Bunnies and Eggs

What a week! We learned so much and had so much fun.

We read books and watched a video on oviparous animals. For those of you who haven't been to kindergarten in awhile, oviparous animals are those that lay eggs. We wrote Who Am I? paragraphs and drew a picture of our animals hatching from the "egg".

Karlie wrote: I am an oviparous animal. I live on a farm. People eat my eggs. What am I? (A chicken)

Levi wrote: I am an oviparous animal. I live in water. I can come up on land. I have a lot of big teeth. What am I? (An alligator)

We also wrote a story about what we would do if we were the Easter Bunny. The Happy Hounds exceeded our expectations once again by organinzing their story before they wrote it. They used a tri-folded piece of paper to quickly sketch the beginning, middle, and end of their story. Then they wrote the story and illustrated it.



Chaz wrote: If I was the Easter Bunny... I would go to Wal-mart and get the eggs. Then I would hide them in their yard. When I am done, I will go to church.


Rilee wrote: If I was the Easter Bunny... I would go to Target and buy the eggs. I would deliver eggs on time. I will go to Rilee's house and I would deliver toys and I would deliver candy.

We also learned about rabbits and hares. After reading a nonfiction book we listed information we didn't know about rabbits and hares. The Hounds then wrote about what they learned. Their informational writing exceeded our expectaions also! We made these crazy looking rabbits to go with our writing.

Our Funky Food activity for the week was "Birds' Nests" complete with eggs (jelly beans) and chicks (Peeps), Thanks to Amber's family for providing the ingredients for our snack.

For our science experiment, we tested the strength of an ordinary egg. We made a triangle with an egg and two blocks. Next we placed a cookie sheet on top of the triangle. Then we stacked books on the cookie sheet counting as we went. I can't remember the exact number of books, but it was somewhere around 30!

Also during this week, we made adorable sock bunnies. (Thanks to all who sent in socks).

FINALLY!! THE HUNT. All of our other activites were nothing compared to the 5 minutes (max) that we spent hunting eggs.

Jazmine and Kailea - which way do we go?

Tripp - how can I hold all these?

Oh! Look at all the eggs.

Mrs. Lisa's Easter gift!

St. Patrick's Day Celebrations

The Happy Hounds celebrated St. Patrick's Day with lots of fun activites. The day before the big day, everyone made a trap to catch a leprechaun. We wrote about what we would do if we actully caught one. Most people were after his gold. Well, as you can see, he came all right! No one caught him, but he did leave everyone gold.

On St. Patrick's Day we had rainbow cupcakes. A very cute recipe from Family Fun magazine, but a little time consuming to make.

Our Funky Food activity for that week was a Celebration of Green. Thanks to our wonderful parents, we had a variety of green foods: apples, pears, pickles, olives, broccoli, cucumbers, pudding, jello, juice, grapes, and probably something I'm forgetting. We ate until we were stuffed!

Our science experiment for the week was Leprechaun Worms. These were not edible, but they were very cool.