Reminders

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Reminder:  Picture Day is Thursday

Citizenship Award Winner

Today the fourth graders announced the winner of the SMS Citizenship award for the kindergarten.  We were lucky enough to have the winner in the Butterfly Class.  I was so happy to hear such nice comments from the other students after it was announced.

Jump for a Cause and SMS Garden

We celebrated Earth Day by helping spread mulch in the SMS garden.  The students worked great as a team.

Our jump roping teams:

We had lots of great jumpers and dancers in our class.

Wolf Mural

We have been lucky this week at SMS to have artist in residence, Robert Rossel, here to help us make some beautiful tiles for several murals which will be put up around SMS in June.  The kindergarteners got to each do a part of the wolf mural.  They also got to use different tools to make a practice tile.  We can't wait until the tiles have been glazed and put all together.  Here are some pictures from yesterday:

Math Time and Officer Amanda

We have been learning new math games and some students taught others how to play the card game Trash.  Officer Amanda happened to visit today during math and had fun joining some of the games.

Rock, Paper, Scissors and Gold Snap Words

Today the Butterflies had a rock, paper, scissors tournament in our class to find a KB winner.  This student will then go on to play the other kindergarten winners.  There will then be a SMS tournament between the grade level winners.  The SMS Student Council has organized this activity.  Below is a picture of the Butterfly winner.  The students were all great sports and we look forward to cheering on our winner.  

Since St. Patrick's Day is on Sunday we did some unscrambling of letters to make snap words using gold coins. (I was even asked if these were real gold.)  Students worked hard and used their personal word walls to help them. 

Spirit Week - Next Week

Global Play Day

We had such an AWESOME Global Play Day!!  We went outside this morning for 45 minutes and went on a sunny nature walk through the woods.  

This was my favorite moment of the day.  We got to a very icy smaller hill on the trails and I suggested the kids move to the snowy sides and they all decided to slide down the hill.  

We saw animal tracks.

Unfortunately most of the snow was gone from the warmer days we have had.  The kids still had fun running and found some ice and mud.

There was lots of great teamwork and problem solving.

Our new wall marble maze where so much problem solving happened.

100th Day of School

The Butterflies had a great 100th day of school.  It's hard to believe we have already been in school for 100 days.  We actually ran out of time to do all our activities so we will continue them throughout the week.

We made cool hats with 100 dots on them and necklaces with 100 beads.

We added 100 stickers to our books.

We made necklaces using 10 frames.

We made 100 cup structures.

We did 100 piece puzzles.

We did 100 exercises.