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?!?

Spaghetti Simile

Spaghetti is as....

wobbly as Jello. Darien
thin as a snake. Christina
slimy as a worm. Jonathan
messy as my room. Suchi
long as tree leaves. Conan
red as Miss Lou's car. Claudia
red as blood. Ann
slimy as a snail. Kelvin
hard to spell as encyclopedia. Alexander
long as a worm. Ryan
long as a rope. Stephen
slippery as soap. Felicia
as red as blood.
wiggly and long as a worm. Enya
hard to spell as Science. Annika
slippery as soap. Arvind
as messy as my hair when I get out of bed. Sara

Welcome to Open House 2006!

Our class worked hard this year. Especially this month, our class worked extra hard in splashing our walls and minds with researched projects about dinosaurs. We wrote stories, made dioramas, murals and poems.
On our desks, our parents read our Open House Letter and began our oh-so-tricky Scavenger hunt we put together as a class.
Who came in first place? Second place? Third? Fourth?

Even grandmas and grandpas visited our classroom. Some came all the way from India, or China...or some from just our home across the street! :) Nevertheless, all I overheard (while eavesdropping) are WONDERFUL things about ALL of you and your work.

100% of our students and families (except of course for Nathan who is still in Taiwan) showed up to join in the fun of exploring, listening to music, chatting with friends/family and eat yummy snacks.

What was your favorite part of Open House this year?

My favorite part was talking and joking with all your parents. No wonder you are all so fabulous and funny...

The Rush Rush Begins...Who will come in first?

Suchi will not give daddy all the answers. She will make him WORK for his prize :)!! But of course, she might give him helpful hints to make it a tiny bit easier.


Parents were hard at work. First they opened the kind and thankful letters we wrote for them. Then they were shown around the classroom to search for all the items on the list we collaborated.

Do you remember what collaborated means? Please give me a synonym for this loooong word!

Smiling, smiling...I like!

And here's some more of us...
...enyoying the time sharing with our families.

Everyone is smiling! They must be very happy and impressed, huh?

Beautiful Students!

Here are more pictures from my computer...