Welcome to my personal page of Sydney's classroom!

May 9, 2008
Fable Wax Museum
When you pressed the "Press Here" button, each character came to life and performed a monologue about his or her fable.   Then, the parents had to guess who they were.
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Sydney waiting for someone to press her button...........Sydney performing her monologue.

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Sydney as the Fox in "The Fox and the Crow"..............Abby as the Mouse

fable5     fable 6
Gillian as the Frog...........Cross as the Wolf

fable7        fable 8
Calvin as the Sheep..............Kassidy as the Sun

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Garrett as the Stork........Alexa as the Country Mouse

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Rusteen as the Frog..............Peter as the Grasshopper

fable13        fable14
Emily as the Milkmaid............Jacob as the Tortoise

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Aneesh as the Native American boy...........Michael as the Traveler

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Caitlin as the Mouse.........Richard as the Young Crab


May 5, 2008

Teacher Appreciation Week
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The class recites their poem and presents their box of thoughts to Mrs. Albert

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The box that we designed and decorated.

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The box full of notes from each child.



April 6, 2008
Balboa Idol Talent Show
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A group shot of all the participants

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Sydney & Kassidy on the red carpet before the show.......performing on stage.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Field Trip to the Getty Museum

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Abby, Henry, Jordan, and Sydney.............on the Victorian bed

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On their tour with the museum docent......releasing some energy rolling down the grassy hill!


Friday, January 29, 2008

Mardi Gras Family Game Night
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Mr. G. announces the winner of the guestimation math game.
Sydney won by guessing 152 candy bars in the jar!


First Grade Field Trip Taking the MetroLink Train to Union Station
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At the Northridge Metrolink Station

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Caitlin, Sydney & Kassidy on the train...........At Union Station

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Gillian & Emily on the Red Line to the Civic Center
Climbing to the top of the stairs -- the 3rd tallest subway stairs in the U.S.

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Waiting to take the Red Line back from the Civic Center to Union Station.
Rusteen and Nathan.

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Kassidy, Abby, Alexa & Sydney.........Jordan, Garrett, Michael, Emily & Gillian
Taking the Gold Line to Chinatown

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At the Chinatown Station, standing on the "experience dial"
Sydney, Kassidy & Caitlin shopping on Olvera Street.
They each brought $5 to shop for souvenirs.

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Waiting to head back to Northridge Station.....Sydney, Aneesh, Peter & Jacob


Friday, January 25, 2008

Twins Day!
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Sydney and Kassidy..........with Jacob and Nathan

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Henry and David.................Mrs. Petrilli and Mrs. Albert

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Calvin and Rusteen..........................Emily and Abby

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Celebrating Mrs. Albert's Birthday
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We surprise Mrs. Albert in the morning!

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And treat her to coffee & a chocolate croissant from Starbucks and a special card from the kids.

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Later in the day, we have a special delivery of roses!

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And at the end of the day, we have a surprise cupcake party!

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The class also gives her a 1 pound box of deluxe chocolates from Harry & David,
and a special Balboa jacket (that she'll be receiving next week.)


Friday, December 14, 2007

Holiday Party Brunch
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holiday party 2   holiday party 3
The parents helped pass out the food; here's John (Nathan) with the whipped cream cheese.
Sydney with her plate.
The brunch menu included bagels with whipped cream cheese, fresh fruit, Lucky Charms or Raisin Bran cereal with milk, potato latkes, yogurt, Armenian meat pizza, donuts, coffee cake, X-mas cookies, and juice.

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Sydney presented Room 30's gifts to Mrs. Albert and Ms. Marlene.

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Parent volunteers with Mrs. Albert.
Kipp is missing because he took this photo!

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Mrs. Albert with the kids.

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After the holiday brunch party, the kids get ready to clean their desks by ripping off the paper and tape on top of their desks.

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Then the kids put on their smocks.  Kipp & other parents sprayed  shaving cream on their desks.

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The kids have fun spreading the shaving cream all over and cleaning their desks!

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

The 1st grade class performs in the Holiday Show.
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They sing "Great Big Stars" -- an African American spiritual.
And they sing & dance to "Los Ninos en Espana Cantan" -- a Mexican folk song.

