and secret messages from our family appeared! What a great way to start the day!
Students scribbled all over the hearts with markers, then splattered water and watched the colored blend together like tie dye! SO easy and fun. They loved it!
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First thing in the morning, we painted our white hearts with watercolors, and secret messages from our family appeared! What a great way to start the day! Holding our Valentine Bags FILLED with Valentines and candy from friends Love is "being nice and hugs" Coffee filter, cut into hearts.
Students scribbled all over the hearts with markers, then splattered water and watched the colored blend together like tie dye! SO easy and fun. They loved it!
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Pajama Day is always a hit! Today we did a fun centers games which involved number recognition and addition, and created our snow globes using q-tips to paint.
Halloween was such a fun day!! We did loads of crafts, participated in a costume parade, ate some fun treats, and even took a math test! So today, Ms. Allaire had some Halloween fun at her students expense.... terrible, I know. But their reactions made up for it! I informed my students that a zombie had died in our class the previous night, and his parts were cut up and placed in our pumpkin buckets. Brave students were asked to place their hand in the bucket, without seeing what was inside, and describe what they felt. This is a fantastic way to promote sensory awareness, but I admit, my approach wasn't the greatest! :) Brooke was the first brave student to stick her hand inside, and her immediate reaction was to scream!!! After I admitted that I was tricking them, we took a look inside all the bins, and I told the kiddos what the zombie parts really were: Cold cooked spaghetti, a mango without the skin, a wig. We talked about how scary it was to feel what was inside, or even to touch something that felt so weird. But once they knew what it was, it wasn't as scary anymore! Many kids do not like to touch weird things. It is actually a developmental step to tale part in sensory activities. At home, you can put some things in a bowl or bucket such as rice, beans, or cooked pasta and hid other objects for kids to fish through and find. Pumpkin Life CycleEach Tuesday, we also get to work with our 2nd grade buddies! We are
so lucky that so many older students want to work with us! I read the story, "There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly" to the whole class. Then we used the October words we have been studying and created our own Old Lady who swallowed "october things". Labeling is so important in this stage of writing, so this was an easy way to sneak it in! I had such a fabulous birthday at school! I was spoiled all day with
flowers and cards and endless hugs. My mom came to spend the day with us and the kids could not have been anymore excited! -We baked pumpkin chocolate chip muffins -My mom read a story to the kiddos It was a perfectly wonderful day :) |
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