What animals live in and around a saguaro cactus?

Isaiah - owl
Kaden - frog
Jace - woodpecker
Dani - road runner
Abbi - hawk
Madi - rattlesnake
Albert - tortoise
Kelby - gila woodpecker
Jude - coyote
Kassie - gila monster
Terren - tarantula

What desert aniamal are you going to research?

Kaden - Boa Constrictor
Isaiah - Snow Leopard
Jude - Puma
Jace - Gila Monster
Sarah - Red Kangaroo
Gavin - North American Porcupine
Dani - Road Runner
Abbi - Kangaroo Rat
Terren - Tarantula
Kassie - Coyote
Madi - Sheep
Kelby - Serval
Albert - Desert Tortoise
Dylon - Pup Fish
Sebastian - Kangaroo

What we know and want to know about deserts.

What I know about deserts
Madi - It has a little water in the hot sunny day.
Gavin - All catuses get water in their stem. All cactuses grow flowers on them.
Kassie - The catuses have points on them. The cactuses with the fruit on them look cool.
Terren - The desert has foxes and a kangaroo rat. The cactuses have a lot of roots.
Isaiah - Desert tortoises live in the desert.
Jude - Snakes live in the desert. Some deserts are cold.
Kaden - Coytes live in the desert and cactuses have fruit on them.
Dani - The sand is very hot. some deserts can have snow and be really cold.
Abbi - Coytes howl at the moon at night.
Kelby - Trees and big rocks like boulders and mountains and jack rabbits are in the desert.
Dylon - The desert very hot and creepy.
Albert - Jack rabbits long legs help them escape predators.

What I want to learn about deserts
Gavin - Why do cactuses have points on them? How do tortoises move with their big shell?
Jude - Why do rattlesnakes scare enemies?
Dani - Why do some animals live in the desert? Do some cactuses have leaves on them?
Kelby - Do tortioses live without water? How fast does a jack rabbit hop?
Terren - When it rains, how do the animals get water?
Kassie - Why does the desert get little water instead a lot? When do the animals fall asleep at night?
Madi - How does the jack rabbit run so fast?
Isaiah - Whay does the jack rabbit have very long legs?
Dylon - Is the desert very hot every day?
Kaden- Does it ever snow in the hot deserts? How long can lizards grow in the desert?
Abbi - How do tortoises get in their shells?
Albert - Do jack rabbits eat fruit from the catuses?

What was your favorite part of today?

Dani - when we made the butter.
Sarah - when we got to stake our claim at the land run.
Terren - When we watche dthe movie - it was too funny!
Madison - When we ate the butter and cracker , it was fun to eat.
Kelby - When we ate outside and put our flags in the ground.
Kaden - At recess when I played football.
Kassie - My favorite game was with Mrs. Tetik. We played Blind Man's Bluff.
Gavin - My favorite games were with Mrs. Myrick and Mrs. Tetik.
Abbi - I like the game with Mrs. Kusik.

A word I know with an inflected ending of s, ed, or ing

Kelby - singing, traveled, pulled
Madi - playing, talked
Dani - reading, traveling, played
Terren - starting, standing
Kassie - pioneers, teachers
Jude - swinging, sitting
Sarah - bags,
Kaden - asked, walked
Isaiah - studying
Gavin - doing, started
Albert - travelers, aniamls
Abbi - zipped

What Do I Need to Bring Back to School?

Handbook Page Signed
Dylon
Isaiah
Kelby
Terren
Jace

Lunch Count for Friday
Everyone

What Are You Wearing On Friday?
Madi - Western clothes
Albert - Western clothes, I saw a gun holster at Walmart
Jude - western clothes
Kassie - A red shirt that is kinda like western clothes with jeans and cowboy boots.
Gavin - jeans and cowboy boots and cowboy hat.
Kelby - a button shirt, dark jeans, and non-slippery boots

What do you know about the Land Run?

Dani - They did it for a long time until they found land. It took about 3 or 4 days to get to where they wanted to go.
Isaiah - It was old and very long ago.
Kassie - I can't wait until tomorrow because it is the day when they had the Land Run.
Kaden - They had to pay for their land.
Terren - The land run had to happen on Wednesday.
Kelby - Buck Kenney was the first black man to be a vetrinarian in the Cherokee Strip.
Sarah - The people who came early were sooners.
Albert - They are gonna run to the land to the school.

Reading Time

Madison - It was a little quiet.
Dani - Reading was fun because it was a little quiet and I like reading. I read "Sponge Bob Square Pants: The Adventures in Bikini Bottom".
Jude - We read silently and i like my books.
Sarah - Reading is supposed to be quiet but it is not always quiet.
Kassie - I only have "The Big Hungry Bear" left to read.
Kelby - The Joke Book has a lot of jokes in it.
Kaden - I read "David Goes to School".
Terren - I read the book about sports. It had cool pictures and this guy is about to dunk the ball in the hoop.
Dylon - I read " Where the Wild Things Are".

Getting papers out of our mailbox

Jace - You could get them out nice and neatly.
Madi - Get your papers without the black thing under it.
Sarah - Get you papers out without talking.
Abbi - No visiting at the mailboxes.
Kelby - Walk very slow because I don't want to bump into anyboby.
Albert - I walk so I never bump into anybody and I pick up all my papers and walk back to my seat.
Isaiah - WE GOT OUT OUR STUDENT HANDBOOKS. THEY ARE DUE NEXT TUESDAY!
Dylon - I walk slowly to my mailbox and get papers then walk back to my desk.
Sebastian - We love to walk and work a lot.

work stations

Madi - The computer was fun.
Sarah - The Ice Cream Party game was fun.
Kelby - The stamps were very cool because we got to stamp our spelling words.
Terren - Reading was fun.
Isaiah - Buddy reading was cool.
Kaden - Computers weren't fun becasue I didn't get a turn.
Jude - I like to read. It was fun.

Quiet Reading

Kassie - It was very quiet when we were reading so I could read.
Isaiah - We quiet read everday and it is fun.
Kelby - It was very quiet so I could read my book today.
Terren - It was fun reading.
Kaden - It was really really fun because we got to read.