Last Day of School

 The last day of school was busy.  We started with mass.  Next, we continued with academic awards and Fun Run money raising rewards.  Lastly, we had an ice cream and donut party.

Mrs. Wehmeyer brought a beach ball for each child.  She brought sharpies and they signed each other’s balls.  Then we went outside for pictures and played with them a little.  They had a BALL!!!!

I hope the children had as good of a year as I did!!!

HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!

Escape Room Activity

 Today the children worked on an escape room cracking the code activity.  The premise was that they were going to be locked in the school if they did not find all the keys and give them to the custodian.  Throughout the game they had to crack the codes using a picture code cipher and a pigpen cipher.

Here are some examples of what they used the ciphers to solve.  

They were amazing!!!!

They would then use the clues to find envelopes hidden around the room that would give them more clues.

Along the way they also answered questions about this school year: funniest thing that happened, the hardest thing, what they are most proud of, etc.  

Once we found all the keys they had to cipher agin to find the location of the custodian.

It took about an hour and a half to complete and no one complain.  We succeeded with minutes to spare!

In the envelopes with the clues and keys were certificates.  After we escape, we worked as a team do decide which certificate each person would be given.  Here are the results.

Counting Coins

 The children practiced counting money today with a plastic egg activity.  I have plastics eggs that I have written amounts on them from 10 cents to $1.  The children had to put the matching amount in the egg.  Then, they switched with a classmate and checked each other.

Simple Machines Activity

Today the children worked on a simple machine activity on Seesaw.  They looked around outside, in the hallway, and in the classroom for simple machines.  They had to take pictures and add them to the page with the correct label.  Do you see any simple machines?