Hall of Heroes, Valentines, and more!

Thank you to everyone for participating in our Hall of Heroes project! We have all enjoyed reading them and learning about the special heroes in your children's lives.

Our class read "You Are Special" by Max Lucado. We talked about how the words we say impact others in positive or negative ways. Every time you say something hurtful, it puts a wrinkle on that person's heart. We shared instances in which others have put wrinkles on our hearts and talked about how hard it is to remove a wrinkle once it is there- in fact, it's impossible to remove it completely. SO, we vowed to think about what we say and make sure it is something that builds people up! We also vowed to not worry about what other people think about us but to be secure in knowing that we are special and that we are making good choices and doing the right thing.
Here we are celebrating our friendships by exchanging valentines. We had so much fun!

During Free Friday Time, some of the kids decided to have some fun with pattern blocks!

Can you figure out what this says?

A dear friend, colleague, and mentor of mine, Colette Tatum, came to present the book that she has written about Mardi Gras. We learned a lot about the traditions of Mardi Gras and the process of writing and publishing a book.

We hope you'll come back and visit soon! Coming soon...biography projects and QR codes.

And they all lived happily ever after!

(I had to post this picture because Ryleigh and I were "twins" one day! My little "mini-me.")

Bella laid another beautiful egg! I researched what to do to preserve the egg so I could get it home and put it in our incubator. It made it to the incubator safely but after a few days, it wasn't looking so good! We had to throw it away. We were all really hoping for a baby gecko!

Below are pictures from our Fairy Tale Ball:

Three Little Pigs haystacks and Pigs in a Blanket! Yummy!

The witch's poisonous apples.

Dressed up and ready for the Ball!

You can't have a party without a "train."

Beautiful princesses

sweet siblings!

sweet friends!

the handsome princes

Katie Jane from the Hoover Public Library came for some storytelling fun!

And they all lived happily ever after!

The kids really enjoyed our math unit on collecting, organizing, and analyazing data! Below are the projects they worked on. Each pair of students decided what they would like to learn about our class. They created a survey for their classmates to fill out. They gathered, organized, and alayzed the data. We went online and found an easy (and free) graphing website so we could record their results.

Time to share what they learned!

Hope you come back and visit soon!