Patterson’s Pack

We are enjoying books by author Mercer Mayer right now. We now have quick access to many videos and web sites of our favorite authors right on our wiki. Here is the link to Mercer Mayer. (click the picture) You can find some others we have enjoyed or will enjoy in the future by clicking the “Author Studies” link on the left side of the wiki.
Be sure to click Mercer Mayer’s name on the wiki to go to the web page for even more fun!  Tell us in the comments what you find fun to do on the web site or about the video you watch!

Whyheam, Jacob, Zane, Miranda  Nicholas, and Lexi have been reading a book together called On My Head.  We decided to make up our own version called On My Feet.

Ryan, Jackson T., Abby, Jessica and Elana have been doing some research on sea animals.  Click on their names to go to their wiki pages and view their wonderful work!

If you want to see more wonderful work on our wiki, click here for our 09-10 student pages

We read a book Sticky and Slimy by Erin Ash Sullivan
A slug can leave a track of slime. Sometimes worms look like snakes. We learned that squids are slimy. The slime is so that it can escape from predators. Sticky leaves trap insects for food. Sticky feet help the gecko crawl over anything.
The book was cool.

Zane brought in a cocoon. We had a great time looking at it under the microscope but we have NO idea what it is. The leaf was kind of wrapped around it.
Can you help us figure out what it is? We live in Southwest Virginia.

UPDATE: Zane’s mom described the caterpillar and we were able to find a picture on the internet. It is a Hickory Tussock caterpillar.

We have put it in a critter cage. We think that it will come out sometime in the Spring.
It should look like this

We had a great time at the pumpkin patch until the yellow jackets tried to share our lunch with us. The kids used the flip video cameras to capture some of their day.

It’s homecoming in Radford and today we are all Bobcats. The football players, the cheerleaders and the drum line came to McHarg for a pep rally. We loved it. Jon-Michael’s brother, Dontae #3 and my son, Ryan #9 are on the football team. We hope that Dontae will throw a pass to Ryan for a touchdown tonight! The kids used flip cams to capture the memory but I ran in to some technical difficulties including it in the video. Hopefully we will have some student generated video soon. These are pictures and video that I took. Hope you enjoy.
***************UPDATE****************
JON MICHAEL’S BROTHER(DONTAE) DID THROW A PASS TO MRS. PATTERSON’S SON (RYAN) FOR THE SECOND TOUCHDOWN OF THE GAME!! BOBCATS WON!!!! YEAH!!!!