The Big Broccoli

This is our big bunch of broccole grown on one plant in our garden. It was amazing!

We planted several broccoli plants back in October, but this one grew to be the biggest.

Here we are checking out the broccoli plant.

It has to come off the plant so we can eat it.

We love our broccoli plants!

Have you ever seen something so big. We know the worm soil we mixed in did help.

Tasting the broccoli.

Another brave broccoli taster.

Happy broccoli eaters.

We love our broccoli, well at least some of us did.

This is a picture of our marshmellow graphing lesson.

We had to count, graph and make fractions from our cup of marshmellows.

Here is the graph from the broccoli tasting. Seven liked it, nine didn't. Some were absent.

Happy Birthday!

Here is my beautiful Amarillis plant that I got as a bulb for my birthday. It grew all through December and then bloomed in early January.

Christmas Party 2011

The long, long paper chain that was made to decorate for our party.

Having fun making the paper chain.

Breakfast in our pajamas. Yum!

Fun food and fun times.

Merry Christmas to us in so many ways.

Time to eat our houses.

Wishing eveyone a good holiday.

Having fun!

Thanks for all the helpers who made us breadfast.

Happy Birthday!

The Big Gingerbread House 2011

The first step in making our house was to get all the sides and roof covered in squares of graham crackers.

It takes a lot of cooperation to get the job done.

Sometimes the crackers will fall down the house because of gravity.

These students had to figure out how to cover the big triangle at each end of the house.

Next came time to add decorations. Both side of the roof had to match.

Good job!

You just keep adding and adding candies.

Good job!

Working together to create something beautiful.

Lots of fun work!

Here is the finished creation. It took about seven boxes of graham crackers and ten pounds of powdered sugar and lots and lots of candies. Thanks to everyone who sent in the supplies we needed to create the houses.

Building the Gingerbread Village 2011/Our Own Houses

Each student got to make their own smaller house. It took five squares of graham crackers and two pieces cut into triangles to finish the roof.

We built the house around an empty milk carton from our school lunch.

It took patience to work to get the roof to stick together.

Next, each student picked out the candies they wanted to use on their house.

Everyone's house came out different, but each very creative.

Look carefully at the roof of this house. He made a cool tower with his smarties.

The construction and decorating was fun, but the part when you had to lick your fingers was even better.

Good job !

It got a little messy.

Sometimes it was a challenge to get all the candy to fit on the house.

Good job !

A masterpiece in the works.

Good job !

It looks like all the candies fit on his house.

This was a fun project.

When the small house was finished it had to be placed on the table.

Putting on some extra touches.

Creating an outside to each house like a driveway or a yard.

During math one day each student had to evaluate their own house and determine the amount of candies they had used.

When all the houses were finished it was time to add some sprinkles.

We also added coconut and dry powdered sugar to make it look like snow.

All of this fun work turned out to make a beautiful village. We had lots of visitors from the other classes at school. They liked what we had created and we were proud of our Ginberbread Village.