School is rapidly wrapping itself up here. We have one more week of school! Here are some pictures from a few recent school activities. Anna's first grade class learned about eggs and egg laying animals in the month of April. Anna would always come home and report new information she had learned. They also took care of some eggs in their classroom for the month. The culmination of it all was when the eggs hatched at the end of the month. Parents were invited to come into the classroom and see the hatched or hatching eggs on that day. Here is Anna with one of the chicks (yellow-ish still in the incubator). They later named this one "Sunshine."
I even got a chance to hold one (while Anna's teacher held Emma). It was very exciting.
On that same day (earlier) I got to see Anna take her gym running test. The gym class had been working on running all month and the test at the end of the month was to have the kids run for 8 minutes non-stop. If they had to stop they got credit for all the minutes they ran up to that, but that was it. They couldn't start running again. The parents were all invited and a few other parents were there with me. Here's a blurry Anna running by. They ran laps around in their gym for the test.
I was very proud of Anna because, at about 3 or 4 minutes in, she tripped, fell all the way to the ground and her shoe fell off. I thought she might be disqualified, or stop because she was sad about falling, but she quickly scrambled to get her shoe on and got up and started running again. Crying and running. The teacher didn't disqualify her since it was an accidental fall - she didn't stop on purpose. We all tried to cheer her on and she kept running, crying a little less with each lap. She made it to the end of the test and even ran an extra two minutes. Their grade level was allowed to try for 10 minutes, the time for the next grade level up, although they would have still passed if they finished only 8 minutes. So Anna ran for 10 minutes non-stop! I don't think I did that until I was in high school and ran on the cross country team. So I was impressed. Especially since she fell down and had to get back up. About 2/3 of her class passed the test. Way to go Anna!! She was very happy at the end and not at all sad about falling anymore.
Later in the week I went to see Matthew's running test. His test was for 10 minutes. His entire class ran for the whole 12 minutes they were allowed to try for - passing the test for the next grade level up. So that was very cool. Here is a blurry Matthew running by in orange.
The school had STEM night (STEM = Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) a couple weeks ago. They had a reading night and a math night earlier in the year, so now its science time! Grant found duplo blocks. One of his favorite things. We have a big bin at home and he plays with them all the time.
Anna with her teacher walking over eggs. This was to show how strong eggs are. They also stacked books on top of four eggs and other things to show strong eggs.
Making pretzel and marshmallow structures.
Then eating them
We also played with dominoes a lot
There were a ton of different activities including an egg drop competition (optional participation). Matthew had to leave in the middle to go to scouts. But we had a great time! Go science!
STEM night inspired us to make lab coats/doctor coats from Scott's old shirts. These shirts were part of the PCS purge of 2015. I guess we won't call it PCS anymore (Permanent Change of Station or military speak for moving to a new base/assignment) since Scott is no longer on active duty. But this is a permanent change of station for us, and Scott will report to a new base out there for the reserves, so why not.
A lab coat looks good on her.
And this sort of has to do with school. Anna has gone to a couple friend birthday parties recently. Here she is at a build a bear party for her friend. Anna is very sad about leaving her school and neighborhood friends when we move.
She really loves her build-a-bear
One more week of school. I'm counting down.
1 comment:
What a cute bear! I love her pink and purple hearts! We can't wait to see you guys!
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