Clear Water Presentation

Our special guest, Beth Segaloff visited the Mixed Age Group to share information about the importance of clean water. She showed the children containers used to transport water in African countries. She described the time and work necessary for villagers to obtain clean water in these countries. The children shared their feelings of how fortunate they are to have clean water so readily available. After a brainstorming session, the students worked in groups to create posters to remind our community of all the ways we use water!

"Flick It" Measurement Activity

How Big Is A Foot?

As an introduction to our Unit on Measurement, the class enjoyed listening to the story, How Big Is A Foot? by Rolf Myller. The story is about a King who wants to give the Queen something special for her birthday. The Queen has everything, everything except a bed. The trouble is that no one in the Kingdom knows the answer to the question: HOW BIG IS A BED? because beds at the time had not yet been invented. The Queen's birthday is only a few days away. How can they figure out what size the bed should be? 

Ask your children if they can explain the solution to this problem! Be sure to ask why the Apprentice was sent to jail!

Free Choice: Building

Last fall, we planted two kinds of garlic with Bernard. Today, we took away the leaves that had protected our garlic all winter. It's a thrill to see our new plants!

Pennies For Peace

The children were in awe at the amount of money they helped raise for Pennies For Peace, to help children and schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 

The school collected a total of $509.06!

That is enough to pay for school supplies for twenty-five children for an entire year!

Or it could buy 3,393 notebooks!

Or it is enough for 25, 453 erasers!

Or it could pay for 50,906 pencils!

Learning About Desert Plants

Trudy and Margy, two plant experts from the Edgerton Park Conservancy visited our building with a variety of plants native to South Africa. 

The children saw a "great, great, great, great grandma" to the cactus. How is it similar to the cactus we know? How is it different?

Trudy and Margy brought in a variety of "euphorbias" for the children to observe. They explained that many people mistake some "euphorbias" for cacti. Two of the euphorbias that the children found most fascinating are the window pane plant and the rock plant.