Day 4 Science All Day

The last 2 days the Yoga Studio looked like this... solo Mrs. Wallace with the crickets.


6AM YOGA today



The theme of the day was SCIENCE, closely followed by RAIN. Students brain stormed their hypotheses, questions and research plans.


Listen to the RAIN....




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