Kiker's Strength-Based Learning Cohort

Geared for Boys Lists for Grade Levels More Ideas Notable Honors We want them to READ, READ, READ this summer! These lists have fabulous ideas!!!!

Happy Mother's Day to all of our fabulous moms! Three cheers (really--three cheers!) for you! We SO appreciate all that you do...enjoy a day that celebrates YOU! "Awesome Cheer" from 2nd Grade "Cheese Cheer" from 3rd Grade "Disco Cheer" from 4th Grade xo, SBLC students and teachers

We set our butterflies free today! As our Butterfly Life Cycle Unit came to a close, we were sad to see our new friends flutter away but know they are enjoying their newfound freedom. Weeks ago, they arrived to 23 ecstatic second graders as teeny, tiny, newborn caterpillars. They ate and ate and ended up looking like this after about one week: And then they created a chrysalis, went through some amazing changes in metamorphosis, and became beautiful, Painted Lady Butterflies. Here is our farewell: We learned quite a bit and had a blast doing it. Bon Voyage, Butterflies!

Our third graders participated in the Kiker Annual Third Grade Vocabulary Parade today. We were so impressed with the creativity and effort our kiddos demonstrated with their costumes.  Well done, third graders! Check out the footage below... And a few pics...  Technological, Declaration, Superstition, Paladin Character(s), Nautical, Flamboyant Graph, Catastrophe, Metronome, Inuit Competitor, Detergent, Athletic Mythology, Despicable(s) Handsome, Tomb, Flash Athlete Have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocius weekend! Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Forrest, and Ms. Athlete Reiman :)

Check out some pictures from Second Grade's adventure Austin Nature & Science Center. We got to observe some special arthropods, play a classification game, and even explore the area to collect our own insects (later to be set free, of course). Arriving at the Center...what a cute group! A Madagascar Hissing Cockroach that we saw and TOUCHED! The crayfish is another type of arthropod, which means "jointed legs". Centipedes are a poisonous type of arthropod.   Identifying...   ... and classifying insects. Ready to catch some of our own on land... ...and in the water! Some fun at Zilker Park!