IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

I forgot to mention a couple of things in the previous post.  With us reading mysteries right now, I thought it would be fun to have a mystery reader each day (if possible) until the end of the school year.  We would do this whenever you would be available to come (or 3:00 if you are flexible).  I thought it would be fun if you were the mystery readers each day to read aloud a book to the class.  If you are interested in being a mystery reader (and mystery is important-not even your child can know!), let me know so we can set up a time!

We are looking for family’s to help take care of the garden and chickens this summer.  Your family could for one week take care of the chickens and the garden and in return take any eggs that are laid and enjoy the garden!  If you are interested, let me or Mrs. Argus know.

Thanks!

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

Tags: capable, friendship, relationships

This afternoon, we went out to our garden and picked some spinach.  The kids were so excited to actually use something that we have been growing for the last few weeks.

Messi, from Mrs. Argus' class showed us how to pick the spinach.

J'Nayla and Olivia are working together to pick the spinach.

After our picking, we went inside and made our salad.  Each friend had a salad full of spinach, mandarin oranges, apples, grapes, and strawberries.

We love our salad!

"Healthy food is so good!" ~Selah

To add on to our exploration of 3D shapes, today we went on a shape hunt.  The kids had 6 different shapes that they needed to find around the room.  They worked in partners to help one another find the shapes.  The kids recognized lights, books, tables, papers, and even more as different 3D shapes!

CJ and Dorothy were working together to find 3D shapes.

Raki and Olivia were working together to find 3D shapes.

Cameron picks fresh lettuce.

Mrs. Argus shows friends how to pick from the basil plant.

Aidan and Carriea pick lettuce.

Ruth washes our lettuce!

Regan tries the salad spinner.

Fresh garden salad- finger lickin good!

“I give this salad two thumbs up!” Michael

Zek enjoys his salad. He ate two bowls!

Pesto party!

Slurp slurp slurp!

Tags: capable, garden, project, responsible