Happy New Year

Happy 2014!

As we begin this new year I want to share a few of the fun things we have done so far this school year in our class:


In August we planned our fall garden. We planned lettuce, radishes and beans. Each week we checked to see how our plants were doing.

When the plants were ready we picked them and had a tasting party.

 

 

 

 In the fall our social studies units centered around our community past and present. Our class took a great fieldtrip to the Arkansas Historical Museum. Here we got to experience what our community was like in the past.

 

 

During the month of December our class along with the rest of the school helped to buy Christmas gifts for some children in foster care.

As you can see we have been busy so far this school year. We will keep posting more of our fun as the year goes on.

Wise Beginnings

Second and Third graders are having a hoot in class this year! So far we have planned our class garden, learned about creation and have worked on descriptive writing.  We are learning to work as a community and are getting accustomed to our new expanded classroom!

Spring

Spring is here! Our Journey North test gardens have bloomed. Today we found beautiful red tulips blooming in our gardens. 

It's Coming!

Our Journey North bulbs have emerged! This tells us that Spring is on it's way to Little Rock. Now we predict what will happen next. When will the Tulips bloom?

Journey North Test Garden

CLS Students are tacking the arrival of spring in Little Rock by planting a tulip test garden. The primary students have planted a tulip test garden as part of the international science project called Journey North. We have connected with hundreds of other school in the Northern Hemisphere for this experiment. Red Emperor tulip bulbs were planted Nov. 30, 2012 in the school garden. Students will be observing the garden through the winter months and will report the arrival of spring by the sprouting of the bulbs. You can watch springs journey north by going to this website: www.learner.org/jnorth/tulip/index.html

Fun Field Trip

In October the Third Grade class went on a field trip to the Historic Arkansas Museum. We had a great time learning about the history of our community.

 

Germs!

Today Nurse Barker talked to us about germs. She told us how important it is to be aware of how we spread germs so we can all work together to keep our class healthy.

We learned that we should use a tissue when blowing our nose, wash our hands often and to sneeze or cough into our sleeve to keep our germs from spreading around our room. We don't want the cold and flu germs to win!