10/13/05

Hi to all of the other Monster schools! We are Mr. Smith's 4th grade at Eugene Field Elementary in Hannibal, Missouri. On the USA map you'll find us in the midwest region, located on the Mississippi River. Our school was named after Eugene Field, also known as The Children's Poet (he wrote Wynken Blynken, and Nod).There are 13 girls and 7 boys ready to make a great Monster this year. Curiosity is already high in our room -- what will the Monster look like this year????? Together, we'll all answer that question.   

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Mrs. Dudding's 5th grade -- We are from Hannibal, MO like Mr. Smith. Eugene Field is located in the center of Hannibal. Most of our students live close by and walk to school. Many of their parents also went to EF. Everyone in our class of 17 (6 boys and 11 girls) worked on the Monster Project last year. We have been building monsters since Mr. Smith came to our school and really like to do them.
Mrs. Dudding -- Eugene Field-5th grade -- Hannibal, MO
e-mail: vdudding@hannibal.k12.mo.us

Greetings from The Child Development Center ! Our preschool is located on a college campus in Paramus,New Jersey. The children in our group are 3 & 4 years old. Our teacher is Miss Hope. We would love for you to visit our class at http://www.misshope.com/ . You can e-mail us at hjenning@bergen.edu .

This will be our first time participating in the Monster Project .We are all really looking forward to it. Our parents are already saving recyclable materials for our monster making adventure! Two of the books we have been reading in our library corner are "The Soles of Your Feet" and "The Foot Book." We would love to describe the monster's foot or feet. If they are already taken.. Surprise us!

Looking forward to working with all of you,
Miss Hope & the children of the Child Development Center

Hello fellow monster builders!

We are the Pre-K class at the BCC Child Development Center in Paramus, NJ. Mr. Jack will be working with us to make a monster.You can visit us at www.misshope.com   Since Miss Hope’s class is describing the feet; we thought we would choose the toes. We are very excited to work with everyone!

Miss Sally and Mr. Jack’s class at the BCC CDC

Hello Monster builders,
We are Mr. Pittman's fourth grade class in Alexandria, Virginia. Our school, Hollin Meadows Science and Math Focus School, is less than 10 miles away from the White house in Washington DC. To learn more about our school, visit our school website: http://www.fcps.edu/HollinMeadowsES/ .To find out about our class, visit our class website, http://www.fcps.edu/HollinMeadowsES/pittman .

This is our first year participating in the monster project, and we are very excited to meet all of you. If possible we would like to design the ears or nose.

Regards,
Mr. Pittman's 4th grade class

  Greetings to Monster Makers,

We are looking forward to making a monster for our school. Mrs. Floth's second graders have made a monster for many years. Our school is called J. Sterling Morton Elementary. Our school was named after J. Sterling Morton who started Arbor Day. His home is located in Nebraska City, Nebraska. Our school is located in Omaha, Nebraska. The second graders at our school work on Earth Day and Arbor Day projects and plant trees on our school property each year.

You can see our school on www.mpsomaha.org We would like to describe the head of the monster. If that part is taken then the arms. Happy monster making!

Mrs. Floth
Second grade 

Fuchinobe Elementary

Dear Terry,
Thank you for your message.

Our class wants to participate in this project. It's fun.
We are third graders at Fuchinobe Elementary. Our choice is the body.
Thank you

Hironori Bono
Fuchinobe Elementary School
4-6-22 FUchinobe Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Japan
E-mail hbono@jcom.home.ne.jp

URL http://www.sagamihara-fuchinobe-e.ed.jp/english/indexe.html
http://members2.jcom.home.ne.jp/hbono/ (my @hobby web )

 

We are a class of first graders in the town of Pella, Iowa. If you have heard of Pella Windows, well they are made here. We are predominantly a Dutch community and if you visited you would notice the Dutch architecture of our business buildings and the largest working windmill. We have 23 children in our class, 12 boys and 11 girls. Our teacher's class has made a monster each year since this project began. It is great fun.

