FIELD DAY!

 Huge Thank You to Mrs. Peterson for planning a super fun and exciting field day today!  

This little toad wanted to join in our field day fun! 

We started out at the parachute.  Mrs. Peterson helped us play lots of different games at this station!  

Next we moved onto the obstacle course!  

 Next we moved onto Animal Rescue!  

Last we got to play empty the bucket where they worked together as a team to throw all of their balls into the bigger bin.  

We had so much fun today!

Adios Butterflies!

 Today all five of our butterflies emerged from their chrysalis'.  We decided that we should let them go today so they can fly around and be free outside like they are meant to be.  

We noticed that when the butterflies close their wings, they are hard to see in the grass.  We talked about how this keeps them safe from predators.  When they open their wings they are much easier to see and they are beautiful!

Can you spot the butterfly in this picture???

This little one got pretty lucky!  The other kids ran off to play, but she wanted to stay and watch the butterflies a little longer.  As she was watching them one flew onto my hand.  She was standing and watching so nicely, that I carefully helped the butterfly onto her hand.  She was VERY excited!

Here is a short video of one of our butterfly friends!

BUTTERFLIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 This morning I was sitting at my desk and I noticed movement out of the corner of my eye and our chrysalis that fell turned into a butterfly.  Shortly after lunch, another butterfly emerged from their chrysalis.  We still have three more to go! 

This afternoon we had a little fun with double dice for math.  We used them to practice addition and graph sums!

Our bean and pea plants continue to do well! They are growing so tall!!!  As you can see in the window, the one sprout house we have left is also doing well!!

We are so excited to come back tomorrow and see how many butterflies have emerged!

More Plant and Butterfly Science!!!

 Today we got to do Art in our classroom which was a lot of fun!  We started celebrating Earth Day a little early and made torn paper planet Earth's.  It was hard work, but they persevered and their Earth's turned out adorable!

The kids were super excited this morning because our caterpillars are now all chrysalis'.  Four of them are attached to the white disk and one of them is on the floor of the cage next to the net so it can climb the net to dry it's wings if it becomes a butterfly.  We talked today about how some of them might not turn into a butterfly and that is okay. 

Our bean and pea plants are doing great!

All four seeds have sprouted! We will keep watching to see how they grow and change over the next few weeks. 

They were super excited to see how colorful our roses and celery were this morning! 

We finished our observation logs from yesterday!

We even got to cut apart the purple celery and see how the celery carried the water to the celery leaves. 

Our sprout houses are doing great!  Those will come home tomorrow!