Monday morning started off with some armchair traveling as Nick and Amy Young took us along on their adventure to London and Scotland. This was the last in our series of presentations to go along with our Read Around the World reading contest! The kids learned about each continent over the last few weeks.
Thank you to everyone who faithfully recorded reading minutes at home! Our class made it all the way around the world by reading over 3500 minutes, and ended up in Antarctica!
We celebrated with root beer floats, and here are the top two readers by minutes read in our class! We will finish the contest April 26th.
After we got back from Scotland, it was off to Costa Rica! We had a beach party, cracked open a coconut, ate some pineapple and costa rican cookies, and colored butterfly pictures. I showed the kids some pictures of our trip. It was so much fun!
Ms. Brenda Litwack came in on Tuesday to do a nutrition lesson. We are doing a series of health lessons with her, one each week until the end of the year, as a part of the UAF extension program. The kids got to taste a food from each of the food groups and learned about balanced meals with the MyPlate system.
Our Painted Lady caterpillars arrived! We gently put them into little cups with their food, and watched them grow all week. Each morning we journaled about the changes taking place.
On Thursday some of the caterpillars were in their cocoons!!! We journaled about this, and then by lunchtime Friday, ALL of the caterpillars were in their cocoons! This was so exciting. We transferred the cocoons to their butterfly habitat, and are anxiously awaiting their hatch, next Thursday or Friday, hopefully!
We are studying weather in science, so we learned about the water cycle and rainbows this week. Here the kids are recreating rainbows in our classroom on a sunny day!
With all of the sunny gorgeous spring weather we are having, we took the opportunity to take a nature walk for PE on Thursday!
Book Buddies was Wednesday. We had shared our extra caterpillars with our Book Buddies, so we had a Book Buddies event about the life cycle of butterflies. We created pasta life cycle wheels, ate butterfly snacks, and read together in the library. We just love our Book Buddies. The kids look so forward to getting together. The kinders really enjoy having that connection with friends in the older grades. Our Book Buddies in fourth grade are just so kind to the littles, and in return they get lots of love, hugs, and admiration!
With Easter this weekend, we did some fun Easter activities this week, too. We had a jelly bean hunt at Morning Meeting, put together easter eggs to made words, read Easter stories all week, wrote journal pages about how to help the Easter Bunny, and made swirly shaving cream eggs to decorate the hall!
It always amazes me on Friday how we did so many things in one week...
These Kinders keep me hopping!
Happy Easter everyone!!!
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