Stanley goes to Mavrova with Carla

Stanley goes to Mavrova with Thomas

Worms in Albania

In the fall, we started to compost. The major point was that I wanted something to do with our biodegradable kitchen waste. Then we acquired some worms--red wigglers to be exact. For several months, they've been eating and multiplying. This spring we decided to put the worm waste to work--in science experiments leading to the science fair in April. Among other tests, we examining the difference between plants growing in wormy dirt and those growing in regular soil. On Tuesday, we separated the worms from the soil, and the kids had a ball. You'll see some pictues below and at the end you can watch a video.














One budding horticultualist, Sarah, saw these funky yellow balls and with her inquisitive mind, said, "Mr. Martin, what are these yellow things?" I said, "I don't know, we'll have to look at the world's great equalizer when it comes to new information--the Internet." We didn't have to go so far because Mrs. Martin our principal, an experienced worm farmer herself, said, "Those are eggs. That's great. It means they are reproducing." It's great when worms get together.

Stanley goes to Pompeii with Paul

Flat Stanley went to Pompeii with Paul.

Hello from Sasha

Hello! how are you ? We have a class shop and we got money and plastic bags.

hello from nensi

how are you?it snows in tirana!hope you have lots of fun

Dear friends,

we celebrated 100th day of school.we had lots of fun.

Our Cool Celebration of the 100th Day of School!

Our Cool Celebration of the 100th Day of School!

Stanley goes to Pompeii with Maxim

All of our gear

Our shirts, necklaces, hats, pencils, and counting to 100 by 5's and 10's

Cookie with 100 m&ms

We made a cookie with 100 m&ms

100% Attendance

Jordyn, Lucas, and Kimberly haven't missed or been tardy one day.

neckalaces with 100 Fruit Loops

Each child strung 100 Fruit loops for a necklace.

100th Day of School

We had the high school art dept make shirts for our 100th day.

Making necklaces

We strung necklaces with 100 Fruit Loops.

Greetings from Nazli

In my class we red daer mr. bleuberi book. I liked it becocks it whs funny when Emily wanted a whale in her little pond.

Love,
Nazli

Boys on the hunt for germs

The boys went on the search also

Healthy first Graders

Our school nurse comes into our classroom and teaches us about good health. She was showing us how germs can spread. We were looking for germs around our school. She made doc.coats and gave us magnifying glasses before we started our search.

More snow in Iowa

This is my 6ft. tall son standing by a snow drift at my house. We had 24 inches of snow at Christmas and last week we had a bad ice storm. Several people still do not have electricity. Trees and electrical wires are on the ground everywhere. We didn't have school or went late most of last week.

We couldn't have recess outside because it was too slick. NF First grade

Flat Stanley goes to Tirana with Megi

Stanley goes to Turkey with Nazli

Nazli added some information about her trip to Istanbul with Stanley .

Post from Elis

I went to eat at my Gramas house .Then we went to the church.

Flat Stanley visits Turkey with Nazli

Flat Stanley visited Turkey with Nazli.

Flat Stanley goes to Italy with Maxim (Albania)