Kindergarten Authors' Celebration

On Friday the kindergarten class invited us over to their classroom to share the stories they wrote called "What Do You See?"  The stories were awesome, and my class sure enjoyed listening to the kindergartners share.  Many students in my class were able to partner up with a brother or sister or cousin.  I felt especially lucky to partner up with my son, Mason.  The kindergarten class is a group of super writers and illustrators!

Leprechaun Day

The students at Lanesboro get pretty excited when St. Patrick's Day is near, and they go on watch for the Leprechaun.  A few special activities were added into our day to honor St. Patrick's Day.  Our morning meeting game was changed from "Doggy, Doggy Where's Your Bone?"  to "Leprechaun, Leprechaun Where's Your Gold?"  During math we used a Leprechaun's favorite cereal to sort and graph.  We also made a class book about what we would do if we caught a leprechaun.  We were lucky enough to have the leprechaun leave us a package in the office at the end of the day.  The leprechaun knows how much we love to read and brought each student a bookmark and a new Piggie and Elephant book for our class.

Happy 100th Day of School

Today we celebrated our 100th day of school with several activities.  During math we compared the weight of sets of 100 objects.  The students then took a few of those items and measured how long 100 items were lined up.  We found that the popsicle sticks were the longest in a row and the paperclips lined up were the shortest.  The students were probably most looking forward to making a 100 day trail mix.  Each student brought in 100 snack items and we combined them all in a big bowl.  As they enjoyed their snack, they used the digits in 100 to make creative designs.  They could move the digits around to make them into whatever design they chose.  The students came up with wonderful ideas such as a mask, tractor, guitar, alligator, monster truck, eagle, and a classroom with a teacher and students.  We'll put all of our designs together in a class book.