Ms. Kreul’s Class Blog

By Alice

Most people don’t give me advice, but there is one example.

This advice is one that my basketball coach gave me, and the advice was “stand to the side and shoot for the corner. But before he gave me the advice, I was horrible at making shots and making them in. I would usually have the ball hit the rim (not on purpose of course). And if you where wondering the rim is it’s the red or orange part of the basketball hoop. I probably got two out of ten shots in (the same as the other kids). But my coach was coming over to observe our shots and mine was next! My stomach was in a knot. So he asked me to take the shot. But once I did it hit the rim and bounced back and hit my coach in the head! But he was okay (thank you). So he told me to stand to the side and shoot for the corner. But Guess what? I made it I really did! All the kids said “how did you do that”? I felt so good. And know you know how that one piece of advice changed my life forever.

By David

Have you ever been given advice that changed your life? I have and it was go to school and don’t complain. My dad gave me this advice at breakfast one day when I was complaining about school. He told me when you think about it school is actually pretty fun. You can play with friends at school and have fun learning. Subjects are also fun like math because you can learn amazing things and get a job that you want. Sometimes you go to a grocery store and you have a coupon and it doesn’t have that black and white label. The cashier doesn’t know how to find the total amount. School can help you in many things so enjoy it while you can.

By KB

What is the best advice you have ever gotten? Mine is to be nice to every one and to respect them for who they are. I bet you are wondering where I got this wonderful advice from, it was from my mom! But you not only should respect them respect them for who they are not who you want them to be. You should also know you can be nice to every one but they don’t have to be your best friend! If you got this advice how do you think it would affect you? Well for me it not only helped me and changed my life it helped and changed other people’s life around me. If you ever get the chance to have some one give you advice take it! A little advice never hurts!

By Matthew

The best advice I ever received was during a baseball tournament. I got to play on a select team for one baseball tournament. I got really nervous before my first couple of games. I didn’t get a hit in my first or second game. Then I got the good advice, my coach told me to picture myself getting a hit. At first I thought “that will never work” but in my third game I got my first hit of the whole tournament. In my last game I got 3 hits and I regained my confidence. Now when I’m batting I don’t get nervous, even when I’m not batting. That was the story of the best advice I ever received.

By Grace

Have you ever done an act kindness I have? One time my mom asked told me to clean up my room at first I really did not want to clean it but my mom would do it for me. Then I went upstairs and cleaned my whole room. I felt that my mom was really proud of me and she loved me. I did it because my mom is caring, helping, and loves her kids. So whenever someone asks you to do something I would do it because they would do it for you.

By Haley

One time I was outside at recess in the middle of the playground with my friend. My friend and I were play “Spider.” After a few minutes I had notice a girl sitting on the bench all by herself. I felt like I could cry because the girl seemed so sad just sitting there. My friend and I had been thinking the same thing about the girl. So I asked her “Should we ask her if she would like to play like to play with us?” Luckily my friend had said “Yes.” But the problem was I was shy to ask her. So I said “On the count of three go. 1,2,3. Hey would you like to play with my friend and I. She said “Sure.” I could tell she was super happy to have my friend and I to play with. But I had this feeling that felt good, joyful, and wobbly to my body. It felt so good so I just did this little smile. Then I thought to myself “Good job!” Then I went back to play with my new friend.

By Allison

One day my good friend of mine could not figure out a math problem so I helped her and she understood it and she knew exactly what to do! Then she told me I was a great friend when she said that I felt proud of myself and that I helped someone out. And when I felt good I was pretty sure she felt good to well I knew because she had a big smile on her face! And then she was happy the whole rest of the day so know how a just random act of kindness can make a person feel!

By Nicko

One day I thought that “I should clean up so it is clean when mom gets home.” First I made a list of what I should do. The list included put, toys away, line up books, line up boots, clean up snack, hang up gloves, make bed, do homework, hang up snow pants, and take shower. “Hmmm” I thought “I will get the easy things done first then the hard stuff”. First I did all the things that were for snow gear. “3 things done, good”. Next I cleaned up my snack and made my lunch. That was easy. Now for the hard part, cleaning up. This would be hard. Since I made a mess all over it took me 15 horrid minutes to clean up. All downhill from here” I told myself. Next I did my homework. That took me anther five minutes. I ran upstairs made my bed and took a shower. I sprinted downstairs and yelled” I’m done!” But then I realized almost everything I do makes a mess. I had only one thing to do. Read! I had just flopped down on the couch when I heard a knock at the door. I took of in the direction of the door. When I let mom in she asked if the cleaning lady came. (I thought she was joking but she said she wasn’t) as soon as my little brother came home he made a huge mess (as always) and mom said “it was good while it lasted.” We laughed so much my brother asked us what happened and I just said “You wouldn’t understand”

By Eve

When I went to my cabin to help a farmer with work, I was really excited to go. The farmer needed help taking care of the animals and customers for food (the cabin was also a bed and breakfast). I went with my family and we brought our dog Simon, Simon helped a little with getting energy out of the farmers two dogs. We cleaned up the lobby, and fed the llamas. My friend’s family came too, to help out. I had a really fun time helping! I think that the farmer really appreciated our help for him. The reason he needed help was because his wife was out of town and she kind of owned the bed and breakfast. I was very glad to help!

