tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44265204737469441662024-03-18T02:32:19.596-05:00Mrs. Karen's Preschool IdeasA person's a PERSON no matter how small...
Dr. SeussMrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-19308204794915192712015-08-06T08:22:00.002-05:002015-08-06T08:22:48.843-05:00I'M BAAACCCKKKKKK!!!!!This is all because of 2 lovely ladies I met in the Dollar Store yesterday!<br /><br />Ok world, I'm tired of feeling sorry for myself! Yes, we still have cancer at the Harrington household. My son is doing amazingly well. He is in remission and back at work. He still is on tons of medicines and comes to UAB (the University of Alabama Birmingham Hospital) once a month for treatment. Unfortunately, my husband was diagnosed with kidney cancer in March. But once again, because of God's amazing mercy and my men's unbelievable toughness, we are getting through it. BUT . . . . something amazing happened to me yesterday! I was at every teacher's "happy place", my local Dollar Store, and I ran into 2 of the most wonderful ladies. They too are preschool teachers, and were looking for fun things for their classrooms. You should have seen their faces, they were glowing!!! They teach at Bessemer City, not too far from here. Why in the world am I talking about this??? Well you see, they were happy! School starts for them today and they were so excited. It stirred up something in me that cancer had "tried" to take away. Guess what cancer???? YOU JUST GOT BEAT! Yep, those two lovely ladies stirred up my creative juices. I walked around the Dollar Store like . . . well, like a use too. I looked at everything. And, yes, I even bought a few things (wink, wink). So to the two amazing ladies from yesterday . . . THANK YOU! I have a whole new look on things. I'm not sure how often I will be posting, but I have a lot of new ideas and I cannot wait to get started. Talk to you soon!!!!<br />
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P.S. If you wrote and asked for copies of my "Quiet Spray" label or anything else, I apologize for not sending it. I haven't even looked at my blog until this morning. But, I'm sending everything out TODAY!!!! Happy dance, happy dance!Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com204tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-66571338356261465182014-05-18T08:24:00.004-05:002014-05-18T08:24:29.336-05:00Taking a Little BreakI am sorry to write and tell you all that for the next couple of months, I will be taking a break from my blog. On May 12th, my son was diagnosed with ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia). Some of you may remember, he is a police officer and each year he comes to my school each year during our <a href="http://mrskarensclass.blogspot.com/search/label/Police">Community Helper week.</a> He also recently got <a href="http://mrskarensclass.blogspot.com/2013/11/lets-talk-turkey.html">married.</a> So, for the next couple of months, all of my time and energy will be spent helping Jay and his precious wife, Brooklyn, with his fight. If you would like to keep up with his progress, there is a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/fightonjay">Facebook page</a> and a <a href="http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/jayharrington">Caring Bridge</a> site set up for him. One of Brooklyn's dear, dear friends has even set up a <a href="https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/2hn4/jay-harrington-s-leukemia-expenses-fund?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fb_share_stream.share&utm_campaign=dashboard_overview_T1&og_action=hug&t=3&fb_ref=2255554">fund raiser</a> for him to help with their expenses. But all I ask is that you remember him in your prayers. Thank you ALL and I will be back soon. - Karen<br />
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Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com151tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-62322049753770732852014-04-27T11:09:00.003-05:002014-04-27T11:09:53.571-05:00Under the SeaWOW, I am STILL trying to catch my breath after our last week! We had so much fun talking about the amazing under the sea world. Each day we went into great detail discussing a particular creature that lives in the water. On Monday we started by talking about "fish", just fish. Pretty soon the movie "Finding Nemo" was brought up and we quickly talked about the clown fish. One of our teachers has a large collection of sea shells and other sea objects. She was happy to share with us and we loved it all, especially the shark teeth!<br />
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Our art project this week got out of hand - literally! We started by painting our water. Everyone had a choice to either use paint brushes or their hands. Mrs. Christi's class opted for their hands, mine the brushes - oh well! </div>
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Once the water was dried each child cut and added sea weed. We also added some very cute hand print sea creatures.</div>
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But, we were STILL not done. Next came my favorite part - a scuba diver! And not just any scuba diver, a personalized diver. That's right, we added our own picture and turned ourselves into underwater divers!</div>
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This project took several days and was very time consuming. But I honestly think it was worth it, don't you????</div>
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We spent an entire day talking about jellyfish! Did you know that a jellyfish does not have a brain? It doesn't and it made us giggle! Lucky for us, we have wonderful people who donate things to our school and someone has sent us a some leftover fabric. We put it to good use this week by making a jellyfish.</div>
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I don't think anyone could be afraid of this jellyfish!</div>
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We also had two big bottles of jellyfish in our room this week.</div>
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I made them with plastic bottles. You can get the instructions <a href="http://bhoomplay.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/diy_jellyfish_eng/">here</a> . My class really enjoyed them. <em>(Just a little word of advice, be sure to either glue the cap on or do what I did and use tape.)</em><br />
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One day was spent talking about our friend the octopus. We counted his/her eight legs and read about their feeding habits. We even made our very own octopus to take home. It was made with an empty paper towel roll. </div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><strong>CONFESSION TIME!!! I made this octopus! </strong></span></div>
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Now you know that you cannot spend a week talking about things that live in the sea without talking about sharks. Okay here it is, the theme to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCI-gNK_y4">JAWS!</a> Sorry, I just had to do that. After much discussion about sharks we quickly came to the conclusion that . . . . WE LOVE SHARKS! Here is the shark we made.</div>
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Our Fabulous Fun Friday came too quickly and we headed to our kitchen for science fun and cooking! We spent a great deal of time playing "Sink or Float?". Everyone grabbed objects from our room to see if they would sink or float. There was only one rule - NO BOOKS! It was a lot of fun! </div>
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Next, we had some fun with <a href="http://www.wrigley.com/global/brands/skittles.aspx/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=skittles&utm_content=Skittles&utm_campaign=SKT_Int_Brand/#">Skittles</a>. Everyone got a clear plastic cup and two different colored Skittles. We patiently waited (and we did not have to wait long) and watched.</div>
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We quickly found out that if you DO NOT touch the cup, the colors will not mix! OHHHHHH! FUN! Then, the coolest thing in the entire world happened . . . .</div>
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We just wanted to eat a Skittle, so we called it a clam!</div>
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The are rather funny looking but we didn't mind because they were so cute.<br />
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On Tuesday we talked about the different types of birds that we see near our homes and school. Soon the discussion turned to where birds like to hide to protect themselves. Everyone agreed that a tree is the best place for birds to be. So . . . . we decided to put a bird, or two (or three) in a tree! First, we painted the sky. We used several different colors of blue paint to make our sky look "real".<br />
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Next, we painted a tree branch and rolled a paper towel tube, wrapped with yarn, over our tree.<br />
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As soon as it dried, we put everything together!<br />
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If you look closely at our little birds, you may be able to tell that their wings and tail feathers were made with our finger prints. Everyone was so proud when they took this home.<br />
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We also decided that we needed to "feed the birds", so we made our very own birds feeders. Everyone strung "Fruit Loops" cereal onto pieces of yarn.<br />
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We added a straw so the birds would have a place to sit.<br />
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Hopefully, the birds will like Fruit Loops! One of my sweet Mom's sent me this photo of the bird feeder in their tree!<br />
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We talked about baby birds leaving their nest and how the momma bird knows when it is time. After much (MUCH) discussion about birds learning to fly (everyone had their own idea of how birds learn) we made one of my "saddest" art projects. This one always makes our parents sad.<br />
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The children made the nest by using a ruler to draw the lines. We had so much fun with the rulers that we set-up a center just to let everyone experiment with them. </div>
