Teacher's Convention

Hello! 
I just finished doing two presentations at the teacher's convention. I am always my own worst critic! I wonder if anyone will find what I have to say is valuable or not. I know it is my own mind! It is nice to meet and chat with other teachers. I also think I need to learn more about technology so I can upload my presentations so people can access and print if they need. I have a steep learning curve! 
Plus I am angling to get a new laptop! I really wouldlike a bigger one with a bigger screen (and faster!) We will see!
Anyway I will try to put up pictures of things I did in my workshop.
I love making things for my classroom and doing projects (especially art and science and math! Who am I kidding? I really love it all!) Except for maybe report cards!! 

Captain Capital! 

Star Wars Light Sabres made with mini pool noodles from the dollar store! 

Graphing with Sponges! 

Sight word hockey! The pucks are made from a checkers game from the dollar store 

Sight word Star Wars game! 

My Alphabet Apron!

My Math/Number Apron

Our good bye ritual! We say this every night! 

Our friends and family board!

Our Mystery Box! I place things inside and then kids ask questions to figure out what's inside!

Story Flower! Spin the flower and answer questions about a story...Helps with Comprehension! 

Our daily commitments

How I store my Literacy Centers

Our schedule board. It's magnetic and I change it daily.

Rockin Sight words! Everything was at the dollar store!

Minion MASH sight word game! 

Read the room with Flash lights!

Pony "O''s for pattern building

Place Value game! Kids made themselves and then took home to play. 

We are learning about Penguins!

I love penguins! Always have! Even had a penguin wedding, but I think I said that last time I talked about penguins. Anyway, my class is learning about penguins and we have made some fun projects!

Toilet paper roll penguins with numbers one to 100 written on a sentence strip tucked inside

Penguin paintings! I can't seem to get them to turn right side up!

Oh well!

These two paintings are so wonderful! It was hard to choose only two! Most of my class did wonderful paintings of thier favorite kind of penguin!  

Holidays are over...

Back to school! Christmas break was a lot of fun! My son and his girfriend came with us to Disneyworld! We also went to Universal Studios to see Harry Potter stuff too! It was fun! 
It was also very hot! Which surprised me! My hubby and I went last Christmas and it was much cooler and even rainier. This time it was super warm! 
We enjoyed ourselves and so did my son, as it was his first flight ANYWHERE! 
(and he's 25!) 

It was a fun vacation and my hubby got to celebrate his birthday in DisneyWorld! 

Penguins!

This little project took place over two days. First we painted the background, and let it dry really well and then we went back the next day and painted our fingers from the top of our fingers to the middle of our fingers. We painted with white acrylic paint. Then we pressed our fingers onto the mini canvas. 
After they dried. which was really fast because we used acrylic paint, we then used black acrylic to paint around our fingerprints. We turned them into the cutest little penguins! 
They are going to be hung in the school's art gallery hallway! 

This one is adorable! It looks like a penguin photo bomb! LOL!

This is the whole class! I love how they are all different!

This was such a fun project! The kids all painted so carefully! I kept calling them "artists" the entire time they were working and I'm sure that helped make the difference! Nobody went "nuts" with the paint! 

Cute Projects!

We have been busy! As part of our Building things unit, we built little puppy dog houses for our word puppies! We covered the houses with sight words, because after all they are for WORD puppies! They are super cute! 

Also upping the "cuteness" factor, we "ELFED" ourselves! So we then wrote about being elves and we even found out our elf name! SO funny! We all laughed and laughed at our funny names!

More fun projects will be coming soon! 

It's been a while!

Hi! Sorry I haven't been updating my blog that often, basically because I had a wicked cold! It really kicked me in the butt! I haven't had a cold that bad in years! Anyway, I'm on the mend now and feeling much better! So I have a few updates to the blog to share! 

We LOVE science!! 

We made Elephant Toothpaste! 

It felt so neat! It was warm and the bubbles were very soft! 

PUPPY PALOOZA!

We got a letter from Santa asking us to help him to teach these WORD puppies how to read and behave like good puppies should. we were so excited! Each of the puppies is a different breed. 

Having the puppies in our room sparked some wonderful writing projects! 

We used words to describe the puppy we are taking care of.

Not sure why these pictures wont turn the right way!! But the writing the kids did was wonderful! I was proud of their efforts! 

Snow DUDES!

We painted Snow dudes! We did such an amazing job! 

We also framed them with snowball shapes all around the edges. 

Then we added a scarf made of construction paper. 

I love how unique they all are!