Thanksgiving fun!

What an exciting day! Our class had collected the most food for the food drive the last few weeks so we got to have someone from our class throw a pie at Mrs. Rudd! We had a drawing and Braden won! He represented our class perfectly, throwing it square at her face! It plastered her! What a great shot! And what a great sport Mrs. Rudd was. It was so fun!

We also had a turkey gobbling contest with one child from each class competing. Our contestant was Landon. He was awesome. It was so fun to hear his creative gobble. We thought it was awesome!

Later that afternoon we invited our parents to an author's celebration where we shared our stories of "Our Most Thankful Thing" projected onto the big screen. We had some technical difficulties and couldn't get any sound to come through the system so the children ended up reading their stories into the microphone. (I'm thankful the students and parents were so flexible) They did a great job. The stories were heart-felt and wonderful! What a fun way to begin our Thanksgiving celebration!

More Wonderful Scientists!

Joe showed us how powerful air pressure can be as he projected a rocket through the classroom. He and Megan also showed us how to make an alka-selzer rocket shoot way up into the sky!

Katie used a drill to show us how mixing 2 or more colors together can make a whole new color. It was fun to see it mix right before our eyes!

Megan pushed air through a funny contraption that could pop it out and blow our hair. It was suprising and way fun!

Calvin taught us about the oxidation of copper. He showed us how to clean pennies and make them like new again. But then if you leave them for too long they'll turn green!

Gavin used vinegar and soda to make a volcano erupt. It was so exciting to watch! What a fun day!

Wow, it's been way too long since I added a new post to this blog. Sorry! I missed a couple of Thursdays due to a district committee that I'm on. I really missed teaching on those days, but I especially missed the student experiments!!! I heard they were incredible. well prepared and very interesting! Luckily the students told me all about them and Miss Walton took some pictures of the terriffic scientists!

Halloween Parade and Party!

We had such a great time on Thursday celebrating Halloween! We had a parade in the morning and went all through the school showing our costumes and looking at those from other grades too!

Our new student teacher from BYU even joined in the fun and dressed up as the tooth fairy! With Cruella Deville and the tooth fairy taking care of us all day, we just weren't sure what to expect!

We made a very strange witches brew that 'most' of us tried a little bit of. Luckily no one turned into frogs or lost their hair, at least not yet anyway.

Ryan did his science experiment Thursday. In keeping with the Halloween theme, he made an interesting concoction that turned into silly putty! We each got to have some to take home! Yahoo!

Our room moms put together a great party for us where we got to make cupcake owls, play games and do some fun Halloween painting. What a perfect day!