Sunday, April 27, 2014

Field Trip Fun!

We couldn't have wished for a better field trip last Friday!  The movie was great and the weather was perfect!

We went to AMC Showplace 12 to see DisneyNature's "Bears."  It was a great documentary!  Filmmakers followed a mother and her cubs as they searched for food in Alaska.  There are a lot of dangers for bear cubs, including wolves, starvation, and large male bears.  After the movie, we had a picnic lunch at Centennial Park.  We played and played on the playground equipment and ran up and rolled down the giant hill!

Everyone was exhausted by the time we got back to school!



Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Happy Earth Day!

To celebrate Earth Day, students were invited to turn trash into treasure!  Over their spring break, students rescued trash from the garbage can and turned it into something usable and beautiful!

                                     Coin jar                                                             Guitar
   
                                        Robot                                   Recycled pencils on a recycled display

                                       Maraca                                             Guitar and utensil caddy

                              Musical instrument                                             Bird feeder

                                  Easter basket                                       Organizer for small items

Monday, April 21, 2014

Happy Easter and Spring Break!

I hope everyone had a relaxing spring break!  We have 6 weeks of school left!!  Hopefully our batteries had time to recharge this week and we're ready to tackle the end of the year head-on!

On the last day before break, we took some time to celebrate the upcoming Easter holiday with math games.  Learning is so much fun when eggs and jelly beans are involved!!

3-in-a-row practiced addition facts.

We tested our scientific reasoning by guessing the flavor of jelly beans through smell and taste.

Scrambled eggs helped us work on adding and subtracting with place value.

A hidden picture mystery let us practice our odd and even numbers.

We practiced fact families by sorting eggs into Easter baskets.