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Our "Fabulous Fun Friday" got really crazy this week! Since our letter of the week was "Y", we decided to explore YARN! I simply went to our supply closet and grabbed ALL the yarn I could carry. Next, I cut it into VERY long strips. There was only ONE rule - do not tie anyone up with the yarn. What happened next was a WHOLE LOT OF FUN!</div>
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Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-200902135648080362014-04-06T11:11:00.002-05:002014-04-06T12:15:15.532-05:00Springtime!I love spring, it is such a happy time! My class came back from our Spring Break with lots of energy and I returned refreshed and ready to go! We started our unit on Spring this past week and here are a few of the highlights.<br />
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I have very few regrets when it comes to things I did with my son as a child (not that I did everything right, it is just a don't believe in regrets). But, one of the things I would have done differently is hand print art. I just don't have enough! I think that is why this first activity is one of my favorites. We put the children's hand prints in a circle. <em>The children ALWAYS decide on what color they want to use.</em> I feel this is part of what makes this art work so special, no matter what color they choose. Next, we have the children cut out the leaves and the stem. As the children are cutting, we talk about the different parts of the flower and the importance of each one..<br />
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I back the stems and leaves with brown construction paper to make them POP OUT. This is a very special piece of artwork because it highlights our cutting skills and we will be saving it for our upcoming art show in a few weeks. </div>
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Here in Alabama, like in most of the country, we always have a lot of rain during the spring. This past week was very rainy so we spent an entire day discussing RAIN. Our art project for the day was really fun, we made it rain! We started by mixing blue paint, a little glue and water in a large container. Then we used some really fun droppers to put small and large drops of "rain" onto our papers. </div>
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"This is fun Mrs. Karen, but when are we going to make it rain?", "T" said. So he lifted up his paper and . . . . .</div>
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"It's raining Mrs. Karen, it is raining!"</div>
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SUCCESS!</div>
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After they dried, they still looked great!</div>
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I love <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/keh9/">Pinterest</a>, and I'm sure if you "follow me" you know I am almost obsessed (hahaha). I saw <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/191825265350640217/">this </a>the other day and knew my class would love it! Of course, we changed things a little and made it our own. We started by painting a large paper plate yellow.<br />
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I love when little "S" said to me, "I know that we are doing more than this!". I just giggled and assured her that we were. Next we painted a stem and leaf. </div>
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Our "Fabulous Fun Friday" had to extra special this week. We had survived a fire drill on Wednesday and our water was cut off for a couple of hours on Thursday, all because of construction in a nearby building. As always, my class was amazing so I wanted to do something special. Our letter of the week was "K" so I brought in my keyboard and opened up my large jar of keys! </div>
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Everyone loved counting the keys and making key rubbings. We even tried to put them in order from smallest to the largest. Of course all this was done while someone was playing "songs" on the keyboard. </div>
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Our discussion about "wind" was very lively and fun. I brought a box fan from my house and we took turns seeing what items would "blow in the wind". </div>
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The shredded paper was the most fun (of course) but it was also the messiest! :) <br /><br />Everyone knows that on "Fabulous Fun Fridays" we HAVE to cook, and cook we did! We made our very own "cookie flowers"! Each child cot a cup of cookie dough and colored it their favorite color food coloring. Next, we squished it out onto some aluminum foil so that they would look like a flower and added chocolate chips for the centers. (NOTE: Mrs. Christi and I wrote each child's name on their aluminum foil with a sharpie so everyone could eat their own cookies.) Into the oven they went and YUM . . . .</div>
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It was a long and exhausting week but I can't wait to do it again! I hope you will visit us again soon. Our next unit will be all about birds!<br />
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Since we spent Monday talking about <a href="http://mrskarensclass.blogspot.com/2014/03/st-patricks-day-2014.html">St. Patrick's Day</a>, we only had four fun days of insects. That was okay because we packed a lot into those four days! We have a REALLY big day coming up in May. It is our annual Art Show and each month I try and save a very special piece of artwork to display. For the month of March, we made our "name bug".<br />
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I know it may be hard for some of you to believe but, yes my students actually wrote their own names! If you closely you will see that my sweet Sara has a little trouble with her "S" so I make little "dots" for her to follow. Her S's have some a long way since September and I am sure in another month or so she will no longer need the dots!</div>
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We spent Wednesday talking about butterflies. We fluttered and flew all over the place. By the way, being a butterfly is a wonderful way to walk down the hallway. After all, butterflies don't make any sounds! We topped off our day by making some beautiful "squishy" butterflies.</div>
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The secret to these little beauties is a lot of paint! The children glob large spoonful's of paint onto one half of the butterfly. Next, we fold him and squish! I love to see the children's faces when paint starts oozing out. We open them up to see a lovely butterfly. After they dry, we add his/her body and antennas. The children draw on their own faces and our fluttery friends are ready to go!<br />
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All week long we talk about the anatomy of an insect (you know, 3 body parts, 2 eyes, 6 legs, 2 antennas) and on Thursday, we made our very on insects.<br />
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Everyone got to paint their egg cartons any color they wanted. The children added their own legs and antennas and of course we added some left over sticker eyes. The each child decorated their insect with different shapes. </div>
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Ahhh . . . finally it was our "Fabulous Fun Friday"! This would be our last day before Spring Break so I wanted it to be very special. I said "special" right? Not messy?? Well, guess what? We got both! We spent Friday talking about bees! It was so fun. Everyone got to "buzz" around the room and up and down the halls. (Not as quiet as butterflies, but fun no less!) We even made our very own bees to take home! First we taped off some yellow construction paper for our stripes.</div>
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That's right, they are made with bananas, pretzels and chocolate chips. If you closely, you will hopefully notice that they are anatomically correct. Each insect has 3 body parts, 6 legs and 2 antennas. Oh, a few actually have "stingers" :) They were very yummy!</div>
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Hang on, I'm not finished . . . . next we talked about our wonderful friends, the bumble bees and how they help our gardens. We used <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt9cGVfRdv1LYJ1LuvSwStnBaWZcR_3JE7MA6-YnMsTXrwRO7WwxI82F4OTwQH-07icGua1SshSCCjyxkI45XNtel3uXeezP_KkBvnzqSfXQyJC9p4E9B2kepLc9ADjp6rSpljqXQUF1NQ/s1600/cheetos-crunchy.gif">Cheetos</a> to serve as our pollen.<br />
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Of course after all of this we were thirsty. Finally, we drank our lemonade like butterflies!<br />
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Butterfly's tongues are like straws, We cut our straws in half and pretended to be butterflies drinking nectar from a flower.<br />
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WOW, what a busy week! I think I NEED a vacation to recharge my batteries. <br />
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Thanks for visiting with us. I hope you check on us again!Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com36tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-88846542640617759382014-03-17T15:44:00.003-05:002014-04-08T16:18:01.106-05:00St. Patrick's Day 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY everyone! Even if you aren't Irish, it is fun to pretend! Today we made these cute little leprechaun hats. Everyone loved cutting out their our rainbow strips. </div>
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Our letter of the week is "I" so we also ate green ice cream! And by the look on everyone's faces it was very YUMMY!<br />
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I hope you all wore green so you didn't get pinched! And I hope you all stop back by, we will be talking about INSECTS this week! FUN!!!Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-57816047077309527582014-03-08T09:27:00.002-06:002014-04-08T16:18:12.674-05:00Just a Bunch of TubesLast week, during our Dr. Seuss week, I had this "<strong>great idea</strong>" to do something with empty paper towel and toilet tissue rolls. You know those lovely tubes that "you just can't throw away". I have <em>everyone </em>collecting these for me so I have quite a large supply. Alas, my "<strong>great idea</strong>" just never came to be. There were so many other things that I wanted to do that week so I crammed all the empty cardboard tubes into my closet for another day. Well, this past week I was in the <em>mood</em> for something different. Right after lunch on Wednesday I pulled out my stash and dumped it on our tables. I had already punched holes into each end of all the tubes (I know, but it was a great way for me use up some nervous energy) and added some chenille sticks (better know to us old folks as "pipe cleaners") and stepped back. OH MY GOODNESS, we had fun!!!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Can you see the look on the little boy's face in the stripped shirt?<br />He just realized how to connect the tubes so they would not fall apart!</span></div>
