March Madness and Eggs

Hmm? I wonder how many books will it take to squish that egg?
Maybe 2 or 5? Surely not more than 10!

First we had to add an extra pan on top to have a place to place the books on. The egg is sitting in playdough so it won't fall over during the experiment.

Then one by one we added books on top of the egg.

And more books...

Man, that is a lot of books. The egg looks like it has sunk into the playdough a little.

Well, it finally took a lot of books to squish the egg. We thought it was totally cool!

AWESOME!

St. Patrick's Day

Sam the Leprechaun came and visited our class the night before St. Patrick's Day. He left us a note and some GOLD!

We enjoyed reading the note and getting the gold.

During math, we did math activities all about St. Patrick's Day. Below we are making a graph with Lucky Charms cereal. First we had to sort marshmallow pieces by shape. Then add them to our graph.

Then we had to color in our graphs.


Mrs. Hart had a group too. She had another graph all about St. Patrick's Day. We had to look at the picture to collect our data. Then make a graph to go with the data collected.

On Friday, our funky food activity was all about green. We thank all the families who sent in items for our activities. There are too many and I am afraid I will forget someone...so THANK YOU ALL!

We had green grapes, green cucumbers, green pickles, green apples, green broccoli, green jello, green pudding, green lettuce, green punch, green pears, and green ranch dip. YUM!

Emilee, Kason, Colton, Caitlynn, and Aiden are enjoying all the GREEN!

Abby, Jacob (with his new haircut), Nathaniel, and Andy

Taylor, Macy and Aubree

Mason, Cody, Martin, and Aubree

Reyne and Jose and Logan's shirt

We also had a cool science experiment but the camera battery went dead. Ask your Monkey about the worm experiment.

Exploring our World Through the 5 Senses

This week our social science topic was Exploring our World with our 5 senses. We started out breaking up into 4 groups. Each group had to figure out the mystery object. The group below had to guess the object by using their sense of hearing. The other groups had to use smell, taste, and touch. Then they all had to write and draw what they thought was the mystery object. Once we figured it out, then we went through how we figured it out...our 5 senses!

No peeking!

On another day, we used our sense of smell to figure out different smells. Aiden is smelling coconut, but everyone had to predict what it was first. We had several other smells too.

Macy is using her sense of touch to guess what is in the bag. We had about 10 objects in a bags to figure out. Now I have a confession! I forgot to take pictures during the week, so we had to recreate the first 3 pictures on Friday. I asked Macy to guess what was in the bag, and she laughed, cause there was NOTHING! Tricky Mrs. Martin!

For our funky food activity, we used our 5 senses to explore popcorn. We saw, smelled, touched, heard, and of course, tasted popcorn! YUM!

We made a TLC art apple core and wrote all about apples using our 5 senses!

As always, we had unbelievable writing! Yes, that is 3 pages of writing.

It is incredible the writing we are getting from our guys and we are so proud of them!

Dr. Seuss Day

You can't really tell by the mug shot below but we had a blast today reading these Dr. Seuss books. Each had a fun activity to go along with it! We spent the entire day talking about, reading about, and acting like Dr. Seuss! His birthday was March 2nd, but we were out for snow so we celebrated today.

We love Dr. Seuss.

First we read The Cat in the Hat. We made edible hats.
Logan, Macy, and Reyne

Aubree, Zack, Mason, Martin, Taylor, and Cody

Abby, Jacob, Braison, and Nathaniel

Emilee, Kason, Colton, Caitlynn, and Aiden
We also read The Cat and the Hat Comes Back and made cool Cat in the Hat hats. Check them out in the picture below.

We then went over to the Happy Hounds room. Mrs. Hood read Bartholomew and the Oobleck.
Then the fun began. We got to make our own oobleck and play, play, play!
It was messy but too much fun.

This is the coolest stuff ever!

Mrs. Lisa is helping us play.

If you squeeze it in your hands, it is solid. Open your hands, and it is then a liquid. AWESOME!

Gross! Look at my hands!

Wow! This is cool!

Next we read Green Eggs and Ham. We all got to crack an egg. Mix it up and add food coloring.

Next we had to scramble our eggs and ham. YUM!

Aubree's not sure if she wants to eat them! But she liked them!

We ate them next. We will make a classbook about whether we liked the green eggs and ham, Sam-I-Am! So you will have to wait and see if we liked them or not!

Then Mrs. Martin read us Horton Hatches an Egg. When we were finished, we had to come up with an unusual creature like the one that hatched out in the story. Then we shared our creatures with our tables and put them on an egg to take home.

They sure are working hard on their creatures.

Macy is putting a lot of thought into hers.
All in all, we had a fun filled day of Dr. Seuss! And by the way, their hands won't stay green for long...it wears off pretty quick!

After Snow Day!