After our quizzes Senor Dan asked us to write down as many Spanish words that we could think of. We typed up our words on GoogleDoc and sent them to Senor Dan. He used those words to make a word cloud. We looked at the word cloud in class and we could see what words we know as a group. There were a lot of words. The big words are the ones lots of people wrote and the small words are the ones that weren't written that much. This was fun to see.
Every year 4-5 takes a mystery trip. We don't know where we are going and we find out when we get there. Sometimes we go to the beach or a lake. The teachers kick off the conversation with absurd ideas. Sometimes it is an exotic place or a spot that doesn't even exist. This year they told us we were going to a bean factory, (which was knocked down) a farm that had a rare and elusive invisible sheep called cloud sheep, and that we would be working for the Morton Salt Company picking salt off the salt hay on the marsh. The teachers told us that after we help with the beans and salt we would get credit on the labels of the containers and we would get to bring home the wool of the cloud sheep. Last year's kick off was even more absurd. They told us we were going to a donut farm to plant donut seeds which were cheerios, go to have tea with the late Queen in England, go on a treasure hunt, and visit the cheese museum. After telling us where we were going the teachers gave us a pa...

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