Painted Lady Butterflies

We raised Painted Lady butterflies from small caterpillar to chrysalis to beautiful butterfly.  We observed our caterpillars for several days and then finally they wrapped themselves in a chrysalis.  We waited and waited and then our butterflies finally emerged.  Cabella and Mykaia set them free during conferences.  The pictures are in front of the school as they landed on the spirea bushes.

Can you find both butterflies?  Look at the next picture - it may help you.

Last Day of School

We spent the last day of school at the Cove Swimming Pool. 

We swam and then had lunch and celebrated

summer birthdays with rainforest cupcakes and icecream.

OH, WHAT FUN!

Richard

Gideon

Tanner

Loghan, Danny, and Cabella

Baylee

Cabella

Hannah

Danny

Mykaia

Paisley

Danny, Loghan, and Mykaia

Gideon

Hannah

Cabella and Jordan

Baylee

Paisley

Cabella

Danny and Loghan

I hope you have a fantastic summer!  Enjoy!

Pete the Cat

Hannah and Pete on the front steps of Cove School.

Reese and Pete in the elementary library.

Jordan and Pete in the old gym.

Danny helped Pete build an awesome castle.

Loghan and Pete reading in the bathtub.

Mykaia and Pete writing at the writing center.

Baylee and Pete singing in music.

Paisley and Pete hammering nails on the wood block.

Gideon and Pete in the cafeteria.

 

Tanner and Pete ready to learn in first grade.

Richard and Pete with Mr. Neil, our principal.

Richard says, "Pete is getting in trouble"!

Ryan and Pete are climbing the monkey bars.

Pete liked the monkey bars so much he decided to hang upside down!

Pete is having a snack of raisins at the table in kindergarten.

Cabella and Pete are driving the school bus!

No one said, DON'T LET PETE DRIVE THE BUS!

That only applies to Pidgeon!

14 Good Things About SUGAR POP

Sugar Pop

2008-2013

1.  He was a really great pet!

2.  He really liked to eat carrots and celery.

3.  He was so, so soft.

4.  He loved the castles we made.

5.  He was funny when he escaped.

6.  He was very loveable.

7.  He was colorful.

8.  He had sharp claws.

9.  He was very, very cute!

10.  He liked the adventure of searching for food by following the trail of carrots.

11. He liked to be held.

12.  He was fuzzy.

13.  He was kind.

14.  He was a great friend to all of us!

And in our room a RAINFOREST grew...

This wall is our rainforest where we put the kapok tree - we made our tree

look like Eric Carle's in "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly" said the Sloth.  

We have large leaves hangin in our classroom - they have green tree frogs,

flowers, chameleons, ants, and toucans on them!

This jaguar is walking along the Amazon River.

Our sloth and sloth facts are hanging near the kapok tree

as you enter our classroom.

Watch out!  Piranhas are swimming in the Amazon!

A pair of friendly Keel-billed Toucans.

An actual bromeliad...  Rainforest frogs will put their tadpoles in the pools

of a bromeliad high in the canopy of the rainforest. 

Our K-1 students also did research on plants of the rainforest. 

You can check it out on our webpage - look for Rainforest Slideshow.

Did you know that jaguars are good swimmers?

What would your face look like if you were eaten by a boa constrictor?

Check out our faces!!