Guest Reader

We had a guest reader come today!  The grandmother of one of our classmates came and read "Put Me in the Zoo."  We thought this was a fun story, and we enjoyed all of the pictures in the book!

Elephant Toothpaste/ Guest Readers

We were treated with a visit from a parent this morning!  She read us a book about an elephant, did an animal movement song with us, and then made "Elephant Toothpaste!"  This was a very cool experiment!  The ingredients in the "toothpaste" were: hydrogen peroxide, dish soap, warm water, food coloring, and yeast.  We LOVED this experiment!

Today we also had guest readers come from Hickman High School to read to us.  We made them feel welcomed in our classroom because they were pretty nervous about reading to kindergarteners!

A Busy Monday!

We had a busy, great day today!  Our morning started with a surprise visit from Clifford!  We enjoyed having him stop by our classroom!

After lunch, we had a visitor from MU come and do a force and motion lesson with us.  He brought a toy armadillo that rode on a skateboard!  We had fun figuring our ways to make Ron the Armadillo go faster and slower on a ramp!  We did some great thinking like engineers during this lesson!

To end our day, we had a parent come and do a presentation on China.  We had so much fun trying to use chopsticks to pick up pieces of candy!  We also loved eating the yummy noodles she prepared for us!  She gave us each a beautiful refrigerator magnet to take home and a paper "jack-in-the box" that was really neat!  We enjoyed learning about China!

Fun Friday

We had a really Fun Friday!  One of our friends brought yummy cupcakes for us to enjoy today, so we celebrated being almost 1st graders!  Then, a parent came and did some singing with us, played parachute games with us, and then gave us all bubbles to blow!  We had a lot of fun with her!  After that, we ate Popsicles and played at the park with all of the Fairview Kindergarteners!  We had a busy, fun afternoon!

Baby Chicks

Our third grade buddies invited into their classroom today to see the baby chicks that hatched this week in their classroom!  We loved getting to touch and watch these adorable little chicks!

Domino Fun

We had fun with dominoes today!  To go along with our force and motion unit in science, we made domino creations that we could knock down with little force.  These were really tricky to design because if we bumped the table they came crashing down!  We had so much fun that we asked Mrs. Bickel if we could do this activity some more tomorrow!

Outside Fun

It was a gorgeous day today, so we took advantage of it!  We had our snack time outside with Louise!  Louise lives outside in the tortoise habitat at our school.  She was eating some vegetables while we were eating our snacks.  It was fun watching her eat and stretch out her neck to get her food!

Instead of afternoon recess, we went to the outdoor stage at our school.  We took turns doing little performances on the stage for our friends.  We had fun doing this!  We hope to do it again soon!