Coming up…

• March 2 Evening Conferences
• March 3 Friday Specials Schedule
• March 4 Evening Conferences
• March 5 Morning Conferences
• March 5 No School Today
• March 11 Fun Lunch
• March 12 Fourth Grade Choir Concert 11:00
• March 12 Dismissal 11:40
• March 13 End of the Second Trimester
• March 17 Late Start 9:05

Check these out!                              

Census for Kids – information for students about this year’s US census 

Milwaukee Brewers – news about the upcoming baseball season – Go Brewers!

Parent teacher conferences are scheduled for the evenings of Tuesday, March 2, the and  Thursday, March 4, as well as the morning of Friday, March 5.  Fourth graders will be leading their conferences this year.

Friday, March 12 is the end of the second trimester of the school year. All student work is due by Thursday, March 11 to be counted as completed assignments as all teachers finish entering student grades for second trimester report cards.

Report cards will be sent home in Richards Friday folders on Friday, March 26. Please sign the large white envelope to indicate that you have read and discussed the report card with your 4^th grader. Send the envelope back to school on Monday, March 29. Thank you.

Fourth grade families are invited to the fourth grade choir concert on Friday, March 12 at 11:00 in the gym.

Students in 4K are continuing to publish articles on the class blog, as well as on their individual student blogs.

Recent topics have included the Winter Olympics, where students could blog about any Winter Olympic sport, athlete, venue, or other topics related to the Winter Olympics.

Another topic for blogging was “A Random Act of Kindness.” Students were asked to write about a time when they did a kind act for someone and how that person felt about the kindness.

Take time to read the wonderful blog posts by students in the class, then make a comment or two. Students are motivated to share their writing when they know they have a real audience reading their blogs. Thank you!

4K has been learning about the Winter Olympics over the past few weeks. The class has been following the route of the Olympic Torch across Canada on the Vancouver Olympics web site. 

They read an article in Time for Kids  (TFK) describing how Vancouver has prepared for the games, as well as learned interesting facts about the Olympics. Did you know that the torch traveled more than 27,000 miles by land, air, and water and was carried by 12,000 people? Did you know that around 3 billion people will watch the games on television this year?

During the Olympics unit students worked on the reading skills of determining importance, main idea and details, adding to schema while reading, and facts vs. opinions.

Students read a book titled The Olympics: Past and Present and learned about the history of the games from the beginning in ancient Greece to their revival in 1896 to the modern day Olympics. They also read information about several of the most popular Winter Olympics Sports and what it takes for athletes to reach the Olympic games.

By Matthew

The time I showed a random act of kindness was when I came home from school one day. I noticed that there had been a lot of snow on the ground so I decided to shovel it all. As soon as I started I had noticed that the snow was heavy and wet snow. Within the first 15 minutes my arms were tired because of how much the snow weight. There had been about 3-4 inches of snow on the ground. I had to shovel the backyard walkway, not the driveway because that didn’t have as much snow as the backyard. When I was done it took me 30-45 minutes and I felt proud and good of myself. That was the time I did a random act of kindness.

By Kenadee

One time when I did a random act of kindness was when a disabled person was having a fit in math. And I was one of his only friends so I went over to him and got him to calm down and them I walked him through all of the steps on his problems. Even though he was getting a lot better, we just kept on practicing and took it slow. After he got it and he had no more troubles we became tighter as friends! We were both so happy! At the end it made me feel like a better and stronger person, and so did he!

By Larry

It all started when we where going to the store and we had to get a cart .And to get a cart you have to put a quarter in the cart to get it but we did not have a quarter. So my family got some change and asked someone if we could have there cart. They gave us it but didn’t take our money so after that we got are things and went back to the car. Then I gave the cart away to someone who didn’t have a cart. Then I walked back to the car and found a dollar bill on the ground I picked it up and went in the car. I felt great after doing that deed and so did my family.

By Jordan

At summer camp someone fails down instead of going past him I asked if he was okay.

My Random Act of Kindness
By Joslin

A time when I felt good about being kind was when I kind of babysat someone. At the time he was only three years old. When I was with him all that he wanted to do was climb the stairs. When he went up the stairs I had to hold his hand so that he wouldn’t fall and hurt himself, he was pretty slow but very cute. After what felt like an hour of going up and down stairs we both got tired and went to go get something to eat. All he wanted was a juice-box, and of course he dropped it and started to cry but I got him another one. Finally we sat on the stairs to eat, I was so tired that when I bit into my hot dog I closed my eyes and when I opened them I guess that silly boy was too hungry because there he was biting on the other end of my hot dog! But after that I had to help him get his shoes on because it was getting late and it was past his bedtime.