Dental Hygiene

Today we started learning about dental hygiene and why it's important to brush our teeth. First we made a set of teeth for snack time. We took two apple slices as lips and a bunch of marshmallows as teeth. The peanut butter was the "glue" that held our teeth to the apple slices.

Andrew has put the peanut butter
on the apple slices

 

Michael just finished putting the "teeth" on

After we made the mouth, we got to eat it for snack! Savannah, Regis, Michael, Andrew, Alexis, and Brian loved it! 

Karoline and Logan did not try it.

Ms. Mitchell and Regis show their smiles

Savannah loved her snack!

Alexis showed us a BIG beautiful smile!

Getting ready for Spring!

We are so excited that spring is finally here! We have been observing spring with our 5 senses and writing in our journals about the smells, looks, tastes, sounds, and feelings of spring. Ms. Mitchell got us hummingbird feeders that we put out in the courtyard. After we mixed the nectar, we went outside to put them in a place where we could see them from our window. Now all we have to do is wait for the hummingbirds!

Regis puts the stake in the dirt to hold the feeder

Savannah gets ready to put the feeder on the stake

Cooking with Ms. Taylor

The "Culinary Cuties" are our very own group of chefs at Salisbury Middle School. Michael, Karoline, and Brian have been helping out Ms. Taylor with some schoolwide projects. Coming up soon, we will be hosting a Red Kayak night. We have enjoyed reading the book together, and we are excited about the event. We made muffins last week, and they were delicious!

Michael mixes up the cranberry muffin mix

Brian and Karoline get the muffin tins ready

Ms. April helps Karoline with the final step before they go into the oven

Even though we made them for Red Kayak night, we had to taste them. They were DELICIOUS!

Our Very Own Boston Marathon!

After reading about the Boston Marathon for the past week, we decided to have our very own Salisbury Middle School Marathon.

The class started by learning all about the marathon in our News-2-You newspaper article. We watched a PowerPoint with pictures of Mrs. Grunden's dad running the Boston Marathon in 2003 and 2004. We got to see the pictures of his medals, too.

Ms. Mitchell ran a half marathon, so she brought in her shirts and "bibs," which we learned are the numbers that each runner wears.



Logan and Karoline trying on Ms. Mitchell's

 racing shirts and bibs



We all made our own bibs to wear in the marathon. We put our lucky numbers on them. Alexis even drew a four-leaf clover for good luck! Michael drew a map of the course, Karoline brought in her lucky bunny, and Savannah brought in her lucky Justin Bieber bracelet.



The weather was beautiful, and we went out front with our bibs and our racing shoes on.

  

Runners take your places!



Logan finished first, but we were all winners!

We had so much fun, we raced three times! And we all cheered on our classmates.