Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Chick Update!

We have a total of twelve chicks at Hopkins!  Buck, Chipotle, Junebug, Fifi, Kiwi, Buttercup, Nugget, Lilly, Rocko, Sweet Pea, Rosie, and Dusty are living happily in the library until Friday.  They will then travel to a farm in Cumberland, VA where they will lay eggs for us to eat for breakfast!

Here are some photos of us with the chicks!  This has been an amazing experience for both the students and teachers!  What an awesome way to learn about lifecycles! 














Monday, April 11, 2011

The Chicks Have Hatched!

We have been incubating chicken eggs for the past 21 days.  The kids have enjoyed learning about the lifecycle of a chicken!  Two chicks hatched today-Buck and Buttercup (named by Hopkins Students).  The third and fourth hatched afterschool.  They will be named tomorrow!  Here's a video Ms. Urban took of one of the chicks hatching!  Enjoy!http://www.youtube.com/user/lynnurban#p/u/11/OVwu1V7QY6I

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Eating with chopsticks is NOT easy!

We have been learning about the digraph "ch".  We brainstormed words that begin with ch.  We practiced sorting words that have "ch" and words that do not.  Our culminating activity was eating rice with chopsticks.  While it wasn't very easy, it was fun! (and entertaining!)  The kids loved it! 


Saturday, March 5, 2011

My Many Colored Days

In art and in our classroom we read the book My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss. 

We mixed primary colored cool whip to make secondary colors! 









Osmardo couldn't get enough!
Experimenting...What happens when you mix primary and secondary colors?


Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!



Superheroes

Go! Go! Speed Racer!

Princesses!

The real Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs

Thing 1 and Thing 2

Cats in Hats

100th Day of School


We read 100 books as a class!

Jake enjoying some of his 100th day snack!

Osmardo hard at work gluing 100 pennies.

Ms. Urban and Miss Lankey made it through 100 days of school! :)

Diana and Alaina making their 100th day snack.  !0 of 10 different foods.

After the 50th day of school, the kids expected something BIG for the 100th day.  It definitely wasn't as BIG but, we did do many projects.