The sap is FLOWING!  …and we are all super excited to start to collect it and bring it to Mrs. Happy’s car so she can take it home and turn it into syrup for us to taste.  We even had the chance to taste the sap itself!

First Grade students are tree tapping professionals! We now have six sugar maple trees tapped and each class is eagerly awaiting to see how much sap their bucket will collect!

Second graders are in charge of collecting and sorting all of the dried out markers that our school produces …and that’s alot of markers!  Instead of just throwing them into the trash we do our best to make the most of these used up markers.  One of the things we do to help the art teacher is to make watercolor paint to be used with all of her classes!  Just plop the markers into a jar of water and wait to watch all the ink come out!  Try it at home too!

Every student at HPS has the chance to snowshoe every year!  What makes me the most happy is to watch the older students being able put on their snowshoes all by themselves! …Kindergarten still needs some help.  🙂  Thank you to all the parent volunteers who have been helping …even Office Nick was able to join us for some snowshoe adventures!

More animal tracking!  We are getting really good at finding the different walking patterns of animals …and we even found underground tunnels where our small animal friends like to spend alot of their time when it’s super cold!

First grade and kindergarten students helped wash and count all of our ketchup packets that were saved from our food waste diversion program in the cafeteria.  We donated 497 ketchup packets to the Nashua Soup Kitchen this week!  After we washed them we laid them out to dry …and that is when our ketchup packet art and letters were created!  🙂

I have always wanted to try this and our SUPER cold week this week seemed like the perfect opportunity to do it!  We learned the color didn’t stay too well, but it was a fun way to learn things don’t always turn out like you expect …we had a lot of failed balloons …and failing is totally okay!

Snow is great for learning, but also it’s fun for playing in!  Making a perfect snow angel is a life skill!  🙂

It’s always fun to find evidence of animals in our HPS forest and fields!  We liked coming up with possible stories that fit these tracks and are glad that these mice and squirrels got away from the fox who was wandering around sniffing for them!