Playing catch-up ... part II

Continuing from last week's catch-up post, here are more pictures of fun things we've been up to lately. Easter is really meaningful when you work with young children. To see their excited faces as they learn about Christ's resurrection is really powerful and reminds us what our mission is here at Hickory Valley.

Mrs. Shepard reads "The Parable of the Lily." 

We also had a super fun Easter egg hunt with our third-grade buddies. The third-graders brought in the eggs and hid them, then we partnered up with them to find them. The K5's and the older kids have really benefited from this friendship this year, and I think everyone had a blast!

We love our third-grade buddies!

We did a science unit on plants and had fun looking at real plant parts through this giant magnifier ...

 ... as well as using standard magnifying glasses.

Then we sketched our own flowers!

We were SUPER excited to start Soccer Shots (seriously, like half of the K5's are enrolled) ...

When this group is in third grade, HVCS is going to have a killer soccer team!

We were enthralled by the science experiments a high school Science Olympiad team shared with us one morning at Circle.

We learned about fractions by cutting play-doh and counting Smarties.

And just before Earth Day, we helped teach the whole school how to be a creation super hero!

 Up next ... literally the world's easiest science experiment. Stay tuned!!!