Plants

This week we started our big Plant Unit. We started off the week talking about living vs. non-living things, and then moved into the parts of plants, and the function that each part has.

We did a celery experiment to show how stems carry water and nutrients around the plant. We colored the water with food coloring to see how it traveled around in the celery stalk. The kids were amazed to see color going up the celery and even in the leaves at the top!

We even used plants in our Math by making some math flowers using our teen numbers!

We got to dig in to some of our favorite fruits to see how many seeds that and what they looked like. We found out that oranges don't always have seeds in them! :( But we still had fun looking!

Special Guest

Yesterday, we were very lucky to have a special guest in our classroom. A storyteller from Norway, Stina Fagertun!! She is a family friend of one of our students, and asked if she could come into our classroom, and of couse I said Yes! She tells stories at the Norsk Hostfest in the fall, and has won many awards back in her home country. She travels all around sharing her craft! She explained to the students where she came from and what her hometown was like. She then shared with us one of her very own fairytales! After, she explained her clothing and some other tradition pieces she had brought with her. The kids loved it!! It was such a great way to introduce some new culture into the classroom!

A little umbrella fun

This week we talked about the Letter U, so of course we had to have a little fun with umbrellas!! We got to decorate our own umbrellas using watercolors. But the best part is the pictures that we added to them!! How cute did they turn out!

We also did some writing about about we would keep under our umbrellas if it was raining out. They did an awesome job!

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Easter Eggs

Yesterday we had a blast decorating some Easter eggs to hang in the hall! We first drew our designs and the used a glue bottle to trace our designs to create barriers between our different sections. We didn't paint with regular paint, but we used Karo Syrup instead!! It was definitely sticky but it was so much fun! What a great sensory activity! Some students liked getting down and dirty more than others, but everyone enjoyed it! They turned out great in the end!

Junior Achievement

Well we just ended our 3 weeks of Junior Achievement. A huge thank you to Sara Dufner, who was our volunteer from the community. She came in 5 different days and did lessons with the kids about Social Studies topics! They had a blast!

Leprechaun Shenanigans!

Well St. Patrick's day has come and gone, but we had a little bit of mischief going on in our classroom last week as St. Patrick's day grew nearer. First, when we were out for lunch, we had all of our nametags got switched around! What a commotion to try to put them back with their right owners!! Then, while we were at recess, all of our pencils got tipped over!! This time there was a trail left in the form of green glitter!! We definitely think there was a leprechaun sneaking around in our room!

We made leprechaun wanted posters to hang in the hallway!! This way others could help us find those sneaky leprechauns!

We also talked about how lucky we are in our lives for all the good things we have. We chose our favorites to put on our rainbow hats!

Guinea Pigs

One of our little friends celebrated their birthday on Friday, and for her show-and-share, her mom brought in something extra special, Guinea Pigs!! She wanted to bring them in during letter "G" week, but we just couldn't make it work with our schedules, so this proved to be a perfect time! She keeps them in her preschool classroom, so they were very used to a lot of kids hovering around! The kids thought it was awesome and all got to come up and take a close look, even though we didn't get to touch them! :)