Bowlathon

Today was the big day, Bowlathon! Every year we have a bowlathon to raise money for our school and our kiddos have to get lots of sponsors. My little ones have been looking forward to it for days. We loaded grades Pre-K thru 8th Grade into two buses and headed to the bowling alley.

                               

                                                                 

We finished bowling, loaded the bus, and headed back to the school!

Penguins!

We finally finished our read aloud Mr. Popper's Penguins and decided to have a penguin afternoon. We made the cutest penguin headbands to wear all day.

Group shot of my cute penguins!!

We took a little break to do the Penguin Dance Song.

 Such a cute song!

We started putting together our Mr. Popper's Pengins Lapbooks.

They did such a great job!

While we were working on our lapbooks we heard a know on the door. It was Mrs. Smith. She had a special package for us that had been delivered to the school. She wasn't sure what was in it but she thought she heard some noises coming from the box. What could it be????

Everyone got up close to the box to see what they could hear. They were so cute! You could hear kids whispering, "I heard something?" "Did you hear that?" They were convinced there was a live animal in the box.

 Well, we opened up the box and there was a stuffed penguin, Captain Cook, in the box with lots of goodies!

 Each child will take Captain Cook home for a sleepover! How fun is that????

 We finished our day off with a penguin treat of cookies. Yummy!!

Everyone got to take home a penguin ring.

Maple Syrup

Today we had a guest speaker. Mrs. Carolyn Small came to visit and share with us about how maple syrup is made. What a fun day!

She showed us what the buckets look like that they collect the sap in. We also learned that the covers keep out all sorts of things.

Each student held up two gallons of sap. Did you know it takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup??

Everyone got to try some sap from the tree.

Mrs Small read us a fun story called Anytime Mapleson and the Hungry Bears. It was such a cute story and Mrs. Small is a fabulous storyteller.

After the story we watched a DVD that showed us a sugar house and how maple syrup is made. Mrs. Small even surprised us dwith a special treat, vanilla ice cream cups with maple syrup on top!!!! We were so busy enjoying our treat that I forgot to get a picture. lol 

Just another great day in First Grade!!!