It's "Pandamonium!"

I thought I 'd post a few pics showing what we've been up to at school lately.

I teach first and second grade. 

We're studying different world "cultures" this year.

This first term we've been learning about China.

Of course, any study of China

would be incomplete without

featuring the panda.

"Pandamonium"

was a wonderful day of

fun and learning

about a unique creation of God. 

In math,

we weighed and measured to

determine how many kids it would take

 to equal the size of a Giant Panda,

and figured out how many hours a

panda had left to play and sleep

if they eat for 14 hours/day.
We made panda masks and

dioramas of pandas in their habitats,

  read books about pandas, sang panda songs,
decorated a panda snack,

 {Frosted sugar cookies w/ thin mint ears, junior mint eyes,

raisinette nose and tube frosting eye dots and mouth}

and had a panda scavenger hunt. 

(Panda babies know their moms by their scent.) 

Teams followed a specific scent as they looked for clues.

A prize was given when the mama panda was found!

The day wound down with a

panda movie and panda popcorn

(popcorn with gummie bears).

       Here's a pic of all the children

dressed in black and white

wearing the masks they made.

 

 Funny isn't it

how the faces all have different personalities

 even though

 all the parts

were

exactly

the

 same

  ?