Open House

It's been a long time since my last post.  I found out in December I was pregnant and I was exhausted.  We are very excited to welcome our little girl in August.

Open House was last week and I loved all our projects.  It was a farm and insects theme.  Here are a few pictures of my room.

Here is the Farm Book we made.  Each week we learned about a different farm animal.  They wrote about each animal and did an art project for each animal.  I loved how the books turned out!

I still had to have her write her name.

Looks like the pig is missing a nostril...

The countdown has begun.  We have 8 more days of school.  I am now working on closing out the year while getting ready to have a sub at the beginning of next year.   It's a little overwhelming, but it's all coming together.

Better late than never

It's been awhile since my last post and that's not because I've been too busy, forgotten, or lazy....I couldn't figure out how to cover up faces in Photoshop.  I did it in the past, but for some reason I could not figure it out after many attempts and googling.  I finally went to Barnes and Noble this morning and bought a Teach Yourself manual.  It worked!!

10 Frame Practice - I thought this was going to be pretty easy for my kiddos, but it turned out to be very difficult.  We will need to keep working on this.  I gave each child a mat with 2 10 frames and a small cup of M & M's.  I held up a number and they represented it on their mat.  Even though it was tricky, they loved it...it involved candy.

My art docent did this owl tear art.

Dissecting owl pellets.  First we watched a YouTube video of an owl spitting out an owl pellet and then I found a video with an owl pellet song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FENowCc-A8M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waLiTmLr1nM

Pasta pattern necklaces

We made pumpkin pancakes.  They were a huge hit!

Sight word blocks learning tub - I wrote sight words on blocks, students have to read the word before they build.  Once they are done, there are some finger puppets they can use with their castle.  This is a big hit in my room.

Sight word Candyland - I put sight word stickers on the cards.

Owl number order

These are the stands I made for learning tubs that needed clotheslines.  I took a coffee can, spray painted it, filled it with Plaster of Paris and set a PVC pipe in it to set.

Beginning sounds food matching

Our gingerbread TLC - it's been adapted a bit.  I use a gingerbread die cut instead of making one.

Upper/lower matching

In/Out sight word activity - students read the words and try to drop it in the tennis ball can (it's covered with a sock to make it more festive).  The words that went in are recorded in the IN spot and the words that fell out are recorded in the OUT spot.

 Holiday Wish Lists tub

More 10 frame practice - students write the number and represent it in the 10 frame

Students read the sight word before putting the pattern block on the mat.

My December tablecloth