Friday, December 7, 2007
Field Trip to the Dental Office of Dr. Suzanne Berger in Agoura Hills
While in the waiting room, we all watch a film on how to take care of our teeth, including brushing & flossing, eating healthy, & visiting the dentist.  We learn that the best way to brush our teeth is in small circles at an angle towards the gums, as opposed to straight across the teeth.
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Dr. Suzie & Dr. Robyn teach us which foods are healthy & which foods the sugar monster loves.  We find out that even some healthy foods (like bread & crackers) can cause cavities.  It's best to combine them with something that has a little fat like peanut butter, to coat & protect the teeth.

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Kassidy gets to pretend to be a dentist with Nathan as her patient...Peter and Henry get to try on a shark patient.

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Sydney & Garrett........David & Michael have fun using dentist tools.

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Here's a group shot of everyone with Mrs. Albert, Dr. Suzie & Dr. Robyn.

Friday, November 30, 2007

We dress up for the upcoming UCLA vs. USC game!
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Me and Mrs. Albert with Alexa, Sydney, and Henry

Our Field Trip to McDonald's
Unfortunately, it was the first day of rain.  But we walked to the nearby McDonald's two-by-two with our umbrellas!
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We find tables and they start working on their workbooks.
We take a tour in groups of 10 led by the McDonald's manager, Anna.
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Anna shows us how french fries are dispensed into a frying basket.
We even get to go in the walk-in refrigerator at 0 degrees, and the freezer at -38 degrees!
Sydney expresses how cold it is in the freezer!

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Then, we go to the supply room; here's where their various drinks get dispensed, such as Mr. Pib, Sprite, Diet Coke, and HiC Orange drink.
Then, she takes us to their most popular drink -- a 75 gallon tank of Coke!

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After the tour, they finally get to eat their Happy Meals!

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Here's a group shot.
We leave McDonald's with a free cookie and head back to school in the rain!


Monday, November 19, 2007

We start our Thanksgiving Celebration with Cranberry Math!
We had parent volunteers lead groups of 3 - 4 kids.  We went through various cranberry stations.  We observed, counted, weighed, measured & tasted cranberries! 
And we found out that a fresh cranberry will bounce!

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Kipp and Aram with Sydney, Emily & Jacob........Esmeralda with Rusteen, Aneesh & Richard

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Susan with Garrett, Kassidy & Caitlin......Hanh and Jill with Cross, Henry & Michael

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Christine with Nathan, Abby, David & Alexa.......Theresa with Gillian, Jordan & Calvin


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Mrs. Albert & Sydney share a "cranberry" moment....Jennifer with Emily, Jacob & Sydney

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Each child decorated a cornucopia out
of a Bugle corn chip, fruit cereal,
&
chocolate frosting
on a graham cracker. 

And a turkey made out of a chocolate kiss,
candy corn,  cinnamon candy &
chocolate frosting on an Oreo cookie.





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Parents helping set up the Thanksgiving Feast:
Kipp, Jessika, Grace, Jennifer, Theresa, Stacey, Steve & Susan

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Sydney as a Native American........Richard, Aneesh, Alexa & Rusteen

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A group shot of the class as Pilgrims and Native Americans

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With the parents  

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The Thanksgiving Feast!

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Chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes & gravy, stuffing, green salad, corn on the cob, bread rolls, baby carrots, cranberry sauce, sliced apples, corn bread muffin with honey butter, & juice.

This photo did not include the dessert:
apple pie, cherry pie, jello, Thanksgiving cookies & cupcakes!





Friday, November 9, 2007

First Field Trip to the California Science Center and IMAX Theater

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Getting on the bus for our first field trip.  All three 1st grade classrooms (60 kids) and 12 adults get on one bus, sitting three to a bench seat. 
Everyone has a book to keep themselves busy during the ride.
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Here's a group shot of us.  The parents are:  Christine (Emily, Jennifer (Sydney), Susan (Garrett), Karine (Peter) Jessika (Jacob), and Catherine & John (Nathan).
The parents took the kids in groups of 3 - 4 and explored through the museum.
We mainly stayed on the 2nd floor, which had the World of Life exhibit.
Kipp & my group walked through the darkened life tunnel that talked about the 5 life processes and homeostasis.  We saw what an elephant's heart looked like and saw how much blood is in it.  We went to the Surgery Theater and stood over a patient having open-chest surgery.  We saw up-close how we develop from a single human cell; we saw 11 preserved human embryos and fetuses.  Then we watched a show with Tess, a 50-foot body sumulator, where we learned about homeostasis - how organs work together to keep our body in balance.

