Composting!!

Hi families! Have you heard that our class has been learning all about chickens and worms and how they help our planet!!

Today, we learned about how to put together a compost bin to get it ready for our worms!!! We watched this video from a gardener who teaches us how to make a compost bin:

How to Make a Worm Bin -- powered by eHow.com



Ask your child what they learned about worms!

We will post photos of our worms soon!

Helping others!

Hi families!! We are so happy the weather is getting so much nicer. We have been going out for recess nearly everyday! We just started learning about helping others and how others help us for social studies! We learned about chickens and worms and how they help us! Ask your child how chickens and worms help our planet! Below are some useful links so your child can learn more:

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/KidsFarm/InTheBarn/Chickens/atthezoo.cfm

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/worms/

We will begin to talk about this organization heifer.org soon and how we as a class can help others who need it!

How are you feeling?

Welcome to Ms. Esther's blog! I will post new things we are learning in K-205! Recently, in social studies we have been talking about feelings! We talked about all different kinds of feelings like:
-sad
-happy
-scared
-angry
-grumpy
-excited
We are even looking for parts in stories that we read that make us feel these ways!
Here are some fun websites where we can learn more about feelings!

http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/aboutface/index.html

http://www.kizclub.com/storytime/feelings/first.html

http://www.juliasrainbowcorner.com/html/feelingsgame.html