Things have been very busy in the KinderKids classroom and Mrs. Knee has been busy too. That is why there have not been any new blog posts in a while. We worked hard on our bird projects and you will be able to see some of our work on our blogs. We are still interested in learning about birds so we are watching the Decorah Bald Eagles web cam. We are waiting for the first egg to hatch.

We celebrated Valentine's Day with a lunch in our classroom that our parents made for us. We even had a chocolate fountain. Yum! Then we opened our cards from our friends. It was a great day.

Our school had a Jump Rope for Heart activity. We did this with our 8th grade big buddies. We jumped for 45 minutes.

We learned about making maple syrup and went on a field trip to Mrs. Knee's house to see the maple trees, the buckets and spigots and the sugar house with the cupola.

Our latest project in being involved with the Flat Classroom Project. We will be working with other students in different parts of the world and getting to know them better. We made a video to help them know who we are and what we do. It is called our Handshake to others.

We are interested in learning more about birds. We know some things about birds and talked about those things in class. Mrs. Knee wrote down our words and then used the computer to make a Wordle from what we said. This is it:

Keep checking our blog to find out what we are learning about birds. We have a wiki that will help us learn about birds and we will use it to share our information. Click here to go to our BirdSmart Wiki.

Today was our 100th day of school. We have 80 more days of school left. We are learning to count to 100 and we need to practice so we can get better at it. We made hats with 100 things on them. We also made necklaces with 100 pieces of cereal. We each have a small book with 100 animals. We had so many things to count. It was a fun day.

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Shaun, Max and Owen used Sock Puppet on the iPad to show how to count to 100 by tens.

How do you celebrate 100 days of school?

Our playground is icy and it is hard to play when it is so icy. We are lucky because we have a large woods to play in too. There is still some snow in the woods and we had fun playing games and making houses with sticks. We are still wishing for lots of snow to fall but until that happens, we are happy to play in the woods.

Here are a few pictures from our recess time in the woods.

We finally have a bit of snow to play with at recess. We made a few snowmen and even tried to sleep in the snow. We want more snow so we can make snow forts and slide down our big hill. If we have enough snow, we might even use the school's snow shoes.

The Kinderkids had so much fun making monsters, they were eager to try one more way. Using paper towel and toilet paper rolls and cut out pieces of paper, their monsters once again showed their creativity. The idea for this came from an article in Parent's magazine.You can find more information here.
These are just three examples of the Tube Monsters. Look on each child's blog for pictures of the other monsters.

We are reading lots of books about monsters. Two of our favorites are If You're a Monster and You Know It and There was an Old Monster. These books inspired us to make our own colorful monsters. We drew and cut shapes for the head, body, arms and legs and glued them together. Then we added faces, horns, tails and other things to make our monsters look great.

After reading The Monster's Party by Joy Cowley, we decided to tell about things that our monsters can do. We tried to think of different things the monsters could do. We hope you like our monsters and like our ideas for what they can do.