A very teary eyed post...

Just when I thought I had said all my goodbyes and shed all my tears. I made the painful decision to move back to England. Upon hearing this news my fabulous Bear Mommies and Miss Amanda, who I swear I could not have lived without this past year, planned a little get together.

Thank you for the most amazing year. And trust me when i say i'm tearing up typing this because I know that it must all come to an end... and frankly I don't want it to, even now five months on! I wish things had turned out differently and I could bump into you in Kroger or on the Square and see how the Bears are getting on.

I think it took a whole 48 hours of being on British soil before I realised my home is in Oxford and I am determined that I will be enjoying a glass of wine on the balcony of Boure in the not too distant future.

Its that time of the year...

Teacher's dread this time of year, just when you have taught them how to clear up the lego correctly and how to paint the paper and not each other its time to say goodbye.

I tried desperately not to cry that day... and well I failed! Mainly due to the book of photographs I was presented with, which is propped up pride of place at my parents house. 

I truly believe I had the best class that a teacher could possibly wish for, the perfect mix of personalities and just enough cheekiness to keep me on my toes. I loved coming into work each morning and planning the days activities. I miss each and every one of their smiles and the way they would greet me each morning. 

Thank you for an amazing year!

Rooooaaaaaaarrrr

Its dinosaur week!

Mother's Day Tea...

Happy Mother's Day to all our Bear Mummies
I hope you all had a fantastic tea with us, The bears always love having you come into our classroom.

(Thank you Laney for the photos)

Grand Prix...

Such a great day! The cars all looked fantastic and I know the bears had

a lot of fun. (Thank you Laney for the Photos)

Volcano

Mr Hunter helped us build a volcano and then we watched it explode!!! We were begging him to do it over and over using different colored lava. I t was so much fun!!!

Spanish...

Whats the best way to learn the spanish names for our body parts???

 Lay on the floor and draw a life size person for us to label, of course!

Happy Birthday...

Happy Birthday to our Summer Birthday Bears!

Tumble...

Tumbling with Coach Sarah in PE.

Lift Off...

We put on out space suits and borded the rocket ship, we counted down and watched a real life NASA space launch on the SMART board.

5..4..3..2..1...LIFT OFF!

We're travelling through space...we saw so many cool things, the moon, starts and planets. We could even see earth.

Space snacks

Space exploration is hard work and bears who are about to blast off need a space snack. Ms Emma-Louise baked a rocket shaped cake and we decorated it with frosting, m&ms, sprinkles and chocolate chips!

Space Week

This week we explored space! We learnt that the sun is at the centre of our solar system and that the sun stays still! We also watched lots of cool videos and pictures about the planets, we have been learning all the names. 

We also took at all the stars and constellations and all the other things we can see in the night sky.

We made telescopes in preparation for our space expedition on Friday

  We decorated out 'space suits'

We cut out moons, and decorated a backdrop for our space mission.

Egg Drop!

The challenge: Place a raw egg in a zip lock. Then use materials to protect your egg from a three story drop!!!

Our eggs survived... looks like the best idea is to put the egg in a tube, stuff it with rice crispies, submerge it in peanut butter, put it in a box, pad the box with foam and attach a parachute! (combination of all methods)

The orange note reads 'Lake's Egg Survived'

Egg hunt

Unfortunately we had to move our egg hunt due to the nasty wet weather...

we still had a lot of fun collecting the eggs.

Thank you the students of Kappa Alpha and Kappa Kappa Gamma who helped the easter bunny hide the eggs.

Easter Double Decker Tour

WE'RE ON THE DOUBLE DECKER Y'ALL!!!

Touring the beautiful campus

 Happy Easter Everyone

Fairytale Day

Tennis

Making our way to the courts.

It was a hot day! Thank you to the parent who brought freshments.

The women's tennis team signed a poster for us

Happy St. Patrick's Day

We made Three-Leaf clovers with pretzels, chocolate and m&ms

... Then we thought we would try our hand at Irish dancing!