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| "Why Mole Lives Underground" is a story about fox who dreams of going to the moon to catch juicy lizards to eat. Lazy Mole thinks there will be worms on the moon for him to eat, too, so he won't have to work hard at digging them out of the ground. Fox convinces Condor to fly up and attach a rope to the tip of the crescent moon for the animals to climb. As Fox and Mole begin to climb the rope, Mole finds out that climbing the moon is hard work, and he falls back to Earth. Fox works hard to make his dream come true and reaches the moon. Mole decides to stay on Earth and work hard digging for worms underground. That is why moles live underground. I loved the expression used during this performance! |
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| "Pecos Bill and Sluefoot Sue" is about an American frontier cowboy named Pecos Bill who is a confident risk-taker able to survie the hardships of westward expansion. The story began when Bill was a baby and fell out of a covered wagon as his family crossed the Pecos River into Texas. He was rescued and raised by coyotes. Coyote and cowgirl Dixie tells the tale of how Pecos Bill met and then married Sluefoot Sue, the only person who could match Pecos Bill's riding and roping abilities. We had great costumes for this performance! |
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| "How the Rhino Got Wrinkly Skin" is about Rhino who once had very smooth skin. He was vain and proud of his beautiful skin. He was also rude and not respectful. One time when Mongoose and Snake were helping Parsee bake a cake, Rhino ran through Parsee's camp and took the cake. Eventually, Parsee, Mongoose, and Snake got even. While Rhino was swimming without his skin, Mongoose, Snake, and Parsee poured cake crumbs inside Rhino's skin. When Rhino put his skin back on he was so itchy he scratched and scratched, which gave his skin wrinkles. Since then, rhinos have always had wrinkly skin. Great acting in this play! |
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| This is using base tens blocks to draw a picture to solve the problem. The tens are grouped together to make five one hundreds. Then there are 6 tens left over to make 60. After that the ones are put together to make 24. Finally, the hundreds, tens, and ones are added up together to make 584. |
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| This method is called partial products. The larger number is made into tens and ones. Then the 70 and the 3 are both multiplied by 8. Those answers are then added together to get the final product of 584. |
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| This method is a picture form of the partial products. The 73 is again broken apart into 70 and 3 at the top of the boxes. Then the 8 is written on the left side box. Both 70 and 3 are multiplied by 8. The answers are then added together to get 584. |
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| We've also talked about multiplication is repeated addition. Students then add up the numbers to get the answer. Here the student groups the 3s together and found that four 3s equals 12. Since there are eight 3s then it is 12+12 to equal a total of 24. The 2 is then carried over to be in the tens place to add the tens together to equal a total of 584. |
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| Here we got to see how a printing press works! |
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| We got to see what an old car looks like and that the gas was pumped into a tank under the car seat! |
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| Here is a living room from the early years of Frisco. Notice that there isn't a TV! |
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| Frisco was a cotton town in the early days. Here is an example of a cotton gin that helps to pull the seeds out of the cotton. |
