IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Today we learned new yoga poses.

Isabella and Zakeyah practice "The Boat" pose we learned in yoga today.

We also played nicely with our new recess equiptment.

William and Jermaine were excited to play with our new sports ball during recess.

Today, during recess, a few friends started to wonder about trees.  As we start our investigation into trees, it is important that continue to ask questions.  The kids have so many wonderings about trees!  Here are a few of them from today:

Kristien- “What do you call little trees?  What do you call big trees?  Do you call them big babies?”

J’Nayla- “What kind of trees can we plant?  We don’t want to plant poisonous  trees or pointy trees.  They could hurt someone!”

Our two friends, Kristien and J’Nayla, returned after recess and shared what they were wondering.  The kids were very excited about this and began to share what they already knew about trees. I am looking forward to more conversations as we continue our adventure into trees and how they can help the environment!

If you have not already heard, we filled our marble jar today!  The kids had voted that our next party would be a pajama party.  You could hear the excitement down the hall when the last marble dropped into the jar.  Our actual party will be next Wednesday, the 29th.  I will be sending home more information tomorrow.

Today we got to make a special clock. We made the numbers out of pipes, connectors, and paper. 

Jermaine changed the time on our new clock.

As I said in Friday’s blog our recycling project is going so well!  The kids are now interested in finding other ways to save the environment!  This week we were looking into writing Keep Indianapolis Beautiful.  (The kids discovered that Mr. Greg Ballard does not cut down trees because he really supports Keep Indianapolis Beautiful so that letter was put on hold.)

Through a conversation today, Reid and Max thought it would be a good idea to write for help!  They came up with the idea that we could write Keep Indianapolis Beautiful for help planting trees at our own school.  Reid was so excited he said, “It will be another way to save the environment!”  After Reid and Max shared the entire classroom was excited about our next adventure!  We even went outside this afternoon to look at possible places to plant trees.  Stay tuned for more in the next few days!!

Today we played with new musical instruments. There were drums, bells, and a rainstick. We had fun!

Aaliyah and Daysia work together to use the bell. Leah and Jo'Vyon share a new drum.