Spelling with shaving cream

Ms. Bennett sprayed some shaving cream on each of the kid's desks. They practiced the spelling words. It was amazing how well the kids did on the test. Way to go kids!!!

Read Across America Day

Friday, March 2nd was Dr. Seuss' birthday and Read Across America day. After eating green eggs and ham with our parents, Dr. Kessler read The Lorax to us. Then we got to read with our parents and grandparents. We also ate some blue jello with fish and whales in it. It looked a lot like McElliot's Pool, one of our favorite Dr. Seuss books.

President's Day

We studied United States' Presidents Washington and Lincoln. We learned that they were great citizens and changed the course of American history. We made a George Washington tri-corn hat.

Valentine's Fun

First, we went heart-attacking then we played some fun, learning games. We'd cut out tons of hearts. We stuck them all over ourselves. We sneaked down to the Principal's office and attacked it covering it with hearts. Dr. Kessler was surprised and thrilled. Then, we did the same thing to our librarian. We wrote about the people we love and we read Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch. We counted and graphed hearts and played some fun math games. We exchanged Valentines. We had a really great time.

Dinosaur Digging

After reading stories and studying dinosaurs, we pretended we were paleontologists and dug 'bones' out of hard, solid dirt. It was actually Chips Ahoy cookies but we had to dig the chocolate chips out without breaking them and we had to use toothpicks because fingerprints will damage the 'fossils'. We decided that being a paleontologist is a tough job. We had a blast!

Learning to Tell Time

Ms. Bennett is teaching the kids to tell time. They have built clocks and they played a game using their bodies to tell time on a huge clock on the floor. It was awesome.

Celebrating the 100th day of school!

Megan Bennett is our student teacher from I.S.U. She is doing an amazing job and we are thrilled to have her in our classroom. Friday, February 10th was our 100th day of school. We did a lot of interesting and fun projects to celebrate. We wrote what we would do if we had $100.00 dollars. We figured out how many pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters it takes to make $1.00. We stamped 100 alphabet letters and made words and we had a snowball fight with 100 snowballs per team. We have a pretty good understanding of how much 100 is. Big fun, great learning experiences!