Rockin' Rocks

This past week we learned all about rocks. The kids had a great time categorizing rocks by their features. I'm so impressed that they know what a rock's luster is. :) We also learned many interesting facts and painted rocks! Here are some pictures from our study. 

Western Day!

Yeeeehaw! Today was Western Day and we had a lot of fun! We got to look at and feed love animals and got to participate in some Cowboy Games! Here are some pictures of us having fun! 

                        dance party 

                 throwing horseshoes 

                       riding "horses" 

                 lassoing some "cattle"   

Education Foundation Prize Patrol!!!

The education foundation came to our school today to award the teachers who wrote grants and were funded! This is always a very exciting event! some of the high school band comes as well as the mustang mascot members of the foundation. They bring balloons and big checks and we find out if some or all of our grants have been adopted! Well I am excited to say that thank you to many generous donations from individuals and companies we were awarded all of our grant for a total of $1,552.00!!! Which gives us a total of 5 new iPad minis and accessories in our class!! This is so exciting to us to now have a 2 to 1 ration of students to iPads! It allows us to do so much more with them in class! I hope that you have enjoyed hearing about and seeing some of the things we have done with the iPads so far in our class. We can't wait to go even further with them now! A big thank you to all our contributors and everyone who supports the education foundation! It truly helps provide us with the things we need to teach and change the world one kid at a time!! Here are some pictures from this morning! 

The total given to Cline this year! Over $16,000!!! 

Thank you education foundation!! 

FFA brings their animals

Today some atudents from the FFA brought some of their animals to show out kinder kids. They let them feed them, pet them, and told them about some of the things they do to take care of them. The kids really enjoyed beig able to see and touch the animals up close. They also remembered a lot of the facts we learned about some of these animals a few weeks ago when we did our group research projects on farm animals. 

Walk for Diabetes

Let me begin by apologizing for the lack of blog post!! Let me assure you we have been very busy in class having fun, learning, and creating! I have posted about 5 post all the way back to 100 day so scroll down and catch up on the latest happenings! 

Friday was out annual walk for diabetes! We stopped at the end for a group shot! The kids all enjoyed getting out walking and exercising for a great cause! 

Kinder memories in the making! 

Thank you to out parents and family members who came out to support Cline in making a difference in the world of diabetes research! 

Film makers in training

We tried our hand last week at a new iPad app and project. We used iMovie to create movie trailers to use as invitations for open house. iMovie has them premade and all the groups had to do was pick their template, add and change some words, and finally take pictures of our class. Then iMovie puts it all together Into a really cool little movie trailer. This was their first experience with this, and I must say they did great!! I was very impressed! We will all be movie makers in no time ;) Hopefully we will be building on these skills some more this year, and actually start taking some live video and posting to YouTube for you to see. 

The link to our videos is on our news flash page if you haven't seen them yet

Somebody loves you Mrs...

We read books and learned about the importance of making people feel loved and appreciated. We connected it to our character curriculum in "filling buckets." We discussed how people who might not always feel appreciated for the job they do, would love to know they are thought of and how it would fill up their bucket. We decided to make Valentine's cards for our custodian, Ms. Yolanda and our cafeteria workers. We wrote poems and presented the cards to them. I must say it really filled their buckets and ours! They were almost brought to tears! I just love the thoughtfulness and kindness that full out sweet kiddos hearts!! 

Mrs Hoskins helping interpret for us! Ms. Yolanda was very touched!

These pictures also made it on the fisd website and smug mug if you happened to catch them.

Love is in the air

We spent the week talking about friendship, love, and people that are special to us! We enjoyed a great valentines party 

Decorating yummy sugar cookies with LOTS of sprinkles!!! :)

Then we played a fun relay game with straws and m&ms! They really got into the competition! 

What a fun party!! Happy valentines day!