Happy Birthday, Joshua

On April 7th Joshua turned six!

Friends with 4 legs

Before Spring Break we were lucky enough to have Mr. Jamie’s two chinchillas visit our classroom for the morning.  The students loved petting them but even though they could have held them we didn’t have anyone who wanted to do that.  Kaytlyn also brought some animals in for us to observe and hold.  She brought in a hermit crab and small turtle.  The children were more excited to hold the turtle than the chinchillas, who may have wanted to nibble on their fingers!  We were able to compare and contrast the different animals by their size and texture. 

Go fly a kite

As if Transportation Day wasn’t enough to make this day special, after our picnic lunch we flew our homemade kites.  The children had a lot of fun and for the most part the kites flew pretty well. 

Transportation Day

Transportation day is one of my favorite days.  We had so much fun looking at, and climbing on, so many different forms of transportation (even more than are in the pictures)! Ms. Heather, Ms. Angie, and I all got to go up in the bucket truck and for some reason the class favorite was the very large, empty moving van!  It was a beautiful day and the popsicle from Blue Bell was the perfect treat!

Full of hot air!

We made our own wind and experimented to see if just blowing on our hands made a stronger wind or if it was stronger when we blew with a straw.  Then we tried to see if we could keep a piece of tissue paper in the air with our own wind.  We then saw how the force of the wind, from a fan, could keep a balloon in the air.  We also made a tornado tube so we could see the funnel shape of a tornado.  We discussed how we can use our senses to explain the effects of wind, and how wind can be helpful or very dangerous. 

St. Patrick's Day Fun

St. Patrick's Day was a lot of fun.  We found shamrocks, got a visit from that tricky leprechaun, and ate bagels with green cream cheese!  Even though we didn't find a pot of gold we still felt lucky to have such a fun day!

making butter

After our dairy trip we extended our lesson on dairy products by using heavy whipping cream and a WHOLE LOT of shaking.  We then tried our butter on salted and unsalted crackers and decided we liked it best on the salted cracker.