A Very Fun Friday!

We had a very fun day at school today!  It started with a presentation about Peru!  A mother of a student in our class is from Peru and she came and talked to us.  We loved getting to sample a couple of foods from Peru, and we really liked the animal finger puppets she gave us!  She showed us some really neat pictures and items from Peru!  

We started our plant unit in science this week.  We planted basil seeds yesterday, and today we planted lima beans in our own little "greenhouses."  We can't wait to see if anything sprouts next week!

To end our day, we made kites using plastic sacks and yarn.  After tying the yarn to our bag handles to make kites, we went outside and flew them.  It was so windy today!  Some of the kites flew right out of our hands!  We quickly learned that we had to hold onto our kite strings with two hands!  This was a really fun activity!

Beautiful Day for a Nature Walk!

We were all so happy to be back at school today with our friends!  We had so many stories to share with each other about things we did on Spring Break!

The weather was so beautiful today, so we took a nature walk and looked for signs of Spring!  We found so many things on our nature walk!

Spring Break is Here!

Today was our last day of school before starting Spring Break!  It's hard to believe that when we come back it will be April!

We played some "Egg Bingo" this morning to practice our numbers.  We also had to find hidden plastic eggs in our classroom and practice reading and writing the words hidden inside of them!  We were really good at these activities!

For our math time we did "Jelly Bean Math."  We had to sort, graph, and count our jelly beans.  This lesson was fun because we also got to eat our jelly beans!

For an art activity we got to design and paint an egg, and then decide what kind of creature would hatch from our egg!  Mrs. Bickel couldn't believe how creative we were with this activity!  We sure thought of some interesting things to hatch from our eggs!

"Egg-citing" Work!

We played a game today that helped us practice our sight words.  We had to read the word we landed on and follow the egg path to the finish line.  This was great sight word practice for us!

In math today we had to find eggs hidden around the room.  Inside each egg was an addition problem.  We wrote he addition problems on our papers and solved them.  This was a fun way to practice our addition facts!

HyVee Field Trip

We had a great field trip to HyVee today!  We got to do so many fun things while we were there!  We went in the kitchen area and watched how they make pizzas, toured the BIG freezer where ice cream is kept, learned how they make flowers for cakes using icing, visited the pharmacy area, saw a $100.00 bill at the bank in HyVee, and took home a bag full of goodies to eat!  We had a great field trip!

We were so tired when we got back to school!  The walk to and from HyVee wore us out!!!  We had to come back to school and stretch out our bodies before going outside to recess!  We really aren't asleep in this picture!  We just wanted Mrs. Bickel to think we were asleep!

Painting Time!

We painted umbrellas today!  It had been a while since we had painted in our classroom, so we thought this was a lot of fun!  We are so creative and the new bulletin board is going to look great with our artwork hanging on it!  Look for a picture soon of our completed bulletin board!