Healthy Heart!

February is heart awareness month, so we ended the month learning all about how to keep our hearts healthy. The students learned that we can keep our hearts healthy by eating healthy food, exercising, and staying away from smoke.

They also learned how important the heart is to the body. We discussed how the heart helps blood and oxygen move throughout our bodies. One of our wonderful parents, Dr.Todd, came in to explain about the parts of the heart and how it all works! She did a fabulous job- especially answering all of our questions! Dr. Todd also brought in stethoscopes to donate to the class so the students can listen to their own hearts. We are very thankful!

We read several books to help us understand how the heart works:

The Magic School Bus has a Heart by Anne Capeci

The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body by Joanna Cole

A Heart Pumping Adventure by Dr. Heather Manley

Presidents Day

I know this post is a little late- but better late than never! In honor of Presidents' Day we did some really fun activities. We learned about Lincoln, Washington, and Teddy Roosevelt. We also learned about Mt Rushmore and how it was made. The students helped color a life size drawing of Abe Lincoln! Boy was he tall! Some of the awesome projects we made were George Washington pictures using cotton balls, American Flags, and a delicious snack: George Washington Cherry Pies! Check em out:

Love Day!

We had so much fun celebrating Valentine's day with the kinders! We did tons of fun activities including: candy heart math, love note mad libs, conversation heart sentences, and my favorite- crystal hearts!

I found a wonderful post on Pinterest about making crystals using two simple ingredients- borax and boiling water. I was a little skeptical about whether or not this would work, but it worked wonderfully!

Each of the students shaped a pipe cleaner into a heart. Then the tied a string to their pipe cleaner and the other end to a Popsicle stick. In a large cup we mixes the solution of borax and boiling water. We used 3 TBS borax per cup of water. When the solution was mixed we places their hanging shapes into the cups. This is the best part- they only had to sit for one day! The next day the students ( and myself) were surprised at how many crystals had formed on their pipe cleaners! Our cups were not quite big enough to put the entire pipe cleaner into the solution, so each one is only partially covered with crystals.

Take a look out how they turned out!