Born to Be Wild 3D: Our Field Trip

Check out what some of our first graders had to say about yesterday's field trip to the IMAX theater downtown!

There was a big screen at the IMAX theater. -Cooper

My favorite part was when the orangutan was trying to reach a tree and the tree fell. -Damion

I liked wearing the 3D glasses. -Aaqil

I liked the beginning when the screen turned on and there was a big circle and lasers. -Indigo

My favorite part was when the orangutan was drinking from two milk bottles at the same time. -Parker

My favorite part was when the orangutan spilled the milk all over. -Alex

My favorite part was when the elephant poked his nose through the fence to drink water at the beginning. -Lorenzo

I liked when they let the orangutans back into the wild. -Anahi

I remember the part when the elephant was scared and bumped into the fence. -Kendall

I liked the part when the elephants were kicking the ball and it looked like it was going to hit our faces. -Allyson

I liked when we ate apples and grapes before the movie started. -Juan Carlos

I liked the part when the orangutans were playing on the jungle gym. -Nya

My favorite part was when the lady made friends with all of the orangutans. -Jaykob

The movie was all about elephants and orangutans. -Tanaya

I liked the part when the woman was feeding the baby orangutan a bottle. -Jared

I liked the part when the baby orangutan was holding onto its mother when she was trying to swing to another branch. -Carol

My favorite part was when the baby orangutan was about to fall out of the tree. -Tianna

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Student Blogger: Anahi

First grader, Anahi, did some research on orangutans at home and wants to share what she learned with you! She also found some pictures and a video to share!

How many types of orangutans are there?
There are two species or types of orangutans.

Where do orangutans live?
Orangutans live in Indonesia and Malaysia on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. These are the only places where they live in the wild.

What does orangutan mean?
The word orangutan comes from the Malay language and means "person of the forest"-- from the words "orang," meaning people, and "hutan," meaning forest. 

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Happy Fall Break!

Hello readers! Read about our week and enjoy your fall break!

We learned new words like compare, anthropologist, and details. -Ryan

We did "The Chicken Dance" at Star in Motion. -Cedrus

We learned that some orangutans have puffy cheeks. -Tanaya

We painted orangutans. -Jaykob

We learned new sight words, like little, where, and saw. -Jared

We read The Day the Crayons Came Home. -Juan Carlos

Miss Kloczko made us applesauce, we learned how to write a recipe, and then we got to eat it. -Lea

Miss Kloczko got a new timer. It beeps. -Lorenzo

We did "I Can Spell Anthropologist" without looking. -Anahi

We learned about the orangutan. -Carol

We cut out our orangutan pieces and glued them together for Fun Friday. -Indigo

We put glitter on our peacocks. -Isandro

We got to taste apples. We tasted granny smith, golden delicious, red delicious, and gala. -Liam

We read Panda and Polar Bear again and we are getting really good at remembering the story. -Nya

We watched a movie with real orangutans during science. -Aaqil

We watched an episode of Wild Kratts about orangutans. -Jade

We learned that mother orangutans chomp leaves to make medicine for their babies. -Kendall

We read a book that told us about orangutans. -Tianna

We read Please, Mr. Panda. -Cooper

Miss Kloczko read it to us in Spanish and English. -Damion

We learned about writing with details. -Parker

We wrote about fall. -Kyara

Check out our last post to read about our brainstorming process!

Details tell you more and they help the reader imagine what you're writing about. -Deniz

We ate apples and thought of words to describe them. -Anshika

Orangutans have long arms to help them swing in the trees. -Jules

Some other fun things this week...

We learned about 49'ers!

The kids put panda sentences together during workshop.

One of this week's homework digital challenges... so much knowledge and so many new questions to answer!

Healthy peacock snacks at home! Thank you Allyson, Anahi, and Deniz for sharing!

Anahi's mom was our mystery reader on Wednesday. She read Dragons Love Tacos!

The first graders decorated kindness capes for the kindergarteners and we delivered them with Captain Kindness! Check out this blog post from our counselor, Ms. Hines, about kindness!

Thank you to Anahi's mom for the great photos of our act of kindness!

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Our Trip to the IMAX Theater

Today we went to see Born to Be Wild in IMAX 3D, a documentary about people who rescue and raise orphaned elephants and orangutans and prepare them to return to the wild. The kids LOVED it. Here's what we had to say about our field trip!

• My favorite part was when the baby orangutans were climbing in the trees and when the soccer ball looked like it was coming towards our faces. -Hailey
• My favorite part was when the title of the movie was coming right at us. -Milana
• I liked when the little monkey kissed its mommy. -Ariana
• My favorite part was when the people and the elephants were playing soccer. -Cedric, Thomas, Wesley, Noah T.
• I liked the part when the monkey was swinging on the trees coming toward us. -Ainsley
• My favorite part was when the purple ball was coming right at your face. -Parker
• My favorite part was when the orangutan was trying to reach the other tree and the tree fell down. -Jacquelyn
• I want to help koalas and pandas like the people in the movie helped elephants and orangutans. -Jacob
• My favorite part was when the elephant kicked the ball and with our 3D glasses it looked like it was going to hit me in the face. -Milo
• I liked when the orangutan was stealing the lady's food. -Leila
• I liked when the baby orangutans were playing on the jungle gym. They have to use to jungle gym to learn how to climb trees and swing on vines so they can survive in the wild. -Sarah
• I liked when the orangutan was eating the soap. -AJ
• I liked seeing the orangutans' real habitat. -Eliana
• My favorite part was when the orangutan was drinking one bottle of milk and accidentally poured the other bottle on himself. -Amaru
• I remember learning at school that elephants take dust baths to protect them from the sun and that was in the movie. It's like their kind of sunscreen. -Jalen
• I liked the part when the elephant got carried by the people into an airplane and got rescued. -Emma
• I saw the elephants use their trunks to drink water and reach branches to eat. -Katherine
• I liked the part when the elephant was drinking milk and holding the bottle with his trunk. -Noah K.
• It scared me when the ball was coming toward us when the elephants kicked it. -Michael
• I liked when they rescued the elephant and took it to the orphanage safely. I loved when they got to return to the wild. It was sad, but it was happy, too. -Olivia
• I liked the part when the humans fed the baby orangutan with a bottle of milk. I liked that the baby orangutans wore diapers. -Isaiah
• I remember that elephants live in savannas, and it showed elephants in savannas in the movie. -Analisa
• The baby elephant was scared when the people first rescued him so he ran into them, and the elephant didn't know that the people were trying to help him. -Thomas
• I want to take care of a giraffe one day like the people in the movie took care of the elephants and orangutans. -Courtney
• I liked how the elephants show that they love each other with their trunks. -Rohin
• It's amazing that these humans raised the elephant and orangutans orphans, yet they were still able to prepare them to survive in the wild. And it was so cool to see animals we learned about up close in 3D! -Miss Kloczko

Did you join us on our trip? Do you think you'd like to see this movie? Leave a comment below!

Mrs. Kahler's first graders also wrote a blog post about Born to Be Wild!

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