Friendship Week, Carrots in the Classroom, & Chinese New Year!

We have had so much fun this week! We had a wonderful time celebrating friendship with our Patwin Community by cleaning up campus, creating placemats for senior citizens, and designing teamwork posters! The students were busy at work scouting for classmates building friendships, too!

On Thursday we celebrated Chinese New Year by making Nian puppets, watching this short story, and reading about characteristics of those born in the Year of the Sheep/ Ram!

Coloring our Chinese dragons, and building friendships along the way...

We have some pretty angry looking dragons in our classroom!

Here are little snippits from our visit with Mr. Simon from the Davis Coop! We had a great time creating a story using ribbons and our imagination!

Below you will find some writing samples of stories we have been working ... our topics include our "Best Friends"  being "Lost" and an "Angry Day"! All I have to say is, "From the mouth of babes..." be prepared to be entertained! 

A "small moment" writing... all about a visit to grandma's house :)

We also came up with some adjectives to describe ourselves... this is truly a great moment in a child's life... to be able to proudly say they are creative, thoughtful, kind, funny, fast, etc. is phenomenal... I love watching them light up as they associate themselves with these complementary, accurate descriptive words...