Baby Chicks

Our neighbor class has had chicken eggs that we have watched develop the past few weeks and finally we got to see harm hatch! She even let us play with the precious babies!

I even got in on the fun! It was so exciting to see these babies and you can even watch some of them hatch at allisonannfranklin on YouTube. 

Cloud Craft

We read this book and talked about the different shapes we have seen clouds make.

Then we mixed shaving cream and glue to make fluffy paint and we created our own clouds.

Rain Day Learning

Today was such a rainy yucky day but lucky for us we were learning about rain! So that worked out very well. We started by showing how a thunderstorm is formed. We used blue ice cubes and red food coloring to show how cool air makes warm air rise.

Then we put water in a jar and added a cloud (shaving cream) and showed that when a cloud is full rain falls down. We added blue food coloring until it fell down.

And finally we made a tornado in a bottle. This is an all time favorite and the kids loved it! They want to go home and make one on their own!!

This weather unit is so much fun!! I can't wait until science time each day and neither can the kids! I love seeing them excited about learning!

Happy Birthday Janet

The birthday girl with her mom and dad!

We enjoyed the yummy snack Janet's parents brought for her birthday today! Happy birthday Janet and thanks Mom and Dad!!

Clouds

Today started our weather unit. We started out by reading a little about how clouds are formed and the types of clouds. Then we made a cloud a jar.

I found directions for this activity here: www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/kids/activities.php

It was such a neat activity. The pictures of it do not do it justice!

Then we made this craft showing the types of clouds we learned about today.

Finally, we went outside and looked in the sky to determine what kind of clouds we could see. The weather was too perfect to stay inside so it was a great excuse to get some fresh air! :)

Spring Fun

We got in the Spring spirit and made cute flower art with forks!

Then we got an egg and tried to guess what was inside.

Here are some of our guesses. It was a PEEP!

Then we named our peep, came up with a problem he may face, how he would sove that problem, and a setting for our story. Then of course we wrote the story and shared it with the class! I have a class full of authors.

Easter fun!

Well we had an Easter egg hunt scheduled for today audit rained! :( but wedding let that stop our fun!

The kids went in the closet while we hid eggs! They thought that was so funny!

Luckily I had parents to help hide the eggs because we had sooo many! But we are egg hunting experts they found them all in no time. At least we hope we found them all.

Here we are with ALL our eggs! Not sure what is up with the color of this picture.

We loved our Easter snack and of course a few pieces of candy!

Here are some of our parent helpers for the day. I let a few slip out without a picture! :(

We had a great day full of fun! Lots of candy and sugar but they have been so good all year they deserved a break! I hope everyone has a very Happy Easter!