Andrew's Cosmic Cap!

Who is that hiding behind one of his cosmic aluminum foil toxic beam defenders? Click on the dangling space foil chunks to find out what he put inside! :)

A Cosmic Kid Fashion Designer!

Come out and join us at school for the International Epcot Fashion Show on Saturday, June 3rd from 11:30-4:30. There will be food, costume displays, live music and the fashion show will be from 1:00-2:30!


Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Parents, grandparents, friends and Star Wars maniacs...Are you ready to explore to a new world? Are ready to journey into a universe that is bigger than ever? This culture is bigger than our city. It is bigger than our 50 states combined, more grand than any country and it even lies beyond the planet earth. So put on your astronaut suits and your imagination and let us take you on a fabulous ride through space.

Are you ready?

With our thinking caps and astronaut suits, Miss Lou and her second grade fashion designers have journeyed far out into outer space to research the designs of the future. From what we saw with our eyes, heard with our ears and felt with our creative hands, we recreated what the fashion our cosmic world would wear.

We are wearing bright colors - red, orange and yellow to represent each of our planets and stars. Black, gray and blue comes from the moons, asteroids, milky ways, the black hole and the dark, dark space. Reflective foil is used to protect us from toxic beams and the brightness of the sun's rays. The soft fabric helps us glide through space with ease and comfort. What do you think?

Together, Room 401 kids we learned how to sew, cut, glue, and paint-just to bring to you the fashion of the future from a galaxy far, far away!

For the first time ever,....here is Room 401's Cosmic Kids Fashion!
The design of the future!

Variety Show on Friday, June 2nd

Thank you for all the students that turned in their forms to my box. Please report to the multi-purpose dressed and ready to perform at your scheduled time. Will you remember the dress rehearsal on Wednesday?

On the day of the performance...

Don't forget your smiles!

Intermediate Performers: Arrive at 8:15am on Friday, June 2nd

Primary Performers: Arrive at 9:20am on Friday. Please wait in the courtyard behind at the back of the multi-purpose. The intermediate performance may run until after the first recess. Be patient!
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Kids Under Construction...

Oh yeah! We are learning how to sew with thread and needle. Suchi is doing this all on her own, can you believe it?
"What are you painting, Nathan?" asked Miss Gilbert.
Nathan looked up. "I think it is the Black Hole."

We are having so much fun designing, but it's hard work! Alexander needs lots of help from his friends. Stephen, Claudia, Darien and a few others have been helping him paint and glue his gigantic sun star below...

Uh-oh. We ran out of yellow paint, but Miss Lou suggested that we cover the rest of the cardboard with fabric.
What are we going to make? We like to ask others for help and suggestions. "What are you going to do, Kelvin?" asked Felicia. Hmm...what else could I add?

Arvind is making lots of accessories to protect him from the toxic beams and the bright rays of the sun.

All this designing takes a LOT of colored fabric, aluminum foil, buttons, glue, cardboard and even more creative BRAIN POWER!

Wish us cosmic luck!

We can do it!!!

We are working hard!

Keep up with how we are doing on our costumes. We are almost finished.

Which one do you like the best?

Before and After

Excellent space helmet Andrew!

Uh oh...

Darien does not look too happy with what Miss Lou did with his large piece of bright yellow fabric. He was called the Muffin Man, a space alien...and...

well, we'll just have to think of something else to do to make him happy again.

Any suggestions?

What is Darien dressing up for?

Claudia's Breakfast Party!

May 19, 2006

Today my class and I had a breakfast party at 8:30. Sara's mom came. She came in the morning. Also, Annika's mom came. She cam when we were eating. There was lots of food at the breakfast party. I ate rice, chips, cereal and bread. I didn't really like the chips because they were so salty. The chips were as salty as the water in the sea. My favorite food was the grapes. The grapes are not too sweet, not oo salty. They were just right. After I ate my breakfast, I went to play with blocks. Katherine and Jonathan were playing too.

At that very morning, I head the loud bell ring! Now that you heard my story, I think you know how my breakfast party stared and how it ended. It ended up like the best breakfast party ever!

Arvind's Breakfast Party

May 19, 2006

Chapter 1

It was time for school. All of us were so hungry. We had empty stomachs. Why? We are going to breakfast at school. Isn't that fun? It's for me. When we came into the 401 room the table was lined with food like boiled eggs and 3 bowls of different kinds of cereal. I sat down at my desk. What's this? A gigantic green paper was on my desk. Miss Lou said, "Draw a healthy breakfast." I drew a waffle, syrup, peanute butter, and cereal. Then, I got a boiled egg (that looked raw), cinamon crunch cereal and milk, pure milk. I ate the boiled egg first. It was hard to crack. One time I tried to get the bottom shell out and outer skin was still stuck to the shell! I didn't like that. I just ate the rest of the egg anyway. No worries for eating the cereal except I was spilling milk. I was dipping cereal in the mild. So What? The construction paper was my placemat. While this was going on, Star Wars music was playing in te background. Well, back to eating. Then I asked, "Could I have a waffle?" My mom brought the waffle to school Miss Lou had her own toaster. It had four slits. Can you ever believe it?! Of course you believe it if you go to Costco. I reminded the teacher, "Don't let the waffles burn." The teacher quickly made the waffles pop out of the toaster. I got 1 waffle. Sara's mom spread peanut butter on my waffle. I ate the waffle.

