MANGO AND JELLY!!

Mango and Jelly are a special part of our classroom family. We have talked a lot throughout the year about being kind, gentle and respectful to our sweet animals.

Since I have returned from maternity leave, the students have a renewed excitement about the piggies, and have been observing them, drawing them, drawing FOR them, writing letters to them and reading about guinea pigs. This has also led to interest in talking about other animals. This is some of our conversations about two of our favorite animals. J

“I wonder do Mango and Jelly have birthdays. I make them a cake.” –Jimmy

“I love the guinea pigs because they are so soft and furry!” –Map

“And so fluffy to hug and cuddle!” –Jasper

“Really, really, REALLY fluffy!” -Malia

“Mango and Jelly are the sweetest.” –Aria

“And the gentlest! They are so gentle to us.” –Liam

“Yeah, they are gentle cause they don’t bite us, right Liam?” -Xavion

“They are so so cute, aren’t they?” –Hudson

“I think they are beautiful.” –Si-Yoon

“We give them so much good food. They need food.” –Maxton

“That’s why we have to help Ms. Lynsey feed them. They like so many things. I did that at home when Mango and Jelly stayed with me.” –Rania

“In my home they walked all around my house but didn’t run away!” -Ella

“They also need a cage to live in, right? They have a good cage for when they are not walking around my house or the class.” –Dylan

“And they talk to us through the cage! They go squeak, squeak, when they tell us they like us or when they want food or to look out of their cage! Those are such cute sounds!” –Daniel

Cloud Explorations Continued!

We asked Ms. Cuthbert, the librarian in the Elementary School if she had some books on clouds, and she found us It Looked Like Spilt Milk and Little Cloud. We are looking for some more fiction as well as non-fiction books right now.

Our class decided they wanted to head back outside to observe the clouds in the sky again, but this time see the clouds “from a different ground spot.” We went out to the track.

“The sky is so blue! Wait…is that THE MOON?!” –Malia

“The moon is up in the day?!” –Mena

“Yeah, sometimes I have seen it before like that.” –Maxton

“The CLOUDS look like the moon!” –Rania

“The clouds are so fluffy. The sun is so bright but I can keep looking at the sky because it is so relaxing for me.”  -Shayne

A chorus of “yeahs” heard all across the class.

The students are in the process of finding other ways to represent what they are seeing in the sky and in the clouds.

Through the project so far the students have been using fine motor skills in writing and drawing, observation and recording skills, and have had fun exploring and expressing what they have experienced with a variety of materials. Many of the students also noticed how calm and peaceful they felt just looking at the sky, and how being outside made them feel fresh and happy.

“To get all there is out of living…Never be in a hurry to stop and sip life, we must never lose our sense of the enormous value of a minute.” –Robert Updeegraff