We are loving Spring!!!

We had such a great time at our Book Buddies sledding party on the 16th!  S'mores all around! Our aide Ms. Jocelyn even tried her very first s'more ever!  She said she wasn't a big fan... too sweet. 😂

We did a mini dinosaur unit, and made dinosaur fossils, as part of our study of geology!

We finished up our space unit as well, learning about stars and constellations.  We made pokey pin constellations!

The kinders all created a constellation and then wrote an original legend to go with it!

We also learned about stars of different colors.  We used a lighter to demonstrate that different temperatures of fire are different colors, and stars are the same way.  The kids were fascinated to learn about the life cycle of stars, and how many stars are in the universe!  Then we made colored star cookies by melting hard candy in the middle!

Last week we had a unit on rain and rainbows and color.  We began with Dr. Seuss's book, My Many Colored Days, and discussed how our feelings relate to colors.  Then we drew pictures of the colors we were feeling that day. 

We made mini water cycles in a cup, by putting hot water in the cup and watching as it evaporated and then condensed on the plastic into big drops that then fell down back into the cup!  We wrote in our journals about our experiment. 

Adding a little creativity into our rain unit, we read Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and wrote about what we would have it rain out of the sky!  We had everything from 100 dollar bills to sparkly clothes and rainbow cotton candy coming out of our clouds!

We went outside after learning about how rainbows are made, and made our own rainbows with cups of water on a very sunny day!

We learned about color theory by mixing different colors of cookie dough to make all of the colors of the rainbow.  Then we layered the different colors into rainbow swirl cookies!

We are LOVING Spring!!!  The kids are enjoying the puddles that are fast disappearing.  Collecting water beetles was the favorite activity this week at recess!  

Spring also means lots of living things in our classroom!  We have preying mantis egg sacs, luna moth cocoons, painted lady caterpillars, and duck eggs incubating!!!

The kids earned a bouncy house party on Friday by getting their rocket to the sun!  The kids had a fun surprise after recess to come into our room  and find it filled with a bouncy house!