COFFEE CUP RACE CARS ITEMS NEEDED: 2 Disposable Coffee Cups and their Lids 3 Rubber bands Straw Scissors Strong Tape Pencil Paper clip Small Washer Bead DIRECTIONS: 1. Cut a hole in the center of the bottom of your cups 2. Use the tape to fasten the
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EXPLOSION OF COLOR ITEMS NEEDED: Two medium sized plates Q-Tips Dish Soap Milk, Cream, or Elmer’s Glue DIRECTIONS: 1. Pour the milk, cream, or Elmer’s glue into your first plate. Make sure to pour enough that the bottom is completely covered. Allow the liquid to settle.
Read more →Check out this fun experiment with Professor Pontificate! If you want to see how it’s done, check out this month’s video: Science Station: Obedience. Be sure to view the card upside down to see if you followed the directions correctly!
Read more →The Big Idea this month is contentment. Contentment is deciding to be happy with what you’ve got. The Dalai Lama once said: “When you are dis- content, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say
Read more →The Big Idea this month is hope. Hope is believing that something good can come out of something bad. The famous author C.S. Lewis once said: “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” Have you ever known of someone who faced a very hard situation
Read more →Congratulations to Tiffany Willard and her 4th grade class at Flint Hills Intermediate! They won a party in a box as well as a special visit from Artie. Here’s the winning poem: Our boxes are ready They are decorated with confetti We made them in art And they
Read more →Cooperation, working together to do more than you can do alone. You may have played a little game where a group of people get in a circle. Then they all turn to the right so they are facing the back of the person next to them. Then
Read more →Do you ever find yourself wishing that you could push a rewind button on life? Maybe you said something or did something you wish you hadn’t. It happens. Sometimes we over-react to a situation and lose our temper. Or maybe we just make an unwise choice in
Read more →Have you ever seen a Highlights magazine? They include fun puzzles that have hidden objects in them. Your job is to find all of the hidden objects. Some are pretty easy to see and others are really hidden. I think about those puzzles when I think about
Read more →Service is lending a hand to help someone else. Congratulations to the following teachers and classes who served others in their school and community this month! Ms Thomason’s 4th grade class from El Paso Elementary in Derby collected socks and other needed items for the Wichita Children’s
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