UMS School Wide Celebration!

The kids at UMS have been doing a fabulous job being safe, kind, and doing their best!!! They have filled 3 large bins with champ bands so today's school wide celebration was a bouncy slide!!!!  We had 20 minutes and the kids had a blast! It was really difficult to get an action picture of the kids, but here's a glimpse into our fun!

Chris Van Dusen

Today we had an exciting visit from children's author Chris Van Dusen!!  He is an author and illustrator of 9 children's hooks and he has illustrated numerous other books, posters, license plates, and pamphlets.  He was very entertaining and we loved hearing about his writing process!  Here are our pictures from this great presentation!

Rocks!

This morning and for the next three Wednesdays, Lilah's dad will be coming in and teaching us about rocks.  Mr. Matt is a geologists and here are some things he taught us today:

*The rock cycle is a naturally occurring solid group of one or more minerals.

*A mineral is a naturally occurring solid with a crystal structure.

*Minerals make up the earth.

*Geologists observe and record

*The most important/common mineral is Plagioclase Feldaspar.

We also got to look at and touch different rocks.  Mr. Matt was a hit!