The Circus Comes to Town-tent goes up

We loved watching the tent go up. We had no idea how big it would be!!!

The Circus Comes to Town

This week the circus came to Mayflower. We were so excited to watch the tent go up. We learned all about the circus and how much work it is to get it ready for a show.









The men had work together to push the poles up under the tent. They used a bulldozer to help them.





We really enjoyed learning all about the circus!!!

Reading Races

This week we started reading races. We get with our partners and read our books for 1 minute. We mark our spot with a sticky. While our partners read we listen and help them. The next day we read we try and beat the spot we stopped at.







We also did a new activity called carousel brainstorming. We went around the room and answered math problems on posters with our colored marker. When we were done we used our clickers to click in our answers. Then we talked about our answers. It was a great day of learning!!!

Valentine's Day

On Valentine's Day we made cards for some special teachers and helpers in our building to show them we appreciate and love them.




After recess we had an ice cream party. We had chocolate, strawberry, or vanilla ice cream with sprinkles, caramel, chocolate syrup, and whipped cream. We made boxes and passed out Valentine's cards to each other. Mrs. Crisafulli got us treat bags with lots of goodies in them.
We wrote a story about why we love our school too! Valentine's Day was lots of fun!!!

Field Trip to the Childrens Theater

This week we took a field trip to the Children's Theater to see Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

We took a bus ride into Little Rock to the theater.

Shannon and Ashlyn waiting for the show to start

Preston and Jayden waiting for the show to start

Our class is so excited!

This was the fabulous stage where Goldilocks and Red Riding Hood told their stories.

During the performance the characters on stage interacted with us in all different ways. The show was about goldilocks and red riding hood in a little different way. The characters sang and danced around on stage and wore funny costumes.


When we were done we got to go to the park to eat lunch and play. We had a wonderful day!!!!!

100th day of School

This week we celebrated the 100th day of school. We made t-shirts with 100 things on them to wear to school. We got to cut out 100 words we knew from magazines and did lots of hundreds day activities.




We had fun making our 100th of school hats with 10 strips of paper and 10 designs on each strip.













In the morning we had a parade through our school and we got to show off our hats and shirts!!!

In the afternoon we made snack mix with 10 pieces of marshmallows, cheese squares, raisins, m & m's, sunflower seeds, goldfish, peanuts, popcorn, and pretzels. That makes 100 pieces of snack mix!!!! The 100th day of school was so much fun!!!!!

Pop-tab fundraiser

Mayflower Elementary is collecting pop tabs for Arkansas Children's Hospital Ronald McDonald House. This week Graci brought in a huge bag of pop tabs. We decided to count how many we had collected so far!!!



This is what we started with.

Here we are counting by 10's.



We figured out that if we put them in groups of 10 and then in rows of 10 we could count really quickly by hundreds. So far we have 2, 742 pop tabs!!!! We made a goal for January of 3,000 poptabs and by May we want to have over 10,000!!! We know we can do it!!!!