Summer is Almost Here!

The last week of school is here and is almost gone!  

It was a busy one filled with several celebrations, including our long awaited ice-cream party and 100 Day.

Our eldest daughter graduated from high-school yesterday afternoon, so I missed out on the long-awaited "100 Day" celebrations. Am I actually old enough to have a child in university?!? Where does the time go?!?

I made some fun plans for the special day, but unfortunately I was not able to enjoy it with the kids. :(

A big shout out to Mrs. Kooiman and Mrs. Rintjema for taking the bull by the horns and keeping the children busy and under control on the second last day of school!!!

Don't they look great in their wonderful crowns?!?

Each one of the ten coloured strips on their crown has ten stamps, stickers, or bingo dabber dots on them to equal 100.

Tomorrow is the last day of school, so I put together a little end of year gift bag for the children. 

Each bag has ingredients and a recipe for 

making their own play-doh.

The bag contains the salt, flour, and the Kool-Aid for colour.

(I found the idea HERE.)

It might not be a sweet treat to eat, but hopefully it will smell good and they will enjoy making it and playing with it!

Here's the recipe:

Play Doh

½ cup boiling water


1 Tablespoon Cooking Oil


¼ cup salt (included)


½ cup flour (included)


1 package Kool-Aid (included)


Stir water, oil and salt until dissolved


Stir in Flour and Kool-Aid
 

Mix until cool enough to knead to desired consistency


Put in air-tight container or zip loc bag


Store in fridge

We will have some sweet treats when we party in class tomorrow.

I plan to get them hyped up on sugar and then send them home for the last bus-ride of the 2012/2013 school year!

(sorry bus drivers!)

Year End Class Trip

God blessed us with a most beautiful day for our final class trip of the 2012/2013 school year.

The sun was shining, there was a nice breeze, and we enjoyed every part of our day.

This morning we went to the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls, and after getting our fill of those gorgeous flying creatures, we headed over to Happy Rolph's in St. Catharines for a picnic lunch and an afternoon enjoying all that the park had to offer.

I want to give a shout out to our fantastic bus driver/EA Christine, and all the parents who came along to make our day special.  

We couldn't have done it without you!

Here are just a few pics that I took with my phone.

You can see from the last few blurry pics I took on the bus that some of us were rather tired when it came home time......

If you would like to see some "beautiful" pictures from the day that were taken by our parent photographer Elma Regnerus, check out the Covenant Christian School Facebook page!

Theme Pics

Our theme for the month of June is, 

"Bugs, Insects, and Creepy Crawlies."  

The JK's are enjoying our close-up focus on these wonderful little creatures.  

I can't believe that we are going on our final class trip of the year next week!  Where does the time go?!?

We will be visiting the Butterfly Conservatory in Niagara Falls, so I thought I'd share just a few of my favourite butterfly pics that were taken there last summer. 

(The lovely spider and bee pics are from my garden.)

Farm Time Activities

I'm rather excited about my newest "find", a cute pocket chart for making a "Class Quilt". 

I'm wishing I had found it earlier in the year, because it's such an easy way to make a collaborative work of art! 

Next year, I'll be doing different quilts throughout the year. 

This farm animal quilt turned out lovely. 

We recently completed a graphing activity about our favourite farm animals. The children voted for their favourite of five different animals and then we discussed and graphed the results.

On May 29th,  we spent the afternoon visiting the Huizinga Dairy farm in Wainfleet. Our hosts, Ken & Dana Huizinga, taught us about what cows eat, gave us a tour and showed us how to milk a cow.  We hand fed the heifers, cuddled some kittens, met some friendly bulls, and bottle fed a brand new baby calf that was born that morning! Before we went home, we were treated to ice cream and were given the opportunity to climb up in the tractor. We had so much fun!!! Thank-you Huizingas!!!

Farmer Ken showing us the "kitchen"
where they prepare the cows' food.

Mama and her new calf!

Cuddles with kittens

Feeding the heifers some hay

Joshua helping us feed the calf.

Yummy ice cream treat!

If you would like to see more pics, you can check them out 

here at my JK Facebook page.