April Fool's to B-7!

April Fool's everyone! K108 teamed up with Mrs. Traci Blazosky's first grade class at Clarion Area Elementary to pull some super pranks this April Fool's Day! To get us ready I read the book, April Foolishness by Teresa Bateman. The story is about a young boy trying to prank his grandfather on April's Fools day by making up all these crazy accusations about the farm animals on his grandpa's farm. A very cute story and it got us in the mood to plot our pranks on B-7! During Writer's Workshop we drew our prank and wrote a story about it, and then we used VoiceThread to load the pictures into and record our voices telling our prank. Enjoy!

A Very Special Guest Reader

K108 had a very special guest reader yesterday! Mrs. Flick, beloved former 2nd grade teacher, read us Duck on a Bike by David Shannon, sang the song Six Little Ducks with us and gave eaach of us a bookmark with a farm animal on it! How lucky are we? We felt very fortunate to have Mrs. Flick come in and spend some of the afternoon with us! We always enjoy having visitors!

To go along with St. Patrick's Day we also learned about rainbows in our classroom last week. First, we watched a video on our SmartBoard from Discovery UnitedStreaming
about what makes a rainbow. Then we did science centers! They made rainbows out of markers, paper plates, construction paper and green Easter basket grass to represent that there must be rain AND sun present to see a rainbow. We also played a game on the Smartboard where the kids were asked to fill in the correct colors in the rainbow and I did a science experiment with them with just milk, dish soap and food coloring. I out a dab of red, yellow and blue in three seperate sections of a bowl filled with milk. Then I added in the dish soap. The dish soap did not mix with the milk-instead it floated on top making the colors mix and swirl together to make all the colors of a rainbow! The children were amazed as they watched the colors mix and swirl together to see the different colors that were made.

Lucky Leprechauns!

K108 was ransacked by a tiny and mischevious leprechaun on Tuesday, March 17th! Thank goodness that St. Patrick's Day is over and we have a whole year to be safe from such an attack again! He left footprint all over the floor and tables and he even peed green in our toilet! To top it all off he hung our beloved hot potato from the celining! What a sprite!

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

We had a very busy day for Dr. Seuss's birthday on Monday, March 2nd! We had guest readers come into our kindergarten classrooms to read to us-6 in all! We heard some really great stories from former third-grade teacher Tom Mould, Tye Elder's mother, Tammy Elder, former aide, Mrs. Young, former sixth-grade teacher Nancy Davis, former guidance counselor Danny Williams and Sebby's mom, Tina Siegel read for our class in K108! It was a great morning full of great stories, and it is always nice to see former familiar faces come in to visit!