Monsters 2008
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Turkey


P.S: We have no internet access in the village and we have no web address.


 Hello, We are the 4th grade children at Kýzýlhisar Primary School in Malatya, Turkey. We live in a small village which is 130 km. away from the city center.Malatya which is famous for apricot trees takes place in the east of Turkey. We have been studying English for one year. We do love studying English. We did wonderful projects with Miss Hope's Class last year. This is our first year with the monster project. Attending such a joyful project is very exciting for us. We want to design the head of the monster.
 
Duygu ERGEN
Kýzýlhisar Primary School
Malatya/ Turkey

 

Kenya

Mr. Maina's Students 

We are a hybrid community based schools known as Value Added Academy. We are based in a rural part of Kenya called Kikuyu, but not far from Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, about 21km. The school was  started in 2001 by Charles Maina and 5 other colleagues, and runs from Nursery to 4th Grade, and the number continues to increase. We hope to add Grade 5 next year and so on. The students range from 3-5 year for nursery and 6-11 for the Grades. They come from poor backgrounds; orphans and vulnerable children; victims of internal displacement; as well as children from well up families on the other hand. It has both boys and girls. We learn English, Mathematics and other subjects. We do not have a website of our own but a wikispace, courtesy of Terry's recent assistance. We hope you all understand that Africa lies quite a bit behind in technology, but we shall try as much as possible to keep abreast with activities amongst us all. Our Motto is: Every child deserves the best. This is our first time to participate in the Monster Project and its quite exciting. We shall design finger and rings. You can always do a mail to us.

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England


Mr. Humble's Year 6
We are the Year 6 children at St. Oswald's Primary School in Burneside near Kendal in the Lake District of England. We live in a small and busy village in a beautiful part of our country. This area is visited by lots of tourists from all around the world. The Lakes are famous for being the home of the poet William Wordsworth and the children's author Beatrix Potter. Check us out on Google Earth and you'll see what we mean. The Year 6 children help run our school website at www.st-oswalds.cumbria.sch.uk . We help to maintain the website in our spare time with our teacher, so there are still a few gaps, but we are working on them ! Class 5 are working very hard this year at developing links with lots of schools from around the globe and we are setting up e-mail links with children from America, Europe, Africa and Asia. We are looking forward to making our first international monster and we wish good luck to everyone who is involved.
From the St. Oswald's Monster Makers

 

Pakistan

Mrs. Farza's 4th Grade in Karachi, Pakistan -- I, Mrs. Lubna Faraz and our 5th Grade; the Hi- 5 joins you again with the spirit to be like a family where friendship and knowledge will bloom with fellow students from different parts of the world. In an atmosphere of excitement and fair competition we also hope to win. Our 5th grade is a bunch of 17 students and each part of the bunch is anxious to proceed with the project.

Discovery Centre Smart School a project of Beacon house School System which is today Pakistan ’s largest provider of private education. It incorporates technologies like Robotic Invention System, Digital filmmaking and much more in its teaching.   

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                                                                                         New Hampshire

Mr. Ferguson's 4th Grade
We are a fourth grade class of fifteen students ready for adventure and to learn new things at Lafayette Regional School. Our class comes from the towns of Franconia, Sugar Hill, and Easton. These towns are located in northern part of New Hampshire in the United States of America. Outside our classroom windows we can see Mt. Lafayette and Cannon Mtn. which are part of the White Mountains. During the winter most of our students go skiing on Cannon. The school days are filled with lots of challenging games, hard math problems, and exploring books. In our classroom each student has their own laptop to help them with their work and make animations. Throughout the year we will explore our state on field trips such as visiting the Concord State House. Join us in our learning by visiting our web pages and feel free to drop a line or two. (lafayette4@gmail.com) 
Never stop thinking and exploring!     - The Fantastic Fifteen of Lafayette

 

Alaska

Mrs. Peterson's 2nd Grade -- We go to Arctic Light Elementary School.  Our school has kindergarten through 6th grades.  There are about 650 kids in our school.  We have 19 kids in our class.  We are in second grade.  Almost all of our moms and dads are in the Army.  Our school is on Fort Wainwright, which is an Army base.  12 of our moms or dads are deployed or deploying soon to serve in the war in Iraq.  We live in Alaska.  It snows a lot here. In the winter we have less than 4 hours of sunshine.  In the summer it is light all the time.  We go outside for recess until it is colder than -20 degrees Fahrenheit (-29 C).  It can get as cold as -40 F (-40 C) or -50 F (-46 C) in winter!  Sometimes moose visit our playground.
 
