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Global Connection Day by Galilea, K. Smith 6th Grader #mynamemyid #globallyconnected

On February 3, K. Smith hosted over 100 students, parents, and teachers from Beijing, China.  As part of the Chinese Young Cultural Ambassadors and the Santa Clara County Office of Education, K. Smith school has been hosting guest for three years.

What was amazing was that Chinese visitors came to our school. I got to see them for three years. It’s great meeting new friends every year. What I…

“My favorite part was when we looked at the 3 Triceratops heads because they looked real.”  -Christopher

“My favorite thing about the field trip was the fossils because they looked so awesome.”  Calvin

“My favorite thing was looking for fossils in lab.” Elgin

“My favorite thing was the T-Rex fossil because it was very big.”  Layla

“My favorite thing was when we were in the museum because there were different kinds of fossils that I like.”  Kevin

“My favorite part in the museum was when we saw bones of the first human in a display.”  Cruz

“My favorite thing was when we saw the teeth fossils because we got to touch them.”  Angelina

“My favorite thing was when we saw the Pteradactly because I thought it was a dinosaur, but I learned it was a flying reptile that lived at the time of the dinosaurs.”  Rebecca

“My favorite part was going to the museum to see the Triceratops heads.”  Yarisbeth

“Mi parte favorita fue buscar fósiles de dinosarios.” (“My favorite part was looking for fossils.”) Dania

“My favorite part was when we saw the saber cat fossil because it looked cool.  The teeth were huge!”  Roman

“I liked the dinosaur fossils because they were big.”  Ashely

“My favorite part was lunch because I was really hungry.”  Rodrigo

“My favorite part of the field trip was seeing the T Rex because it was fun seeing it.”  Jazmin

“My favorite thing was seeing the T Rex because it was so big.  I couldn’t believe it!”  Neliana

“I liked when we saw the Pteradactyl because it looked cool.  The wings were so long.”  Tina

“My favorite part was seeing the three Triceratops fossils and the Sabertooth Tiger fossil because the fossils looked cool.”  Calvin

“I liked seeing the Triceratops fossils.  They had three horns.”  Daniel

“My favorite part was seeing the T Rex because it was so big.”  Kenia

“My favorite thing was the T Rex because it was big.”  Tuan

~Ms. Trowbridge’s class

The journal topic asked, “What has been your favorite activity in the first 100 days of 2nd grade? ” Here are some of the student responses:

“The Exhibition for the Power of 10 project was fun because we got to teach other people what we learned.”  Ashely

“My favorite part of the first 100 days was doing the Box Project because we got to build something out of boxes.” Rodrigo

“My favorite part of the first 100 days was doing Daily 5 because you get to many different rotations and things to do.”  Dylan

“I liked Exhibition for the Box Project because we got to see what the other classes built.” Neliana

“My favorite activity has been learning about Tyrannosaurus Rex.”  Daniel

“My favorite project has been the Dino project because we’ve been studying about different dinosaurs.” Vanessa

“My favorite part of the Power of 10 project was making the 1,000 booklet.” Christopher

“My favorite thing to learn about was how some dinosaurs ate meat and some ate plants.” Rebecca

“My favorite project was the Box Project because I had partners that I collaborated well with.  We made a fighter jet.” Kevin

“My favorite thing was having Ms. Trowbridge as a teacher because she is a great teacher.”  Kaleb

“My favorite thing is having Mr. Brengard as a principal because he is teaching us to keep the school clean and be kind to others.” Kenia

“My favorite thing is the Dino Project because we dug chocolate chips out of a cookie just like a paleontologist digs up fossils.” Tina

“My favorite thing in the first 100 days is learning how to add by drawing pictures.” Layla

~Ms. Trowbridge’s 2nd Grade

My Name is Georgette, pronounced “ZhorZhett” which is French. #mynamemyid @ksmithschool

 The meaning of Georgette is a fine, transparent material used in dressmaking, Or “Giver of the Land”.

I was given my name from my mother Elaine. She wanted to name me after my paternal Grandmother Georgia. So, her and my father named me “Georgette”.

Often growing up, I hated my name and I often wondered why my mother named me Georgette. It was hard to say, it was hard to spell, and we were…

Mrs. Leiplet's 1st and 2nd grade - My Name, My Identity series #mynamemyid @jleipelt5

This month Evergreen School District is participating in a campaign to promote cultural awareness by pledging to pronounce the names of our students correctly. Take the pledge. Families and teachers have taken the My Name, My Identity pledge and students have been sharing their name stories.

We have been delighted by hearing the stories of our names as each had been thoughtfully chosen in honor…

Ms. Soares’s 3rd grade – My Name, My Identity series

Throughout the month of October, we are celebrating our names as part of the My Name, My Identity campaign.  We are pledging to celebrate and honor names.  Below are names form Ms. Soares’s third grade class.

My mom picked Czerina, because she felt it was a unique and pretty name.

My dad liked a video game and it had my name in it. Also, my mom’s name is Nina and my dad’s name is Michael and they…

[Read] Orio - the canine K. Smith School student (Part 1) by Jill Leipelt @jleipelt5

This year first and second graders welcomed a new student into their classroom. It was a classmate like none they had had before. During the summer, I had begun transitioning Oria into the classroom before the students arrived. Oria made herself at home almost immediately by curling up in a cubby and going to sleep. Yes, she had a cubby too… until she outgrew it. Now, she prefers the “flexible…

My Favorite project of 2016! By Teddy, K. Smith 6th Grader

Teddy here and hi, sadly this is my last blog post that will be graded at this school, but cheer up I’m writing about my favorite project of 2016!

First of all my favorite project is creating a solution for over consumption of one of earths natural resources.  There are many reasons why this was my favorite project of 2016 but the main reason is because this is my last project at Katherine R.…

My Project that helps me in the Future! by Tatiana, K. Smith student

For my whole 6th grade experience doing projects, I have noticed that each one has made me think critically which made me learn in a different and better way. The project that has impacted me the most and interested me the most was our Magic of Coding project. This project kind of made me think more about my future and how engineering is something that is pretty cool.

On that coding project, I…

My Favorite Project from This Wonderful Year by Samantha, By Samantha, K. Smith student

Hey! This is Samantha, and today I will be telling you about my favorite project that I did from this school year. I had many great projects during  6th grade, like my penny arcade and bio-dome projects, but I liked my solar powered generator project the best.

A few reasons why I loved this project so much was because I had the opportunity to make a solution for the over consumption of one of…

[blog] "I have learned that little things can make a big difference..." -Mia,student #stuvioce

The driving question for this project was:

“How can we design and evaluate a solution for the over consumption of one of Earth’s natural resources.”

To start this project, we watched a video called ‘Earth 2100’. The main character was a women who survived the time frame of 2009-2100 and how she lived through the disasters that would come if we continued to litter, if we continued to pollute the…