Birding

Our state standards include the science of building and engineering.  Is there anything as masterful as a bird building her nest with just a beak? 

A student brought this nest to school.  His dad had found it in his boom truck and knew that the mother had abandoned it when they began work on the job site.

We've been having trouble with birds at our feeder leaving quickly and hitting our classroom window. This was VERY bothersome to our class.  After a bit of research, the young ornithologists decided to create silhouettes of predators to "wake up" our birds. 

New Plants

Lots of Growth - We've been learning that new plants do come from seeds, but also come from roots, cuttings, runners, and bulbs.  

Butterfly Release

Sweet Freedom

One little butterfly just didn't quite want to leave our sweet class.  

Good-bye painted ladies!  Take care!

Butterflies Emerged

Amid much excitement, the painted-lady butterflies hatched!

Fortunately, the marsh marigolds were blooming at the same time in our School Forest.  We donned our puddle boots and gathered a butterfly bouquet.  We have happy butterflies and happy, young entomologists who love observing and recording their findings.

Centering on Centers

We practiced telling time and recording on a student-created chart.

We dug out the big books which seemed so challenging last fall and now are easy-peasy.  What a great feeling!

This is a Science/Math/Geography center.  Partners gently tossed the globe to each other.  Partner 1 stated where his/her right thumb landed (land or water).  Partner 2 drew a t-chart on the board and recorded the findings with tally marks.  We kept the data from each group and discussed which category had the most results.  What conclusions did we draw from the data?

A new twist on Twister... We added numerals to the dots and "odd" and "even" to the spinner.  That's a lot of tangled up math fun.

The tangram challenge is a perennial puzzling favorite.

Spring Inspection of the Beaver Pond

As evident by the tracks, the beavers are still active.  Thank heavens for the Clemson Leveler which keeps the school forest from flooding again.

Mother's Day

Twin Ports Paper Company donated bags to our class.  We use them for many projects, but most recently we decorated them and used them as wrap for our precious Mother's Day gifts.  Thanks Twin Ports Paper!  You rock!

These are the Mother's Day gifts.  Beautiful keepsakes.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Our classroom mission is to improve the three recycling and reusing in our school and at home.

Going Buggy, Continued.

Beautiful Beetle

Lovely Ladybug

Amazing Ant

Daring Dragonfly

Life Cycles - Egg, Larvae, Chrysalis, Butterfly

Waiting and observing the changes in our painted lady butterflies.  We're in phase III of the life cycle.

Hallway art/science...  magnifying lenses and life cycles.