The great ice cream experiment of 2017!!!

Happy Early Birthday Dean!!!  Dean's grandmother came as our mystery reader to help celebrate Dean's birthday a few days early :).

 

 

Once we finished a few things we got down to work!  We first watched a video of how small batch ice cream is made!

 

Then we got to making our own small batch ice cream :).  Our recipe called for...

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup cream

2 tbsp. sugar

2 tsp vanilla

 

Once all the ingredients were in the bag we go to shaking.  We put the ice cream bag in a bag with ice and ice cream salt!  They bags were SUPER cold.  Everyone had to be careful because as we learned if you slammed your bag on the table to shake it the small bag with the ingredients would bust and you'd loose your ice cream :( (no worries we had extra).

 

Once it had be shaken for 10 minutes we poured it out in bowls and YUM!  It made some awesome creamy ice cream.  Toppings were added and everyone enjoyed some pre lunch ice cream!

Giving glows!!!

We've been working hard on being positive with our friends and giving them positive statements about their work (we call them glows).  Many times when we create work we spend a few minutes at the completion of the lesson walking around and giving our friends glows about their work on a post-it note.  Sometimes glows are just a check mark or a smile while other times we write down something we like about the work.  There are also times to give grows (things that could be improved) but these we do verbally.  The children have really enjoyed giving glows to their friends and it gives them a chance to see what others did on the same work.

 

Dr. Seuss Week!!!

Dr. Seuss week was AWESOME!!!

 

On Cat in the Hat day we had a special visitor come read to us from the University!

 

 

Then we go to decorate the hat we thought the Cat in the Hat should wear!  Everyone had a very unique hat (they are now displayed in the booth).

 

 

 

On Horton Hears a Who day we made our own Horton ears.  On each ear we wrote something nice we could do (since Horton is so nice and helps the Whos).

 

We ended our week with Green Eggs in Ham day!!!  Yum Yum :)

Tennessee Treasures Field Trip

We had a wonderful time on our field trip to the Botanic Gardens :).

 

 

We started off by splitting up in two groups!

 

We learned about honey,

 

birds,

 

the iris,

 

and even got to square dance!

 

 

Overall it was a great Tennessee experience!  Thanks to all of our parents who came and helped!

Happy Valentines Day!!!

Valentines Day was AWESOME in our classroom!

 

We started our day with working on how to write instructions.  Instead of just writing instructions for something we do we wrote instructions of how to make a Valentine like the one we were making :).  Each child go to make a Valentine for someone and as they made it they wrote the instructions of how they did it! 

 

 

Once they were all done we walked around an gave our friends glows about their Valentines by writing what we liked about the Valentine on a post-it note!

 

Then everyone picked a name and the name of the person you picked got your Valentine!

 

Later in the day we had our party!  Our first task was to decorate our Valentine bags to put all of our treats from our friends in them :).

 

Then we got to play a round of Valentines Bingo :)

 

And then of course decorate some yummy Valentines cookies!

 

And last, but maybe the most important, we play an active game to get some of our energy out before support :).

 

Overall it was a great day!!!