Spirit Day #8- Bedroom Slipper Day

For our final Spirit Day of the year, students were asked to wear a pair of their favorite bedroom slippers. Students (and Ms. Van Sickle) had so much fun walking around school in our cozy shoes.

National Zoo Field Trip

For our second field trip, we traveled to Washington D.C.'s National Zoo. Although it poured in the morning, the day turned out to be a nice one! Students were excited to see all of the different animals at the zoo. Each student was encouraged to visit the "Amazonia" exhibit in preparation for our upcoming unit on rainforests.

Here is an elephant taking a swim in a pool. He went completely under the water; trunk and all!

Splashing nearby people :)

Getting out of the pool to dry.

A monkey-like creature from the "Small Mammals" house.

Ms. Van Sickle in the "Amazonia" rainforest exhibit.

Mrs. Boney, Ms. Verras, and Mrs. Rison in "Amazonia."

A very cute panda bear :)

A zebra

Waiting for the bus to pick us up...

Blue Crabs Baseball Game Field Trip

For our first field trip of the year, we traveled to the Blue Crabs stadium to see a baseball game. The weather was perfect and the game was a blast! We really enjoyed seeing the Blue Crabs win the game, too!

Mr. Chandler's group of students.

Ms. Van Sickle with the same students.

Ms. Gross' group of students.

Mrs. Skinner's group of students.

Mr. Hall's group of students.

Ms. Hammond's group of students.

A view of the field.

Spirit Day #7- Team Jersey Day

For our next Spirit Day, students were encouraged to wear their favorite team jerseys. Some students wore football jerseys, some wore soccer jerseys, and some wore jerseys from a team on which they play.

Spirit Day #6- Crazy Shoe and Sock Day

The students were really excited to participate in March's spirit day! They came dressed in mix-matched shoes and socks to show their blue crab pride.

Lucky Charms Graphing

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, the students completed a graphing activity that had them graph the types and amounts of marshamallows in a given serving of "Lucky Charms" cereal. After graphing the marshmallows in their bag, the students were required to answer math questions about their serving, such as "What is the fraction of balloon marshmallows in your bag?" and "Is your stars plus your horseshoes greater than, less than, or equal to your rainbows plus your hearts?"

The best part of this activity was we got to eat the cereal when we were finished graphing!

A Visit From Some Japanese Friends

Mary B. Neal Elementary was very lucky to meet some special guests from Japan! A few students from Japan who are studying to be teachers visited our school and taught a few lessons in some of the classes. Our class was lucky enough to get to meet them and learn from them. Check out the awesome things they did with us!

These students are making origami warrior hats.

This student made a pin-wheel out of origami paper.

This Japanese teacher is showing the student how to design her pinwheel.

This teacher read us a story called "Peach Boy." The illustrations were authentic anime drawings. The story was about a boy who was born from a peach and became a Japanese hero. We enjoyed rooting for Peach Boy!