Water Cycle Crowns and Donor's Choose Good News!

On Thursday we made these water cycle crowns.  This was one of those "quick-I-found-this-and-we-have-to-do-it" kind of activities.  I found something similar to this in one of my Mailbox Magazine science books but just changed it a smidge.

We used sentence strips to make the crown, wrote "sun's heat, evaporation, condensation, precipitation" around it and used and foam weather stickers that I had left over from last year on each section.

They turned out super cute and we had fun explaining the water cycle with our bracelets and our crowns!

And now for my Donor's Choose good news... I have been completely overwhelmed and amazed at the support my classroom families showed this week when I sent home a letter explaining how Donor's Choose was matching funds this week.  I sent the note home on Monday and, by the time I got home from school on Monday, one of my two projects had already been funded.  The first is for some math computer games from Lakeshore Learning.

Tonight my other project for 2 Nook 8GB Tablets and 2 cases was fully funded as well!  Grandparents, parents, my in-laws, and even one of my students chipped in to help bring the Nooks to my classroom!  I was reminded this week what a wonderful community I teach in and how lucky I am to have such great classroom families!

I can't WAIT to receive the Nooks!  I have grand plans for them and I know my kiddos will be so psyched too!  I wasn't there today, so I will have to wait until Monday to spread the good news to them.