Mice+Messages

 =Mice Messages=

While Miley and Whiskers were away from home, they sent messages back to the girls and boys at school by email. Here are their messages:

Messages from Miley from Glen Hills School, Cranston
May 3, 2008

Dear Boys and Girls, I have been having lots of fun at Glen Hills Elementary. The first week I arrived I helped the students complete a very important test. Boy... the children really tried hard to do their best. I got to sit with the children and cheer them on. They gave me cheese for helping them. Hip-Hip-Hooray! I have been learning about fairy tales. Did you  know that most fairy tales have story elements in common? We read Cinderella, Snow White, Puss N' Boots, Beauty and the Beast, and Rapunzel. All of these  stories have good and bad characters, a problem and a solution, a moral, and a magical element. My favorite  was Snow White because she made lots of friends and married the prince. The girls and boys at Glen Hills have been learning about the environment. I'll be going on a  field trip with them to the Providence Water Supply this Tuesday! I hope I remember to pack my bagged lunch! We will learn how our drinking water travels to our homes. I can't wait! I'm having so much fun here at Glen Hills, but I do miss all of you. Hope to hear from you soon!

Hugs and Kisses, Miley

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May 21, 2008

Dear Girls and Boys,

I have been having a lot of fun hear at Glen Hills. We have been learning all about dinosaurs. I got to visit another school in Cranston to see a special fossil show. I got to touch REAL fossilized shark teeth, fish, plants, and dinosaur bones! I was so surprised to learn that it takes millions of years for a fossil to form. My favorite fossils were seashells. This week in school we went on a chocolate chip cookie dig. I got to dig out chocolate chip "fossils" using toothpicks. Boy was it hard! My little hands kept breaking the toothpicks. In the end, I found 23 chocolate chip "fossils." It was so much fun pretending to excavate fossils. It was especially fun when I got to eat a cookie! Tomorrow we are going to make an imprint fossil using clay and plaster. I think I'll make a fossil of a seashell. My friends and I have been reading many different dinosaur stories. My favorite ones were written by the author Aliki. She wrote Fossils Tell of Long Ago, My Visit to the Dinosaur Museum, and Digging Up Dinosaurs. I learned that dinosaurs lived over 65 million years ago. My favorite dinosaur is the T-Rex because he is a H-U-G-E carnivore! Oh yeah... a carnivore is a dinosaur that eats meat. I'm glad to hear that you have been learning cursive because I have been too. I learned how to make all the cursive letters except r, v, y, and z. I can't wait to show you my neat handwriting. I hope you are all doing well. I can't wait to see you again. Hope you are having fun with Whiskers.

Hugs and Kisses, Miley

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Messages from Whiskers from Brooklyn Elementary School, Brooklyn
May 6, 2008 Dear Girls and Boys at Glen Hills School,

I am having a very fun time here at Brooklyn Elementary School. I have been drawing pictures at recess time with my friends. I like drawing pretty flowers the best. The children wrote stories about Miley. The stories told how Miley lost her tail. I wish someone would write a story about how I lost my tail. I haven’t been able to figure that out, myself!

We had a talent show at the school. It was even on TV! It was fun to watch the people in the talent show because now I know most of them. I didn’t know that so many children from Brooklyn were so talented. Brooke, Meghan, and Hunter were in the show. They were wonderful!

In school we are learning fractions in math and story writing. I am learning so much. It is exciting getting smarter. Mrs. Nault has been reading Poppy and Rye to us. She finished it yesterday. It was a fantastic book. You should read it if you can find it.

The first few weeks I have been here I have had a lot of fun. I am looking forward to more adventures.

Love from your friend, Whiskers

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May 19, 2008 Dear Girls and Boys at Glen Hills School, I had fun watching a movie with the students in Mrs. Nault’s class. The movie was Milo and Otis. The movie is trying to show that people or animals who are different can still be best friends. We also were having testing in math, writing, spelling and reading. They were kind of hard and kind of easy – but very long. We are learning to write in cursive. Yesterday we learned the letter “k”. We are having a senior tea party on Thursday. I can’t wait! We will be drinking tea and eating cookies. We will entertain the seniors by reciting poems and singing songs. In ten days we will be going on a field trip to Roger Williams Park Zoo. That zoo is close to home. I’ll be about ten minutes from Glen Hills. Isn’t that exciting! On Friday it is book character parade. All the children will dress up like their favorite characters from books only. It isn’t Halloween costumes or TV or Movie characters. Just books! What costume should I be? I wonder what the other costumes will look like. I’ll let me know in my next email. How is Miley enjoying her stay at Glen Hills. Her friends in Brooklyn miss her very much. Tell her to write them and email soon.

Love from your Friend, Whiskers

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