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Of course for the first few minutes I heard, "what do we do?" and "I can't!" but soon those negative comments turned into "LOOK Mrs. Karen!". I knew they were having fun! I loved watching my sweet "S" when she realized how to bend the pipe cleaners so that the tubes would stay together. That was all it took! Soon everyone was busy building their very own sculptures. By the way, I knew this was really fun when I announced that it was time to get ready for our playground time and no one wanted to go! I hope you try this and if you do, please let me know how it goes. </div>
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We started our unit by reading one of my all time favorite books, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Many-Colored-Days-Dr-Seuss/dp/067989344X">My Many Colored Days</a>. Of course everyone has to tell me their favorite color so after we read our book, we made our very own "colored day" project.<br />
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I'm not sure if you can tell by the pictures, but the background has different shades of colors. We also used a lot of our "fun" paint brushes (i.e. scrubbers, rollers, craft sticks, scrappers, etc.). This project is fun because the children always talk about their "favorite" color while painting.</div>
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Everyone loved carrying them home because they were "the biggest picture ever" (yes, that is a quote from precious little "S"!).</div>
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The next book we read was <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Horton-Hears-Who-Dr-Seuss/dp/0394800788">Horton Hears a Who</a>. I was <em>really</em> worried about the length of this book, but once again my class surprised me. Everyone giggled when I changed voices with each character and again, they squealed when they heard words that rhymed. Our project for the day was simple but fun. We always have a fun day when we get out the scissors. We cut our clover field and added little blossoms. </div>
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On Thursday we read a book that most of the class had not heard of, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Cat-Hat-Comes-Back/dp/0394800028">The Cat in the Hat Comes Back</a> . I think this was our favorite book (so far!) and we had fun putting together our very own "Cat in the Hat".</div>
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We also had a very special snack on Thursday. We read the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Green-Eggs-Nifty-Lift-Look/dp/0375810889">Green Eggs and Ham</a> and made our very own! I was afraid one little girl was going to cry when I said we would be eating <span style="color: #6aa84f;">green eggs </span><span style="color: black;">but when she realized what we were doing, she came around. First we made some good 'ole vanilla pudding, then we added green food coloring to it.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We dumped it on our plates . . . .<br />
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Our Fabulous Fun Friday came all too soon! We started our day by reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cat-Hat-Beginner-Books/dp/039480001X">The Cat in the Hat</a> and as you can imagine, it was now our favorite! We all loved Thing One and Thing Two! They made us giggle, so we made our very own Thing One and Thing Two hair!!! It was easy, we cut strips of light blue constructions paper </div>
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Aren't we cute?????</div>
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We wore them to eat our Dr. Seuss birthday cake which I did not take pictures of, <em>sorry</em>! But it looked just like the one I did last year . . . <br />
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It isn't very fancy but everyone said it tastes really good!<br />
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At this point our day got really messy! We had cornstarch ALL over the kitchen and ourselves. But we had fun and that was all that mattered.<br />
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Thank you for visiting with us. I hope you stop back again next week, we will be talking about the farm and all the wonderful animals who live there.</div>
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and covered it with white butcher paper. I set out some markers and did not say a word about it. On the first day, no one said anything about the box. No one even asked me about it. BUT, on the second day . . . .<br />
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The power of junk! I'm a going to try and find something "different" each week for my students to draw on. Do you have any ideas for me??? If you do, please post them in the comment sections!<br />
THANKS!Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-15023352797890715582014-02-23T11:27:00.002-06:002014-02-23T11:27:33.767-06:00"U"nited We Stand!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This past week was all about the good 'ole USA and we had so much fun studying about our country! We started the week with an amazing activity. This is an art project I have done <a href="http://mrskarensclass.blogspot.com/search/label/Our%20Country">before</a> <em>BUT </em>it has evolved. My class cuts <em>extremely</em> well for 3 and 4 year olds so I let them cut their very own stripes for our flags.</div>
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Cutting 7 red stripes takes a lot of patience but my class was up to the challenge! Gluing down the stripes was fun too!<br />
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We added fingerprints for our stars and the results were beautiful!<br />
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We also started talking about <a href="http://constitutionus.com/">The Constitution</a>. Now I bet I know what you are thinking . . . is she kidding??? NOPE! And my little sponges loved it. We really just focused on the Preamble, you know the part that says, "We the people . . ". We couldn't actually recite the Preamble but at least we got the first few words AND their meaning. After all these years my class can still amaze me! </div>
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Wednesday was spent talking about our first president, George Washington. I shared fun facts and read wonderful books about him. We even made our very own "George" art project.<br />
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This time I cut the strips and the children glued them on. I'm going to veer off topic for just a second (skip down to the next paragraph if you don't want to hear me rant.) Do you see the "dried glue" on these (and ALL) of my class' art work??? Do you see the smeared handprint on the bottom photo??? Do you see the crooked eyes and logs??? This is proof that my students do their OWN WORK! I cannot stand to see children's art work that looks . . . hmmm . . . well . . . like an adult did it! Because if it does, then the child did not do it by him/herself. Children are messy and they should be! I will NOT do an art project for my students!!! I will guide them, I will cheer them on, I will support them with every fiber of my being but, I WILL NOT do work for them. OKAY, I done. Back to our week . . .<br />
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We also learned about what it means to vote. On Thursday, we pretty much voted on everything. We voted on what color we like best.<br />
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We voted on what books we read too! I think everyone liked voting because I was asked if we could "keep doing it"! YEA! Success!</div>
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I found these cute little "Pledge Badges" over at <a href="http://littlemisskindergarten.blogspot.com/2012/09/wont-you-join-us.html">Little Miss Kindergarten</a>. I enlarge ours and each child colored them. (I KNOW . . . "Mrs. Karen's class actually used crayons!" SHOCKER!) Everyone was very proud to wear them in carpool! Oh, yes, everyone in my class can and does recite the Pledge of Allegiance each and every day!</div>
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Our "Fabulous Fun Friday" was turned into our <strong><u>U</u></strong>n<strong><u>u</u></strong>sual Day! We have done this for several years and I do believe each year is more fun. The children came in to find new books. All the books about our country and the presidents were gone! In their place were Christmas books, books about Thanksgiving and even books talking about summer! AND our blocks were gone too! I traded them in for . . . .<br />
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well, I don't really know what they are but they sure were fun to build with! Everything we did on Friday was <strong><u>u</u></strong>n<strong><u>u</u></strong>sual! We even drew pictures <strong><u>u</u></strong>nder the tables!!!<br />
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After our <strong><u>u</u></strong>n<strong><u>u</u></strong>sual art work was finished we gathered in one of our "large" rooms and played a little <strong><u>u</u></strong>nder the table game.<br />
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Everyone seemed to enjoy crawling <strong><u>u</u></strong>nder the tables and over the chairs! <br />
This was our "U" week (you know . . . for United States of America)! We had to eat something fun . . . red, white and blue cookies? NOPE! Uhhhh . . . how about <strong><u>U</u></strong>gly cookies! YEP, that sounds better! We headed to the kitchen . . . <br />
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we put drops of EVERY color food coloring we had into the bottom of little cups. Next everyone got a spoonful of vanilla icing. Here comes the fun part . . . . . we stirred it up and spread it on our cookies!</div>
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Thank you for stopping by! I hope you come back again. Next week is our Dr. Seuss week and I'm sure it is going to be even more fun!</div>
Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-15702576644762240952014-02-11T10:08:00.001-06:002014-02-11T10:41:39.743-06:00Valentine's 2014Wait a minute! What in the world am I doing posting to my blog on at 10:30 a.m. on a Tuesday?? Am I sick? Is it a school holiday? Am I playing hokey from school? No, no and no! Actually, we are having ANOTHER ice day! Unlike <a href="http://mrskarensclass.blogspot.com/2014/01/my-24-hours-preschool-day.html">last time</a>, we received advanced notice and cancelled school for the day! So, I thought I would take this opportunity to show everyone some of our <em>wonderful</em> Valentine fun!<br />
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I'm going to start with an activity that had <em>everyone</em> and I do mean <em>everyone</em> thinking I had lost my mind! One of our letter this week is "H" and of course all the guys in my class loved telling me that "<strong>h</strong>ammer" starts with "H". Hmmmmm . . . . ok, let's <strong>h</strong>ammer!?!?!?! We made <strong>h</strong>ammered <strong>h</strong>earts!<br />
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We started with a real honest to goodness <strong>h</strong>ammer (thank you to my sweet hubby for allowing me to take it to school) and some chalk. I sprayed the <strong>h</strong>eart with a little water and laid the <strong>h</strong>eart on a cutting board. The children added pieces of chalk and then we covered it with wax paper. <br />
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Then, I gave the child a <strong>h</strong>ammer (and moved my fingers)!<br />
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WOW! This was fun! AND loud! <br />
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After we <strong>h</strong>ammered the <strong>h</strong>eart, I sprayed our creations with <strong>h</strong>airspray (oh my goodness the "H" words) to keep the chalk from rubbing off. Now this was a "H" week the children will not forget for a while!<br />
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We worked several days on our BIG Valentine surprise for our parents. First we started off by painting a large piece of white construction paper with different colors. Now, that doesn't sound very fun does it? Well, it does when you paint it with "super fun" paint brushes . . . .<br />
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Everyone had a great time making our beautiful paper. After it dried, we cut it into small pieces<br />
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and glued them to a giant heart.<br />
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OOH! While our hearts were drying we wrote a little message to our parents. Then, glue on our giant hearts.<br />
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But of course we did not stop here. We took everyone picture holding their art work.</div>
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HOLD ON A MINUTE! We're not done yet . . . . now we need a frame for this amazing photo. My sweet friend and former co-worker, Martha, messaged me the other day on Facebook (yes, I'm on Facebook!) and asked me if I wanted some old silk roses. WOW, she knows me ssssoooo well! She arrived at school with the BIGGEST bag of silk roses I have ever seen! I realized these would make our Valentine frames perfect.</div>
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I ripped the petals off faster than you could say "Valentines" and we were set!</div>
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The children added the lovely petals to our craft stick frames.<br />
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I picked up our lovely pictures and we will add them to our frames whenever we get back to school!<br />
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Finally, no valentine's week is complete without our wonderful "Dancing Heart" girl and "Dancing Heart" boy. I've been doing these for several years now and they are always a hit.</div>
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Oh, what a day we had last Friday! Since the opening ceremonies for the Olympics were to be televised Friday night, we held our very own "Preschool Olympics" at school! Everyone walked in to find our classroom transformed into the . . . . </div>
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We had giant hula-hoops suspended from the ceiling (more on that later) and we referred to our classroom as "the Olympic Village" all day long. We started the day by talking about the Olympic Torch and it's wonderful journey from Athens, Greece to Sochi, Russia. Our art project of the day was to make our very own "Olympic Torch". Everyone got busy cutting strips of red, yellow and orange scrap paper. </div>
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an "Olympic Torch"! Everyone was so proud of their torches!<br />
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The rest of our day was spent playing wonderful Olympic games. To be honest, I'm not sure "our" games are actually considered "sports", but they were fun! First, we ran through the halls passing our "Olympic Torch" to one another. Next, we played our version of "curling". We threw bean bags onto an old hopscotch mat. The object of our game was to tell everyone what number you landed on. Ahhh . . . reviewing numbers!<br />
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This sweet man knows me all too well so he brought them home. I've been using them for various project throughout the years and I thought they would make the perfect "torch". We filled them with <a href="http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/cheetos-crunchy-cheese.html">Cheetos</a> and everyone agreed, they looked like our "Olympic Torch" and they were yummy!</div>
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Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-33651566786378419502014-01-31T10:31:00.002-06:002014-01-31T10:31:04.116-06:00My 24+ Hours Preschool Day<br />
On January 28, 2014 something very strange happened in Central Alabama - <strong>WE UNEXPECTEDLY HAD SNOW</strong>. Soon the fallen snow turned to <strong><span style="color: blue;">ICE</span></strong> and a lot of it. According to all the newscast our area was just going to get a "dusting". FUN! But around 10:00 a.m. heavy snow started to fall. By 11:00 a.m. the ground was covered and the streets were icing over. Schools were starting to close but it was too late. Cars and buses were having trouble driving on the ice. Parents were desperately trying to get to their children. Then it happened . . . roads became impassable. Our little school is located in a large church on top of a very steep mountain. And then things started to get strange. The road in front of our school became a ski slope, cars begin to slip and slide into each other or into a ditch. Now reality is setting in, we may be here for the night . . . with our students! AHHHHH!!!! Our director, Mrs. Turner, suddenly went into "disaster" mode. The Department Homeland Security <strong>could not</strong> have handled it any better. Her motto was, <em>"do whatever you have to do to keep everyone happy"</em> and we did. We watched a movie, ate a snack, played games, ate another snack, sang songs and then we realized it was only 4:00 p.m. Parents were calling telling us they were trying to get to us, others made it to our school but could not leave. Soon we were told that the lovely church ladies were making us dinner!! YEA MORE FOOD! We all formed the "largest preschool line in the world" (yes, that is what we called it) and headed up to the church fellowship hall for a wonderful spaghetti supper. YUM! After dinner we played more games, ate more snacks and <em>tried</em> to get everyone to sleep. Lucky for us, we had the greatest group of students EVER! By about 10:00 p.m. everyone was sound asleep, except for the teachers. If you really want to know your co-workers, unexpectedly spend the night with them. By morning some teachers had gotten a couple of hours sleep. Me? Nope! I sat around playing with an I-Pad and pretending to be a security officer. Soon it was daylight (although since we do not have windows we just looked at the clock) and the students were starting to wake up. An amazing group of men from the church cooked up a wonderful pancake breakfast! DOUBLE YUM! For the next 4 hours we continued to entertain all the children as they were slowly picked up by their parents. We painted, we ran, we ate a snack, we played indoor basketball and of course we did a fun science experiment. I was lucky, around 11:00 a.m. a four-wheel drive vehicle was headed to my neighborhood and I hitched a ride. I am told that everyone else was home by mid-afternoon. <br />
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All-in-all it wasn't too bad, but I'm really way too old to be staying up all night. So, here are a few things that I have learned (in no particular order) from "The Great Southern Snowy School Sleep-over of 2014".<br />
- I understand the song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk1mxUKiTN8">Find Out Who Your Friends Are</a> SO MUCH better now!<br />
- Deodorant and toothpaste are one of life's biggest necessities.<br />
- I really do like to sleep.<br />
- There are some people who can go without sleep and still look very nice. I however, am not one of them.<br />
- Parents will do ANYTHING to get to their children.<br />
- There are some parents who have raised <strong>AMAZING</strong> children. Lucky for me, they were the ones stranded at school with me!<br />
- I miss my husband and sweet dogs when I am not with them. Yes, even after other 30 years together, I still WANT to be with my hubby.<br />
- I cry when I am tired too.<br />
- There are good people in this world. I am so grateful to those wonderful men who came to our school and took people home.<br />
- Speaking of men, I need to talk to some of my Moms. They NEED to know how wonderful and helpful their husbands are.<br />
- Southern people DO need a lot of advance warning when it comes to snow.<br />
- I will no longer complain when schools are cancelled, delayed or dismissed early because of weather. Caution is a good thing.<br />
- A change of clothes at school should be required for teachers too.<br />
- <a href="http://www.pepperidgefarm.com/productlanding.aspx?catid=722">Goldfish</a> are really good when you are hungry.<br />
- People are generally very nice and appreciative.<br />
- I need to keep more "ready-to-eat" food in my freezer.<br />
- If you have to be stranded in the ice/snow, a church is a GREAT place.<br />
- Multiple bathrooms are a good thing with a large group of people.<br />
- Children are tougher than adults.<br />
- I am not as young as I use to be.<br />
- I do not like the taste of coffee.<br />
