So Much to Catch Up On

I have so much to catch you up on. Go get a fresh cup of coffee and pull up a comfy seat, this is going to take awhile.

First off, we have a play to share with you. We will have three groups perform one time each on Tuesday, June 1st. The play will last about 7 minutes and then we would like to share our African animal videos that we have created. All in all, it will take about 30 minutes. You are invited to come in and watch it in person, or we will also have it online. We will be streaming live video for those of you who are not able to come in. All you will need to do is click on this link at either play time and view it at your computer. Make sure you have sound available.
http://sites.google.com/site/anansiplay/

At 9:00 we will have the play with: TD, GC, CC, MC, BC, KA, JC, and KB

At 9:30 we will have the play with: TP, TH, AW, MM, SW, ER, JS, and LD

At 1:00 pm we will have the last group of: CR, BC, CK, AW, VS, BU, MM, and LG

Last week we went to the PHS Farm Day. We got to learn about a lot of different things.

Here we are learning how to rope a calf.
We got to see some sheep.

Here we are listening to a young man who is a bull fighter.

We got to see and pet a cow and calf.

They brought in four horses for us to pet and learn about.

This student has learned how to trim the horses hooves and put shoes on.

Then we had to load bus and head back to school.

Cooking with the High School

Last week the Pro Start cooking class from the high school came to cook with us.

We made omelets. First we chopped some green peppers and onion.

Then we put everything we wanted in our omelet into a Ziploc bag.

Next, we cracked two eggs into the bag.

Then we put it in a pot of boiling water to cook.Then we waited about 10 minutes and played cards while we waited for them to cook.
They turned out soooooooo good. Yummm.

Only one casualty. BC's egg missed the bag and landed on his leg and shoe. Ooops!

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Africa

My apologies for not keeping up with this blog. We have so much going on, I hope you are visiting the kids blog to stay up with us. Last week we started our study of Africa. We invited pilot Tim Sweek in to help start our journey. Then we watched a short National Geographic video that shows many of Africas fascinating animals. I have updated our upcoming events off to the right.
At this time we only have one date that we will not be at school for lunch. Plan on sending a sack lunch on Thursday, June 3rd because we will be meeting our Pen Pals at McKay Park. More information to come.

Volunteers Needed!
I am looking for 3 volunteers for our Field Day. It is on May 25th from 8:00 to 11:00.
Field Day is when we have all kindergarten through third grade students participate in all kinds of fun events together on the playground. Students are placed on teams and they rotate through each event. Some of the events are: scooters, the limbo, tug o' war, parachute, 3 legged race...

The Very Pretty Butterfly

Here is a story created by TD, KB and JC.

The Black Bear

Listen to KB and LD's story of The Black Bear

The Art Show

We went to the Art Show this week to see all the wonderful art work that has been created by our Pendleton students. Every year it just gets better and better. We had fun looking for all our friends work and getting new ideas.

Catching Up

Last week we took our paper pencil mad minute to compare our speed on our simple math facts.

We have worked hard all year to master these math problems and it payed off for us.

Everyone has doubled or almost doubled their number of problems that they can do in 3 minutes.
We are also authoring our own books. Here KB and MM are writing their stories.

They took pictures with the camera to illustrate their stories. Then they write out the story. Then they get to move the pictures onto the computer and record their voice on each page. When they are all finished, we send the flipchart story to our Pen Pals and friends here at McKay. They are turning out really neat.

Egg Hunt

Last week we colored eggs and hid them.

It was fun to see everyone working together to find them. We could only pick up an egg if it had our name on it. If it wasn't your egg, then we had to stay quiet about it unless someone asked for help.

Sometimes it was a stretch to reach them.

" Yeah! I found my egg!"

Those of us that have a height advantage were called over to lend a helping hand.I love seeing happy children.

Once we found all of our eggs we headed inside to eat them.

We had a great time and got some writing inspiration from our fun filled day.

Coloring Eggs & RIF

Today was RIF day. "Reading is Fundamental". This is when we each get to pick out a book and keep it. Thank you to SW's parents for being a part of this program. We love our books.

We read a story today in reading group where a man wrote a story and used his photographs to tell the story. So we decided to try it. Here TD is taking a picture that will be used in one of our books. Stay tuned for more to come.
The kids have talked me into having sharing and you can see how much they enjoy it.
GC brought in this critter and we all had fun learning all that it can do.

Then I shared one of my favorite spring stories this afternoon and drew the main character.

His name is Wilbur.

Isn't BC's cute?

JS's is precious too.

Then we colored eggs. See our post at www.schimelkids.blogspot.com to learn more.

BU was showing me his two toned egg.

KB spent time making her egg fancy. It had four colors on it.

Catching Up

We opened up the classroom store before we went to Spring Break and spent our money that we have earned. CC was really thoughtful and shared her gumball machine with us.

Today I showed the kids how to practice their typing skills with the AlphaSmarts.
We are trying to keep our fingers on the home row keys and really, we are good at it already.

First we got to program them so they will keep track of the lessons we work through.

Here BU is working on his AlphaSmart.

We also finished up our art work today.

BC was very focused on his work and it is turning out beautiful.

KB and TD working on their typing skills.

Some of our art work for you to enjoy.

Art by CR.