Can we plant a rainbow?

Today started off with a bang! Once all the kiddos were here we went to the gym to meet a LOT of parents who were joining us on our Fun Walk. We went out the back door, through the hot and humid woods, across the street, past the New Albany pool that "everyone went to this summer", into another set of woods that one of our little ones really hoped "didn't have bears", back through our Safety Town, and to the Finish Line. The music was jamming and the after race goodies were flowing. The children were given juice bottles, red plastic water bottles, and Buckeye pins!!! If you have ever run a race before, this was pretty close to the real thing!

We came back in time for a story and then lunch. After lunch we worked very hard on our number formation. As easy as the kids might have thought this was...there is a correct and incorrect way to write. Please remind your child that letters and numbers ALWAYS start from the top. We practiced on white boards with markers before moving to smaller lines and pencils. We will continue this with letters too. Once we write our letters the correct way, writing will be quicker for your child with less hand aches!

We read another Kevin Henkes book today, My Garden. This story is full of imagination and creativity. A little girl imagines what she could plant in her garden if it were her own. Here are some of our ideas:

Next the children wrote in their reading journals and illustrated what they would plant.

We finished off the day with a science experiment. We planted a rainbow garden using carnations, water, vases, and food coloring. The kids were asked to observe the carnations using their senses (minus taste) as real scientists would. They practiced using language to describe their findings. They were then asked to predict what we would be doing and the outcome. A lot of the kids had done this experiment before but were excited to try it again. Each group was given a vase and a flower. One person filled the vase with water and they had to work as a team to decide which color they wanted to use for their garden. They then used food coloring to color their water and we had groups choose mint green, teal, purple, orange, blue, and dusty rose. On Monday we will observe our flowers again to see if we have a rainbow garden!!