Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

Class/Family Night to see:

Night at the Museum:
Battle of the Smithsonian

When: Friday, May 22 @ 7:00
Where: Kerasotes Theaters on Washington Street
Dinner: McDonald's (New Pal) @ 5:30ish

Don't forget this is not a school sponsored trip; just something that I thought would be fun to do together. All families will be responsible for their own dinner and tickets to the movie. :)

Please let me know if you plan to attend so that we can all try to sit together! Also, since this is opening weekend of the movie, we should probably be at the theater no later than 6:30.

See you Friday! :)

Our Top 3 Insects

This morning, our rookie entomologists showed off their insect "discoveries" and read about them to the class. Everyone did an EXCELLENT job on their insect creations!

Here are the top three insects the class voted to be the best.

#1 - The Wacky Yellow or Green Inflatable Intertube Bug
Discovered by Evan


#2 - The Weezle Beetle
Discovered by Gabby


#3 - The Brickbug
Discovered by Matthew T.

This afternoon

And the rain came down...

With all the rain this afternoon, we had an early recess (we had spent about 2 hours in the computer lab after lunch finishing up our insect project...they did an excellent job!).

Below are the kids who were very excited about putting together all the "puzzle piece game thingy"! Good job!

After recess they watched an episode of Prehistoric Park that about insects that lived back in prehistoric time. They/I love the Prehistoric Park series! It is made by the same people who made the Walking with Dinosaurs series. Thanks Brannon and Alex for letting us barrow it! This is one of their FAVORITE things to watch.

Here are the kids watching the movie. They were completely engrossed in it! :)

Here is the insect I created. It is called the "Idea Sucking Fly". Unfortunately, we seem to have an infestation of them in our class at times! ;)

Insect Creations

We have been studying insect. (this is one of my favorite units :-) We have learned what makes an insect an insect, how insects adapt to their surroundings, what kind of life cycle do different insects go through, etc. One activity I always do with my class is to create an insect. I encourage them to be creative! I told them to think about things that happen at school, home, or even the bus, that you could explain by creating an insect that did it. For example, "What causes all our things that we tape up in the hallway to fall down?" or "What causes every one's pencil led to break off in the pencil sharpener?" Yesterday they wrote about their insect (where it lives, what it eats, who are its enemies, and 3 interesting facts) and typed everything up on the computers. Today, they created their insect using all kinds of things, from sticks and pipe cleaners to aluminum foil and googly eyes. They all turned out REALLY well!

Here are some pictures of the kids making their insects.
I am going to have the kids choose who's insect project is the best, and post the top 5!

Insects

THE INSECTS ARE COMING!!!

THE INSECTS ARE COMING!!!