Emporia State Softball Pen Pals

This year our class has been writing letters to the Emporia State Softball team.  My oldest daughter Karley is a freshman on the team and her coach suggested that they do a community service project by writing to our class. They wrote us a letter to introduce themselves and asked the kids questions about themselves. We used this as a writing activity to answer the questions and write back to them. They sent us Christmas cards and we made Valentine cards for them and we exchanged Easter cards.  The team was coming to Wichita to play against Newman University and they made a surprise stop by VPS!  The kids were so excited to meet their pen pal in person and got to play on the playground at recess with them before the team headed off for their games.  They brought us an autographed picture and Easter eggs and lots of candy!  It was a really special moment getting to meet them. The softball girls were a big hit at recess and were like celebrities at our school!       

Bunny Business

After learning facts about rabbits all week we completed a graphic organizer answering the following questions: 1. What kind of rabbit are you? 2. What do you look like?  3. Where do you live? 4. What is your home like? 5. What do you like to eat? 6. Where do you get your food? 7. What do you do during the day? 8. How do you spend your nights? 9. What is the best thing about being a bunny?  The students answered each of these questions on the graphic organizer in complete sentences and then wrote the sentences into a story about “Being A Bunny”.  They did a great job!  They then created their rabbit and put their writing on the bodies of their rabbits. Our “Bunny Business” is hanging in the hallway for you to check out if you are at VPS!