AND finally, after months of praying and thinking about retirement, I have come to the conclusion that I'm not ready to leave the wonderful people I work with and for and of course, I'm not ready to leave the students.<br />
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Thanks for checking on us! Next week starts our big unit on "Valentine's Day". I'm not sure if I can make it as exciting as the last few days, but I'm sure going to try!Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-39369108697465320922014-01-26T09:50:00.000-06:002014-01-26T09:50:00.883-06:00Out of This World FunWOW! I've said it before and I'll say it again (and again!), I love this unit! Each and every day I am blown away by what my class can do! At the beginning of our unit on the Solar System, I assign each child a planet name. As we go through our week, I call them by their planet name and tell them something special about themselves. By the end of the week the children not only can tell me about THEIR planet, but also about all the others. WOW! Make it fun and they WILL learn!<br />
<br />We started our unit on the solar system by talking about the center of our universe, the sun. One of our favorite activities is "squishy" painting. First, I cut circles out of poster board (you can use cereal boxes too). Each child squirts on the different paints. We used red, orange, yellow, gold and bronze. Next comes the fun part . . . we cover the paint filled circle with clear plastic wrap<em> (WARNING: If you use CHEAP plastic wrap you will want to use two pieces, trust me!)</em> and then we SQUISH! The results are beautiful. I have a large piece of black construction paper with a blob of glue waiting and I carefully place the very wet "sun" onto it. This is where I end up getting messy but the children are still clean. The children add the sun rays and the results are truly amazing!<br />
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We had to have a snack that was "out of this world" so we headed to the kitchen to whip up some fun solar system cookies. <br />
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It was easy, but fun! We mixed up some yellow icing and added it to a small cookie to make our sun. Then we added our nine planets <em>(YES, I said nine! We decided not to leave the dwarf planet, Pluto out of the fun!)</em>. Yummy and fun!<br />
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I really love this next art project! I call it our name rockets. Each child picks out colorful squares and writes one letter of their name in each square. This is a wonderful activity to practice our writing and math skills. I love the end result, especially the "fire" and little stars!<br />
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During our <a href="http://mrskarensclass.blogspot.com/2014/01/winter-week-part-2.html">Winter Week</a>, I took some pictures of the students to make our special snow people. I just had two copies printed off so we could all become astronauts!<br />
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Sorry, for the big ugly square, but I have to protect the identity of my sweet students. The moon was made with sand paper rubbings. I love that my sweet little "S" had to make her flag correctly!<br />
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Since our letter this week was "J" we decided that we needed to fly to Jupiter! And fly we did. We spent all day Wednesday talking about our largest planet and making a rocket ship out of different shapes to take us there.<br />
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My surprise for the week came in the form of sweet "S" yelling from across the room. I hurdled two children and chair to see that she had written her name with the magnetic letters!</div>
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No fun Solar System Week would be complete without moon rocks. On Thursday we turned "regular, old earth rocks" in fabulous moon rocks.</div>
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All you need are some good sized rocks, gray paint and scrap pieces of black tissue paper. Instant moon rocks! Be prepared, these take several days to dry.</div>
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Ahhhhhh . . . Friday is always the most fun day of our week and I did not want to disappoint anyone. We started by mixing flour and white paint. </div>
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we dumped our mixture onto a large circle cut from cereal boxes and moved it all around. SUPER messy but SUPER fun! While the children were washing their hands <em>(PLEASE be careful of your sink if and when you do this. This can clog up a sink.)</em>, I glued their moon down to a piece of black construction paper. Then the children added stars made from silver and gold glitter paint.</div>
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I was so amazed with my class this week and wanted to end with something really special. The first thing we did was head to kitchen to make some "moon sand". My recipe is very simple, sand and cornstarch. I know some of you may want to know the exact ratio but sorry, I just dump it in. The children didn't care, it was fun.</div>
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<em><span style="color: blue;">A little note about the sand. When I bought the sand, it was wet. No problem I thought, it will dry. But, here in Alabama we have had multiple days below the freezing mark. So if you buy wet sand PLEASE don't leave it in your car for several days . . . it will freeze! Oh well, good thing we have microwaves!!!</span></em></div>
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Our art project on Monday was very special! We turned ourselves into snow people. Lucky for me my local Walgreens had a sale on their photo developing and believe you me, I took advantage of it! <br />
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Aren't these the cutest things you have EVER seen??? Of course the snow was made with our fingers. Boy, the Moms loved these!<br />
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Everyone got to pick out a "snowball" and read what was written on it. Next, (here comes the fun part!) you got to "throw" the "snowball" into the . . . .</div>
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We could have played this game for hours! It was such a big success that we left him in our room and everyone played the game by themselves! Now, that was a fun game!</div>
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It has been very cold here but remember, our school is in the "DEEP" south, so snow is something we hardly ever see. But that didn't stop us from making more snowballs! A little baking soda and water and suddenly . . . .</div>
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snowballs!!!!</div>
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Okay, now here comes the fun part . . . . everyone took turns dropping their snowballs (or snowman) into a big bowl of vinegar!<br />
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Sizzling Snowballs!!</div>
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I am always looking for fun ways to help us review our shapes so during the winter months I made us some cute little "shape penguins"! The children have had a lot of fun playing with them. The star penguin is their favorite.</div>
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We read the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Snowballs-Lois-Ehlert/dp/0152020950">Snowballs</a> by Lois Ehlert and my class loved it. It is a wonderful book about making a snowman from found objects. Well, we had to make our very own snowmen/women from some things we found. Aren't they wonderful?!?!?!</div>
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Each child carefully picked out all the parts of their snowman/snowlady. Just a note, we did not use our regular school glue, we used some Aleene's Tacky Glue that was left over from Christmas. We had a great time!<br />
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Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-41067799709658325102014-01-12T10:07:00.002-06:002014-01-12T10:07:18.365-06:00Baby It's Cold Outside!The great state of Alabama, as well as most of the country, has been <span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><strong><em>COLD </em></strong></span><span style="color: black;">lately! School started back for us on Tuesday! But, due to the extreme cold, our school, like so many others, started an hour later. This was <strong>NOT</strong>, repeat <strong>NOT</strong> a good way to welcome the students back from Christmas break. Now, I know my students do not know how to tell time, but their little internal clocks were all off. It took most of Tuesday to get things "normal" in my classroom. It was fun listening to everyone tell me what they received for Christmas. We giggled and laughed most of the day and listened to some "regular" music (that's what "T" called it since I didn't have Christmas music playing). Our first fun art project for 2014 will be kept for our upcoming art show. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">We started by letting the children cut some white construction paper for our snow. Next, we glued our snow onto a piece of blue construction paper and added our hand/arm print for the tree and our palm prints for our little snowman/girl. It took just a few minutes for that the dry and then comes the FUN part, we added the snow. Earlier that morning, I found an old tube from a roll of plastic wrap and covered it with hot glue.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> We rolled the tube in white paint and then rolled it onto our paper.</span><br />
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After everything dried, we mounted it to a large piece of black construction paper and added window panes! A WONDERFUL Winter Window!</div>
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Tuesday was bitter cold down here in Alabama and since we aren't accustom to this kind of temperature we forced to stay inside for our recess time. YUCK! Well, not really! I saw on one of my <em>favorite</em> sites <a href="http://www.teachpreschool.org/">Teach Preschool</a> where the children were <a href="http://www.teachpreschool.org/2013/03/weaving-through-a-rainbow/">weaving through a rainbow.</a> I loved it of course (because I love everything on this website!) and wanted to try it. Here is my version, we call it "Sneaking Through a Snowstorm"! </div>
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No fun winter themed week would be complete without talking about PENGUINS!!!! I must say, our penguins are very cute. His/her fat little belly was made white by sticking different white objects to contact paper.</div>