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Then we all went to the IMAX Theatre.  Our group was Caitlin, Sydney, Calvin & Aneesh.
Here's a photo of us with our 3D glasses; we watched DEEP SEA, which took us
on a magical journey underwater.  It was amazing!  It was as if we were actually deep sea diving under water.  It looked so real, some of the kids wanted to take their 3D glasses off & plug their ears!
To see a little bit of what we saw, go to www.imax.com/deepsea/

Then, we all at our lunches at the picnic tables.
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After lunch, all the kids got to play & run around in the Rose Garden.  The Rose Garden is approximately 7 acres in size and has more than 10,000 rose bushes of over 100 varieties.
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All the kids got to run around and play before heading back on the bus to school.


Celebrating Halloween

Pumpkin Math

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Mrs. Albert with Richard, Kassidy, Cross, Sydney & Rusteen (this was the table I worked with.)
Kipp with Jordan, Gillian, Calvin, Peter & David.
We had fun measuring & weighing the pumpkins, determining whether or not it would float, and counting all the pumpkin seeds!  Our table had 629 pumkin seeds!

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Ms. Marlene with Michael, Caitlin, Garrett, Henry & Alexa.
Then we all got to carve our pumpkins!
(sorry I didn't get a chance to take a photo of one more table!)

halloween cookies
Sydney helping Mrs. Albert pass out the home-made Halloween cookies
she made for all her classmates!

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Sydney, Emily & Caitlin getting mummified by Alexa, Kassidy & Cross.
Mummy Peter with Jordan.

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Mrs. Albert with Michael, Mummy Henry, Jordan & Emily.
Sydney with her ice cream witch that everyone got to make!

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Having a Halloween Party!

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Sydney, Jennifer, Mrs. Albert, Susan & Kipp........the Halloween Party food:  sliced apples with caramel dip, baby carrots with ranch dressing dip, potato chips, Halloween cookies, juice, and an ice cream witch!

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Sydney with Gillian, Nathan, David & Peter.......Emily, David, Jacob, Sydney, Abby, Peter & Henry.

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Mrs. Albert with the class.

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Here's another group shot.  (It was hot in the sun!)

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A family shot.

October 19, 2007
Mismatch Day

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Alexa, Calvin, Gillian, Sydney, Jordan, Rusteen, Richard....with Abby, Kassidy, Nathan & Emily

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Calvin, Gillian, Sydney, Jordan & Rusteen....David, Alexa, Calvin, Gillian & Garrett

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Sydney and Nathan with their dioramas on snakes

October 18, 2007

Psychomotor

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We actually got all 20 kids together looking at the camera!
Thank you to Daniel (Kassidy) and Grace (David) for volunteering their time every Thursday morning for Psychomotor!
Today we also had Jessika (Jacob) joining us!

sydney & kassidy   Abby, Gillian, Kassidy
Sydney (wearing Kassidy's glasses) with Kassidy.....Abby, Gillian and Kassidy

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Jacob (lying down) Jordan, Peter, David, Rusteen, Henry & Aneesh.....Me with Jordan, Emily, Gillian, Cross & Aneesh (photo taken by Sydney explains my head being cut off!)

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Another fun group shot...........I get to be in one of the group shots!

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Caitlin, Kassidy, Alexa, Sydney, Gillian & Emily....Jacob peeking in, Peter, David, Rusteen, Henry, Jordan, Aneesh & Sydney

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Emily and Gillian playing around...........Rusteen jumping in the air!

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Thanks to Gillian for taking this photo of me & Sydney!

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We end Psychomotor with a group huddle!

October 17, 2007
Animal Adacemics Day
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Cat & Dog Puppets............by Sydney and Caitlin

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Putting on a puppet show!....Caitlin, Michael, Sydney & Cross with their Zebra Pudding!


The classroom's witch art hangs up in the office's tap room wall.

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September 30, 2007
Fall Picnic

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Group shot with Mrs. Albert.......Jacob, Sydney & Gillian getting ready for tug o'war

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Jacob, Sydney & Gillian pulling!


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Sydney, Rusteen, Richard, Peter & David lining up....Rusteen, Sydney & Jordan in class


Email
Jennifer@UCLAlumni net