Writing Letters to President Obama!

During our "Government" unit, we learned about our United States President, President Barak Obama. Then, we wrote letters to him!

Our final products turned out really good. Some students added pictures to complete the sentences and some students wrote the entire letter. Of course we added pictures of ourselves too!

We can't wait to see if we get a letter back from the White House!

Class President Election!

After learning about the United States government and our president, we were so excited to practice the voting process and elect our own "Class President". Each student was given the responsibility of creating their compaign to encourage their classmates to vote for them. They each did this at home as an ongoing homework assignment!



Ava's campaign was very clever. She gave out smarties and dum dum lollipops. Her campaign speech was "Don't be a sucker. Be a smartie. Vote for me"! No one said we couldn't bribe our friends with candy. Ha! Ha!

Once everyone gave their campaign speech, we all used a ballot system to vote for the person we thought would best respresent our class as our "Class President"!

Our "Class President" was elected. And the winner was............... Dontavious Morrow!! Dontavious was awarded a beautiful pin and several other goodies!

I can't think of anyone who would best represent our class as "Class President". It was nice to see that our students felt the same way. Congratulations Dontavious!

Ava received the second greatest amount of votes. Therefore, she was elected as "Vice President". Yay Ava!

That's a great bunch of candidates!

Special Olympics Skating!

In December/ January, we participated in Special Olympics Skating at Rompin' Roll skating rink. We had such a wonderful time!

It was amazing to watch, over the weeks, students who could not skate (in the beginning) learn to skate on their own. We have some of the most determined kiddos around!

Bird Tree Christmas!

Every holiday season, Mr. John visits our class to share his "Bird Tree" tradition (from his childhood) with us. Mr. John reads a book that Ms. Malcom made him a few years ago. The book is a true story about Mr. John as a boy. His grandfather took him into the woods every Christmas to pick out a tree. They would saw a branch off of a tree so that they would not kill the entire tree. Then, they would take it home, build a stand for it, and decorate it for Christmas.

Mr. John brings tree branches screwed on to a base. He also brings lots of items and ornaments that we can use to decorate our trees!

First, we decorate our base by painting it and adding dirt, rocks, and snow (cotton)!

Then, we put on ornaments and artificial birds to decorate our tree!

Our final products were so beautiful. The kiddos were so proud of their creations!





Thank you Mr. John for sharing this tradition with us each year!!!

Learning About Food Chains!

Learning about food chains was so much fun and very interesting. We learned about producers, consumers, predators, and prey. We even got the chance to make a poster of one of the food chains, from the ocean, that we learned about!

First, we had to paint our habitat (ocean)!

Then, we placed pictures of our plants and animals!

The last thing we did was review the ocean food chain that we read about in our story. We drew lines to represent the food chain!

Our finished products were so beautiful and we learned so much!