MWF Open House

This year's WLC Open House theme was Dr. Seuss. Here is a picture of all the 4s teachers dressed as Thing 1 and Thing 2. Below is a poem and pictures from the evernt. Ms. Michelle wrote the cutest poem to direct the parents around the room. Some of the items were things we did in the past and a few new ones we found on Pinterest!WELCOME to WHO-Ville!
How do you do??…
Let your little Star
Show you what all they can do….

First, Thing One and Thing Two are all over the place!!
Can you guess what makes up their body and face?
Ten Apples! Ten Apples!
All up on top!
I had to make them and count them
Before they all DROPPED!

I’ve heard there are great Places
I will go here and there….
I’ve made my own balloon
That will float through the air
Green eggs??!
Can you Imagine that??
Now look a little closer…
You can’t eat that??!!

A lot of counting, mazes, and patterns to do
Games with my friends while learning some too!
One Fish, Two Fish,
It doesn’t really matter
Especially when we get to eat them
Our tummies get fatter!

Now to the iPad
You can see all we do
All of my friends and I
Are playing and learning stuff too!

Finally, My Journal
A book of my own
I started it the first day
Can you see how I’ve grown?

Thanks for visiting My WHO-Ville,
I hope you had fun!
This is my special class
Where my learning journey has just begun!

We had a GREAT turn out and everyone LOVED the shirts we made with the bleach pens.

Dr. Seuss Shirts

Look at the Dr. Seuss Shirts we made for WLC's Open House.

To make you will need a shirt, bleach pen and stencile.

We cut the stencils and laminated them. Had the kids trace around the edge with the fine point of the bleach pen.

The lay the second stencil over and have the kids fill in the stripes with the brush end of the bleach pen.

This is what is should look like. Let sit until you achieve your desired color and then rinse off the bleach. I took them home and put them in the washer.

One of our other classes made a Jolly Rodger for their pirate theme too! The kids LOVED these too...especially the boys!

I was worried about doing the bleach, but if you work with one kid at a time it works well. Can't wait to do Shark shirts for this summers Ocean theme.

Grapefruit-White Wine Spritzers

This is a wonderfully light and fruity punch for a spring event! I don't care for grapefruit and I really liked it. Will definately make again!

Grapefruit-White Wine Spritzers

4 cups pink grapefruit
juice cocktail, chilled
1 bottle white wine
(recipe recommends Chardonnay, but I’ve used all kinds of white wine)
2/3 cup sugar
1 pink grapefruit, thinly
sliced (optional)
2 cups club soda, chilled

Stir together the first 3
ingredients until sugar dissolves; add grapefruit. Stir in club soda just
before serving. Pour over ice, and serve. Makes 11 cups.

Kristi's Birthday

I had a few of the girls over to celebrate Kristi's birthday.Here is wishing her all the best!

The Planetarium

Here are the kids kicked back at the planetarium in the HMNS. We saw 2012: Mayan Prophecies. Very interesting how they used the stars to chart their calendar.

GyroXtreme Ride

While we were at the HMNS, the kids could not resist a taking a turn on the GyroXtreme Ride. Here are a couple of picture of them strapping up.

Here is a short video.

The kids seem to enjoy this, but you couldn't pay me to get on that thing!

The Cockrell Butterfly Center

Took a trip to the HMNS to the Cockrell Butterfly Center.
Here we are in the large butterfly habitat. Grandma and Bailey.

Grandma solo.

Bailey and Jack on a huge caterpillar.

Had lots of fun!

Incredible Pizze

Jack and I when to Incredible Pizza Company with Grandma.

We played mini golf.

Bowled a few games.

Jack even got to race cars.

They also have an incredible buffet. We had an amazing time!

The Lorax

We took in the movie "The Lorax" today. It was cute.

The kids really enjoyed it!

Jack's Open House

Last night was Jack's open house at WCE. Here he is with his second grade teacher, Mrs. King.

Jack did a great drawing of Lincoln.

We visited the music room and played with some instruments.

Love my Cowboy Jack!

Jack won a blue ribbon for his Picture that went along with the book "Why Cowboys Sleep With Their Books On" for speach class.We had a great time and best of all Grandma got to go!

Wordless Wednesday

Bailey's 3rd Grade Open House

Tonight was open house at HHE. Here is a picture of Bailey and her 3rd grade teacher Mrs. Nevins.

Bailey posing with some of her art work. The monkey picture to the right of her head is her's.

This shape poem is so wonderful. She wrote it about her Daddy!
Here she is at her desk with all her work.

Here is her monster poem on the screen.Bailey loves school and it shows in all of her work. I especially liked the shape poem about her Daddy.

March Picture of the Month

It's March 2012 and we got a new Town and Country van! I don't know who is more excited, me or the kids. This is the first time they have a new car experience. We traded in the Miada and are going to keep the Tribute. March is going to be a busy month. With the kids' open houses at school, spring break, and a visit from Grandma. Looking forward to it all!