Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Twin Day, Orange Day, Ukulele, Writing, and Research!

 We had some great twins for Red Ribbon Week:



Silly faces!












Every morning in class, we get into our "morning line" to say good morning together. When I noticed that we had 100% participation for ORANGE day, I had to get a video!



When I was picking up the kids from music class, I was delighted to hear beautiful music through their ukulele lesson! Here is a short clip of that moment:




We had Writers' Workshop this week. I was so very proud of how hard they were working on their Beanstalk Fairytale, so I whipped out my phone to take a video:

In Social Studies, the students were instructed on the safe usage of Safari for their research. They were in groups, and they looked up information on various famous landmarks in America to complete their landmark brochures. 



Upon completion, they were given 15 minutes to prepare for a group oral presentation. They were trying to convince Mrs. Johnston, their client, to come to their landmark. 

Here are their presentations...please kindly overlook their minor inaccuracies and mispronunciations 😂😂😂. We are celebrating their independent research and their ability to work well together in a group!! I am so proud of them!

                          (Henry, Bailey, Lux)


(Josiah, Noah, Austin, Jada, Leon A)


(Bella, Logan, Mikaela, John)


(Mila, Malaya, Ashton)


(Leo, Briana, Samyra, Isabella)


(Morgan, Jameson, Lorenzo, Leon R)




















Friday, October 17, 2025

Paleontologists, Plants, Preparedness, and Palette!!!

PALEONTOLOGISTS!!

As a culminating activity for our fossils unit, we got to actually become paleontologists and dig for fossils!!










Here they are with their excavated items:























PLANTS!!

Our next science chapter is on plants and flowers. Of course Mrs. Johnston had to bring in edible plants for everyone to try!

We had some roots...

Fruits...

Stems...

It was the first time for many of the kids to try raw green beans! I got a lot of thumbs up!

YouTube would not let me post a cute video of the kids crunching the veggies, so I took a screen shot of each student (Just imagine the ASMR...lol😊 ).
























On another day, we got to do a science experiment on which edible leaf makes the darkest color.




















Here are the results! Spinach was the darkest! Many of the kids' hypothesis were correct. Mine was wrong because I thought it would be kale. 







PREPAREDNESS!!

 Thursday, October 16th was the Great California Shakeout! We learned how to protect ourselves under the tables:


Then we evacuated the building like a fire drill. 



After that, we walked around to the field parking lot. Don't worry, there were many staff members along the road to be sure the kids were safe!


Once we got to the evacuation area, we played games to help the time pass. The kids did a great job!








PALETTE!!

Look at the beautiful artwork done by your kids! I love their choices of colors: