Book party

We recently celebrated a huge feat--reading 100 books together! To mark the occasion, we had a book party! Our kiddos brought in their favorite books from home, and we had a special book-themed show and tell. I always love seeing the sorts of books they like to read at home! We had some nonfiction books about horses and trains, a precious little gymnast brought in a book about gymnastics, and some friends brought in easier books that they're able to read by themselves! It's always a great mix of books.

This book was fun and interactive--the dog barked or whined at certain times in the story!

Disney characters are always a big hit!

It's hard to contain this guy's excitement!

A gymnastics book written by an Olympic gold medalist!

This boy sure loves his airplanes!

This is his favorite book from our classroom library.

We also had friends from 5th grade come visit and read our books to us. 

 

And we had special treats--book cookies! What a yummy and fun day we had!

Dr. Seuss fun

Last month we celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday in a big way! He was probably the most prolific children's author, and there are as many fun learning opportunities as there are fun Dr. Seuss books! Here's just a taste of what we did ...

After reading The Foot Book, we measured different objects in the classroom, using small, medium, and large feet as our units of measurement. It was interesting to see how our results changed based on the size of foot using to measure! This was also a fun partner activity!

Mrs. Viall is a proud tree-hugger (what better way to serve God than to take care of the earth HE created for us??) and one of her favorite books is The Lorax. We had fun making our own colorful truffula trees -- and then eating them! First we measured out scoops of fruity rice cereal, then added melted marshmallows.

Next we stirred. (And stirred and stirred ...) 

Each child got a truffula scoop and a popsicle stick, and we tried crafting them into round trees. It was a sticky mess, but the kids seemed to have fun!

 

Another Lorax activity involved STEM -- we used pop cubes to see who could build the tallest free-standing truffula tree. Not all of these were truly freestanding, but the students' efforts were impressive!

This guy is a budding engineer ... for real!

And Mr. K won a lot of points for creativity ... instead of building one tall tree, he created an entire forest!

After reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Mrs. Viall's math group used colored goldfish crackers as part of a graphing activity.

I think we all can agree, K5 has some of the coolest kids ... I mean, cats ... around! 😊