Thursday, May 24, 2012

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Since there was no school on Monday and Tuesday, our spelling test will pushed up to Monday, May 28th. Yesterday, we worked on "area" in math and today on months of the year. In Social Studies, we discussed the uses of globes, atlases and maps and located Canada on a world map.

On Tuesday, we welcomed 8 Silkie Chicks to our "farm".  Several of these eggs belonged to our Silkie hens, but were hatched in the incubator because the hens stopped brooding.  Mrs. Robinson and Mrs. Weilgosh hatched two of these eggs with an incubator and our class hatched the rest.    Last week, we found an abandoned Robin egg and put it in our incubator.  It also hatched on Tuesday.  After two days of feeding our little "Peanut" every 20 minutes, she passed on. The students wrote poems for her and she will be put to rest tomorrow. 
Next Thursday, May 31st, we are having our petting farm.  The students have made a plan which includes not only our classroom animals, but several games, a photo booth and a refreshment stand. We are opening up the petting farm to all K to Grade 5 students, families, daycare,Nursery school and our senior buddies. Mrs. Kolbelka's students will be working with us to put on this event.  The students will be working on signs and posters tomorrow afternoon. We will be charging a small admission and all of the money we make from this event will be donated to our global health project in Kenya.
 
"Peanut", our little Robin hatched on Tuesday.
  
Thursday morning.  Peanut taking a nap.

 Newly hatched Silkie Chicks - 1 day old

 1 day old - Red Silkie

Yesterday was litterless lunch day.  This is the bag of garbage that Mr. Starkey picked up from our classroom.  Way to go Room 191!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Mrs. Deneka!

Love what you have done with the blog! Its nice to keep in touch with what the kids are doing. You most certainly have a blog follower! :)

Take care!
~Cass Chepil
-Catrina, Curtis, & Chris' sister ;)