Everything I Always Wanted to Know....I Learned In.....

KINDERGARTEN!

I am beside myself with joy because I learned today that it really might be true, that after 13 long years of asking.....I might be able to move to Kindergarten next school year! The wonderful thing is that I should know by the end of this school year! Whooo hooo! That means that as soon as the children leave in May, I'll be moving my stuff on down the hallway to my very first teaching love.....KINDERGARTEN!

I am so excited!

What grade is your very favorite? Alicia

a month late...be my valentine!

I was going through some pictures just now on my last regular day of Spring Break (because tomorrow is just a regular weekend....) and I noticed that I never posted these super quick, super easy, super cute Valentines!
Materials needed:
one sentence strip per child
one whole sheet of "skin colored" paper (for hands)
one half sheet of "skin colored" paper (for the head)
scraps of "hair colored" paper (we just use what is in our Scrap Box)
glue, markers, crayons
one heart cut out per child

Have the children fold the whole sheet of "skin colored" paper in half and trace their hand. Cut it out (you'll have 2 hands, one will just need to be flipped to get the thumb going the correct way before gluing)

Use a template made from a file folder to create a head pattern. (I just freehand this). The students will trace and cut out the head. Use markers, crayons, and scraps of other paper to make the facial features and the hair.

Glue the head into the center of the sentence strip.

Glue one hand on each end of the sentence strip (make sure you fix it so the thumb is going the right way)

Now fold the sentence strip so that the hands are covering the face. On the left side of the sentence strip (after it has been folded, and just before the hand) write "I". On the right side of the head (just past the hand) write "YOU".

Write the word "LOVE" on the heart and using a baby drop of glue (we call this "a little dab'll do ya) put the heart on the top hand (remember, the hands will be folded over the face)

Open the arms up and on the left side of the face (on the inside of the sentence strip) write "THIS" and on the right side of the face write "MUCH".

Sounds complicated but works beautifully and is easy to make and oh, so cute!!

Hope you can use this one next year! Alicia

Seussical Week o' Fun

We had a great time this past week with all of our Seuss activities! I think our favorite was reading Horton Hears a Who and then making the Horton hats and Who pencils. Too cute and too fun! Next year, I am going to write their names on the leaves of the Who pencils and then have a parent volunteer stick them in the ground in a huge patch of clover that is right outside our school. We will read the book to the point where Horton is looking through the bazillion clover blooms for the Whos...then we will stop and go looking for our own Who pencils while wearing our Horton hats. (that will help break the story up a bit). This was the only new thing I added this year and I really enjoyed it. I did find some great activities that I want to incorporate next year. I like to change it up a bit each year because I do get tired of the same old same old each time. Hope you enjoy these photos. What kind of Seuss things did you do this year?