Fall Festival is tomorrow!

 Our class and YOU received this thank you for all your contributions for Fall Festival.

We did an Animal Action song for a little movement between writing activities today.

Zoo Field Trip (Many Pictures)

Giraffes!

 They had as much fun running/climbing/playing as they did looking at animals.

 Looking at a rhino camouflaged in the back

 Cute otters.

 I matched the komodo dragon!

 

See?  It has a splint on its right arm, too!  Although technically the komodo dragon merely suffers from joint pain, not a broken arm.

 Hanging around...

 Cute little squirrel monkeys.  Ask your child what they ate.

 Class picture!

 Spider web time.

 Bandaid time...

 Relaxing by the life-size elephants

 Petting zoo.  I was actually impressed by how long they were content to be in here brushing the goats.

 brushing its beard

By the end of the day everyone was hot (it was 90*) and tired.  Everyone should sleep well tonight.  :)

Thanks to the moms and dad who came, chauffeured children, got us into the zoo, wrangled children,  carried the cooler, etc! 

Happy Friday!

 Our Zero the Hero scrolls now have numbers to 50 and are about the same height as most students.

 Quiet reading :)

 Blowing bubbles with our buddies on a beautiful day.

 alphabet beanbag toss game

Question of the day: favorite bear (yesterday) and a survey about bats.  Did your child tell you anything about bats?

Non-field trip excitement

Here are some of our literacy centers from the week: color word puzzles (above), making signs to practice our sight words,

 and reading letters and words around the room.

 During science we used our senses of sight and touch to observe Franklin the turtle.  Everyone was really good about being gentle and quiet so we didn't scare him.

 He was very popular.  They didn't want him to leave.

Above is a video clip of a fall alphabet game we played when we had a few minutes to spare earlier in the week.  The boys decided to play again  and a few girls came to join at different times.  They did a good job of taking turns saying and swatting letters.

(Can you tell it was tropical Thursday?  There was a lot of bright clothing, though most children had lost their leis by the afternoon)

I see bugs!

Today we went on a short jaunt over to the 8th grade room to see the bug collections the 7th and 8th graders had done. They were pretty amazing. We had fun looking at them and asking a few questions. Just 8 more years until they get to do this project!
Mrs. Ervin also showed us a large grasshopper, a crayfish, and a frog.