End of the Year

WOW, time has FLOWN BY!! I apologize first and foremost for not updating this website as much as I could have. Things sure do get crazy at the end of the year!

I've had a blast getting to know and teach each and everyone of your children! This class is such a bright class and is full of personality and energy.
As we come to the end of the school year I wanted you to know that I am truly grateful for all the support in both the classroom and at home. Keep up the great work over the summer!

Our class has learned a lot these past couple weeks and has really matured. Look for pictures of Water Day coming next week! I'm sure we are going to have a TON of fun!

Butterflies

First we painted our eggs for spring!!
Then we released our butterflies into the "wild"! We were all very excited about watching them fly out of their home. After spending two weeks learning all about the life cycle of butterflies and how animals change and grow, this was the perfect ending to our unit!



We were excited to see them go.. Here we are waving goodbye to friendly butterflies!
Next week we start our unit on bean growth/plant growth and have a day of activities planned for Earth Day!

Sink or Float

This past Friday, our class participated in a science experiment as part of the school wide science fair. We chose our experiment to be on Sink or Float! We made prediction cards, and learned all about why certain objects would sink and others float.
We conducted our experiment using a piece of aluminum foil, pennies and a sponge. We made our predictions and observed what each object would do. It was lots of fun to see who's guess was right!!
Our science fair experiment will be on display for all of you to see in our classroom on Tuesday night at Open House. Open House will be from 5:30-7pm. We'd love to see all of you there!!!
We still have one more week left in Australia and the deep blue sea and then it's Spring Break. When we get back from spring break we're diving into spring and science! We'll be learning and observing the stages of a butterfly and growing our very own plants. We're even going to become scientists ourselves and keep a science log of what we observe each day!

Don't forget Wednesday, March 25 is our trip to Outback Steakhouse and Friday, March 27 is our Field Day! We have lots of fun and exciting things planned but we all still need to remember our school rules and be on our best behavior!

Dr. Seuss' Birthday Celebration

It wouldn't be a proper Dr. Seuss' Birthday Celebration without tasting our very own Green Eggs and Ham!!
After we read the story, we all got to try green eggs and ham. Most of us liked it... but there were some of us who didn't like it at all!!!
We read a lot of Dr. Seuss books and later created our very own animal character and wrote about it in our journals.
We also created Dr. Seuss, Cat in the Hat, hats using words from the "at" family. This is a word family we learned all about last week!
We had a lot of fun today learning about Dr. Seuss but the rest of the week we're back to learning about Famous Americans. This is our last week in our Famous Americans unit. This Friday we will be flying to Australia, where we will spend three weeks learning all about the culture and the deep sea!!

We're also learning about money and are learning a new money song to help us remember! Be sure to ask us about it!! :)

Valentine's Day Party

We had such a fun time during our Valentine's Day party! We all had been anticipating the party ALL day and were so excited when it finally was time! First we passed out our valentine's cards to our friends then it was time to eat!!!

We had cake, cupcakes, cookies, chips, candy, and strawberries!! Delicious!


We spent a lot of time getting ready for our Valentine's Day party and we're so glad that so many parents were able to join us. Thanks to all the parents who sent in items for the party, as well as valentine's cards, and to those who came.
This week we also continued learning about our solar system. We also learned a Planet Poem song that we love to sing in the mornings. The song helps us remember the planets in order! We also learned more about the sun being a star and how the moon changes form throughout the months. We've also started learning about numbers; counting by 5's, 10's, and 2's, as well as learning even and odd numbers.
We will be wrapping up our space unit this week and we'll be introduced to word families!
Can't wait to fly to space this week!

Japanese Tea Ceremony

A BIG thanks to all who helped with our phone book recycling contest by bringing in your old phone books. As a class we were able to collect a total of 215 phone books!!! As you can see the kids were REALLY excited! Even if we don't win, we will be having a pizza party to celebrate our teamwork.
This Friday we also had our Japanese Tea Ceremony. We've spent the past three weeks in Japan learning all about the culture and now we're on our way home! We celebrated by having our very own Tea Ceremony.
We learned that it is tradition in Japan to eat on pillows on the floor next to very low tables. Since we didn't have low tables or enough pillows to share, we used our great imaginations.
And since we all don't agree on liking sushi and hot tea, we compromised with Swedish Fish wrapped in Fruit Roll Ups and hot chocolate or apple juice.
We did learn to use our very own chopsticks though!! That was a lot of fun!
We had a great time in Japan and we learned a lot. Be sure to ask your child how to say the numbers 1-5 in Japanese...they know!!
We're now learning all about Space and our Solar System. We will be continuing this for the next week and a half ending with our 'trip to space' in two weeks!! :)
And as always if you would like to be a part of any of our Fun Fridays please come join us!! We will be having a Valentine's Day party next Friday from 10:15-11:00 and would LOVE to have you there! Just let us know if you will be joining us!!

100th Day of School

Check out our really cool 100 days of school art projects! We glued candy, pennies, stickers, used stamps and even sewed on buttons! We're a very creative class.
We had all kinds of 100 days of school projects. Above: We counted by 5's to 100 on our 100 number graph! Below: Here some of us are making our 100 days headbands! We counted by 10's and colored our school buses, then glued them on in order to make our headbands. We can all count to 100 and can all count by 1's, 5's, and 10's!!!!!!


Here we are with our 100 days of school headbands on!! Don't we look good? :)

We've learned so much the first 100 days of school and still have so much more to learn! This week we continued our Japan unit. We learned about carp fish, boys day, the Japanese flag, and volcanoes. We even got to erupt our very own volcano! Next week we're going to be getting ready to head home from Japan and we'll also start learning about space! We might even take a trip to the planets!
Thanks for the continued support and encouragement you give each of your children by reading to them! They're all learning so much!!