Crazy for Science!

Last week we finished up our space unit by learning about the different temperatures and colors of stars, and then we made these cool colorful star cookies!

We have also been getting ready for the Science Fair, coming up this Tuesday!  Posters will be upstairs in the mezzanine of the library from 11-3, but we will be by our displays from 2-3 for the judging.  Parents are welcome to attend!

One group is working on a project about air pressure and temperature:

Another group is working on a project about the types of fingerprints in families (and pets!).

We've been focusing on telling time lately!  So this would be a great time to help your child notice the times they do things throughout the day in your normal routine, and what the clock looks like at those times!  

We are doing so great on Popcorn words and reading!  Here the kids are putting together sentences.  Their progress always blows my mind around this time of year... they have come SO far!  It is very exciting for all of us!

The kids earned a party, blasting off all the way from Pluto to the Sun by doing a great job as a whole class.  They wanted to roast marshmallows on the sun... so we did!  

We also got out the anti-gravity bouncy house!

Heart Attack!

Happy Late Valentine's Day!  We had so much fun spreading the love!  

First, we made a big list of all of the people we love at Tok School that help us so much every day.  Then the kids worked REALLY hard to write a Valentine Love Note to ALL of these people!

We took off around the school to excitedly deliver our notes and hugs.  The kids were excited to give "heart attacks" to everyone!

In the morning we got to have a Book Buddies Valentine's Party!  We had made Valentines for our Book Buddies, and they had made some for us, so we had a Valentine exchange and read a secret admirer mystery book together!

Then it was off to the library to have a candy heart hunt and read some stories together.

Back in the classroom we played games and decorated cookies.  What a great day to show our Book Buddies how much they are loved!  

We did candy heart math and candy heart STEM challenges next!  Graphing our candy heart colors, making tally mark charts, and trying to pick up candy hearts with "chopsticks" (try it... it is very difficult!) We had kids get very creative with how this was done, and also stick with it until the very end.  I was proud of them!  

We had a candy heart tower building contest!

At our Valentine's Party in the afternoon we exchanged Valentines with each other in the mailboxes we had made,

Played with magnetic hearts,

and played with play-doh.  

 It was a super fun pink and purple whirlwind of a day! Thank you to everyone who brought Valentines and snacks.  We 💖our awesome kinder families!!!