Harvest Party!

Here is our table full of sugary treats to help us celebrate our bountiful harvest! Here are the parent helpers who assisted in the serving of and cleaning up of the bountiful harvest! Thank you so much Mr. and Mrs. Lund-Curran and Mrs. Aguilar!

We played Bingo! and we decorated our pumpkins with our markers. Everyone seemed happy when they left ~ especially me because I had so much help cleaning up the mess!

Volleyball Anyone?

The students in Room 206 are learning how to play volleyball with the fabulous Mr. Lofstrom.

This is the fabulous Mr. Lofstrom. The students are practicing their rotations on the court, and ... wait.... are those cheerleading moves I see? They are also learning how to ... serve .... no, wait... strike a pose.

Book Fair Bonanza!

We are so lucky! This is Mrs. Kerr. She has been our Book Fair Mom for the past five or six years! She works tirelessly to put on a fabulous book fair each year for us. Thank you Mrs. Kerr!


Students got to go to the Book Fair at the end of the day today. Boy! Did they ever shop and spend money on good books, posters, pencils and erasers. Students also made our Wish Lists to share with our parents.
We LOVE the Book Fair! Come and see for yourself how wonderful this experience is. Then do some holiday shopping for a terrific bargain price. Proceeds help fill our library with wonderful books for our students.

We Love Ms. Matthews!

Ms. Matthews helps students transition from one Kent School District program to another. We have loved having her as part of our learning community. She is funny, helpful and very kind. Arundeep is spending time with her during Friday Super Star Recess. We are so lucky to have her here with us.

Yay! Little Buddies!

Warning! You just might get a cavity consuming the sweetness of this post!
Introducing our Little Buddies!

They traveled from the burghuundy suite to the green suite to visit us.

Mrs. Dolpay and Mrs. Mayer teach these darling first graders!

We get to visit them once a month.

We decided to get to know each other and read together from the first grader's reading boxes and ask the first graders what their reading goals are. The excitement was tremendous. When they had to leave, we immediately got out our Writer's Notebooks in order to capture our feelings for an entry during Writer's Workshop. I can't wait to hear these stories at share circle.

Mr. Torres -- Art Dad!

We are so fortunate this year to have an Art Dad! Mr. Torres volunteered to come into our classroom once a month and present lessons in accordance with the Green River Community College program.

The hard part for Mr. Torres is that he has only a half an hour in which to present his lesson and try to complete the art. This is a huge challenge. He did very well.

Here's a sample of Monica's piece. She truly understood the art concepts being presented and met the standard. Good job Monica!

Bat Lady Barbara Visits!

What an exciting day we had on Monday. We studied a unit on bats with a culminating event of a visit from Bat Lady Barbara! The students were beyond excited! This is an event they will surely always remember. Thanks goes to Mr. Ficken for discovering her and inviting her to our school.

Here are a few pictures of bats that she has mounted in frames.

Here we see her feeding a Silver-Haired bat that she is helping to nurse back to health. This bat will go into hibernation in a couple of weeks. She will release the bat in April to the wild.

She is feeding the Silver-Haired bat a meal worm. The students studied meal worms in first grade in science.

The students were able to see a bat up close, but NO touching!

Displaying the difference between the size of a bumblebee bat and a fox faced bat.

Bats like to hang upside down unless they are going to the bathroom or giving live birth in which they hang right side up and hold on by their thumbs!

Vampire bats drink the blood from livestock and birds. Their teeth are so sharp that their prey does not even feel the cut. Vampire bats only need six teaspoons of blood for a night feeding. These varitety of bats do not live in North America and dispite popular belief, they do not turn into vampires.

Wing span of a fruit eating bat. Bats are very important for the health of our Earth. They eat thousands of misquitos, insects that are a nuisance to farmer's crops, and they spread pollen that we use in bubble gum, vanilla spice, and bannanas!

We felt very fortunate to have Bat Lady Barbara who showed us a slide show of pictures of various bats. They have some interesting faces, noses, and ears! Did you know that bats can actually see? Echolocation is their amazing ability to hear in the dark. Did you know bats can walk with their wings? Ask your student what s/he learned about bats.