I saw the cutest idea from pinterest that I decided to make with my firsties this year! You mix half shaving cream and half glue to make a a sticky mess 🙂 we allllll love those! Give a glob to each kiddo on a piece of construction paper and let them make a snowman. It has to dry for a… Read More
Archives for 2011
Snowman ornaments
These little cuties were basically free! I got paint sample colors from the store. The kids drew a face and cut out a hat. Then they glued “buttons” on them. I saw this idea from pinterest. Add some ribbon and Taaa Daaaaa! Easy! There are so many options you can do! Here are some pictures from today’s snowmen! Tomorrow we… Read More
Nouns
This is the start of the Nouns. We learned about all kinds of nouns, and here are some things we have done in the past couple months! Here is another example of a way that we used a flip book. I forgot to take a picture of the kiddos work but here is my example that I showed them. Then… Read More
Addition Fun
I am trying to catch up on my posts, so here are some activities we made a couple of months ago.. (Where has the time gone?!?!?) Here are some of our adding three numbers flip books. The kids loved this and I LOVE flip books. They are easy to make and the kids use them for everything in my classroom…. Read More
The low down on my ABC chart
A couple summers ago, we started a curriculum mapping team that learned about curriculum mapping and made our maps for the county. I volunteered, and actually enjoyed it! I got some great new ideas from fellow teachers AND our new friend Sue Ellen. She was spearheading the “conference” and she had some amazing ideas that she shared with us. One… Read More
Rainbow Nouns
Just a quick post! One of my teachers I work with found this idea on line. You break the students into groups and give each one a piece of construction paper. Each group brainstorms nouns of that color. My sweet darlings did a great job! They came up with some creative things 🙂 I traced over their writing with a… Read More