High School Visitors

One more picture from our "trash" game...Erick and Michelle having fun!

Our "trees" have grown up and their branches are swaying in the wind!

Our trees are starting to get bigger! Some of our high school friends are featured here as we teach them our fun game!

Here we are seedlings curled up in a ball getting ready to make a tree!

Nick works hard on his sun catcher as some of his new high school friends help out. Miss Candaces daughters joined us as well today for Take your Child to Work day!

Erick and his high school friend work on a sun catcher!

Camden and Bri work on their sun catchers as their new high school friends are near by!

In the last post I shared about our high school visitors who came on Earth Day. Here are some pictures from that visit. There are some of them helping us make sun catchers and some of everyone playing the "make a tree" game! Thanks GEHS friends for joining us for a little while!

Happy Earth Day

Michelle tossing items in the recycle bin during the "trash" game

Nick is trying to decide if he would rather keep the Dora bandaid box :)

Camden adds tissue paper to his crayon holder

Nick and a friend from Miss Sara's class play the "liter bugs" and are throwing trash around the classroom :)

We have been celebrating Earth Day all week with fun activities! We have played Earth Bingo, made crayon holders out of recycled plastic water bottles decorated with tissue paper and painted an earth with marbles rolling through blue and green paint.

Today we had a special treat when 5 students from the high school Communications program visited our classroom. They were great helpers as we used blue and green colored glue to swirl together in a butter lid. These will be sun catchers when they dry in a few days! Then we showed them our "tree" game we have been playing all week. We got to learn from them about the recycling projects they do every week at the high school and share with them the blue recycle tub we use in our classroom!

Our favorite activities of the week have been making "trees" with our body's and playing the "trash" game. When we made trees, we first started with eating a seed (otherwise known as a skittle). Then we curled up in a ball on the floor as I "watered" my trees. Then we slowly grew until we were standing up and our branches (also known as arms and legs) popped out and we were big trees swaying in the breeze until chopped down. Then of course we repeated this SEVERAL times every day! It was great to see my friends really enjoy this game and ask for it again and again and again and...... :)

When we played the "trash" game we took turns being liter bugs and throwing items from our recycle bin all over the room. Pretty funny to intentionally trash the room....my friends got a kick out of that. Then when the musis started we ran around and gathered up as much stuff as we could and ran it back to the recycle bin! Super fun game that we played several times!!

Friday we will conclude Earth Week by making recycled crayons in a very fun crayon maker. We will reuse our old crayons and melt them down to make swirled new crayons!