Howdy, Cowboy!

Last week we loved learning all about the letter C!

There are so many activities, treats, and things in nature that start with the letter C and we loved discussing them for our Alphabet Journals.

In line with our letter C curriculum for the week, we painted Crosses with Cotton q-tips to make Circles.

 Our favorite C activity of the week was dressing like Cowboys and Cowgirls!  All day long phrases like "Howdy, partner!" and "Giddy Up!" could be heard around campus.  What fun!

 Last week we discussed how we can stay healthy.  

One way we can stay healthy is keeping our bodies and our environment clean. 

Another way we can stay healthy is through diet and exercise.  We charted fun things we can do to exercise to keep our body's insides healthy and sorted images of foods into healthy and non-healthy choices.

We wrapped up our month of September with our final apple treat, Apple Krispies!

 First we had to melt our marshmallows.

Then we mixed in our jello mix to make the marshmallows red like apples.

Finally we mixed in our rice cereal, and boy was it messy!

We rolled our rice krispies into a ball.

 Added a Tootsie Roll stem.

And finished them off with a green icing leaf.

These are definitely not the apples you think of when saying "An apple a day keep the doctor away" but they are extra tasty!  

On Friday we got to see our fourth grade reading buddies complete their Egg Drop projects.  Our friends worked really hard on designs to protect their eggs from falling from the sky bridge.  Some made the journey safely, others did not.  Either way, we had so much fun watching and cheering on our buddies!

Our Hoot of the Week was Preston!

Preston shared with us delicious pop corn and pretzels for his Hoot snack.

 One fun fact about Preston is that he was the first baby born in 2012 and had his photo and an article about his birth in the paper!  What a neat story and keepsake that he shared with us!

Signs Keep Me Safe

Signs all around our community help to keep us safe.  Stop signs, traffic lights, cross walks, and tons of others protect us as pedestrians and when we travel in cars.

After learning about all different kinds of signs we went on a sign hunt around our school!

Elida and Thomas found a School Speed Zone sign.

Mason and Elise found a No Left Turn sign at the exit of our parking lot.

Caleb and Samantha found a No Parking sign across the street from our school building.

Lucy and Anna found  a Do Not Enter sign at the exit of our parking lot.

Mira and Nicholas found a Stop Sign.

Abbie and Preston found a No Stopping, Standing, or Parking sign.

Lawson and Etchieson found an Adopt-A-Street sign.

Luke, Annie, and Lilly found a Cross Walk sign.

Signs everywhere to help keep us safe!

One afternoon after learning about the rectangle, our shape of the week, we were given 5 shapes and asked to see if we could figure out what type of sign they could make.

We thought really hard about the shapes we had seen.

 And figured out that the shapes made a Stop Light!

Look at these awesome traffic lights!

And look at these sweet, silly kiddos!

Our letter of the week was B! 

For our alphabet journals we mad Bumble Bees!

We also did the Blue Butter Boogy and MADE our own butter!

A little bit of heavy whipping cream, salt, and blue food coloring paired with lots of shaking made yummy butter.

After 1 minute of shaking we had whipped cream.

After 2 minutes of shaking we had a gritty, almost butter cream frosting like paste.

After 3 minutes the butter was really starting to take shape and we had a cottage cheese like consistency.

After 5 minutes the butter was smooth and ready to eat!

We spread the butter on ritz crackers and enjoyed all of our hard work!  Yum!

This week PreK B and PreK A planted our raised plot in the Holy Souls garden!  

Mr. Baker owns a lawn and landscaping company so he came out and gave us a lesson on how to prep, plant, and care for a garden.  

Mr. Baker was so nice to pull all of the weeds and rake all of the soil to make it ready to plant.

We even found grub worms and we learned that those are not good for a garden because they eat the roots of plants.

When the bed was ready we each took a turn planting a broccoli plant while PreK A friends planted cauliflower.

We will water and weed our garden and watch it grown over the next few months!

Thank you Mr. Baker!

Our Hoot of the Week this week was Anna!

Anna shared awesome Animal Crackers with us this week, yum!