Happy 100th Day!

Blow a whistle,
Give a cheer.
The 100th day of school is here.
Let's have a party,
Let's celebrate.
The 100th Day is really great!

A slideshow by Smilebox

Coins for Kids Celebration

Our Coins for Kids ice cream cake celebration finally happened on Tuesday. We couldn't have been more excited when Mrs. Reimer walked in with that extra large DQ cake! Yum! Thanks again for your help with our coin collecting.

Basketball and Fishing

Our latest round of experts did not disappoint! First we learned "How to Shoot a Basketball" from Dr. Reimer.  Our principal is one superstar basketball player! She reminded us how important it is to work hard in whatever we do.

On Thursday, Samantha's dad taught us all about Fly Fishing. He brought lots of fishing gear to help us learn in a hands-on way. Each of us even got to bring home our own fishing lure!

Class Quilt

We definitely have an expert seamstress within our Beach Buddy family. This week Samantha's  mom brought in the quilt we started last week. It is amazing! You should have heard the "gasps" when it was revealed! The kindergartners love finding their very own drawing among the squares. I know our quilt will get a lot of use the rest of the year. Thank you, Katie....what a special memory keeper for us!

Penguin Facts

Miss Knutson has been helping us learn all about penguins. We began by sharing what we already knew about penguins and then listed questions we still had. With the help of books and online resources, we made a chart showing how our schema grew for penguins. On Friday, we worked with a friend to illustrate and read a penguin fact. We hope you can learn something new as well!

Experts All Around!

We sure learned a lot from our first three experts. We are getting better and better at asking questions as well. I know we will be ready to become experts ourselves very soon! Be sure to scroll all the way down to see the videos at the end.

Gena, Sam's mom, shared her expertise on teaching online and using Skype to interact with her students. We made plans to have her Skype us sometime soon too!

Samantha's mom, Katie, taught us how to sew! Some of us got to press the foot pedal to make the sewing machine work. Mrs. Zuehlke even gave it a try! Earlier in the week we each created a quilt square that Katie is so kindly making into a class quilt. We can't wait to see it! Look for a posting soon.

Mrs. Koets and Kiersten sang us "Puff the Magic Dragon". What a treat...we even requested an encore and it worked!

I have a dream...

As we remembered Martin Luther King today, we read Little Bill's story, Thank you Dr. King.
During morning meeting, Miss Knutson invited us to share a dream we had.
The responses were worth sharing!













I have a dream.....
to be a doctor. (Grace)
to be a dad. (Logan)
to play football. (Owen)
to be a cheerleader. (Samantha)
to be a doctor. (Kassy)
to be a wrestler like her brother. (Addison)
to be a motor cross racer. (Jacob)
to be a firefighter. (Sam)
to be an aunt. (Izzy J.)
to be a rock star. (Kiersten)
to be a boxer. (Trent)
to build a fort. (Morgan)
to play the guitar. (Imari)
to play football. (Michael)
to ride a dirt bike. (Brody)
to be a cheerleader. (Izzie N.)
to play a real basketball game. (Thomas)
to ride a dirt bike. (Braxton)
to be a police officer. (Graham)
to be an ice cream maker. (Austin)

Thank you, Dr. King!