Our Trip to the Birmingham Zoo

Halloween Party 2010!

Our Halloween party was a complete success! I have to give a BIG thanks to everyone who donated food and to the parents who came to help out during the party! The kids seemed to really have a good time and got a sugary start to their Halloween weekend! :)

Candy Corn Math!

On Friday, we used candy corn for an extra-special math activity. The kids used their candy corn to help them answer both addition and subtraction word problems!

Addition and Subtraction with Dice!

Getting the kids excited about adding and subtracting is difficult when it's just worksheet after worksheet with numbers. By allowing the kids to use dice and then get the opportunity to WRITE the number sentence on a marker board, we are able to bring LOTS of practice into the lesson!

Digging for Fossils

As part of our dinosaur unit, the students got to use two types of cookies to work with fossils!

First, we used "imprint" sugar cookies (The cookies were provided by Jayson Hicks and his awesome Grandmom and Mom!) to see how objects (bones, leaves, etc.) could make impressions in a surface and leave a reminder of what once was...

Then, after the kids had done an activity on what "once was" within their cookie, they got a SECOND type of cookie! The next cookies were chocolate chip of both the white chocolate and milk chocolate variety. The students had to pretend that the white chips were real dinosaur bones and the milk chocolate chips were fossils of plants. Using just a toothpick, students worked to carefully remove the "bones" from the "rock." It was a very enjoyable activity for everyone!