Our classroom is fun!  We hope we will have lots of fun doing the monster project!
  Our school website is: http://www.northstar.k12.ak.us/index.php?&i_page=151

 

 

Taiwan
Miss Jenny's 4th Grade - Hi!  We are grade 4 students at Kang Chiao Bilingual School . Our school is located in Taipei county.  It is in the north of Taiwan .  Our school is very special because it is a bilingual school.  Some classes are taught in English and some are taught in Chinese.  We also have a very beautiful school campus.  It is surrounded by the mountains.  There is a Nature Study Area in the school.  We can find frog, butterflies, fishes, and many kinds of bugs there.  Our English teacher is Miss Jenny.  She is very nice and experienced.  We all love her very much.

New Zealand

Mrs. Knight's Livewires

Kia ora from New Zealand.  We are a Year 3 and 4 class from Puahue School. We live in a dairy farming district in the North Island.  Most children in our class live in the country or the small towns of Te Awamutu and Kihikihi.  There are 27 students in our class.  We like sports, playing in our great playground, learning as much as we can and we love working with our blog partners around the world.
Classblogmeister link

New York
Hi Monster Makers,
We are 39 first graders from Elmwood Franklin School in Buffalo, New York. There are two first grades in our school....Ms. Gardon and Mrs. Jurnack's classes. There are 363 students in our school and we are located near the Buffalo Zoo in North Buffalo. We have gym everyday and a great playground. We work hard, but play hard too. Our teachers have been making monsters for many years. We are excited to be designing the wings! 
Your Friends,
Ms. Gardon and Mrs. Jurnack's First Graders     

About Buffalo: Here are some things you might find interesting about Buffalo, New York. We are located on Lake Erie. The mighty Niagara River heads to Niagara Falls from Buffalo. It is only about a 35 minute drive to the beautiful Falls. We are also very close to Fort Erie, Canada. Many people visit Canada often by traveling over The Peace Bridge. We have a beautiful Art Gallery, The Albright Knox Art Gallery, a great zoo, a science museum, historical museum and botanical gardens. Buffalo has many theatres and even a children's theatre. Most people know that Buffalo is famous for chicken wings, but pizza and all kinds of ethnic foods and festivals make this area a delicious, (sometimes fattening) place to live. People in Buffalo love sports. We have the Buffalo Bills, Buffalo Sabres and a minor league baseball team, the Buffalo Bisons. There are many universities and colleges in Buffalo; the University of Buffalo is probably the best known. There is lots of music in Buffalo. We have an excellent orchestra and lots of little music clubs. Buffalo has lovely architecture. It was a wealthy city in the late 1800's and early 1900's. We have a Frank Lloyd Wright house, which is a popular destination for tourists. On the down side, many factories have closed in Buffalo and the population has decreased. Finding good jobs can be challenging. Buffalo has a reputation for lots of snow and we do get the occasional HUGE snowstorm, but for the most part the snow belt is south of the city where there are ski resorts. We have four beautiful seasons, although I must admit that winter can be awfully long. I hope this helps you and your students know our town a little better. It really is a great place to live...it's a small big town. We have all been very saddened by the death of our local cheerleader, national newscaster....Tim Russert. He was truly one of our finest.
Sincerely, Rose

Connecticut

Mr. Greenberg's 3rd grade Brainwaves

Meet the Brainwaves. We are a third grade bridge class at Columbus School in Bridgeport, CT USA.  We all speak Spanish and English. We come from Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Our teacher, Mr. Greenberg, was a full time professional magician for 15 years. We are small in number but large in brain power. This is our first Monster Project and we are excited.

http://thebrainwaves.us

Australia

Mrs. Lowe's 4th Grade

We are 4th graders from Perth Western Australia . Our school is Oberthur Primary School and our teacher’s name is Mrs Lowe. We have LOTE, Sport, Art and Computer with other teachers in other parts of the school. We have 30 kids in our class. We have quite a large school and we have about 300 people from Kindy to Year 7.  We have 5 playgrounds around our school and a big oval. We have a tennis court, basketball court and a cricket pitch. Area 11 will have a lot of fun doing the Monster project.

 Katie and Celine
Classblogmeister link

 

North Dakota

Hello Mr. Smith and your class of monster makers and organizers,
We are a small group of third grade students excited to work on this monster project.  We like learning, some of us like Math best, some of us prefer reading but we all like physical education.  We like to play football, volleyball, swim, and dance.  We especially like ice skating in the winter and playing hockey. Pizza is one of our favorite foods. We look forward to creating a monster to decorate our school.
Thank you for the great idea.

