Odds and Ends

Well, we're already well into summer and I'm way behind uploading some pictures from the end of the year. Let me catch you up...

During testing week, we tested all morning and then took it easy during the afternoons. The kids LOVED building hotrod tracks all over the room. They worked together so well and created a giant track spanning the room and out the door. It's hard to tell in this picture, but the orange strip looped through those chairs ended up being the giant track!

We did a lesson on figurative language and poetry, and the kids had the idea to make a poet-tree. 

We did a unit on plants and grew seeds in different soils; that experiment didn't go as planned, but the seeds we planted in plastic bags grew surprisingly well.

We had a Pizza/Pie Party to wrap up our unit on fractions and I didn't let the kids get by without a little work that day. Here they are dividing cookies into equal parts and answering questions about the pizzas and pies we ate.

We also did some soil exploration and had a special guest from the soil and water conservation district come by and talk to us and do a special demonstration. 

We got to see how erosion works and how chemicals and things that are bad for the environment can get into water. It was an important lesson in keeping our world healthy and clean. 

As a final math review, we did a scavenger hunt around the school, answering different math questions about the things we found along the way. 

I captured this picture of the kids working side-by-side:

I didn't capture all the fun final events we did at the end of the year, but I'll leave you with this photo of nature walk we took "just because". This picture reminds me a a verse that kept popping up throughout the year:

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6