Valentine's Week

We had our Valentine's day party on Friday. A big thanks to the moms for putting it together! My mom and sister got to come too which was fun :) We decorated Valentine's bags and ate some yummy treats.

We also have been working on measurement this week.

 Here we were using estimation and measuring in meters.

In these next few photos we were measuring in centimeters. 

Juan Pablo was also our STAR of the Week. Thanks for sharing! 

Paramedics

This past week, Meghan was our STAR of the week. She brought her mom and sister in to read a book. Then later in the week her aunt and uncle came in. Her aunt works on an emergency rescue helicopter and her husband works on an ambulance. They brought the ambulance, which the kids go to go into, they turned on the siren. It was really neat! The answered lots of questions and let the kids try on some of the gear too.

End of January

We started the IOWA test this past week, which are not very fun for anyone. The kids work really hard during the testing so we tried to do some more fun, hands-on activities for them. 

 We discussed bar graphs, so I let the kids vote on whether they thought I was going to have a boy or girl. Clearly, boy was the winner. We shall see come June :)

 The kids also got to poll their classmates and graph right handed writers verses left hand.

 It was also Andrew's Birthday this past week.

 Will was our STAR of the week. He brought in Bronco doughnuts for us (we're ready for a Super Bowl win!)

 He also brought in his dad who taught us all about tape and the many uses for it. It was very informative!