IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Just a reminder:  our school carnival is this Friday, May 18th! It is from 6-8.  The kids are really excited about it!  We hope to see you all there!

Regan notices our pea pods have formed in our garden!

Releasing our butterflies!

Go, butterflies go!

Journey creates butterfly puppets during story workshop.

Sascha and Journey begin to form their story. “I know Sascha’s butterfly is going to be the little one, and that is part of the problem! We have to work out the rest!” Journey

Hutton is inspired by Sascha and Journey’s puppets and creates an ant and a queen bee during Story Workshop.

Tags: creativity, garden, project

Today we had our egg drop and the kids just LOVED cheering for their friends and seeing which eggs stayed safe and which eggs broke. It was such a good experience for the children to hypothesize, conduct an experiment, and see if their hypothesis was correct. We might do this again to see if the children will make any changes to their houses.

Mrs. Argus explaining her class' tree choices.

Over the past week, we have been writing letters to Mrs. Argus’ class about trees.  At the beginning of the week, they asked us if we could plant trees together.  We gave them four choices of trees; apple, cherry, maple, or pecan.  Today they came back with the research about each tree.  After we learned about each choice both classes voted together and we had two winners.  The kids picked apple and cherry!  Over the next few weeks we are going to be working on planting an apple and a cherry tree in our garden.

As our week came to a close, we finished our chicken responsibilities.  This afternoon we had to clean out the chicken coop!  Take a look at the pictures below:

Sophia cleaning out the coop.

David helping clean out the coop.

Selah and Olivia are putting new hay in the coop.

Hi there!  So, I just wanted to apologize for the delay in posts.  We do not have internet service at our new house so I have not been able to get posts done.  Tomorrow night though we are supposed to get internet service so then I will be able to get back to the posts each night.

This week we had an amazing turn out for the Space Presentation!  Thank you so much for coming and supporting all of the children in the class!  Like I said that night, I was so proud of each child presenting!  They were so proud of their work and just soaked in all of the attention that you all brought!  Thank you for making it a special night!

Mr. Nored’s last day with us was today.  The kiddos were so sweet making cards for him all day, hugging him, telling him they were going to miss him.  It was precious.  He has become part of our classroom community so we will definitely miss him, but he has a bright future ahead of him in Brownsburg!

Yesterday we started talking about the astronauts (us) coming back into space and how that happens.  We discussed how we know of two ways that astronauts come back into space.  They either land their shuttle like an airplane or they come back and land in water for a safe landing.  So…I brought in some eggs yesterday and the children decorated them like themselves.  Then, today we started making homes for them out of found materials (styrofoam bowls, cups, paper towels, etc.).  Tomorrow we are going to drop them from the top of the slide out on the playground to see if we constructed a safe enough home for our astronaut!  The kiddos are super excited for this astronaut egg drop so pictures will be coming to show what happens tomorrow afternoon!