Wednesday, April 24, 2013

April 24, 2013

(Review) of the day: contract

Sam's caregiver for this evening: Rowan

An invitation regarding a volunteer appreciation event this Friday morning was sent home yesterday.  Check the agenda pocket for your invitation!

There will be a cookie sale tomorrow.  Cookies, as always, will be a quarter each.

Thanks to Addi for alerting us to the birth of Phoebe's latest babies - their names are Shelly and Tierra.  Check out the link at the side to monitor their progress.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

April 9, 2013

Word of the day: expand

Sam's caregiver for the night: Addi

To go along with our word of the day, we did an experiment to make soap expand.  If you'd like to try it at home, buy a bar of ivory (no other soap will work) and put it in the microwave on "high" for about 2 minutes.  (You might want to put some paper towel underneath the soap before you turn the microwave on, to keep your microwave clear of soap.)  If you want to, you can remold the soap by adding just a little water - just like making pie crust.  Ain't science fun?

Here's a photo of some of our soap "engineers" from this afternoon:  (Chloe M is holding a bar of soap to show its size before expansion.  Kairos is holding a plate showing what the soap looks like after it expands.)  Addi, Chloe O., Hana, and Logan are holding body parts of the snowman we molded after the soap expanded.  Angelo is just there for his good looks.)


Monday, April 8, 2013

April 8, 2013

What a relief that the weather is still cold - think of all the extra wear we'll get out of our courdoroy pants.  Haha.

It was great to see all the bright lights of Room Four again this morning - and to hear all the vacation stories!

Our word of the day today was resume.  Our spelling list for this week was compiled by the students and has a spring theme.  We have our first of two gymnastics sessions at the Activity Centre tomorrow afternoon from 1:50 until 2:30.  Please ensure that your child is dressed appropriately for this event.  Our second session is set for Thursday afternoon.  Thanks so much to Doctor Glover for sponsoring this activity.