Our first field trip: Yolo Bypass Wetlands

Today we went on an exciting, beautiful, not-as-wet-as-expected field trip!

Even though we were expecting (and bracing for?) rain, the rain ended closer to 8 and we had a GORGEOUS day!  Thank you to all **9** chaperones who accompanied our class and Mrs. Reeves' class.  We could not do it without you!  We had such a delightful time!

This was the beautiful day we saw when we arrived...

We had four 20-minute stations where students learned about salmon migration, did a pond study, identified wetlands plants, and explored bird beak adaptations.

After those rotations, we stopped for a well-deserved lunch.  It's amazing how hungry you get when you've been scientists all day!

After lunch,we picked up binoculars, loaded the bus, and headed out to the real wetlands.

Wildlife explorers!

Miss Heidi showed our group the seeds of a cattail!

What a fun field trip!!!  Everyone was on their BEST behavior, so respectful!  I appreciate each and every one of you and am so thankful for this class!  I can't wait till the next one!

Thankful in Third!

I thought about using self-control in posting these pictures, but they're all SO cute!  This is such a grateful, sweet group of kiddos and I could not love them more!  Thank you for sharing them with me every day.

We had a great Thankful Feast.  Thank you for sending in all the tasty treats and thank you to all the parents who volunteered their time!

Snippets of our days: VAPA, GoNoodle, Time

We LOVE VAPA!!!!  Our VAPA teacher right now is Mrs. Utterback, and we are in the Theater rotation.  We get to wiggle and giggle and learn about pantomime--not to mention she has a SUPER cool spotlight to shine while we are actors.  Monday afternoons might be our favorite times of the week :)

Have you heard about the song "Wishy Washy Washer Woman"?  It's one of our favorites on GoNoodle!

We have been learning about time and the different ways to describe time (ie 5:30 is the same as "half past five") so we had a team challenge to try to put together clocks and descriptions of time at record speeds!

To understand the concept of time, we made a clock with each square unit representing one minute and made clocks, then duplicated our time intervals and made timelines!