Week Three: My family and Letter C

It has been great learning about families, especially about your families.  We did a BIG family graph with the names of everyone who lives with us written above our family name.  It is hanging on our bulletin board, so check it out!  We also talked about family pets and graphed who had a pet at home and who did not.  Part of being in a family, is using our helping hands.  Each child should have brought home a set of handprints with "My hands help by..."  It was great hearing how your children help out at home.

I am pretty sure the highlight of the week was our Skittles experiment.  Today we placed three Skittles in a bowl and covered them with water to see what would happen.  Before we started, we came up with some ideas of what might happen.  (They would get yucky.  They might fall apart.  We wouldn't want to eat them anymore.)  After careful observation, we saw that the colors came off of the Skittles and went into the water.  Not only that, but the S on the Skittles floats to the surface of the water.  One of the students deducted that if you hold Skittles in your hands too long the color will come off on you.  Very true.

Observing the Skittles during our experiment

Green, yellow, and orange towards the beginning of the time

Red, purple, and yellow towards the end of the time.

If you look carefully next to the green Skittle, you will see the floating S

I think it would be pretty cruel to be around all this candy without getting some to eat.  So, as a part of snack today, everyone got a little cup of Skittles.  Hooray for food science experiments!

Here is our newsletter for the week.  Can't wait to learn about Community Helpers next week.  Have a great weekend!

Week Two: School Rules and Yellow Day

We had a great week learning all the school rules, celebrating yellow day, and practicing writing the number zero.

Here is a picture of our color science experiment.  This started as one black dot with just a little edge of the coffee filter in the water.  The water "climbed up" the coffee filter and the colors separated out of the black dot and kept on going higher.  One of the kids thinks it looks like a butterfly!

Here are some pictures from our awesome yellow day snack...bananas!  We had a very yellowy day.

Mia with her banana 

Athen and Claudia waiting for their friends

Bethany and David are ready for snack

Alaina and her yellow banana

Ellie and Hannah getting ready to pray

Ellie, Hannah, and Emily at the table

Gabby doesn't know how she feels about this snack

Here is our class newsletter for the week.  Hope you all have a great weekend!

Week One: Getting to Know You

We have had a great first week of school!  It has been a pleasure getting to know all of the children.  I can already tell that we are going to have an awesome year!

Here is our class on the first day of school.

Claudia, Gabby, Alaina, Emily, David, Mia, Bethany, Hannah, Angelica, Ellie, and Athen

Our stations on Friday included looking at our fingerprints with a magnifying glass, doing a letter treasure hunt in the sand, and playing with tangram blocks.

Also here is our snack calendar for September and this week's newsletter.  Click on them to make them larger (and easier to read.)

Can't wait to see everyone next week!  Please make sure you fill out the star student form and the form about your child's name and return on Monday.  Have a great weekend!