Cheetahs

Our African animal that we studied today was the Cheetah. My goodness the kids' faces lit up when they heard that we'd be making Cheetah masks and that they'd actually get to take them home (as I have been hoarding all of their other African projects for our upcoming Safari). The kids had a ball making their "Own" cheetah masks. I told them that they could color them however they wanted, just as long as they had spots on them. This group of kids sure LOVE to use all kinds of color on their projects. Take a peek. We had quite the fierce group of Cheetahs today.

We are having so much fun learning about Africa and all of their amazing animals.

Oh, also ask you child to sing the Hello song in Swahili. They know it. And it's way too cute.

Celebrating Dr. Seuss

At Shining Stars we can't ever pass up March 2nd without celebrating Dr. Seuss' Birthday. So in honor of him, and also since it has become a "National Day for Reading" we dove into Dr. Seuss' books and enjoyed becoming "The Cat in the Hat."

We had a small class this day (as it seemed to be the week of sickness). But the few kids that were at school had fun making their own Cat in the Hat hats and reading many of our favorite Dr. Seuss books that were brought in from home.

JELLY BEAN MATH

Okay, so maybe Math isn't everybody's most favorite subject. I can understand that. So here at school we try to jazz up our learning a bit from time to time. This week it was learning math the fun way, counting jelly beans. And then of course eating them. I tell ya, if I had learned math this way, I may have ended up liking it so much more.