Hair Salon

In May, we turned out house center into a hair salon.  We read books about hair stylists and watched short videos about how to become a hair stylist.  The kids had a great time pretending to be hair stylists, customers and receptionists.  So if you wondered why your child came home with a slightly different style than they came to school with - now you know why!

Teamwork

Wow!  That last snowfall caught us a little by surprise but the kids sure loved it!  We were learning about teamwork and it provided us an excellent opportunity to work together in teams to build snowmen.  The kids had lots of fun and worked very hard together.  In the end there was a whole snow family!

Author's Chair

The kids celebrated the color books they wrote and illustrated by reading them aloud to the class.  Each child had a turn on the chair and received compliments on their book from their classmates.  These color books were written after we read Cat's Colors and followed it's pattern.  I was very proud of how hard they worked, putting lots of details in their artwork and stretching out their words!

Master Measurers

In April, we learned a lot about measuring in lots of different ways.  The kids then had the opportunity to visit four measurement centers to practice measuring length, height, mass and capacity.  The students used links and blocks for measuring length and height, balance and bucket scales for measuring mass and there were also pouring stations at the water table as well as one with special beads, measuring cups and a variety of containers to measure capacity.  There was a lot of excitement and some interesting learning taking place -like the fact that Mrs. Clelland is 93 blocks tall!