Chapter 2

Then, after I ate, I played cubes. I made a wall. It wasn't very high. I used blue cubes. They were glued in tens. Some were individuals.

Epilogue Sentence

Then it was time for recess.

The End

Christina's Breakfast Party

May 19, 2006

Today we had a breakfast party. When I came, I saw everybody had a colored sheet of paper. I asked myself why do we need it? Are we going to do a monart? I was excited!, but when everybody sat down, Miss Lou said, "On the colored sheet of paper, draw a healthy breakfast." When I heard that, my excitement was gone, but when I got into it, I thought it was fun. I drew cereal, mild, pancakes and toast. Then, Miss Lou said, "Whoever drew a healthy breakfast can come." I finished and I drew a healthy breakfast so I raised my hand and Miss Lou called me. I took a bowl and poured cereal into the bowl. I wanted a sandwich, but I didn't like peanut butter and the sandwich had it. I took an egg and made sure that it wasn't broken.

Then I went to my desk. I was hungry, actually very hungry. So I stared peeling the hard shell of the egg. I tried and tried, but I couldn't. Since Sara's mom was coming, I asked her. She showed me how to crack it open instead of wasting time peeing it. After I finished my egg, I wanted to start my cereal. I needed a spoon, so I went and got a spoon and ate as fast as I could. I heard crunch, crunch, crunch while I was eating. It was tasty and I think that was the best day of testing.

Breakfast Party is the BEST Party! (in the morning)

Alexander's Breakfast Party

Today at the school in the first period, we had a BIG breakfast party and we didn't have to eat breakfast at home. First, we drew a delicious meal you can eat at home for breakfast. Next, Sara's mom asked us if we wanted a white and creamy cup of mild or a cold and foggy cup of apple juice. The, we picked our food and there was Honeycombs, Cinnamon Toast crunch, grapes, eggs and Captain Crunch. I ate all of food in my bown and it was delicious because I got Captain Crunch, an egg, grapes, Honeycombs and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Finally, we cleaned our desk and then we went to recess.

The breakfast party was delicious and fun!

Sara's Breakfast Party

May 19, 2006

Today, my class and I had a breakfast party to celebrate finishing the CAT tests. My mom and Annika's mom came to help out. First, we got construction paper and made our placemats with them. Miss Lou told us to draw a healthy breakfast on it and label the foods. Next, Miss Lou picked on groups to go up to the back tables and get their food. There was rice, grapes, boiled eggs, cereal, bananas, orange juice, mild and more! There was so much to choose from! I chose my favorites: milk, banana, grapes and a boiled egg.

Then, Miss Lou found out that there were waffles and a toaster. She asked everyone if they wanted a waffle. There were lots of kids. So, Miss Lou put some waffles in the toaster. POP! The waffles popped up. Miss Lou quickly took some plates and put the waffles onto them. She passed the plate to us who happily at them.

Later, after we finished our breakfast, we threw our plates away. Miss Lou said we could play. We were so excited! Before you knew it, there were second graders everywhere playing checkers, with blocks and reading. Soon, it was time the breakfast party ended. We were REALLY sad that the excitement was gone, but we had a REALLY fun time!

The End

Conan's Breakfast Party

Today we had a breakfast party. I ate grapes, sandwiches, and drank milk. Miss Lou also let us listen to her laptop computer singing Star Wars song and others. I love the breakfast party because it had a lot of delicious things to eat. My favorite food in the breakfast party is grapes. The grapes is very sweet. Breakfast party is my favorite.

Variety Show 2006 Finalists!!!

Congratulations to ALL participants for your talent, hard work and courage. What a tough time us judges had deciding on the…

Variety Show 2006 Finalists!!!

Results from Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 Variety Show Tryouts are as follows:

Primary Grades:

1. Aditya Sriram
2. Felicia Lin
3. Jennifer Wei
4. Ashley Zheng
5. Ria Marathe
6. Yimeng Ye
7. Rebecca John
8. Saurabh Shriwas
9. Ninada Ashok
10. Rushi/Dharma/Nitin
11. Rafael Lorenzo Nuyles
12. Natalie Dunn
13. Effie/Claire/Katrina
14. Alexa Herrera/Alene Lai
15. Rajita

Intermediate:

1. Charlaine Chui
2. Andy Chen
3. Matthew Downing
4. Michelina/Michelet
5. Christopher Tang
6. Justin Herrera
7. Leeza/Briana
8. Maria Akhter
9. Sravya Bhamidipati
10. Riju Malakar
11. Brandon Boddy
12. Winnie Xu/Angela Wang
13. Mary Kate Humphreys
14. Christy Wang
15. Ranveer Gathwala

You made it!

