Looks like Mother Nature isn't sure what season she wants.  Not sure what to dress in each morning?  Just put them in layers and they can peel them away as the weather warms up.

March has been a fun month.  The Lions have been learning about community helpers.  We had visits from the Braintree Fire Department, Conor's mom (a nurse) and Isabela & Giana's dad (a police officer). 

We had a leprechaun run-a-muck through our room and left us each a piece of GOLD.  The kids had a blast decorating their hand-made cupcakes with green frosting and tiny leprechaun sprinkles. 

During our recent visit to Sunrise Senior Living we had fun activities at each table for us to roam around to.  We had just as much fun as our senior friends did playing with legos, puzzles, and various connectors. 

Please check out some new pictures and let us know what you think.

We would really like to thank all our wonderful parents for your generous donations to our classroom.  You ALL help to make our classroom great!

So we finally saw the results of our hand washing experiment and boy was it gross! The bread that was touched with dirty hands got so moldy and gross. The bread that was touched with clean hands had no mold at all! Fascinating! Now we know to ALWAYS wash our hands! Gross!

Does anyone have a cd player/radio that you could donate to our class? We use this for rest time music, books on cd and the ever popular freeze dance! Let us know at pick up today :) Thanks!

We are very excited for our new Health theme this month! This theme includes lessons on germs, dental health, nutrition and exercise. So far we have done some awesome science experiments relating to these themes. This week we tested how fast mold could grow on a piece of bread! We did this to show how germs affect our health! First, we rubbed our dirty hands on a piece of bread and put it in a ziploc baggie and then put a clean (untouched) piece of bread in another baggie and now, we wait! This lesson will show our friends how important  it is to always wash your hands!

Our next science experiment was a tooth health experiment! We talked about eating too much sugar can eventually cause cavities. We scooped a hole in an apple and we've been watching as the hole gets brown and unhealthy inside just like a cavity!

A new month is also the start of a new bulletin board!  So we got our crafty selves together and made some beautiful glittery teeth, fun tooth fairies and colorful toothbrushes! We will be featuring those works of art very soon!

We also became dentists on friday when we extracted cavities from teeth!! (we picked out magnets from some clay, 

Hi Everyone, we hope you had a great weekend and enjoyed the beautiful weather! Tomorrow is the 100th day of school! We hope you received the email asking everyone to bring in 100 items. This can be something very simple, just count it out with your child to make sure you have 100. Here are some ideas:

100 stickers, buttons,cheerios, toothpicks, paper clips, jelly beans, chocolate chips, m&ms,beads, Lego bricks, sequins, marbles, pompoms etc.

Thank you in advance for your participation in this fun day!

Have you heard your child mention being a bucket filler or a bucket dipper lately? you have? Great!! We were fortunate enough to be able to borrow this book from one of the parents in our room and we were immediately hooked! It is all about how to treat other people and how when you treat others nicely you fill their invisible bucket and your own invisible bucket. If you do mean things to others you dip into their bucket and into their own. We love the whole idea of the book and we have really incorporated the book into our daily talk with the students. The students are also highly interested in the book and its message. Today we took pictures of every one treating each other fairly, taking turns, sharing and listening to the teachers. We are going to make a bulletin board in the classroom dedicated to this book. It's a positive behavior plan and every one is excited! Thanks Mrs. Cordasco! 

Well it's definitely fitting weather for us to begin our Arctic animals unit. This is a great theme for us as it provides us with so many great science and craft activities for us. Get ready to see some adorable polar animal projects!

In Phonics, we did the letters P and e and did a lot of practicing with our writing and letter recognition. Our writing is really improving which is very exciting.

In Science, we have been an absolute blast with exploration of the Arctic. This week we learned about whales and their baleen. We talked about how krill and other small fish and plants flow through the baleen with the water and the water flows out. We represented this by taking out the good ol' water table and filling it with carrots to represent krill and water. The lions loved using a comb to push through the water like baleen and catch krill.

We also had some good clean fun when we explored what would happen when you submerged soap bars in water for hours. We discovered we could mold, shape and squish the sand. This was a great lesson about liquid and solids.

The water table also provided lots more slippery fun with arctic animal toys and squishy bouncy water beads. These beads that usually fill vases as a decoration were a great sensory activity for our students as they played with the arctic animals in the tub.

Other sensory exploration was done with texture in our art projects. We did a mix of shaving cream and glue that appealed to both our noses and our sense of touch. We painted our polar bears and then watched as they dried to a puffy smooth white paint. We also painted snow with a mix of white paint and craft sand. They did nICE work :) For our marshmallow snowmen we got to see how liquid and the sugar would react when we licked the bottoms of the marshmallows to stick on the snowman.