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!

The Art Show is here! May 20th 6-8 pm

Please come to the R.C. Buckley Elementary Art Show May 20th from 6-8 pm. It will be a chance to see some incredible art made by our very own kids! They have all worked hard to make their creations...as well as Mrs. Stratton! It promises to be a fun night...we hope to see you there!

We grow plants!

We have been enjoying growing all sorts of plants in class. We put seeds in zip loc bags in the windows, documented their growth and enjoyed learning about the life cycle of plants and how very important seeds are. We planted a variety of seeds and predicted which would germinate first? The radish? The pea or corn? It was the radish!

We learned about the seed coat, germination, roots, stems,leaves, flowers and the role of each of them in the plants life.

We enjoyed looking at different foods and talking about which one's have seeds on the inside and the outside and what foods in our refrigerator have seeds.

We really enjoyed learning about how seeds travel? Ask your child how many ways they can remember!

Bountiful BoxTops!

Thank you for sending in your Box Tops! As a class we enjoyed building our collection through the math lesson in Everyday Math. It was a fun thing to collect while at the same time contributing to the R.C.Buckley school's collection! We counted them in piles of 10's then counted by tens into the hundreds! I think we collected over 350 boxtops! Thank you for your support!