School Work on Display

The boys' classes both have new bulletin boards and other artwork up on display.

Will's class has been working hard on Valentine letters to a friend.

Will picked Sarah Jane's name out of a hat, so he wrote about her and she wrote about him.

I loved reading what Sarah Jane wrote about Will!

A couple of weeks ago, we had to make this blue man for a unit on art. Each child was assigned a color and had to decorate a paper figure using only his color. Will had blue, obviously. I especially like the blue feather hair!

Henry made a blue man too, but his is an astronaut because his class has been learning about space and rockets!

You know he loved this learning unit! Here's Henry constellation. It looks like a pirate cruncher to me.

5 4 3 2 1 Blast Off!

Henry was so proud of his rocket. He also followed the pattern the teachers laid out for him. If you look at the picture above, you'll see at least one deconstructed rocket.

The kids came up with their own classroom rules too. The best ones? Always go pee pee in the potty, no cutting hair and keep real animals out of the classroom!

And finally, I'll leave you with the amazing totals from the Souper Bowl of Caring Food Drive at Will's school.

In five days, our school collected 28,145 pounds of food to donate to the Houston Food Bank. WUES has given the most food of any school in the US for the past three years with totals between 12 and 15,000, so 28,145 pounds is pretty phenomenal. The food bank wasn't even prepared; they had to call in a second truck to haul away the goods! I have no doubt that the totals were fueled by some pretty intense, friendly competition between the classes but in the end, the Houston Food Bank was the real winner here. And our kids, who are so lucky and don't ever go hungry, got a chance to haul in bags and bags of food to help out those who are not quite so fortunate.