Recycling Creations

This past week was all about recycling! Our days included reading about recycling, listening to stories about recycling and making our own creations from recycled materials! On Wednesday I started taking pictures of the students while they were working on their creations. Kids quickly started noticing saying "Mrs. Bowers is taking pictures of us!" My favorite comment to follow was by Albert, "Put them on the blog right now!" I told him I couldn't right away, but I definitely would! All the kids were excited to share their creations with you. 

On Tuesday we made our plans. Here are a few of their plans:

On Wednesday we began building our creations:

On Thursday we finished working on our creations:

 On Friday we shared our creations! They were very creative creations:

Thanks to everyone who sent in recycled materials to help us make our creations!

Valentine's Day!

Last week we celebrated Valentine's Day. Here is what we did to celebrate this holiday!

We made checkerboard hearts. We chose 2 colors and colored every other square, row by row to make it look like a checkerboard.

We also made marble painted hearts. They are hanging on our windows.

We followed step-by-step directions to create a "Love Bug" Cookie.

 We opened our Valentines!

Thanks to all the families who helped by bringing stuff in for our party! It was a lot of fun!

Shadows, Snowflakes and Smiles

On Wednesday we had some sun! After learning about shadows last week, we finally were able to take pictures of our shadows! Scroll slowly to see the shadow, then guess whose shadow, then see who made the shadow!

 Today we woke up to falling snow! It was beautiful! We got to come to school today (until we went home early at 12). We bundled up and went outside for a few quick minutes to take some snow pictures! They were so excited!

 During recess (indoor) I taught some students how to make snowflakes! It was so fun!

We had a fun day celebrating the snow with pictures, a poem, books, a movie, indoor recess and an early dismissal. We tried to make up for the fact that our winter program got cancelled for tonight. No worries, it will happen next Wednesday the 12th!