above us. We have also made a poster and a field guide page. If you want to look at it check out our blog.

Last we have been doing a brain teaser. We have been working on it for a couple of days. So far we have found many clues and we are getting close to getting the entire story. We just need to figure out why the person had a match.

Thank you for reading our letter. We all, including Mr. Grillo, are looking forward to SUMMER!!

Sincerely,

Your Summer Thinking Kids

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Coleoptera

Orthoptera

Lepidoptera