Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Light Box Station Creation!
I can't believe I almost forgot to post this picture too! I am so excited to use this with our three students with vision impairments this year... it is a lightbox that Jane helped me attach to an art easel station from our preschool classroom that was no longer being used! How cool is this!?? Thanks Jane and Rick for your idea of using the straps - it is going to be Fantastic! I just added this as a pin on my pinterest page - I love the storage underneath for all of the overlays and cool things that the consultant brought us to use!
Zero the Hero came to visit!
Found this idea on Pinterest, so I don't really know which teacher blog to credit (sorry!) Anyway, I fell in LOVE with Zero the Hero while I was planning for this week so I just had to try it out... Today was the 10th day of the school year, and Zero the Hero made his first appearance - he'll be back every tenth day to help us count to 100! The story is that he "holds the ones place to make room for ten" - place value is a tough math concept for most of my kiddos, so I'm thinking this will help!
Here is our own Zero the Hero! Isn't he CUTE!??!
(I took the pic in my bathroom mirror so you could see the cape - no judging my messy-ness, I was busy pinning!) haha!
After we read the online story about Zero the Hero, the kids made their own paper versions by following directions for gluing cut-outs and adding details - here are a few of them!
Now I don't know who is more excited for Zero's next visit on Day #20 - me or the kids!
:)Amanda
Here is our own Zero the Hero! Isn't he CUTE!??!
(I took the pic in my bathroom mirror so you could see the cape - no judging my messy-ness, I was busy pinning!) haha!
After we read the online story about Zero the Hero, the kids made their own paper versions by following directions for gluing cut-outs and adding details - here are a few of them!
Now I don't know who is more excited for Zero's next visit on Day #20 - me or the kids!
:)Amanda
Friday, August 23, 2013
Letter Aa Week!
Well, we made it through our first 5-day week! Lots of great handwriting practice on letter A to start off right - some of the students were even finding and reading "apple" in a story! We did a lot of cutting practice this week to see where everyone was at and how much help we'll be needing from our amazing occupational therapist who will start seeing students individually next week!
Some of our letter A projects included a story map of Johnny Appleseed (this was with my 3rd grade alternate assessment group), apple stamping, and paper plate apples for labeling the parts of an apple! We also made apple growing sequences, a favorite apple bar graph, and sorted paper squares into red, green, and yellow apples on a large piece of butcher paper - that one took a lot of group work, but we did it together!
I was shocked today at recess to see something that I helped plant this summer actually grow into something! There are two garden boxes on our school's preschool playground that our summer preschoolers helped clean up and planted a few seeds in. I do not have a green thumb to say the least, but with the weather's cooperation over the last month or so, I'm happy to say, we're growing radishes, pumpkins, sunflowers, basil, and some pretty wildflowers! I just had to share a picture of these too, since everyone that knows me knows I can't grow a plant for anything! Haha!
Well, that's it for this week. I'm working on keeping up with the blog and getting photos to share with you all, so I hope you're enjoying it! See you all next week for letter Bb and Weather Week!
:)Amanda
Some of our letter A projects included a story map of Johnny Appleseed (this was with my 3rd grade alternate assessment group), apple stamping, and paper plate apples for labeling the parts of an apple! We also made apple growing sequences, a favorite apple bar graph, and sorted paper squares into red, green, and yellow apples on a large piece of butcher paper - that one took a lot of group work, but we did it together!
I was shocked today at recess to see something that I helped plant this summer actually grow into something! There are two garden boxes on our school's preschool playground that our summer preschoolers helped clean up and planted a few seeds in. I do not have a green thumb to say the least, but with the weather's cooperation over the last month or so, I'm happy to say, we're growing radishes, pumpkins, sunflowers, basil, and some pretty wildflowers! I just had to share a picture of these too, since everyone that knows me knows I can't grow a plant for anything! Haha!
Well, that's it for this week. I'm working on keeping up with the blog and getting photos to share with you all, so I hope you're enjoying it! See you all next week for letter Bb and Weather Week!
:)Amanda
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Reminder about Following this Blog...
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom week!
Well, I think the app test is only going to be good for text updates - I have been trying to upload a picture all weekend, and it just isn't working :/ So, I'll start fresh!
The first week (well, 3 days for the kiddos) was a success! We really enjoyed some Pinterest-inspired crafts and listening to the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom song on YouTube. We are learning to read our classmates' names and have gotten to check out all of the new activities that I ordered over the summer. I think the musical instruments and color-sorters are going to be the favorites this year! Pictures to come soon! For next week, I'm planning some really fun Letter A and Apple theme lessons and crafts, plus we'll jump into our first Signing Time lessons of the year - Our Classroom and My Backpack!
Some of the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activities from this week:
1. Class Book (We're all already authors!! Lots more class books to come - these are always my favorites!)
2. Happy Helpers Job Tree
3. Name Trees (the students built these based on the number of letters in their names and I built the job tree at the same time - it has 6 leaves for "Amanda" - and was their model!)
4. Paper towel roll palm tree crafts - lots of fine motor practice tearing the paper leaves, sticking them into the roll, and sticking stickers onto the roll too!
The first week (well, 3 days for the kiddos) was a success! We really enjoyed some Pinterest-inspired crafts and listening to the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom song on YouTube. We are learning to read our classmates' names and have gotten to check out all of the new activities that I ordered over the summer. I think the musical instruments and color-sorters are going to be the favorites this year! Pictures to come soon! For next week, I'm planning some really fun Letter A and Apple theme lessons and crafts, plus we'll jump into our first Signing Time lessons of the year - Our Classroom and My Backpack!
Some of the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activities from this week:
1. Class Book (We're all already authors!! Lots more class books to come - these are always my favorites!)
2. Happy Helpers Job Tree
3. Name Trees (the students built these based on the number of letters in their names and I built the job tree at the same time - it has 6 leaves for "Amanda" - and was their model!)
4. Paper towel roll palm tree crafts - lots of fine motor practice tearing the paper leaves, sticking them into the roll, and sticking stickers onto the roll too!
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