Carol Marquardt's Third Grade
McKinley School -- Fargo,  North Dakota 

New Jersey

The Bergen Community College Child Development Center - Paramus, New Jersey

Teachers: Hope, Sally, Jack, Shylah, Carol, Faith and Humeyra
Our Monster web can be found at: http://www.misshope.com/

We are the children of the Bergen Community College Child Development Center. We range in age from 2 ½ to 5 years old. All three groups participate in this awesome project. It is a really big job for us….but we love it and we learn so much! This year is exciting because our friends from Malatya, Turkey will be joining us as well.

Have fun everyone! Keep in touch with us at jmiller@bergen.edu

 

 

North Carolina

Hello from the mountains of North Carolina from Mrs. Baker's 3rd grade.  We are at Icard Elementary in Icard, NC.  Our blog address is: http://web2.burke.k12.nc.us/blogs/cbaker/.   We are the students from Mrs. Baker's 3rd grade from the mountains of North Carolina.  This is our first online project with other students.  We are looking forward to working with some new friends around the world. 
     We can see the Blue Ridge Mountains every time we walk out the door of our classroom.  The students in our class enjoy spending time with family outdoors.  Some of our classmates love to spend time at the beach, which is only a few hours away.  We can not wait to do this project!

 

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Ms. Smith's 5th Grade -- We are Ms. Smith's 5th grade homeroom class at Voyager Academy! Our school is in Durham, North Carolina, home to the Durham Bulls and Duke University. About half of us support the Blue Devils and the rest of us cheer for the North Carolina Tarheels. We are in a temporary building right now but CANNOT WAIT to move to our brand new, state of the art building just down the road in January! We are especially looking forward to some real playground equipment. We are excited to start our first monster project (as well as first online project) and look forward to learning about other classes around the world. We have the earrings of this year's monster and promise to provide a fantastic, adjective-rich description for all the classes to use! 

 

Missouri

Mr. Smith's 4th Grade
We are in Mr. Smith's class. We have 16 students in our class. Our town is known for Mark Twain. We have a lot of Mark Twain exhibits in our town.  We have 2 pools they are  community pool and the YMCA. We have 3 parks. We have Mark Twain cave, Mark Twain house, Mark Twain river boat, and Mark Twain museum. Mark Twain also has a statue in the River View Park. Our school was named after a famous Poet named Eugene Field. He also has a house in St. Louis. Hannibal is a great town on the Mississippi River and you should come visit it some time!

BY Kaleigh, Kimmiesha, and Jacob

 

Mrs. Oleksy's 4th Grade 
Hello,  This is Mrs. Oleksy’s class.  We have 14 kids in our class.  We have 10 girls and 4 boys. We have 310 kids in our school.  Our school’s name is Eugene Field Elementary.  We have 3 fourth grade rooms.  Our school is in Hannibal, Missouri.  People come to see the Rockcliffe Mansion and Mark Twain Boyhood Home.  There are almost 18,000 people in our town.  Our class is cool because we have parties and class meetings.  In our class meetings we give complements to the other people in our class, and talk about the agenda.   We’re looking forward to doing the belly button for the monster project!!!!!!!!!!   
By Taylor, Dustin, Javionna, and Baron.  
                         Our Class Blog 

 

 

Miss Huseman's Class
Hi, we would like to introduce ourselves.  We are one of the three fourth grade classes from Eugene Field Elementary. We have 15 kids in our classroom. We are in Miss Huseman's class in Room 305.  This is not our first time making a monster.  We had our first experience building monsters last year in Third Grade.  
    Our favorite special is P.E. because we get exercise.  Our favorite subject is Science because we like to do experiments.  We have done one about static electricity. 
    In our class, reading is very important, so we read only on the days we eat!!  Which is everyday!!!  We get a prize out of the treasure box every seventh day that we have our reading slip signed.
    We live in Hannibal, MO.  It is the home of Mark Twain and this past summer lots of flooding.  It is a great place to live.   Please check out our blogs at classblogmeister.com - Happy Monster Making!!!


 

Mrs. Schoonover's 3rd Grade

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Mrs. Hinton's 3rd Grade 
We are Mrs. Hinton's third grade.  We have 16 students in our class.  There are 9 girls and 7 boys.  We are very excited to describe the nose for the MONSTER PROJECT and can't wait to complete it! 

 Question:  What's the best way to talk to a MONSTER?... Long Distance!  

Mr. Landrum's 3rd Grade -- Mr. Smith, Our class would like to participate in the Monster Project. We would like to design the nose. Our class has 15 boys and girls. We are excited about the Monster Project and learning more about monsters. Eugene Field School.

