Collin's Cool Collection
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
My Baseball Cards and An Amazing Story
I was inspired to do this post from Peter's Plentiful Postings. I have been collecting baseball cards for about 6 months and currently have over 300 cards. I have some very special cards like Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, David Ortiz, Mike Trout, and many more. Some cards are recent and others are old. For example: Mike Trout is recent, and Lou Gehrig is old.
Lou Gehrig was a player on the Yankees. One month during his playing career he found out he had a deadly disease now known as the Lou Gehrig disease. Even though he could die any second he still showed up to the games and sat in the dugout with the team. He also gave speeches every game to the audience telling them that even though he was sick he will always support his team. Sadly on Monday June 2nd, 1948 he died. At the funeral they did not say any speeches, they all knew him too well.
Do You collect anything?
Do you know any historic facts on athletes?
Saturday, August 17, 2013
My Trip To Hawaii
Over the summer, my family and I took a beautiful trip to Hawaii. Their main islands are called Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, and Kahoolawe. We stayed on the island of Oahu. First we stayed in the North Shore then we stayed in Ko Olina. We saw many green sea turtles and monk seals. Monk seals are an endangered species of seals only found on the Hawaiian Islands. We went surfing. It was my first time surfing without my Dad helping me. Surfing is very entertaining to do. We also went snorkeling. We saw some butterflyfish, trumpetfish, humuhumunukunukuapua`as, pufferfish, tangs, parrotfish, and many more.
My trip to Hawaii on PhotoPeach
Have you ever visited the Hawaiian Islands?
Monday, June 17, 2013
Fantastic Father's Day
Today was Father's Day and we had a blast! When my dad woke up, we played a little Monoply. It took so long that we just called it a tie. Then my dad opened presents. In school we made a bird feeder for our Dads. We also purchased him some shiny nike hightops. They were red, white, and blue. Also we got him matching shorts and socks!
At around noon family members started showing up for a party! Our pool was 87 degrees. In the pool we played a game called match stick. In match stick someone dives down and puts a match stick at the bottom, and when it floats up you try to jump in and get it. There were also many drinks, and guess what, I was the bartender! I made refreshing blended drinks for my family and I also handed out other drinks. I had a tip jar. In all, I made $13!
What did you do for Father's Day?
What presents did your dad receive?
Thursday, June 6, 2013
San Francisco
Photo by Collin |
Picture by Collin's mom |
Recently, I took a long road trip to visit my uncle, aunt, and cousin in San Fransisco. The trip was nine hours long! And you will never guess who was the best traveler. Tahoe, my dog!
Photo by Collin |
On the way, we passed some very interesting places such as Candlestick Park, (where the 49ers play), AT&T park (where the Giants play), and Alcatraz (a retired prison). When we arrived we were happy to see our two year old cousin, Alba. Then we headed to the backyard and there was something really fun. A swing! I loved flying on the swing. I felt like a Bald Eagle soaring through the sky.
The next day it got pretty hot, so we got out the slip n slide! It felt so good flying across the cool water after sitting in the boiling sun. Later that day, we decided to head to the beach. But when we arrived it was pretty chilly, so we decided to go to the House of Air. The House of Air was an amazing place where you could bounce on trampolines. After the bouncy journey it warmed up, so we had a nice picnic. We had salami, crackers, cheese, strawberries, watermelon, and of course, some dessert.
Have you ever been to San Francisco?
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Open House
Welcome to my classroom's Open House! There were many exciting things like the Kelp Forest and poetry. Below is a picture of the the magnetism station. There were many interesting things to do like take iron sand and a magnet and see how the stronger magnets attract the iron sand.
Photo by Mrs. Yollis |
Photo by Mrs. Yollis |
There were also two and three dimensional shape paragraphs. The second graders wrote about their favorite 2-D shapes, and the third graders talked about their favorite 3-D shapes. It was more difficult for the third graders because we had to write in cursive. Do you like to write in cursive?
We also wrote Haikus. A Haiku is a piece of poetry and the first and last line have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. If you want to learn more about Haiku's go to Abbey's Articulate Artistry and find the post Spectacular Spring Haiku's.
Photo by Mrs. Yollis |
Photo by Mrs. Yollis
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We had a Biography time line. We placed our desks based on the year our person was born. Benjamin Franklin was born first, so whoever had him was first. The third graders had to bring in a diorama of the person, and the second graders had to bring in a artifact.
Photo by Mrs.Yollis
Then we had the Mrs. Yollis story quilt. The Mrs. Yollis story quilt was a quilt we made out of paper featuring the fun times we had. A few examples were when we made volcanoes, or when we had dot day. On each quilt patch we drew a picture of what we were making a patch about, and then wrote a sentence or two.
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Photo by Mrs. Yollis |
We had fun with quotation marks! Earlier in the year we made something out of paper tangrams. Later in the year we decided to make our tangram picture into little comics. We took the tangrams, and picked who we should make a comic with. If the two or more tangrams had something in common then they could make a comic.
Monday, May 13, 2013
Mother's Day/ Beach Day
Photo by Collin's mom |
Sunday was Mother's Day and we did something special. When my mom woke up, I made my delicious chocolate chip pancakes and we ate them outside. Then, we decided to head to the beach, but first we had to stop at the store and get some lunch. When we arrived it was so foggy it looked like icebergs were on the water, but a few hours later, the clouds cleared up.
In the afternoon, I decided to go boogie boarding. There was one wave I caught and had my leash on, but then I fell off the board and I was still riding the wave on the sand.
What did you do for Mother's Day?
What is your favorite beach activity?
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