A Busy Week

Spelling practice:

Writing our spelling lists with chalk  on the playground (on a 70 degree day!)

Practicing our words with shaving cream on our tables (on a 50 degree day)

Field Trip/ Arts Off Campus

Hanby House

The Hanby House: William Hanby was  an abolitionist and opened his home as a station on the Underground Railroad. Bishop Hanby was co-founder of Otterbein University.

Bishop and Ann's oldest child, Benjamin Russel Hanby, was in the second graduating class of Otterbein University in 1858. He was a United Brethren preacher, a teacher, an abolitionist and a composer. During his short life, he composed over 80 songs including Darling Nelly Gray, Up on the Housetop, and Who is He in Yonder Stall?

Folk Music and Punched Tin/ Arts of Campus

Grace practices her washboard technique as we learn about early folk music.

We created punched tin lanterns a popular early American decorative technique.

Animal Adaptations

To introduce the concept of animal adaptations we invented imaginary animals and created their environments.

The Spikey by Grace

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The Siger by David

The Lavi by Leo

Mealworm Investigations

Studying the behavior of Mealworms stimulates the children to ask questions about an unfamiliar animal and then directs them in a way to find out the answers for themselves. The  children are learning  about  scientific inquiry and the sensory perception of the Mealworm. How to carryout an investigation is the most important thing the children will learn from the experience along with knowledge of the Mealworm and an insects life cycle.