Yes...I did ask for pantyhose!

Yes...if your child came home today asking if they could have your pantyhose...they are telling you the truth!

Today in class I explained that my families alpaca farm is sending fiber from our alpacas to help in the gulf oil spill. I figured as long as I am sending fiber I might was well send pantyhose too! This is where you come in...we need help collecting panthose:-) The overall response was..."yeah, my Grandma wears them"! Nice :-) Out of the mnoths of Babes!

We watched a video of how the "Booms" of hair are absorbing the oil. It is incredible. Our class made signs and placed donation boxes at the entrance to school and to our classroom. Unfortunately the copied note didn't make it in the backpacks before dismissal.

We will be collecting them and putting them in the boxes of fiber we are sending to the gulf so that the volunteers can continue to make the "booms"to contain and collect the oil.

Thank you! We will keep you posted.

WOW...look at our frog now!

When I came into school on Sunday afternoon (my daughter was having a Regents Review session at the HS from 4-6!) I arrived and what to my amazement did I see but our frog...which had almost completely lost it's tail...take a look. When we left on Friday it had quite a bit more tail and was still in the water most of the time. It was crouching behind the rock because it now has lungs instead of gills but it definitely now enjoying time on the rock. We will no doubt check it out first thing in the morning when we arrive!

Our Pond Adventure!

On Friday afternoon our class took a hike on the Lansing School districts nature trail. We took our bucket, container, pencils and frog booklets to observe the pond. Once there we found some tiny little frogs...or toads...(we are still researching!). There were hundreds of them! We collected just a few samples and put them in containers on the benches to observe. We saw some tadpoles, dragon flies and other forms of pond life! The kids even found a little hole in a thicket where they think a dear may have slept...you never know! We added a few pages to the back our frog books about what we saw at the pond...and decided it would make a pretty nice classroom! It was a fun day at the pond which will no doubt produce a nice classroom book about our pond adventure!

Let Project ACES begin!

On Friday our school participated in Project ACES...All Children Exercising Simultaneously. It was fun! Mrs. Livigne and Mr. Elberty led us in warm up exercises and then we all ran around the track to exercise and stay in shape. It was a nice school-wide activity! The weather was perfect slightly overcast but nice and cool...not too hot! :-)

Happy Birthday to ME!

Thanks for the birthday wishes, cards, flowers and gifts. It was a fun day and I always LOVE my birthday books!