A Beatnik, A Parade, and a Field Trip

L and his fellow second graders slipped on their berets and shared their amazing poetry talents like true beatniks with jazz music playing softly in the background and bongo drums beating in between each poetry reading.  It was a special Poetry Cafe for Moms for Mother's Day. To show our appreciation of their poetic skill, we snapped our fingers after each reading. L shared his Haiku poem about Pandas.

Pandas

In a cool forest

a panda chewing bamboo

near his dinner time.  

The second graders have been a busy bunch. They read the book Miss Alaineus: a Vocabulary Disaster and decided to have a word parade, dressing up as their words. L was the word inhabit, so he stuck a forest with animals inhabiting it on his shirt, then he and his classmates paraded around the school like one big walking dictionary.

X-man went with his class to a Science Center and discovered all kinds of fun facts. He worked simple machines, calculated how much his skin weighs, made gigantic bubbles, and watched a science show with FIRE.

His favorite exhibit was a Nano technology exhibit. He had to take these carbon atoms and build a carbon column. It took some thinking to get it to stand up as well as patience and kindness when other kiddos helped add to his existing structure, sometimes making it unstable and toppling it. He could have stayed here all day!