A Peek At Our Week: March 18-21

Winter is a great time to study coniferous and deciduous trees. On our outside adventures we checked to see which trees were still green and which trees have lost their leaves. Inside we made tree paintings.

Merry's deciduous tree

Max's coniferous tree

Gigi, Addie and Dagny searching for pine cones

Maddie noticed this birch tree has smooth bark

Jonah measuring a pine tree

Gigi and Addie

Emily taught us about worms!

Caitie and Merry holding worms

Caroline

Sean and Ruby working in the hospital

Austin and Ethan

On Thursday morning we celebrated Nancy's birthday!

Dancing in music class

Aidan and Austin painting with shaving cream and glue

Charlie visiting "Old Country Day Buffet" - A great way finish off some snacks before a long break!

Austin showed us where Milwaukee is on the map. He and Google went there last weekend.

Sledding with Seth!

Maddie and Addie

Gigi and Ruby - Have a happy spring break!

A Peek At Our Week: March 11-15 (aka the blog post that never got published)

Merry and Caitie enjoyed being co-workers in our new hospital dramatic play area

Dr. Merry checking on a sick patient

Digger the snake visited our classroom this week

After holding the snake we made our own snakes by cutting on a spiral

Emily taught us about parts of a plant

We made our own plants using pipe cleaners, feathers and string

Elizabeth sorted corn into the "seeds" bag. We sorted food by root, leaf, seed, stem, flower or fruit.

Austin and Aidan enjoyed finding large pieces of ice and snow in the Lower Maka this week

It's syrup season! Ethan helped Seth drill a hole in one of our maple trees

Max inserting the spile into the tree

Dagny hammering the spile

Caroline was excited to see sap dripping into the bucket right away!

Gigi and Jonah had some fun playing with green puffy paint (glue and shaving cream)

Ruby and Dagny drew pictures of leprechauns in hopes they would visit our classroom

It worked! On Thursday they made a mess of our coatroom but brought us some gold!

Makenna happy about her gold coin

On Friday the leprechauns came again!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Cactus Tasting

Wednesday was a big day in the Pony classroom. In addition to traveling to some National Parks in the desert region, we also spent the morning cooking cactus!

Laura removing spines from the cactus pads

After the spines were removed and the cactus was rinsed Maddie cut some cactus strips into little pieces

Dagny

Max

Caitie

Merry

Gigi rinsed all of the cut cactus pieces. Next the cactus was cooked with some oil and salt.

The finished product! Can you guess if your Pony participated in cactus tasting? A few even asked for seconds!