IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Hello!  Today was such a wonderful day!  This week we are focusing on “friendship is working together.”  Each day we will be working in partners to work on collaborating and working together.  This morning we started to work on a book in partners (or in threes for a couple of groups).  The groups had to work together to make their own gingerbread story. It was really amazing to see the children collaborate on this venture.  Each morning they are going to work together on this book and then Thursday we are going to share them in front of the group.

Jonah’s mom came in this afternoon to do some crafts with the kids.  Today they made owls, and I was so impressed with how hard they worked on them.  They really looked like owls!  The children were quite excited to bring them home and share them with you.

Madeline's beautiful owl

Jonah and Oliver working together on their gingerbread book!

Joseph and Isaac working together to co-author a gingerbread book!

Good evening!  I know that I do not usually blog on Sunday evenings, but I have a couple of things on my mind that I thought I would go ahead and blog about.

On Thursday afternoon we are going to be making gingerbread houses (the kids do not know this yet).  They are going to be working on these in partners (11 total gingerbread houses will be made) and then they will be kept at school to marvel at when we get back to school in January.  I wanted to see if any parents wanted to come in around 2pm on Thursday to help with this fun project!  Let me know if you would like to come in!

Also, does anyone have a green thumb?  Our poor ferns are struggling to survive, and I did not know if anyone was willing to take one or both of our ferns over break and try nursing them back to health.  I think the changes in temperature in the building throughout the week and on the weekend does not help them so I thought having them in our building over break would probably not be very good for them.  Let me know if you would be interested in taking one or both.

Thanks to you all, and I am looking forward to this week of Gingerbread fun!

Hello hello!  Today we had a normal morning working hard and enjoying each other’s company.  This afternoon I had to take my Charlotte to the doctor (she has a sinus infection) so I missed the afternoon portion of our day, and in my place we had Miss Lauren, Mr. Lucas, Miss Templeton, and Mr. Hughes with the children.  I am looking forward to hearing from the children how their afternoon was (some were pretend crying when I was leaving this afternoon-so sweet).

I cannot even tell you how amazing our time with Sabra was today!  We learned the Funga dance and song today!  It is a beautiful Swahili song that says, “Welcome, we greet you, you and you.  Welcome!  Hello! Let us be friends.”  The children did such a wonderful job listening, dancing, learning and being engaged while Sabra taught us a lot!  It was such a memorable experience so I hope that we can do it again.  It was fun because all day long we were singing the Funga song…so great!

I have some pictures, but I will have to show you a couple videos some time soon of the children singing their Funga song welcoming their friends!

Our friends being such great listeners!

Some friends playing the drums!