Play Doh Illustrators!

Andrew and Jackson used some Play Doh to illustrate a

scene from "Cyrus the Unsinkable Sea Serpent." 

This is a story by Bill Peet.  Good job, guys!

What do our taste buds taste?

Our class has been studying the five senses... seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching.  We learned that our brain uses those senses to find out about the world around us.  We did a taste test experiment to find out the different taste buds our tongue has.  Do you know what the four flavors are that our taste buds can taste?  Find out below during our "taste test"!


SALTY
We tested our salty taste. 
Our tongue has more salt taste buds than any other. 
Our body would die if we did not have salt.

 

Nolan and Tori try the salt taste.

SOUR

Issac is trying a lemon.  That's sour!

Makenzie tries the lemon too.

Kenny tried some bitter chocolate.  He was brave to try that!

Andrew doesn't think much of the bitter taste!

Jackson puts the bitter chocolate in...

Then we tried chocolate that has sweet with it. 

Ella thinks that tastes much better!

We tested the sweet taste with a sucker.

Our sweet taste buds are on the tip of our tongue.

...Jackson takes the bitter chocolate out!

Math Scroll Winners!

Our class has been working on their math scrolls for the past four weeks.  Each student has been writing numbers in order, starting at zero, all the way to 200.  We also had a contest to see who could write the farthest.  Our top winners were:

1st Place:   Kaitlyn H.  3,930  (tied for 1st... top number writer at home)
1st Place:   Tori L. 2,600  (tied for 1st... top number writer at school)
2nd Place:  Marissa M.  1,200
3rd Place:  Isaac S  1,015
4th Place:  Morgan W.  1,000

Our top scroll winners

The winner's scrolls are very long!

All of our number scrolls put together.  Wow!!

Colter's Birthday Party!

Colter, the Shiloh Shepherd, came to school for his birthday on February 1st.  He turned three years old.  The class presented him with the book that they wrote for him, as well as a number of fun birthday presents.  Colter wowed the kids by showing them that he can read some words.  He read the words SIT, DOWN, and PAW.  He had to practice a lot to learn those words!  The kids showed Colter how they are practicing to read as well.  They read their book folder books for him.  At the end of the party, everybody (but Colter), got to have a piece of birthday cake.

Some pictures from the party are below.  You can find more pictures on Colter's blog, which is linked in another area of this web page.

We share the book we wrote for Colter.

Colter likes his book!

We show Colter how to become good readers by practicing our books.

Jackson shares a favorite book with Colter.

Colter reads the word "down."

Colt opens a present from Aimee.

Ian gives Colter his present.  Colt is quite interested in that!

Colter opens another present.  He loved all of his presents!

Colter's birthday cake.  It was yummy!

Domino Professionals!

Check out this falling domino train.  Pretty cool!

October Costume Party Fun!

Everyone had fun at our October 31st party time.  We had a parade.  Then we got to dig for candy in PUMPKIN BRAINS.  Eek!  After that, we ate some food and played some games.  Check out the great costumes too!

Here are our wonderful room parents. 

Thank you for the great party!

“Llama, Llama, Red Pajama”

On Thursday, October 6^th, all of Sibley school read the book, “Llama, Llama, Red Pajama” by Anna Dewdney.  We did this to celebrate reading.  In addition, everyone wore their pajamas to school on Thursday AND we had some visiting alpacas.  (Alpacas are kind of like small llamas.)  It was a fun day!