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Our Thursday was spent talking about polar bears! Of course we read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Polar-Bear-What-You-Hear/dp/0805053883">Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear</a> by one of our favorite authors, Eric Carle. Our polar bear craft was taken right off of <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/191825265348108574/">PINTEREST</a> . It was very simple but oh so much fun. We really gave our fine motor skills a workout.</div>
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Since we were talking about polar bears, we had to play a polar bear game, right??? Meet "Pete, the Polar Bear" . . . .<br />
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He was made from a vacuum cleaner box (don't worry, I didn't get a vacuum for Christmas! LOL). I covered him in white butcher paper, added ears, eyes, a nose and cut a hole for his mouth. We talked about how polar bears like to eat fish, so I made us some little fish to feed him.<br />
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All the little fish were turned upside down on the floor. They looked like they were swimming. Each child picked out a fish and told us what written on it. If you got it right, you got to feed the fish to the polar bear. SUPER FUN!!!!! I think we could have done this for an hour!<br />
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Our "Fabulous Fun Friday" was one of my favorites. We started the day painting with ice! On Wednesday, we all went to the kitchen to make ice paint. Everyone stirred up little cups of paint and water. We covered them with foil and stuck a popsicle stick in it. On Friday, they were ready, no instructions were needed.<br />
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This green ice paint was made with glitter paint!</div>
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No "Fabulous Fun Friday" would be complete without a little "cooking" time! This Friday we made a snowman cookie. <br />
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Everyone loved him! We used one white powdered sugar donut (we cut it half),<br />
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added M&M eyes and a candy corn nose! MMMMMM. . . . it was so good!</div>
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I love watching the students <em>carefully</em> pick out their triangles. Then the excitement in their eyes as they write each letter of their name. Finally, the sheer <em>joy </em>as they glue everything together. This activity always gives the children a wonderful feeling of success!<br />
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Our Christmas gift to our parents are always a hit. This year I actually had a couple of parents "ask" if we would be making our special ornament. That was seriously a proud moment for me! Here is our ornament.<br />
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We dress the girls as angels and the boys are shepherds. The children always love painting their picture frames. Then, we have to make our wrapping paper! Since it is "B" week we use balloons</div>
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It was a little messy, but it was a lot of fun!<br />
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Here is another oldie, but goodie . . . our puzzle wreath! Everyone glues on some old puzzle pieces to our circle. It is always fun to watch the children "put the ugly side" up. They think it is funny that we are not using the "pretty side".<br />
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After the paint dries we added little red sequins. and a pretty red ribbon.<br />
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We have worked very hard all year on our scissor cutting skills so everyone was ready for our next project. First we cut strips of red paper and glued them on to a large circle. Next, we added our hand prints and the results were wonderful!</div>
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Our next couple of projects really helped us to explain to the students the <em>real</em> meaning of Christmas. The parents have not seen the first project! It is being saved for our big end of the year art show. I love this and children enjoyed it too. The children enjoyed making the "sand" with some old make-up brushes and the star was painted with glitter paint!</div>
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Each child tore pieces of different colored green construction paper into small pieces and glued them on a triangle shape cut from poster board. This was a great way for us to use up some scrap paper, review our shapes and work on our fine motor skills all at the same time! We even used our fingers to make little glitter paint ornaments!</div>
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Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-75471725435614955422013-11-23T15:35:00.001-06:002014-01-11T13:18:16.344-06:00Let's Talk Turkey!First of all, let me issue a big 'ole apology for being away from my blog so long. We had a wedding at our house! Let me introduce you to our family . . .<br />
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My husband, Bill, Me, our son Jay and his lovely bride Brooklyn!</div>
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I plan to go back and play catch-up, hopefully during the Christmas holidays. But, for now let's talk about Thanksgiving!! One of our very first projects this year was special. Last spring our Director of Children's Minister, Mrs. Brenda Clark did a little house cleaning. It was like "Christmas in April" for me. I found so many things little treasures! One of my favorites was several packages of very "strange" looking artificial leaves.<br />
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Trust me, NO ONE would want to use these for leaves! But, I did want to use them for feathers!!! It was so much fun letting the children pick out their very own combination of leaves. If you look closely, you may notice that the turkey is made from shapes. The body is an oval, the eyes of course are circles, the beak is a diamond shape that magically turns into a triangle when you close it and finally those cute little feet are stars. I think he is so cute!</div>
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THANK YOU MRS. BRENDA!!!</div>
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Like most teachers, I love new supplies! Look what showed up in our supply closet . . . </div>
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This is some very good stuff and the children love it! It isn't as messy as regular glue and a lot more fun to "dab" on.</div>
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Our next project came to us by one of my former student's Mom. We loved it!</div>
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We used vegetable rotini. I think I like it because as with most project, the process was so much fun. It didn't take long for everyone to realize that it was fun to "dip" the pasta in the glue. Yep, it was messy - very messy, but lots and lots of fun. By the way, walking around all day making turkey sounds NEVER gets old for a bunch of 3 and 4 year olds! We have had so much fun gobbling around our classroom.</div>
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Our next project is an old favorite. I say old because we have actually done it before and if you are a regular reader of my blog, you know I like to add new things each year. But, this is just too cute and fun. The children got so excited painting the toilet tissue rolls. I kept asking them what they thought we were making and I loved their answers. I got everything from "trees" to "a dirty truck". </div>
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The feathers are their hand prints and the feet are stars (again). The turkeys actually stand up so I hope at least one or two of these little guys will be the centerpiece of someone's Thanksgiving table. </div>
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Okay, you know those good 'ole hand print turkeys that we have made for years and years?? Well, we have given them a little twist.</div>
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Since we are 3 and 4 years old, we need something more than just a hand print! The children had the best time putting beads onto a pipe cleaner. I love watching them pick out their favorite colors. Can you tell what color "B-man" likes . . .</div>
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Our letter last week was "M" so this just seemed perfect. We are reaching for the moon and the stars. YES, with the exception of cutting out the moon and the children's bodies), these were all done completely by the students themselves! I saw a similar art project on a children's museum website last year. I'm sorry that I don't have the original art piece (it was done by an adult artist) but if you do, please let me know and I will give them credit.<br />
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NOTE: A big thank you to Katy Mitchell! She lead me to the original picture I saw. Here it is <a href="http://www.artsonia.com/museum/art.asp?id=17196365&exhibit=486981&gallery=y">Artsonia</a>. THANK YOU so much Katy!!!<br />
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This project was really very simple but the children were all so proud of themselves. I loved watching each child finish their art and look at it. They were so happy. I hope you will try something like this with your class and if you do, please send me a picture, I would love to see it!<br />
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Thanks for dropping by!Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-71500854603832737502013-10-19T14:49:00.001-05:002013-10-19T14:49:39.513-05:00Transportation and "T" WeekAHHHHH! "T" Week! This is an exciting week for us and yes, it is ONE of my favorites. Let me show you some of the terrific stuff we did during our "T"ransportation Week!<br />
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We started off the week reviewing the shapes we have been talking about and making our wonderful shape car! This ended up being more fun than I expected because everyone got so excited when they recognized the shapes. I know this is simple, but it was very fun and effective.<br />
