Building a Community

Mr. W was learning about communities this year in Social Studies. After taking all he learned about communities and putting it all together, he made his own community. It looks like a beautiful place to live, and I would be excited to live there. It has all the amenities of the city, yet the feel of a small town. It has it all!

Turn Up the Music

My little dancers were wonderful this year. They have had so much fun learning the step and practicing for hours to get it just right. I have see their dances many, many times, but to see it performed in costumes and on stage with the rest of their class mates, makes it magical.

Color Fun

As part of our Color Unit is science we dyed Easter Egg.  I would normally make up different colors of dye for the kids to use, but this time I only made the primary colors, and the they had to guess what combinations they need to make up the secondary colors that they wanted. We had a few not so pretty colors come out out, but for the most part thongs worked out quite well.

Building

Science experiment, or snack time? Maybe a bit of both. In order to test if triangles are a stronger more sturdy structure than squares we built a tower out of squares using marshmallows and tooth picks.  The structure we constructed wasn't very sturdy, and twisted easily. We didn't get it to stand up.  Then we took spaghetti and reimbursed the square shaped tower, and made it into triangle shapes. The tower was strengthened and we were able to stand it up and hold a toy car on top.
Our conclusion was that triangles are indeed a stronger structure than squares.

Home Made Goodness

One way for the kids to learn about healthy eating is to have them read the labels on products. We are trying to stay as far away as possible from additives and preservatives that our bodies don't need. One way to have a treat and not get all the extra additives is to make it yourself.

  Making homemade treats in Life Skills has turned out to be one of the funnest parts of our school year. Some of the items we have made are healthy, but not all of them. I know I have enjoyed them immensely.

Chief

Bread

Lemon Meringue Pie

Cinnimon Bread

Garlic Bread Sticks

Cupcakes



Fall Fun

One of the first art projects we did this year were fall landscapes with hand and fingure prints.  I let the kids pick thier own colors and away they went. After we were all done with the painting, B noticed that each picture was a different time of day, and followed the sun as it set.

Horse Riding Lessons

With the start of a new school year the kids wanted to forcus a portion of their learning on riding lessons. I was really impressed with the results that came from our experience with W last year, that I thought it was a great idea. The kids spent all summer selling raffle tickets on a quilt thier aunt made for them. They were able to raise quite a bit of money for thier lessons that way. Their motivation in selling the ticket showed me how much they really wanted the riding lessons.