IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

What a wonderful day to plant trees! As I shared in earlier blogs, we have been working with Mrs. Argus’ class to plant fruit trees.  As we end our recycling/tree project, we have two additions to our garden to share with the school. Today our class and Mrs. Argus’ class planted two apple trees near our school garden.  We planted one Gala Apple tree and one Johnathon Apple tree. Check out the pictures below to see how our afternoon went!

This week, we received a series of letters from our chickens! They led us on a chase throughout the school to see their secret message.

Michael reads one of the notes from the chickens!

Our librarian puts the chicken note up on the big screen!

Looking for a hidden note in the garden…

We have started a new tradition in our classroom: sharing appreciation. At the end of the week, we sit down as a class and talk about friends we appreciate and why. Its a time of such laughter and joy. We display many of the appreciations around our room to remind ourselves to always look for something positive in our friends. It has become many of our favorite part of the week (myself included). I have to share some of our appreciations from Thursday.

 I appreciate Christian because when its time for studio and explore and recess, he always plays with me and he makes nice cars. David

 I appreciate the chickens.  They always lay eggs for us. Aidan

  I appreciate this city. Because everyone in this city is nice to me. Journey

 I appreciate everyone that plays soccer with me at recess because they always let me play goalie. Cameron

 I appreciate Angela. Cuz shes already laughing! Jenesis

 I appreciate everyone because everyone is nice to me. Carriea

 I appreciate the garden because it gives us healthy food. Sascha

 I appreciate Cameron and Lucas because they play soccer with me at recess. Monica

I appreciate Regan because she always makes me laugh. Da’Sean

 I appreciate Lucas cuz hes always my best friend. Hutton

I appreciate the teachers because they let us play and they teach us stuff that we never heard and sometimes we learn new stuff that we didn’t know. Tajanaye

I appreciate Monica because she plays with me. David

I appreciate Michael and Aidan because when we go to recess we play police. Christian 

 I appreciate Sascha and Geneva because they hang upside down with me!  Journey

I appreciate Hutton because he plays with me and Cameron. Lucas

I appreciate Michael because we played run around the playground. Regan

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