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Tuesday is a day when I try and have "extra-fun" art for us because we do not have any of our "special" activities (i.e. Spanish, Music, Chapel) and that can make for a long day. This Tuesday really was extra special because we started our day with <strong>SCISSORS</strong>!!!! I have to admit that this class <em>LOVES</em> to cut with scissors and they are very good! We cut and cut and made these adorable little sailboats.<br />
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Of course everyone got to pick their favorite colors! While our sailboats were drying we started working on making some water for them to float in.<br />
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The water was really fun to make because we just squirted blue, green and white paint onto the paper and started mixing it up! WOW, the results were amazing! I love projects like this because the children are so proud of them. Here are the final results!<br />
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Everyone had such a good time all week practicing our "T" sounds. We decided our favorite "T" word was turtle so we decided to make one.</div>
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He is very simple but look closely . . . .<br />
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there is a tic-tac-toe board on his back!!!</div>
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Our Fabulous Fun Friday was extra special this week! We headed to kitchen was all of the plastic trucks and cars that I could find.</div>
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We had a great lesson in sharing and mixing colors! Can you see the green????</div>
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Now, finally my favorite part of "T" week began . . . "T"ubes and "T"ape!!! OH MY!! This is the one of the best days ever! All we did was collect lots, lots and lots of paper towel, toilet paper and even wrapping paper tubes.</div>
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(This is only a small portion of the tubes.)</div>
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My friend and co-worker, Mrs. Christi and I cut long sections of masking tape and the imagination took over!</div>
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Some were small, some were tall, some were just plain HUGE! No one cared, we just had a great day. My favorite part of this activity is seeing the children's faces as they proudly take their creations to their parents at the end of the day!!!!!</div>
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WOW, this was really a terrific week. Thank you so much for visiting with us and I hope you stop back by again.</div>
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Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-74479183866530365272013-09-29T09:37:00.000-05:002013-09-29T09:37:16.602-05:00Church and "L" WeekI apologize for being so behind on my post. Between school and this little thing we are putting together called a WEDDING, I am a little S T R E T C H E D thin. But, I'm playing catch-up this weekend and I hope you enjoy some of these fun activities.<br />
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Our Church and "L" week was a lot of fun. We started the week working on one of my favorite projects, a lizard. Because we have a "L"andon in our class, we of course called him "Landon the Lizard". <br />
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I love the little spots on him. They were made by the children with dot paint. He is a wonderful and easy way to introduce the letter "L".<br />
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I love sensory activities and I love for us to use our hands. I could not resist letter my class make a "squishy" lollipop. "Squishy" painting is one of my favorites. No one really gets dirty (except for me) and I love to see the children's faces when they mix the paint all together. We start with a large circle cut from poster board. The children pick out their favorite colors.<br />
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I cover the circle with clear plastic wrap (note: this is NOT the time to buy cheap plastic wrap and if you do, use 2 layers). <br />
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Here comes the fun part . . . squish!!<br />
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What magically appears is beautiful.<br />
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We let them dry overnight (some actually took longer) and glued a large craft stick to the back. INSTANT LOLLIPOP! Of course everyone went home with their very own lollipop to eat too!<br />
One of our 3 year old teachers found these <a href="http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fitm%2FTiger-Pops-Bulk-Bag-120-count-Colombina-Lollipops-Suckers-Tigers-Fruit-Pop-%2F390531847517%3Fpt%3DLH_DefaultDomain_0%26hash%3Ditem5aed83155d&h=0&w=0&sz=1&tbnid=ENbBpq5GQEw-eM&tbnh=172&tbnw=292&zoom=1&docid=oHaRwR0NMiMfmM&ei=aSpIUsGxH7e84APb2YAw&ved=0CAMQsCU">Tiger Pops</a> at the local Dollar Store and they looked just like our lollipops!<br />
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Since this is our "Church" week and our school is one of the largest churches (<a href="http://www.shades.org/">Shades Mountain Baptist Church</a>) in our area, we took a wonderful tour. Here is my friend, Mrs. Christi showing the children the BIG stained glass window (I may get in trouble for posting her picture. But I'm checking to see if she really reads my blog.)<br />
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Since we saw the church's big window, we headed back downstairs to make our own! We are VERY blessed at our school to get to use all the church's wonderful resources. One of the BEST is the large commercial Ellison machines and dies.</div>
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We have a good supply of shapes to choose from and one of them is a beautiful window. I <em>carefully</em> lay the cut out shapes onto a piece of clear contact paper and the children have a wonderful time cutting, tearing and placing their favorite colors of tissue paper onto the window.</div>
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When they are finished, we cover it with another piece of clear contact paper and cut away the excess. Now, it becomes an amazing piece of art. Here it is laying on our light box.</div>
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My class is doing very well with their scissor skills. Each week we try and spend time improving our skills. This week we worked on "Larry the Lion". </div>
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Everyone cut their own mane! Isn't he adorable! We also worked on drawing "l"ines by using a ruler to draw his whiskers.</div>
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A little close up view of our cutting!</div>
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We used the Ellison machine again but this time we used the negative portion of the die cut (don't worry, the actually die cut will be used later!). Instead of using tissue paper, we used colored cellophane that my wonderful director, Mrs. Cynthia ordered for us. </div>
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Once again, I laid the cross onto a piece of clear contact paper. Then, each child carefully selected their favorite colors and added them to the cut out.<br />
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Once the cut out was covered we had another beautiful art piece. </div>
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I didn't send the cross or the stained glass window home until Friday because we used them during our weekly science experiments.</div>
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On Monday we sent home a little note that asked everyone to bring a flashlight to school on Friday. Of course everyone was so excited on Friday morning to show me their flashlights. Our entire Friday was devoted to exploring the "L"ights! We started by looking at our beautiful stained glass window and cross on a <a href="http://www.photosig.com/articles/1586/image1.jpg">light box</a>. The light box was more fun I imagined. We looked at all difference in the tissue paper window and the cellophane cross. We looked at other things too, including our hands, leaves and even one little girls long hair! Next, we all headed to the kitchen to find our big table covered with butcher paper. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough real rulers for everyone so we used big craft sticks and drew "L"ines!</div>
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Now, what does this have to do with LIGHTS . . . .well . . . look what happens when you turn the lights out and add a couple of black lights??????? <br />
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AHHHHH!!! We loved looking at every one's drawing, our clothes and especially our teeth! A special "THANK YOU" to our sweet Assistant Director, Mrs. Melissa for finding us the black lights!<br />
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Next, we headed up the hallway for some flashlight fun! <br />
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Now as sad as it was, our fun day was coming to an end. But we really didn't want it too, so we headed to the kitchen to eat our lunch under the black lights!!! <br />
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Mrs. Christi and I had one last surprise for our "Fabulous Fun Friday" . . . . Glow in the Dark Jello!!! Oh my! You can find it on my <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/keh9/school-ideas-science-recipes/">PINTEREST</a> board. <br />
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Yes, it really did glow in the dark! Although I'm not too sure everyone enjoyed the taste, but we had a great time. THANKS for stopping by. I hope you drop by again to see what we are up to!</div>
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Next, we added big green blobs right on top.<br />
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We added legs and little antennas and let them dry. Afterwards, we added cute little eyes, a nose and of course, a happy smile! </div>
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I just love these little guys, don't you? I especially love the fact that they were 100% made by the child. This is a little pet peeve of mine and I'm sure I will be mentioning it from time to time<em> (sorry!). </em></div>
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Another great book that we read this past week was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_You_Give_a_Mouse_a_Cookie">If You Give a Mouse a Cookie</a> by the wonderful Laura Numeroff. I think this is one of my all time favorite books. It should be, I've read it enough over the years! We made a little chocolate cookie and added it to a "prompting note" to our parents. It was easy, but it was fun.</div>
