IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

After break, the k-1 team will be starting a unit on geometry. We need your empty boxes, containers, and cans to make this happen! Please send them in with your child on Monday, January 7. Thanks for your help!

Today, we finished up creating winter gifts for our families and got to watch The Polar Express. We had a great time! The day was filled with hugs and excitement. We hope you have a wonderful winter break and will see you in 2013!

Today was quite the busy day getting everything prepared for our puppet movie! We divided into groups and tackled some jobs-setting up the popcorn, getting the red carpet ready, getting the ticket booth and donations jar table prepared, setting up chairs, and making decorations to hang up!

Last Wednesday, I had a great small group discussion where we were working on our donation jars. While we were working on them, one friend suggested that we need to have someone there to watch the jars so nobody steals the money. I reassured the friends that everyone coming to the show is there to support us and that I did not think anyone would steal our money. They said, “Just to be safe, we should have someone there!” Selah, then offered that Mrs. Clark one of our 1/2 teachers’ husbands was a police officer and he could come! Selah wrote a note to him yesterday asking if he could come and watch over the donations jars. What was great was that he wrote back today and said he would love to come watch the money (in full uniform!) So, I just wanted to let you know that he will be there tomorrow-in complete support of our class’s desire to raise as much money as we can!

The last thing we did was watch our movie. The children sitting in the front two rows with smiles stretched from ear to ear watched so diligently. As soon as it was over, Sarah said, “I want to watch that again.”

Cannot wait for tomorrow…

We had an awesome time today at the museum.  The students loved exploring the Ruby Bridges exhibit.  They learned new things about Ruby, made connections to what we had already discussed, and came up with questions they are still curious about.  Ask them about their experience tonight!

Mrs. Clark and Miss Cegielski’s classes are having a combined pajama and movie party tomorrow! Students may wear their pajamas to school!

Today there was quite a lot of discussion about what we needed to do to prepare for the movie. The children made a list of the things we are going to work on tomorrow. Some of those things on the list are: set up chairs, set up tables, make signs for the tables, get the ticket booth ready. After we got done talking about this show, Joe turned to me and said, “I am SOOOOOOO excited!” That summed up how everyone is feeling right now!

Today we also celebrated many of our friends’ birthdays! They baked delicious cupcakes and we had fun celebrating them! Happy Birthday to our December birthday friends!