Mrs. Nelson’s Class Blog

Today’s bloggers are: Mrs. Nelson & Paityn Q.
We had a great Halloween bash! Some room moms helped with activities. We decorated pumpkins with foam stickers, made fruit kabobs, got candy, we saw how to make a Kenyan drinking gourd, we played Bingo & Mrs. Nelson took LOTS of pictures! We all had fun!

We took our first field trip in October to  Upland Hills Farm.  Our day was jam packed with fun farm activities: a farm show where we learned all about farm animals, a hayride, storybook hike,visiting the barns & animals,  playing on two playgrounds, milking a cow, eating a cider & donut snack, rolling down a big hill, feeding the ducks corn, & picking a pumpkin!  Boy, were we tired after all of that!

Actually, it’s Mrs. Nelson, but yes, it’s really true!  Our teacher is going to Kenya tomorrow on a mission trip. She will be gone for 16 days.   We will be able to follow her & send her messages by commenting on her blog www.elizabethdnelson.blogspot.com .  We will be in good hands; we have a great  guest teacher!  We pretty sure we will hear some stories about Kenya & see a ton of pictures when Mrs. Nelson gets back!

First Grade visited the people who make our school a great place to be! We went in all the classrooms and got a special view of all the offices & the people who work behind the front office. It take a lot of people to make our school run!

We were able to observe Dwarf African Clawed Frogs hatch and grow from eggs.  We wrote about the changes we saw each day.

 Today’s Bloggers: Emily M. & Allison

We had tadpoles. First they were eggs. We wanted to see how they come out of their eggs. Then they looked like little worms. Their tails kept shrinking. They had whiskers. They are frogs now. Mrs. Nelson wanted to give them away. She gave them to five of her students.

Today our bloggers are …Emma and Emily A.

We are working on a report. It’s called an I Search Report. First we had to pick a topic then we had to do a     K W L chart. The K stands for what you know, the W stands for what you want to learn, and L stands for what you learned. Emily is doing her report on African elephants and Emma is doing her report on rescue dogs. This is what Emily and Emma learned Emily learned … elephants can turn on a facet but they don’t turn it off. Emma learned that some search and rescue dogs are Labradors and bloodhounds. When we are done, we are going to have a fair and we are going to have ice cream. Everybody is going to show off their report.

We had a guest principal for the day.  His name is Mr. Kerrick Sawyer.  When he visited our classroom, he became our Celebrity Reader and read Sarah’s book Lily’s Big Day.  We also gave him the  Jelly Belly Bad Bean challenge!  The jelly beans have two flavors for every color, one regular tasty flavor and one really awful flavor!  The bad flavors are: booger, vomit, pencil shavings, skunk spray, baby wipes, moldy cheese, black pepper, ear wax, toothpaste and rotton egg.  Mr. Sawyer was brave enough to eat four.  He got peach, toothpaste, vomit & skunk spray!  Thanks for being a good sport, Mr. Sawyer:)

Did  you celebrate Palm Sunday?  We sure did:)  We made “palm” branches, went on a parade and sang Hosanna while waving our branches.  We even got a chance to visit with the two ESL classes to explain what Palm Sunday is about:  Jesus the King of Kings!

John & Paul said that we did a dog pile on Mrs.Jung yesterday.  We had a few questions about what that is.  So John explained it in the comments section, but we thought we might put it here, too.  Here’s John’s explanation: 

This is John:
A dog pile is when everyone piles on the person
being hugged.  Group hug!

Today’s Bloggers: John & Paul

Mrs Jung, a kindergarden teacher from last year,  moved to Florida.  Today Mrs Jung came to surprise us.  Mrs Nelson let her read us a book.  She read to us Little Puppy Rap.  It was very exciting to see her.   We hugged her like crazy  and we even did the dog pile.  She was glad to see us, too.