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I hope you can tell that the "chocolate chips" are our fingerprints.</div>
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This one made me giggle. She said the mouse was hiding!</div>
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On of my special individual activities this week is our magnet box. I was a little concerned about getting it out so early in the year. I wasn't sure it we had people that put things in their mouths (something I am guessing is not a concern for Harvard professors!). But, I kept a very close on it and everything went smoothly. One of my students loved it. He loved making a chain with the magnets.</div>
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During the week our circle time discussions generally were about our dogs and cats. There was one day when we discussed what animal(s) we would like to have IF we could have any animal in the entire world. Alligators and crocodiles were 2 of the favorites - YIKES! It did make for a fun and lively circle time. </div>
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Our letter of the week was "C" so we HAD to make a cat. Now if you have read my blog before, you know that I big on giving the children choices. Making our cat was no different, everyone decided on what color their cat would be. First we painted a large paper plate and let it dry. The next day we came back and cut some whiskers (it was "C" week after all!). Most of the children had never cut with scissors before and most of them were quick to tell me they weren't suppose to use scissors. After a little reassuring them that it was okay, they went to work.</div>
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We added the freshly cut whiskers, ears, eyes and a little nose to make the cutest little cats!</div>
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On the back of each cat was a little note to the parents. It said, "Guess who cut the whiskers?". Everyone could hardly wait to show their parents!<br />
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On Thursday, we headed to kitchen to begin our weekly science experiment. I had gone to my local <a href="http://www.publix.com/Home.do?gclid=CPrWu4qOzrkCFSdp7Aodqy8Aqw">Publix</a> grocery store on Wednesday afternoon looking for fresh carnations (another great "C" word!). The sweet manager finally located some for me way in the back of the store cooler. It was a large bunch, big enough for EVERYONE to have flower! We have a very sweet lady at the church who brings up empty Boost bottles.<br />
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She is so nice, she even takes the labels off of them for us! They were the perfect size and shape for our experiment. Each child selected his/her favorite color and we mixed the food coloring and water together. Next, we carefully added our little flowers and waited . . . and waited . . . . and waited . . . <br />
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Look very closely, can you see the colors starting to creep into the flower?? We sent them home on Friday and asked the parents to put them back into some colored water. I cannot wait to hear how they are doing.<br />
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We read several stories about dogs this past week and one of the other teachers shared this next project with me. It was really cute and easy.<br />
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I cut out the body, head and 2 ears. The children had a great time painting them whatever color they wanted. After they dried, we assembled them and added the cute little eyes. One little girl was so excited, she now had a "real" dog of her very own!<br />
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Friday is always a fun day at school. I want everyone to leave WANTING to come back. After this week, I bet they ALL do! We start our day with our Spanish class and everyone has so much fun with Mrs. Stacy. Then we headed to kitchen to cook-up a little more science fun! Our school is very good at using recycled products. There is nothing that makes me happier then doing a project that cost little or nothing. I found our big box of used and unloved crayons.<br />
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A lot of them already had the paper off so I just had to separate them. The students picked out their favorite colors and put them into our little homemade bowl. <br />
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While the crayons melted slowly in the oven, we started working on our yummy "color-cake". I mixed up 2 boxes of white cake mix (thanks again to Publix!) and each child got a large cup filled with batter. Hold on, here comes the fun . . . . everyone got to add their favorite color of food coloring to the batter. We spooned it into a cake pan<br />
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I'm trying a little experiment myself. On Friday's we are doing some free art. This has no instructions and the children just have fun. This week we had a lot of fun using crayons that we made ourselves! INSTANT GRATIFICATION!!!</div>
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What a fun and yummy way to end our week!</div>
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Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-56314043162250617412013-09-08T16:09:00.001-05:002013-09-08T16:10:18.088-05:00New School Year 2013-14The 2013-14 school year has officially begun! It is quite a difference from last year. I went from having 6 students last year to 9 this year. I must confess that I really like a large number of students. I know, most people think I'm totally nuts when I say that but to me there is so much less fussing with a large class. As always, I held my breath the first day with my students. Most of them already knew me because I had their brother/sister in my classroom or they had seen me at school last year. A few were new to our school so I prepared for the worst. I pulled out all the "extra" fun items from last year, I guess I was going for the "WOW" factor and it must have worked because we had NO tears!!! HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY!!!!!! All in all my classroom is pretty much the same as last year. Here are a few pictures.<br />
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This is my new birthday wall.</div>
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When the child has a birthday </div>
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we will add another candle to their cupcake.</div>
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This is our "Art Gallery".</div>
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We hang up very special pieces of art.</div>
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A close-up of our "Art Gallery" sign.</div>
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I love the lettering! </div>
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My sweet son and his sweet bride-to-be gave me a Cricut Imagine last year</div>
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and boy have I used it!</div>
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I'm extremely lucky because my classroom is so large. We have plenty of space to spread out. Heck, I'm not lucky, I'm blessed. I work with the most amazing people everyday. I never say, "I've got to go to work", I say "I'm going to school". Work is something you DO, school is something I WANT to do. Okay, okay enough of that mushy stuff, let's see what we did last week!</div>
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We really don't have a theme or set curriculum for the first week. We call it our "Getting to Know You" week. We spent the first day taking pictures and talking, mostly talking. I always try and pull out some paint the first day, because well, everyone loves to paint! Of course we made an apple, but ours was a little different. As one child said, "it looks like someone ate it already!". It made me giggle.</div>
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I hope you can tell, we used our finger prints for the seeds!</div>
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On Thursday, we made a giant apple tree! Again, we used our precious fingers for the apples.</div>
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Here is the special little poem at the bottom of the page.</div>
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Friday was a very special day! It was our first "official" Fabulous Fun Friday and we had so much fun!!! We made our very special "Friendship Pudding". Now, if you have never made Friendship Pudding you are really missing out on some fun. All you need is a couple of packages of instant pudding, milk and an empty container with a lid. This year we used chocolate pudding and an empty Maxwell House Coffee tin. I covered the tin with some red (our color for next week) construction paper and we added the pudding mix and milk. Everyone took turns shaking up our concoction. As we practiced sharing we also practice learning our names. It was so much fun, by the end of the day we were all friends. </div>
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While the pudding was setting up in the refrigerator we worked a little more on our sharing. We covered our big kitchen table with butcher paper and everyone got big cups of paint. I was careful not to give anyone their "favorite" color. There was several very sad faces, but I had a plan. Everyone got busy painting their masterpieces and then the fun began. We started swapping the paint!!! Next thing you know, everyone was calling out their friend's name asking if they would swap paint. It was so much fun! Here is our masterpiece! </div>
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Of course the grand finale of our day was eating our WONDERFUL Friendship Pudding. It was a great first week! </div>
Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4426520473746944166.post-8688350218610092892013-08-21T07:26:00.001-05:002013-08-21T07:26:14.986-05:00The 2013-14 School Year Begins Today!I can't believe it! Where did my summer go??? I'm excited to start a new year but at the same time I'm a little sad leaving my sweet hubby after enjoying three fun months with him. Oh well, my car is packed and I'm on my way!!!! I can't wait to see what this year brings! Wish me luck!Mrs. Karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07008584625935743130noreply@blogger.com2