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=News from Hannibal, Missouri by Mr. Smith's Class:=

December News Fusion Fall in the Classroom By Katrell and Tyler Do you watch Cartoon Network? This awesome game made by Cartoon Network. Katrell told us about the new game on the Internet. It's really fun to play. This game has these characters Ben 10, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Dexter, Samarai Jack, Kids Next Door, Power Puff Girls, Billy, Mandy, and the Transformers. To play this game you need a really good user name and a password. Mr. Smith named his avatar Boone Bio Ant. The avatars shoot monsters with laser guns because the monsters have viruses and are getting all over the cartoon universe and the monsters were making clones of the cartoon characters. It's up to you to save it. The most fun thing about Fusion Fall is jumping, shooting monsters, chasing orges, and talking to teen cartoon characters. To play this game go to fusionfall.com! Metaphors and Similes by Makay  //Have you ever heard about similes and metaphors? The definition of simile is a comparison using like or//  //as// . The definition of metaphor states that one thing is a comparison but it does NOT use like or as. We thought it was a little bit confusing at first. An example for a simile is - His feet were as big as boats. This is a simile because it involves //as// . Example for metaphor - A boy was a hungry lion. This was a metaphor because it did not involve as or like. Here is another metaphor: Sally said that her flute is her best and only friend. Do you understand metaphors and similes now?

November/October News

This report is about a hiking trip we went on to Fall Creek on October 13, 2009. We rode a school bus and got to the woods at 9:08 am (Hailey). We carried important papers on our clipboards. We had a map of the hike and we had science and math things to find on the hike (Mariah). Some of the stuff that kids brought extra were scarves, camera, compass, watch and magnifying glass. Some kids brought two bottles of water (Kaitlynn). My group got to the Lookout at 10:15 and it was made of stones and wood. It looked like a square. We got our binoculars and looked far away to see the Mississippi River bridge (Katrell). Mariah found a spider on the Lookout. Mr. Smith gave each group a milkweed pod and there was a whole bunch of fluffy milkweed seeds inside (Anjanaya). The seeds looked like mouse poop and the top looked like white fuzz. We planted the seeds in a place where the lawn mower could not get them (Billy). On the steep climb, it was dangerous because you could fall and hit your head on a rock. My group crawled up the hill (Shelton). It was maybe a mile and a half to get to the waterfall. It was a small waterfall. There were water striders and tadpoles and there were interesting fossils (Abbie). The Old Bridge was an oval shape and it was made of bricks and stones. Billy found a salamander under the bridge and it was cool (Makay). My day in the woods was really fun. My clothes were wet but my whole body wasn’t wet. I was a little tired. I think it was important to go hiking because we can learn about valleys and leaves and rocks and other stuff (Marissa).
 * __Through the Forest and Over the Stream__**

September's News:

**__Math Wizards at Hannibal, Missouri__**
We are writing about the math sheet that Mr. Smith gave us. We call the math sheet a math grid. The numbers up the side and across the top are 2, 3,4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9,10, 11 and 12. You can multiply with it. To multiply 3 x 9 you have to slide your finger from the three up to the nine and the answer is 27. The special squares are 4, 9, 16, 25,36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, and 144. We found them going diagonal. They are all easy do. Special squares just means multiplying any number by itself!