A Day at the Pow Wow

We all enjoyed a Native American Pow Wow in our classroom last Monday and Tuesday.  The children visited several centers that incorporated crafts, stories, games and music.  We opened the Pow Wow with a traditional call of the tribes entering from the east and closed on Tuesday by exiting to the west.  Look and see just a few of the activities we accomplished together!

We created feathers by tracing and fringing with Mrs. Cambro-Feliz

Played partner games.

Made headbands adorned with pictographs to tell a story.

Designed Iroquois False Face masks with Mrs. Boeker. 

We used our color word knowledge to complete a color by number page.

Let's Hear it for Color Week!

We celebrated primary and secondary colors this week at school.  Children not only dressed in the color of the day but also had a chance to incorporate each color into their center time.  Take a peek...

We learned to write our color words...

We read books about colors...

We built a ring of colors words...

We recorded specific colored 

objects at our I Spy table...

And we mixed primary colored 

gelatin into secondary colors.

What fun!!!

A Beautiful Day at Calvin College!

The woods at Calvin College 

beckoned us to come and discover.

We found trails in the tree bark left by beetles

"Do turtles have five senses like us?"  

We examined a painted turtle and discovered 

they do!

An old tree trunk is a perfect home for insects.

We learned that each variety of tree

 has a distinctive bark pattern.

We wiggled our fingers in the warm pond water... 

...as bull frog tadpoles nibbled at the duck weed.

What a beautiful day at Calvin College's Nature Center!!

**Extra thanks to Heather Saunders 

for sharing her talents behind the lens.

Apple Pizza Time!

First we choppped....

...and chopped...

..and chopped until our apples 

were in small pieces.  Thanks to 

Mrs. Feliz-Santana for helping us!

We combined the topping ingredients with 

Mrs. Bolt, and sprinkled it on top.  

This is what it looked like

 after 20 minutes of baking at 450 degrees.

Now, the fun part!!!

Apple pizza topped with a dollop of whipped cream and...

..a thumbs up from all - yum!

***Thanks again to our parent helpers***

Great fun was had by all at Steffens' Apple Orchard! 

Grandma Steffens and Farmer Rob shared lots of information 

on how apples are grown and where they are sold locally.

 Extra thanks to all the parents who were able to

 join us for our very first field trip together.

From deep in the hundred acre woods, where Christopher Robins plays --- Winnie the Pooh came to visit us on Friday. He heard there was a full honey pot and wanted to thank the children of Wealthy School. Just look at all the blue and gold smiles in our classroom - all were very excited to support the Hearts of Gold event!!

A Day With Artist Bren Bataclan

The children were treated to an incredible hour with world famous artist, Bren Bataclan on Tuesday morning. Bren shared his design techniques as well as his inspiration to paint characters that bring a smile to everyone's face. Bren stopped down to our classroom to view the self portraits that the children had painted on our classroom door - he even took a photo of them! We were all so honored to have him as our guest and continuously marvel at the daily development of his latest mural - right in our school. What a gift!!