Each Saturday from 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. we gather at the K-State Intramural Fields (corner of Denison and Kimball). The fields provide a lovely opportunity for kids to run off energy, fly kites, or explore for bugs while maintaining good distance. Extremely good distance! … read more.

I am blessed to live in a house with many books. If you’re tired of digital media and wish the library would reopen so you and your kids could get some books, well, I’ve got some to share.

The list isn’t particularly organized and it’s … read more.

Can you find…

1. Something very soft
2. A toy with 3 different colors
3. A movie that has “S” in the title
 
How about these…
1. A stick that is longer than your hand
2. Something you love to play with
3. Something that is brown
 
How about … read more.

The PreK-1st Grade class had a lovely time on Sunday, with four regulars and one special visitor. We all enjoyed the book, “Stick and Stone,” talked about friendship and kindness and being a helper, colored some pictures, played a bit, and capped it off with … read more.

Jen Thomsen shared a book about our bodies and then we got to listen to our hearts! Wow, our bodies are loud!

Then we exercised…

and listened to our hearts again…

They beat faster!

Clara and Mark Mayfield took us on a tour up Mount Whitney. We watched a video and looked at pictures while we snacked on homemade trail mix.  

Making trail mix.
Lots of pictures.
Taking a virtual hike.
Answering questions.

 

Permission form for Pillsbury Crossing trip:

permission form summer

Cathy taught us a wonderful mantra for creative thinking: “If I don’t make it, it might never exist!”

We did several creativity flexing exercises

and then… we created our own worlds! Here are some of our drawings…

Here are the chips and the final results of our ChampionChip Tournament. Thanks to all for your participation! 

 

Taryn had us coloring, viewing a video, and squishing up blueberries so we could extract blueberry DNA. It worked! Handy vials were given to everyone so we could carry around our blueberry DNA in our pockets.