First Dress Rehearsal will be on Wednesday, May 31st at 1:15 in the multi-purpose room. Please be dressed, quiet and ready to work hard!

Please turn in your entry forms as soon as possible. Click here if you need to view a copy.

See you all there!

Be a Judge!

We need you to be a judge...the Variety Show will be on Friday, June 2nd in the multi-use room.

Intermediate Grades 8:30-9:20
Primary Grades 9:30-10:20

Keep your eyes and ears open for your favorite artist. They need you to make comments on why you loved their act.

Make comments below and a prize will be given to the artist with the most comments!

It's all up to YOU.

(Rules: You can only vote for your own grade level. One comment per student please!)

How many days do we have left?

Who remembers this event?

A New Chance

Most of us are getting a new set of teeth this year. We must remember that we will have these new set of teeth for the REST of our LIVES! So take care of them and treat them with lots of love and care.

Brush (at least) twice a day.
Floss once a day. (Yes, even on weekends!)
Eat fruits and vegetables.
Stay away from sodas and sweets as much as you can.
Visit your dentist.

Smile and show off your beautiful teeth!

Don't Forget...

...to bloss and flush,...uh...

...I mean, floss and brush!!!

How are your marigolds doing?

Variety Show 2006

Congratulations Enya, Felicia, Suchi and Alexander for being so brave and trying out for the Variety Show. We do not know who will be performing yet, but I enjoyed seeing you perform and show off your talents.

You are fabulous!

Miss Lou

International Epcot Fashion Show

Hi Miss Lou

These are the following acts that will be represented this year.

1) USA - Through the years -fashion and music of the 1900's

2) India - Different costumes

3) Europe - Italy, France and Russia

4) Spain

5) South America

6) Orient

7) Multi-cultural - children dressed up as famous people.

8) Africa

Please let me know once you come up with something. Acts should be between 4-5 minutes long. We are trying to simulate what you did last year with the Not-So-Traditional Japanese Fashion Show.

I will also invite you to the yahoo group that we have created for the fashion show.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,
A. Desai

Fashion Show Brainstorm for June

A few weeks ago, Miss Lou was asked by the PTA president this question:

"Would you like to volunteer your class to participate in the International Night performance again this year?" asked the President.

"Of course! I have been researching ideas," answered Miss Lou.

So far, I have a few ideas. I began to brainstorm and wrote them down in an e-mail I sent to her. What do you all think? Tell me if you have more great ideas, OK? I need your creativity and thoughts.

Love your teacher,
Miss Lou

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Dear President Desai,

Thanks for all your hard work and dedication as always. Wow! It seems you have covered most the continents, representing all the different cultures within our school community and beyond. Yeah...

In Room 401, we studied the prehistoric era and especially about dinosaurs, but our curiosity for life forms naturally began to progress into the FUTURE. My students and I have been fascinated by the planets and the galaxy (even without it being a part of the second grade curriculum.) Coincidently, I visited the Chabot Science Center (as well as the San Jose Tech Museum) in one weekend and grew more and more inspired by what techology has allowed us to discover about life beyond Earth.

We watched several space and science films and have been discussing possible cultures that exist far beyond what we see here on earth. Having said that, I would like to create costumes with a futuristic (perhaps unknowingly spiritual?) theme that ties in with the planets to show that we are not only one world, but rather a universe. It is a little far out there, but I think it would be fun for the kids to research and explore a culture not yet read in our (outdated) social studies text books. My students are just exploding with creativity and wonderful imagination...

How's this for stimulation? Though I haven't a clue yet what the costumes will look like...

Let me know what you think,
Miss Lou

Reply from the President

Hi Miss Lou,

Go for it! Sounds great!

Regards,
A. Desai

The 156th Day of School

DING! DING!! DING!!! School is OUT! Let's drop our backpacks and go outside!

Why should we wait until summer to play? Summer is just around the corner, but some of us are ready to enjoy the hot weather and all fun, fun things we do outside right NOW. What are we waiting for? Let's go!!!

Swimming, eating watermelon, licking rainbow popsicles, sipping lemonade and slurping animal-shaped JELLO are a few things I like about the summer...

What do you like to do when it is HOT???

PLANTS!!!

1. Seeds (noun) - Like all fruits, tomatoes have seeds. Seeds give plant life. Look for seeds the next time you eat a fruit or vegetable!
2. Roots (noun) - Roots take up the water and nutrients from the soil. Thick roots like carrots and turnips also store energy for the plants. What are other root vegetables?
3. Stems (noun) - Stems connect roots to the leaves. Stems are full of tiny straws that carry liquids up and down. Asparagus and bamboo shoots are a few stem vegetables you eat. Did you know that?
4. Leaves (noun) - Leaves are the green "energy factories" that make sugar from sunlight and green chemicals. This is called photosynthesis.
5. Flowers (noun) - Flowersare the male and female parts of the plant that make the seeds. If you leave broccoli in the garden, you will get seeds! What are other types of flowers that can produce seeds too?

6. What happens next?

Yes, yes. The plant cycle begins again after the flower makes seeds. Isn't life fun?!?