Mother's Day & MORE!

Josh the Otter! My boss came across this resource to help inform young students about water safety. Check it out here http://www.joshtheotter.org/ and I believe it is free! Each of my students got a free book, coloring activity, bookmark, sticker, and more!

 

Happy Mother's Day! We made our mommy's a birthday card and a mommy crown (I forgot to take pictures of the crown).

Last day of school! Although since it is a year round school, I will see them all next week! No tears yet!

April Showers Bring May Flowers

We learned that it is very important to brush our teeth at least twice a day! We brush before we come to school and before we go to sleep. It is also important to floss our teeth to get all the sugar bugs out! We used mini marshmallows as teeth and yellow yarn as floss for our art project. We then wrote underneath that "We can brush and floss our teeth!"

In honor of Easter, I made a fun subtraction activity. Each student was given a paper Easter egg, 6 jelly beans, and a dye. The Easter egg starts out with 6 jelly beans. Then the student rolls the dye and takes that many jelly beans out. They then write their math equation on the mini whiteboard. The kiddos had a blast because who doesn't like working with jelly beans?! :D

I read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to my students! They loved the book and we discussed the importance of a healthy meal. I found an activity online where the students colored the different types of food the caterpillar ate and they were to put it in chronological order. 

My class loves mini books they can color and read! We had a mini sight word book about Earth Day! Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle! 

Happy Easter

The Easter bunny came to our school! The kids had a mini egg hunt inside the gym.

            

 We made Easter baskets out of paper plates and decorated paper eggs to glue on!

Friday, I created my own egg hunt for kindergarten by hiding eggs in the playground outside. Each egg had a written sight word or CVC word with a jelly bean. The kids had to read each word before eating the jelly bean :)

Happy Easter :)

St. Patrick's Week

This was such a fun week with the kiddos! We talked about the tiny people called leprechauns who hides a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Leprechauns love to eat candy, so we decided to make a colorful trap to catch a leprechaun so we can have the pot of gold!

A picture of a leprechaun trap. These students made a ladder for the tiny leprechaun to enter.

The next day.......

A leprechaun came to visit and left his green dust! He left a note...

We searched for the pot of gold at the playground....

We spotted it at the top of this structure!

The golden coins were delicious! Yum!!!

Dr. Seuss!

This week we are celebrating a famous author's, Dr. Seuss, birthday. In honor of Dr. Seuss, I read one of his books each day to the class. We tried green eggs, made cat in the hat hats, and much more!

The kids loved this book and making the hats.

Green Eggs!!!

 We love green eggs! Or at least most of us tried it which was the big idea in the story :D

Balloon Party!

This Friday was AWESOME, FUN, FABULOUS because we had a balloon party! The smarties filled up their class pom pom jar to the top! We have a reward system in our class. It works when the whole class is listening, working their best, and attentive, then a handful of pom pom are put into the jar. When the jar is filed with all the pom pom, then we discuss on theme for the classroom party. I take 5 suggestions such as a pirate, super hero, star, etc. party and we then vote to narrow it down to 2 themes. As you can see, the balloon party won! I went to party city to have 24 balloons filled with helium. We all had a talk to not play with the balloon until their parents came to pick them up! At the end of the day we did a science activity of blowing up a balloon with a water bottle, baking soda, and vinegar!

President's Week!

Washington, Lincoln, Obama! In honor of President's Day, we studied about our 1st and 16th president.

George Washington Craft

We talked about George Washington being the first president. The smarties know that presidents lived in the White House. I told them all the president's lived in the White House except Washington because it was being built back then! Using cotton balls, a paper plate, and a dye was all that was needed for the project. Each number on the dye represented creating a part of Washington. Rolling a 1 is making his eyes, 2 is his nose, 3 mouth, 4 wig, 5 hat, and 6 writing his name on the back.

Abraham Lincoln Craft

Honest Abe was the 16th president! I showed the kids a penny and told him his face was on it! He was known for his tall black hat and inside our hat, we wrote some facts about Abe!

Log Cabin Project

Finished Cabin