Butterflies at Meijer Gardens!

We traveled to Frederick Meijer Gardens to learn more about the life cycle of the butterflies! Special thank you to all of our parents and grandparents who were able to join us!  

3D shapes

We have started an in depth discussion about 3D shapes, and their attributes!  We discussed a poem, and built our own shapes with different mediums:

We're starting to notice the differences between 2D and 3D!

We even picked a 3D shape to study.  Next week, we will be teaching our shape to our learning buddy!  For today, we made our shapes out of different materials.  It was fun!

Clay cylinders and cones

Marshmallows and toothpicks cubes, pyramids, and prisms

straws and pipe cleaners, too!

Click HERE to visit a 3D short music video that the kids love!

We even created a Shapes Meseum with our treasures from home:

Look at our 3D shape drawings!

Construction has begun!

Thank you Rockford Communiity for passing the Bond!  We are able to upgrade the safety, technology, and infrastructure of our buildings.  Part of construction has begun over Spring Break, and will continue through the summer.  Here are some of the pictures I was able to get! 

A temporary wall was built so demolition can take place in our computer lab, conference room, and offices.  We will soon be getting "computers on wheels!"

Update to our temporary wall-- a vertical surface is great fine motor practice and the decorations are one of a kind!

Author's Chair

We have been working hard writing our HOW TO stories, and most of us have had a chance to publish our great work!  We have a checklist of things we need to include in our HOW TO stories: 

We even learned how to add elaborations (warnings) and a conclusion!  Once we conferred with a teacher to make sure our stories made sense, it was time for publishing.  We got to color our own pictures to our own books!

We practiced reading our HOW TO books to our learning buddy:

 

Then we got to read them on the ELMO.  Horray!

 

We have found a new joy of reading and writing!