Signs of Spring!

Wow! March whipped right by, and we are finally into spring time! Signs of spring are everywhere in the elementary school, and teachers are especially happy that kids no longer need boots, snowpants, mittens, hats, scarves, heavy jackets, etc. Our get-ready time at the end of the day has been cut in half! Those boots were getting pretty raunchy at the end of the season, and I dreaded when a kid would ask me to help with a boot-liner. There's nothing worse than having to stick a hand into a wet, soggy boot! Please continue to send a jacket or sweat shirt every day because it is still cool at 8:00 am when the kids are outside before school.

We're into bunnies, eggs, and flowers now -how refreshing after a LONG season of snowmen and snowflakes!

The kids made these bunnies by cutting out 5 eggs, one big and four small. The big egg became the body, one small egg became the head, and the remaining three were cut in half lengthwise to make ears, arms, and legs.

Then the decorating began.

They added faces, clothes, bows, carrots, and baskets filled with eggs. Pretty cute, huh?

Since we hung them from the ceiling and they spin around, the back sides had to be decorated, too,

and a fluffy cotton tail was the finishing touch.

One of the Center projects for the last few weeks has been using markers to color several different egg patterns. The kids have worked very hard at using bright colors, staying in the lines, and NOT getting marker all over the table! They look great in our giant Easter basket on the bulletin board!

Some other signs of spring:

Shorts and t-shirts!!

And Twins gear!

Lots of kids wore their Twins t-shirts on Friday for the home opener!

They were also very excited for foot long hotdogs for lunch, in honor of the big game. We just completed a measurement unit in Math, so before lunch, we checked with a ruler to see how long a foot is.

Yep - it's really 12 inches long!

The cooks were also dressed in Twins gear.

And so was Phyllis, our ticket-scanner.

Looks good!

Tastes better with some catsup!

And some mustard. Time to dig in.

They were kind of hard to pick up.

We had lots of clean plates on Friday!

Coming soon: concert rehearsals at the High School Auditorium!