Our retiring principal

We have had some fun with Mr. Parrott this week doing some "pranks" to his office.  Today when he walked in we had filled it with some balloons (some might have been filled with confetti too :)  We sure are going to miss him!!!!!

 Each class made a book for him and then we read a couple entries from each book.  Kindergarten wrote about what they think Mr. Parrott will do when he retires... work at Subway, go to Hawaii and work at Menards, etc.  There were some good ones.

 We played a video for him found here...

Then we told him we had one more surprise for him (he was pretty nervous ;)  We sat him in a chair, put a blindfold on him, counted down from 3 and sprayed him with silly string.  The kids LOVED it!!!!  It was a great time and memory for them.

Kidblog video

On Friday we spent some time with our 5th grade friends reading through comments and commenting back.  The kids just loved reading all the comments friends, family and teachers made to them.  I can't tell you enough how impressed and proud I am of them.  I think back to the beginning of the year when some of them didn't know alphabet letters, let alone the letter sounds.  Now look at them!  They are reading books and writing blogs ~ they are amazing!!!

If you haven't already, make sure you send out the blog to all family and friends so they can read about all the fun things we are doing :)

Fun filled Wednesday!!!!

 I'm sure you heard by now that Mid-Prairie was the winner of the Live Healthy Iowa Challenge.  I had the opportunity to go to Des Moines a week ago Wednesday and attend the ceremonies.  

Here we are planking on the stairs of the capital :)

Governor Brandstand making some comments.

We also got to tour the State Capitol led by Jared Klein.  It was a fun afternoon and I am so proud of our school!

This past Wednesday we had a very fun, busy day.  We started off by walking to the park and playing with our 1st grade friends.  We then walked to Parkview nursing home and delivered some May baskets.  When we got back to school we listened to a story about our Earth, talked about why it's important and planted a seed led by Pam Holz.  To finish the day we walked to the top of the hill and got to see some of Mrs. Fishers family's farm animals.  What a FUN day we had!!!!!