IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Monday and Tuesday we began exploring the Greek symbols for each planet.  With the research that was happening with each group, a friend found the Greek symbol for their planet in a book.  That began a wonderful discussion of the Greek symbols and why they look the way they do.  The children each got their planet’s Greek sumbol and then they made out of their choice of materials.  We took photographs of them and then put them up in our room so we could reference our new knowledge.

Today we had a beautiful walk to and from The Children’s Museum.  On the way there and back we noticed the houses, the Moon that was out, and really enjoyed getting that fresh air.  While at the Museum, the children were so excited to see the show about “The Secrets of the Cardboard Rocket!”  Madeline P. said, “I feel lucky because I know a story about stars!”  Jamari noticed that when the show began it seemed like we were moving.   He said, “It is moving!  We are moving!”  As we were learning about all of the planets, Emily said, “Earth is small!  It doesn’t feel it when you are on it!”We learned new things about each planet which we will take with us for a long time!

Saturn's Greek symbol that Oliver, Mekhi, and Geneva worked on!

Walking back from The Children's Museum.

Please join us at 6pm for our Trading Card Family Night! At this event, you will be introduced to the wonderful world of Lab School trading cards and be invited to create and share. We are also hoping for families to add their names to the Lab School directory at this event and exchange phone numbers for play dates over spring break. It should be a great evening!

Just a reminder that next Thursday, March 22nd is this month’s Family Night!  It will be at the school at 6:00pm.

In addition, the May Family Night has been changed to Friday, May 18th.  More information will come as we get closer to the date, but it is going to have the theme of a school carnival.

Just a reminder…We will have our Parent Meeting for March on Thursday at 6:30pm.  It will follow our Spring Open House for perspective families.  If you are able to come early for the Open House at 5:00 Mr. Smith is looking for volunteers!  Please email him at rwsmith@bsugmail.net or call the school at 226-4260.  Thank you!!

Today we figured out that it might take a while to get out into space because we are still working on our space suits and helmets…they keep wanting to work on them and are so engaged that we do not want to rush this experience.  We will continue to work on these things next week so that we are better prepared for space travel.

The children have been learning about schema and continuing to learn about how using our five senses can help give us “juicy” words to help us with our reading and writing.  Yesterday Mr. Nored began writing a class book all about clementines.  They looked at some real clementines and used some great descriptions to talk about what the clementines looked like.  Then, today we focused on the smell and the sound?  Oh my gosh!  I thought the sound part would be difficult, but they were so creative with figuring out that it sounds like it is cracking when it is being peeled!  They were really enjoying the smell of them as we passed around the clementines so we might have had to eat some of them…haha!

We hope the moon journals have been fun to do with your child!!  Mr. Nored and I each mornign have been talking about how the moon looked the night before so we have to do moon journals too now!

It is hard to see but this is a rocket (left) and some constellation artwork (right) of space that some friends put together today! We left it up because they worked so hard on it!

Mekhi looking through our awesome new telescope!