Earth Day at FSB!

We celebrated Earth Day at FSB on Thursday, April 17th.  Our day kicked off with a delightful All School Convocation where we heard the Orchestra,  The Quaketones & Pleiades,  Little Friends Singers, and watched the lovely Ballet Trio.  Convocations at Friends are always a treasure and this one didn't disappoint!

After convocation, we met up with a group of 7th graders who would serve as our buddies for the bulk of the day.  Our first activity was to use recycled materials to create a project called "Recycled Blooms."  We had been collecting colorful boxes, small lids from bottles, and straws for the past several weeks.  Using these materials we got to work:

Visit the Art Show beginning on Thursday to see all of our Recycled Blooms!

After, we headed outside for some chalk drawings:

Next up was lunch and recess with our seventh grade friends and then we headed back to room 230 for........... Worms!! 

We enjoyed the story Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin:  

We also watched this short video about how worms are helpful and how to create your own worm farm!  

http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/show/wormfarm.html

As much as I thought it would be fun to create our own worm farm in 1A, I thought creating an edible one might be even more exciting! 

Using the following ingredients, we got to work creating our own edible worm farms:

• chocolate pudding
• Cool Whip
• crushed Oreos (minus the frosting middles)
• gummy worms

Here's some photos of us making our worm farms, our finished products, and a few friends in 1A EATING WORMS!  

Maybe you can make a real worm farm at home!  

It was a terrific Earth Day at FSB!  

First graders what can you do to help our planet?  Post your idea so everyone can read it!

 

Top Secret Mystery!

We enjoyed a second Mystery Reader visit last week.  Here were our clues as we tried to figure out this next mystery........
1.  I love art and being creative.
2.  I have long blonde hair.
3.  I moved to Maryland 6 years ago.
4.  I used to teach preschool and taught someone in this class.
5.  I recently had a baby girl!

That last clue confirmed it for sure....... Miss Angela, Eva's babysitter was our next Mystery Reader!

Miss Angela read a book we enjoyed at the beginning of the year titled, Have You Filled a Bucket Today?  by Carol McCloud.  

This book explains that everyone has an invisible bucket.  The key to filling your own bucket is to fill someone else's!  We've worked hard to be bucket fillers in room 230 all year long.  Hearing this book again was a great refresher.  

After reading the story, Miss Angela told us she had buckets for each of us and 14 slips of paper.  Our task was to write something kind about each of our classmates and ourself and put them in each other's buckets.  Eva helped to pass out the buckets and we got to work being bucket fillers!

Thanks, Miss Angela, for a great Mystery Reader Visit!  

First graders, how has someone filled your bucket lately or how have you filled someone else's bucket? Post a comment to share with all of us.  

We only have a few more Mystery Readers to go...... Where has our year gone!?