Nov
18
2011
Mrs. Bucher
What a fun day we had today! The kiddos LOVED wearing their pajamas to school (as did I). It was such a treat for us to wear our pajamas to school. Today we saw a demonstration by Andre (I believe to be 10 years old) who has been in the news recently (newspaper, Anderson Coopers show, etc.) with his stick bombs that he makes out of popsicle sticks. His family is a perspective family who came to our open house last week. Andre has been making these stick bombs (it is a bunch of popsicle sticks woven together, and then after you have however many you want you can set it off, and they fly up in the air. They remind me of dominoes). Well, he came in today to show his work since Mrs. Grotjan has been doing it with all of the students this week. They were in awe of Andre and LOVED watching it go off. If you go to YouTube and put in “stick bombs” you can see videos of them. Very cool!
We had a blast watching Toy Story 3 and eating popcorn! I hope that you all have a great Thanksgiving Break!
We made some puppets today that Mekhi's family brought in. Here's Isaac's!
Enjoying the movie!
Our "Go Puppets!" cheer before we peformed for you!
Look how great our class looks in their pajamas!
Nov
18
2011
Mrs. Clark
Leah was our Mystery Reader!
We had a big day today! Our 3rd mystery reader was someone inside the school. Leah, Sophia’s sister, was our mystery reader. As always, if you would like to be a mystery reader or know someone in your family who would like to be one please let me know!
Nov
18
2011
Mrs. Argus
Cameron and Miss Schmidt look at a globe together. Cameron spots Antarctica!
Today, our class started a discussion on how we could show off our airplane to our families and friends while displaying the knowledge we have learned about flight. We decided we would like to go on a pretend trip to somewhere around the world and are inviting you all to join us! This event will most likely take place one evening before Winter Break. When we get back from break, our class will have a discussion on where exactly we want our flight to take us. Today, we began an investigation on maps and globes, and atlas’. The kids had some great observations about our new materials. When looking at a map of Indianapolis, the kids immediately picked up on locations like Lawrence and Fishers and pointed them out. Monica, Zek, and I looked for our houses together on the map. Then Messi noticed something. “Mrs. Argus! The Indianapolis Airport!” He saw the large airport on the map and everyone got very excited at his find. Then we began noticing small planes around the map. We wondered what these were for. We looked down at the legend and found that the pictures of small planes indicate small airports across Indianapolis. There are quite a few!
Tags: curious, inspiration, thinking
Nov
17
2011
Mrs. Bucher
I cannot begin to tell you how much tonight meant to me and the kids! We are so thankful to you all for supporting us! Your claps, laughter, hugs, and voices really helped boost the children’s performances even more! I was SO proud of their performances. I felt that each one was special and memorable so thank you for being there!
I hope that you all enjoyed it! If you have any good pictures or video, let me know so I can maybe get a copy!
Thanks again, and we are looking forward to wearing pajamas tomorrow to school!
Nov
17
2011
Mrs. Clark
The class outside in the parking lot asking, "Where should we put the paper bin?"
We have very exciting news! We are in the process of applying for a Paper Retriever Bin to help us with our recycling. The bin is as big as a typical garbage bin so today we went out into the parking lot to see where the best location would be. We finally decided in the parking lot at the end near St. Richards (so they can use it too) but on the sidewalk side (so our students can get to it safely).