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Canada

 Mrs. Cassidy's Grade One Class
    We are twenty-four grade one students who are learning how to read, count and blog.  We are learning together with and from each other and other kids around the world.  We can't wait to start doing our monster project.  Things we like include hockey and other sports, making crafts and grade one.  

We live in Moose Jaw, SK, Canada.  

Our blog is at Classblogmeister. 
Our Class Flickr Photo Site

California
Mr. Simonsen's 4th grade - Hello there, we are in fourth grade in Mr. Simonsen's class in CA. This is our first year doing the monster project. We will be doing the ears and are much exited. We are in Gerald Ford School in Palm Desert . Our town is in the desert about 100 miles east of Los Angeles . There are 35 students in our class. We have P.E, Art, Library, and Computers. We have three playgrounds one is for kindergarten, one for first-third, and one for fourth-fifth. We speak English and some also speak Spanish. It is very hot here because we live in the rain shadow of the mountains. It mostly never rains here, but if we’re lucky we might get rain once in a while. It never snows here either and our class room air conditioning is broken so we work in the heat and play in the heat.  

 

Ms. Shih's 1st grade
There are 19 of us. Two of us are almost 6 years old. Fifteen of us are 6 years old. Two of us are 7 years old.
Most of us love Sudoku! We are so excited to do the Monster Project!

We are a first grade class in Cupertino, California. Here's a link to our school, Stevens Creek Elementary.
Here is our blog: http://ourfirstmonster.blogspot.com/
We'll share a spooky picture soon!

 

Kansas
Mrs. Grissom's 4th Grade Technology classes are made up of Miss Hawkins class of 19 students and Mrs. Broich's class of 20 students. The students come to technology once a week for an hour and this is the first time we've done the monster project. We're excited to get started! Kansas City, Kansas is part of the larger metropolitan area of Kansas and Missouri. Our parents often cross the border to Missouri to work and shop. Kansas City, Kansas is home to the minor league baseball team, the T-Bones. We also feature the Great Wolf Lodge and are planning to open Schlitterbahn Water Park in 2009. Come visit us!

Oklahoma
Mr. Lee's Classes
We consist of 2 classes of gifted students from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 16 of us in all. Our school is Harvest Hills Elementary, and we are in the 4th grade. We are in a large metropolitan community, but we live on the edge….in more ways than one. Our teacher is Mr. Marvin Lee. He is an interesting and funny teacher. We spend much of our time on computers and other technology, but this is our first time to participate in the Monster Project.

Washington

Mrs. Black's 4th Grade
Dear All  Monster Classes,
Mrs. Black's classroom is great.  We have 25 kids in our class. We are glad to do the elbows.  We are glad to do the monster project.  How is your classroom doing?   Are they doing fine ?  We hope your classroom is awesome!   Have a great monster year this year.     Fun  Fall!
from Seaira  and Cayli

Texas

Mrs. Magdos' Class
We are a group of first graders in Mrs. Magdos' class. We have 11 boys and 11 girls. Our school mascot is the cougar. We just returned back to school after 2 weeks off since Hurricane Ike came to town. Our classmates and our school is ok. Our school is special. We meet new friends everyday. We have lots of fun together. We have lots of fun learning new things in math, science, social studies, drama, reading, and PE.

P.H. Greene Elementary
Webster, Texas
http://magdos.wikispaces.com

 

 Michigan

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Mrs. Wickham's 4th Grade

Greetings from Mid Michigan! We are in the 4th grade. We live in 
Laingsburg, Michigan which is close to Lansing, Michigan's capitol. 
We live in a small town and our mascot is a wolf. We are the only 
state that touches four of the five Great Lakes. There is lots of 
land in our little town, and we are building the right eye for the 
monster project. If you are familiar with Mr. Meyer's class from last 
year's monster project, he is in our school, Laingsburg Elementary 
School, and participating too. Our teacher, Mrs. Wickham, has been 
doing the project for 2 years, for us the kids, it is our first year.
Mr. Meyer's 5th grade class in Laingsburg, MI currently has 32 students.  Laingsburg is in the middle of Michigan, northeast of our state's capital city, Lansing.  We are a mix of country and city.  Our students are eager to participate in the Monster project, as our monster from last year was a huge hit in the hallway, and every kid loves Halloween!  We play the game of survivor, so this cooperative learning exercise is right up our alley!  We will be working with Mrs. Wickham's 4th grade class on mini-teams with project managers and delegated duties.


Oregon

Mrs. Delp's 5th Grade

 

   

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