Holiday Fun!

Today is the last day of school before winter break.  To get into the holiday spirit, students in the CLC Breakfast Club participated in different holiday-themed challenges throughout the week.  Students had to use problem solving skills and critical thinking skills to do their best at each task. The students had lots of fun doing each activity.  Check out the photos of some of the different activities we did this week.

Moises, Anayeli, and Jasmin participate in a holiday math scavenger hunt.  Each student had special holiday items to find.  On each item there were different math problems that the students had to solve before they could find their next hidden object.  Anayeli had to find all of the teddy bears, Jasmin looked for the reindeer, and Moises had to find the snowflakes.

Hector and Moises work hard on their math problems.  Hector was practicing addition and subtraction facts and Moises was working on long division.

Keven and Anayeli got to open our different holiday pen pal cards.

After we opened the holiday pen pal cards we found the different locations of where our pen pals lived and put a sticker on the map.

Hector, Jasmin, and Moises worked on putting an interactive December calendar back together.  They learned there are seven days in a week and 31 days in the month of December.  Mrs. Alizadeh made the calendar as a wonderful Christmas gift for Mrs. Johnson.

This activity had students using their problem solving skills to figure out who could get a Christmas card across the table and have it land at the end of the table, hanging over the edge, without it falling off.  Each student had one minute to try their best.  Hector gives this challenge his best try. 

Javian sees if his strategy will work.  He looks like Superman flying through the air!

Jasmin decided to hop up on the table to help her blow the Christmas card across the table.

Moises watches as he blows the card too far, right off the table.  Good try!

Anayeli huffed and puffed just like the big bad wolf in the story "The Three Little Pigs".

In this activity, students had one minute to use a candy cane to see how many nuts they could stack on top of each other before it fell down.  Moises was able to build a stack of five.

Hector had a lot of patience and took his time.

Javian had great concentration!  Javian and Moises tied as winners of the game with five nuts stacked on top of each other.

Keven gives some advice to Nathan as he tries to scoop up a nut with the candy cane.

The students had fun pretending they were penguins.

Holiday Card Pen Pals

This past week we were busy making holiday cards for different pen pals around the world.  Ms. Maniaci, our school librarian, helped us with this project.  The holiday cards had to have something to do with snowmen.  We decided to paint a winter scene that included a snowman.  We also learned how to make snowflakes by cutting them out of paper to help decorate the front of our cards.  It was fun making our cards.  We hope that our pen pals will like them.

Jasmin, Moises, and Hector worked hard on painting their cards.  They used a paper stencil to help paint the trees.

We just put our cards in the mail this morning.  One of the schools that will get our cards is in Canada.  We also sent holiday cards to schools in different states like Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, California, Ohio, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.   We are excited to see which school we will get our first holiday card from.

Nathan enjoyed looking at the map to find where some of our holiday pen pals lived.

Keven and Anayeli used scissors and crayons to make the snowmen for their cards.

Getting Ready for the Next Issue!

The Luther Scoop staff has been busy getting ready for the December issue of the newspaper.  The plan is to have the newspaper ready to sell the week of Monday, December 19th.

The Luther Scoop staff takes time to pose for a group picture.

Our reporters were very excited to receive a digital camera and accessories from many generous donors on our donorschoose.org webpage.  The students have been able to use the camera to take photos of different events and people at our school to include in the newspaper.

Jaqui and Stacy had fun taking pictures and reviewing them on the camera.

                                      

                                         With Yusi's help, the girls were able to load the pictures onto the computer.

The Three Little Pigs Video

Here is the video of "The Three Little Pigs" thanks to Ms. Maniaci.  Enjoy! 

The CLC Breakfast Club presents "The Three Little Pigs"

This morning the CLC Breakfast Club presented a program entitled "The Three Little Pigs".  The students in the breakfast club have worked hard designing a set, collecting props, making costumes, practicing their lines, and performing the play.  Each student had a special role.  We decided to do a play because the students in the club liked reading different classic tales and spent the last week reading different versions of "The Three Little Pigs".  Each student then wrote their own version of what he/she thought the true story was of the three little pigs.

We performed our play for a great audience of family and friends in the Luther IMC.    A special thanks to all of the guests in attendance:  Moises' and Jasmin's mom and dad, Hector's dad and sister, Mrs. Behselich, Mr. Athas, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Swetland, Ms. Maniaci, and Mr. Peterson.  The IMC was definitely packed and the students received lots of applause for their effort.

Coming soon:  a video of our live performance.  A special thanks to Ms. Maniaci for videotaping the show. 

Moises and Jasmin with their mom and dad after the show.

Hector, his dad, and his sister Karina took a picture together after the play.

Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny!

This morning we went and saw the play "Goodnight Moon and Runaway Bunny" at UW-Whitewater's Irving Young Auditorium.  It was a magical morning.  Students loved exploring the theater.  Before going to Whitewater, we read the two books written by Margaret Wise Brown.  At the theater we watched really cool puppets move around the stage.  We also learned about black lights and saw how they could make Jasmin and Natanael glow in the dark.   

We loved the happy face statue so stopped to take a picture showing off our own happy faces.

We were able to ride in the elevator up to the balcony.  Milo was the lucky student who got to find the correct number button to press.







We checked out the amazing view on the top level of the Young Auditorium.

 Jasmin, Evelin, and Milo are excited for the play to begin.

Natanael and Hector were theater buddies.

After the play, the actors came and showed us how they were able to make the different puppets move. 





Pumpkin Run and Halloween Fun!

On Wednesday, we had a Pumpkin Run at our school.  Students dressed in their costumes and ran around a path reading Halloween jokes and listening to scary music.  Here are some photos from the Pumpkin Run with kindergarten, first, and second grade.

    

The third, fourth and fifth graders also participated in the pumpkin run.  Here are some photos from their race.

The students and staff at Luther had lots of fun at their Halloween parties after the Pumpkin Run.

Off to the Theater!

Today our first grade class went to see the play "Skippyjon Jones" at UW-Whitewater's Young Auditorium.  We were able to attend this show thanks to the Arts4All Program and eNasco who sponsored our tickets.  We also had a very special guest come with us, Mrs. Dahl, who is Mrs. Johnson's mom. 

Prior to attending the play, we read different books from the "Skippyjon Jones" series to help familiarize ourselves with the characters and plot.

While we traveled to Whitewater, we listened to different "Skippyjon Jones" books using the car's cd player.  We listened to "Skippyjon Jones in Mummy Trouble" and "Skippyjon Jones, Lost in Spice".

We had fun looking at the different statues and sculptures outside of the Young Auditorium.  We thought it would be great to pose in front of the sad face.  Brian was pretending to be a statue.

We had a good time exploring the outside and inside of the Young Auditorium.  We had to walk up a lot of stairs to find our seats in the balcony.

The class waited patiently for the play to begin.  We loved all of the catchy songs, bright costumes, and silly jokes.  Our favorite character was Skippyjon Jones.  At the end of the play, we learned that it is important to follow your dreams and that it is good to have a powerful imagination just like Skippyjon Jones. 

Newspapers for Sale!

Yesterday and today the reporters have been busy selling The Luther Scoop.  After two days of sales, we have sold 99 newspapers and earned lots of money for our charity.  Last year we donated the money to Luther's Boys and Girls Club.  Another group of reporters will help sell The Luther Scoop tomorrow.  We hope everyone has been enjoying the newspaper!


Jaqui, Stacy, and Diana sold newspapers on Wednesday.

In this photo, Viola and Teshana help some Luther second graders enter our contest.

Teshana, Yusi, and Viola sold the newspapers today.