Hats On Day!

Friday at Lakeside was "Hats On Day," where students could wear a hat if they brought in some change to donate to charity.

Well, what a success Friday was!

Lakeside raised a total of $1,071.52 for our charities!  How amazing is that?!

The total will be split and sent to The Pink Heart Fund, a charity that helps make wigs for children with cancer, and The Foundation for Children with Cancer. 

Mrs. Kubinsky already spoke with our representative from the Pink Heart Fund, and she was told that $500.00 will help to make 2 wigs for children, so they were very excited about our donation!

Thanks to all students, parents, and teachers, who donated to these great charities.

2nd Grade's Donation Cans--overflowing!!!

Mrs. Todd, we missed you Friday!

(More photos to come!  Mrs. Darcy took some great photos of 2A with their hats on, so I will post those soon!)

To learn more about these amazing charities:

Pink Heart Fund

Foundation for Children with Cancer

Poetry Fun!

Today we worked on our fluency with a poem called "Five Little Pumpkins."
We had a lot of fun reciting our poem, and a lot of us even memorized our parts!

Hope you enjoy our little performance!!

Bat Week!

Last week, our book for Text Talk was Stellaluna.  Therefore, we focused all week not only on the book, but also on studying all kinds of bats.

We read other books about bats to find more information, and each day, including today, we added more information about bats to our "bat lap board."

Check out some books we read on bats below, and enjoy the pictures of our completed bat lap boards.  We had a blast making them!

Surprise!

We had a fun surprise at the end of the day today!

We read a story together called:


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Our Teacher's Having a Baby
by Eve Bunting





We listened VERY intently to the story...



At the end of the story I said, "Mrs. Cockrell's going to have a baby, TOO!"  Their little faces were so surprised! 


My favorite part: One student said, "I saw your tummy got bigger!"


I said, "Raise your hand if you saw that my tummy was bigger," and more hands shot up! LOL!

 
Baby Cockrell is due May 25th.  I am hoping for a normal, healthy pregnancy so that I will only have to miss the last couple weeks of the school year.  Mr. Cockrell and I are very excited to be preparing to meet our first little one!



Applesauce Friday!

Today I peeled and sliced LOTS of apples...but it was for a good cause!

I also had lots of willing helpers to get our applesauce cooking!  (I can smell it cooking as I type this!)

We hope to enjoy our homemade applesauce a little later this afternoon, and we hope you enjoy our pictures from this morning's fun!

Dr. Brad Schwall: Helicopter Parenting!

Please take a few minutes to read this short article by Dr. Brad Schwall:

I think the main points are that it is GOOD to be involved in your child's life and in their academic life.  The problem lies when parents try to protect their children from natural consequences instead of letting them learn lessons that will help them as they continue in their lives and enter "the real world."  Of course, it's natural to want to protect your children, but when we try to protect them from everything, we only do them a disservice by making them think the world will always alter itself to fit their needs and wants.  And we, as adults, KNOW that is not the case!  :)

Here is the article: 

http://momsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/09/whats-wrong-with-helicopter-pa.html



Have a super day!

Doubles!

This week, we are learning all about doubles.  To introduce the concept, we read One Potato, Two Potato, a book about a poor farming couple who discover a magic pot that doubles whatever you put into it!

Check out these fun videos that practice making doubles: