Snowy Day

What a day! It actually snowed all day here in Texas!! It was so exciting!

Happy Valentine's Day

Make a Smilebox greeting

What is a Shadow?

This week, we celebrated Groundhog's Day and we learned what makes a shadow. On Monday, we predicted whether or not we thought the groundhog would see his shadow. Then on Tuesday, we watched the news to see what happened. We also checked in with our Project Groundhog friends in Florida, West Virginia, Kentucky, New Foundland, and Canada to see what the weather was like for them. We read a book about shadows and went outside to find some shadows of our own. We took turns tracing each others shadow. We began our first week of data collecting for Project Groundhog and we sent information about our community to all of our Project Groundhog friends.

Patterns and Characteristics of Objects

This week, we learned about the characteristics of objects. We looked at fruit and discussed the different characteristics of each kind of fruit. Then we made predictions about what the fruits looked like on the inside. We cut the fruits open and then we ate all of the fruit up! We used this discussion later in the week when we talked about different kinds of animals and their characteristics.

"Pop" into the Library

In honor of the 100th day, our librarian had students "pop" into the library to check out a new book and to eat some popcorn. The first 100 students that went to the library for open check out got a small prize and a ticket for a drawing. What a great idea! Our students had tons of fun with it!

the 100th day of school

Today marked the 100th day of school. We had lots of fun 100 activities going on today and all throughout the week. We made 100 snowflakes, flying ladybugs with 100 spots, a pizza with 100 toppings, 100 day snack mix, we counted 100 lizards, and we drew what we thought we would look like if we were 100 years old. More pictures of our week's activities to come...

We bought shirts from Really Good Stuff that said "our students are 100 days smarter."

We built something using 100 objects.




We thought of things we wanted 100 of.



We read The Little Red Hen Makes a Pizza and made a pizza with 100 toppings and 100 pieces of cheese.

We made a chain with 100 links. We had 10 links of 10 different colors.


We made 100th day snack mix with 10 chocolate chips, 10 fruit loops, 10 marshmallows, 10 M & M's, 10 cheerios, 10 gummi bears, 10 animal crackers, 10 pieces of popcorn, 10 Goldfish crackers, and 10 pretzels.

We made ladybugs with 100 spots.

We made 10 sets of 10 objects using Pixie in the computer lab.

We made 100 snowflakes.


We made a caterpillar that was 100 circles long and that ate 100 foods.


We painted 10 sets of 10 dots to make our 100th day crowns.

Make a Smilebox collage