Silly school stuff

We talked about the life cycle of a butterfly today. I think they turned out pretty cute.

Silly School Stuff

We talked about Germs today. We have had a lot of kids out of school lately, mine included. So I thought it would be a good idea to go over the proper way to sneeze and cough. We made these awesome germs. I thought they turned out pretty cute.

Silly school stuff

I'm TOTALLY tooting my own horn! I saw this book on my sisters counter. Her 6 year old made it at school and I thought it would be soooooo cute to do with my class.

Problem........I didn't have the originals. The other problem..........Hallie drew the pictures in the books herself. My kids can't draw......they can't cut.......they can't do too much without hand over hand help.

So I went to work and drew up the covers. The kids helped color it.

Then I drew the pictures and they helped color them and the ones who could cut them out. I'm so excited they turned out so cute. Not my idea, but dang I'm good. =P

Silly School Stuff

Yesterday we mowed the lawn! I brought our grass back to school, since it was spring break and our classroom doesn't get any sun, I've started bringing it home with me. It had grown over the top of the tub, so we got the scissors and took turns trimming the grass.

Since my kids really don't like getting paint on their hands I had them make pussy willows with chalk. We set the chalk on the paper with hair spray. I think they turned out kind of cute.

Silly School Stuff

My kids can sponge paint. So that's what we do. We sponge painted the foot prints brown and then wrote on them, "April showers bring......mud puddles." Kind of cute.

We also discussed some Math stuff. I used the tips from the first lesson here.

Silly School Stuff

Yesterday I worked in the morning, so I worked with my sweet T instead of working with the other kids in the afternoon. My teacher and I came up with a good activity to do that afternoon. This is the cloud project. =)

Today we made some caterpillars. They are pretty cute. Especially the antenna. They are the waxed covered pipe cleaners.
Then I decided to talk about shadows. Hey it was a beautiful day and we needed to get OUTSIDE! I told one of the kids to sit in the middle of the classroom and used streamers to show how light travels in straight lines. Then explained that whichever way the sun is our shadow will be on the opposite side. Then we went outside and traced their shadows. Fun.

Silly School Stuff

Today we talked about the water cycle. We actually watched Blue's Clues because they have an episode that very CLEARLY shows it. Since my kids all like shows like Blue's Clues I figured it would work.

This was the little hand out I drew for them to bring home.

Then we did some name caterpillars. We just printed each letter of their names on a circle. My kids love to glue. =)

Saint Patrick's Day

In the middle of Sam getting her tooth drilled I realized it was St. Patrick's day and I needed to have a craft ready. I didn't have time to look online or go to the store, so I quickly devised a plan. I had seen something similar to this online, but it used a plastic cauldron and then put chocolate coins inside. I figured my kids could dip cotton balls in orange paint. So, here you go.