Joyeuses Pâques! (Happy Easter!) Madame decided that we'd probably be getting enough sweets between the PAC Easter cookies and the class store, so instead of a chocolate egg hunt, we went on a scavenger hunt today for gold coins. We thought we would be exchanging each gold coin for a nickel to spend at the class store, but... PLOT TWIST!... Madame ended up giving a whole quarter to those people that she saw sharing their gold coins with friends who didn't have any. Sharing, caring, and being a friend is worth more than any gold coin. In the end, we all walked away with an extra quarter in our pockets since Madame was also in a sharing mood. We tried out a new nature walk today. Instead of our usual Hoffman Park adventure, we went the opposite direction to Mitchell Rd. Park. We had so much fun playing on the playground, climbing trees, kicking a soccer ball around, and taking the forest path adventure back to Harris Rd. at the end. In other nature news, our bean plants have grown like CRAZY!! We planted these just last week and were amazed to come in on Monday to find how tall they had grown! We were also excited to see that the water collection bucket that we put in the garden had actually been filled with some rain water to use for watering our bean plants! Our "Earth Hero" of this week was Jane Goodall. We learned about how she dedicated her life to studying chimpanzees in the wild and how she worked hard to defend and protect the jungles they live in. We realized that we don't have jungles around us, but we DO have forests. Jane Goodall's story made us think about how the bears we sometimes see in the city might be wandering around because we've cut down the trees that they live in. Many of us were inspired and wanted to do our best to defend our forests as best we can. We are discovering the "nature lover" in us, as several of us students explained to Madame. :-) And what better way to enjoy nature than to enjoy a meal surrounded by it?? We had our first picnic of the year this week and some of us even enjoyed eating in a tree. In Math, we are learning about the relationship between addition and subtraction. They're opposites! How cool is that?! We really loved playing a card game that had us practicing these opposite skills. Extra pics...
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