Today we had our first K-1 spelling bee. It was the final activity for "Bee Week." This week we wrote a bee mad lib, made beehive mobiles, fashioned beeswax bees, studied the workers, drones and queens, practiced all the yoga postures we know that begin with b, and observed bees in our herb garden.
We baked honey sweet baklava cookie cups with local honey on Tuesday.
For our independent study project, each student brought 4 or 5 objects that represent things they like to do with Mommy.
For poetry month, we have been writing poems like this....
For poetry month, we have been writing poems like this....
We happily met our visiting billy goat, Chevre, sadly said good bye to 3 hens who were eaten by raccoons, and experienced a day without electricity after the early morning storms on Wednesday (a bit grumpily). The owls also got to take the maiden voyage in our new school bus.