Tyrrell says: We sing "Lean On Me" and we record songs and sometimes we play Bulldog at Recess.
Tre'Shawn says: Sometimes we sing songs. It is fun. Sometimes we sing "All I Really Need," and sometimes I play on the monkey bars outside.
Miguel says: We are principled to everybody when some people hurt their feelings, and if somebody hurts their feelings, somebody will cheer them up.
Joey says: Reading is my favorite subject, science second, and math third. I am reading in Mrs. Hill's class.
Muhammad: At recess, we like to play Bulldog. How you play Bulldog is somebody is in the middle, and kids are on the wall. Then the person in the middle counts down from 3. Then the kids on the wall have to run to the other side. That's it.
Jalisa: We play switch outside at recess, and we also play tug-o-war, and we play tag at recess all the time.
Celeste: We can have singing all of the songs.
Ramon: I like math because Mrs. Hill lets us learn about adding and taking away.
Communication Device Inventions!
Ja'Shanique and Joey say: "We were building inventions to help people communicate."
Jalisa (and the rest of the class) says: "We used toilet paper rolls, popsicle sticks, foil, pipe cleaners, cereal boxes, tape, rubber bands, and tissue paper and glue and scissors to build our inventions."
Litzy and Naiheem say: "We didn't know that we had to put inventions together until Mr. Allen told us to. The name of our invention is Ball Shooter. When somebody puts a ball where the paper is, that goes in the hole, until it gets to the button. When you turn the nob on the side, you can talk to the friend that you roll it to."
Celeste and Absa say, "We made different phones and ipods and a microphone"
Angel and AJ say, "Our invention changes your voice for the whales."
Joey and Orion say, "This is called the floater, and it helps people communicate by the whole in the front and the back whole, you can put letters in there, and it will float across the sea until it gets to the person you want to send it to. The engine is not what you think it is. The tissues covers the engine."
Celeste and Absa say, "We made it with lots of stuff. We worked hard! We used sticks for the microphone."
Naiheem: I am making a comic book. It's called "Crash Smash" and the comic's called "Super Race" with Joey, Muhammad, Miguel, Leonardo, and Tyrrell by the grass on the bark chips.
More Life in Room 131
Here is some more things that we do in Room 131:
Angel and Jalisa say: "We work hard and we try our hardest to do our work."
Mariusz says: "We work hard; we don't fuss. We are so industrious"
Naiheem says: "We do our morning work and sometimes it is hard for us because sometimes we don't understand it like "How many eggs are there?" and we don't know the answer right away.
Jalisa and Joey and Mariusz say: "We try hard to not make interruptions during the song. Right here we are recording a song. Sometimes we mess up, but we just have to try again. And we never give up."
Antonio says: "We are reading Writer's Workshop stuff."
Muhammad says: "We have to write stories until Writer's Workshop is over."
Tre'Shawn says: "We like to type. It is very fun and we do our best."
Joey says: "Right here, we are playing a game called "Dance-Mat-Typing". All these animals are dancing around, and we have to do what they say."
Jalisa says:"When we are on the computer, we have to type and listen to the goat, chicken, and other animals."
Muhammad says:"We put our pointer fingers on J and F, and we have to put hand sanitizer on before we go in, because we have germs on our hands."
Naiheem says:"We play with Coach Free and we learn new games and we have to stand on numbers and touch colors."
Ja'Shanique says:"Coach Free thinks about different games at Playworks and Lunch Recess."
Mariusz says:"In this picture we were at Playworks. We have to knock the cone down and we have to hit some body below the waist with a ball."
Angel and Joey say: "The name of the game is "Cone Castles."