First Graders
Mary Glendening, teacher
Jefferson Elementary --- Pella, Iowa

 

Hi Monster Makers,

We are first graders at Elmwood Franklin School in Buffalo, New York. We want you to know that our school is a very big school with 374 students. There are 42 kids in first grade. We have a fun and busy day. We have a great playground. We have gym everyday. We are excited about the monster project. It sounds like a lot of fun!!! We are enclosing our picture.

Ms. Gardon and Mrs. Jurnack's First Grade Class
Elmwood Franklin School -- Buffalo, New York

Idea from Rose and Judy -- Oct. 13, 2004 Here is a project which we have enjoyed using with our monster project. We do not know who first thought of it, but we have used it for many years. First, we read the book There's A Nightmare in my Closet by Mercer Mayer.Then we brainstorm a long list of adjectives that could describe a monster in a closet and write them on chart paper. Teachers have prepared paper closets in advance, which consist of one white paper with a door cut on two sides, stapled over a whole sheet of white paper. We use standard 8 by 12 construction paper. Students choose seven adjectives to copy on a sheet of handwriting paper which is cut to fit and be glued on the inside of the door. Then students draw the monster on the paper behind the paper door, using all the adjectives chosen. They print "BOB"S (student's name) CLOSET" on the front of the white paper and decorate the outside of the door. The children love this and although it does involve a fair amount of teacher preparation, it is really worth the results! I'm attaching some photographs to help clarify my directions. Rose Gardon and Judy Jurnack

Dear Monster Makers of the World,
We are a fourth grade class in McConnellsburg, PA. There are 15 children in our class--8 girls and 7 boys. We are reading to raise money for "Read to Feed". We have 5 monarch chrysalis. Earlier 2 emerged and we released them. We are getting fish for our aquarium to study systems. We have a worm farm in which the worms eat garbage and enrich the soil. We are a nice class who learns a lot. Would any classlike to be our pen pals?

Sincerely,
Your friends from MES
Mrs. Henry's 4th grade class

Hello from Mrs. Felty's Kindergartners!
Our school is Park Village Elementary in San Antonio, Texas. We have 18 students in our class. There are 9 boys and 9 girls. We enjoy going to literacy centers and math tubs. Our favorite book right now is Mary Wore Her Red Dress. We like to sing it and write about it. Our favorite math activities are building with geoblocks, multilinks, and Mr. Potato Head. We also like to work together making ABC and number floor puzzles and reading them with pointers. We are looking forward to reading spooky stories and building our monster with our 5th grade reading buddies.

Jennifer Felty, Kindergarten
Park Village Elementary
5855 Midcrown
San Antonio, TX 78218

Hi we are the First Graders at P.H. Greene Elementary in Webster, Texas. We have 11 boys and 9 girls in our class. Two people in our class wear glasses. Our teacher is Mrs. Magdos. This is our first monster to build here at P.H. Greene. Mrs. Magdos has built the monster since the project started. We are describing the monsters nose. We are doing good in school. We are excited to see what you are doing. You can visit our class web site at http://www.MrsMagdos.homestead.com/

Mrs. Magdos First Grade Class
P.H. Greene Elementary School
Webster, Texas 77598
281.284.5000

Ms. Gillian Boyd's Year 6 class -- Our school is St. Peter and St. Paul Primary School. We are a class of 30 children - 20 girls and 10 boys. We are all 10 - 11 year olds in the Mitchem area of London (South West). Not too far from the famous Wimbledon Tennis Club and across the road from one of the oldest cricket grounds in England! Our class is multi-national, composed of students from India,The Carribean, Kenya, Sierra Leone, France, Spain, Italy, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Portugal and the UK.(Ms. Boyd has recently moved to England from South Africa where she had taught for many years.)

  Foreign English teachers' classes: 4P1- Mr. Johnston and 4P1 - Mrs. Openshaw's class

Mrs. Chang and Mr. Justik's 4th
Our school is Kang Chiao Bilingual School. We're making fingers for the Monster Project. We're grade 4 (P1.) We study both Chinese and English. Our school is high up on the mountain in Xindien (Sindian)City, near Taipei City, Taiwan. There is jungle everywhere here! Everyone in our school knows about bugs. Sometimes, we could see bugs flying around in our classroom. Would you like to learn more about Kang Chiao, please type :

written by Jessica and Sherry in Grade 4.