Back to School Teacher Freebie! You know you deserve it! Download this freebie, just copy, hang next to the door and decorate a tissue box or basket your kiddos can drop their notes into! Some kids don't like to say "I need help" or "I'm sad". This allows students to grab a note, sign it, drop it and go! It also gives you time to prepare for intervention. Thank you for all you do to make a difference in the lives of the children! So, just download! I appreciate followers (just click on the green star by my logo on my store page), appreciate feedback and most of all...I appreciate you! Thank you so much! Included are: 1. Cover 2. Hey Teacher, I need your help with..... 3. Hey Teacher, About today's lesson..... 4. Hey Teacher, Today, I am feeling.... Thank you so much for stopping by, downloading this freebie and being a rockstar teacher! Happy Learning and Many Blessings your way, The Little LearnMaid, Kim Shannon Products you might like: Mother's Day Crafts, Reading/Coloring Book and More May Edition of All About Today (Meaningful Morning Work, Daily Mix and Daily History) You Have Blossomed Spring Math & Literacy Wizard of Oz Play Script and Math/Literacy Worksheets Countdown to Testing, Common Core Reading Gr.2 and MORE!
Happy Friday! Er, Monday? Well, originally I was going to post this on Friday but I had no time (big surprise, right?) so here it is on Monday! Here's a peek at our fun Families unit from last week, with a few freebies for my bloggy family! :) Art: George Washington Color by Number Many thanks to Maria at Kinder-Craze for this great freebie! On Tuesday we learned a little bit about what a President does and why we celebrate President's Day. Pick up Maria's great freebie at her blog by clicking here. Paper Bag Houses Love how these houses turned out! Family Trees Some of my kiddos were even able to write most of the names on their family tree! Magazine Family Hunt Are you ready for your first freebie? Click on the picture to grab your own copy of this fun family magazine picture hunt! The kiddos cut out pictures of people in magazines and placed them in the category they thought fit: mommies/daddies, grandmas/grandpas, brothers/sisters, and pets. Literacy: Families Have/Can/Are Anchor Chart (Shared Writing) Each day this week we added to our anchor chart for shared writing as we learned more about families. I am so amazed by how much better their letter formation is getting! I Love My Family Because... Class Book This book we made together was so sweet! And it was AMAZING how much I learned/re-affirmed my ideas about my kiddos' love languages. If you have never read The Five Love Languages for Children by Gary Chapman (I also highly recommend the adult version), you should do so! No, it's not the cornerstone of my classroom management like Conscious Discipline, Positive Discipline and Love/Logic, but it is good to open your eyes to different ways to reinforce children and show you love them (aka make deposits to their account!) Take a look below for great clues on different way my kiddos' feel loved! Gifts: Physical Affection: Quality Time/Acts of Service: What's the Rhyme? Sorting Houses This great game is from Lakeshore! It was great to get the kids up and moving while we've been cooped inside for so many days. They picked up a card from the pile and walked around the table trying to find which rhyming house the word went to. (After about two minutes I realized I needed to cover up the list of rhyming words on the back... thank goodness for sticky notes!) This game has got me feeling totally inspired for some sort of rhyming Easter basket/egg sort, so be prepared! Working on that idea AND finishing up my St. Patrick's Day Sensory table freebie, so expect to see them in the next two weeks! :) Dramatic Play: Kitchen & Babies This week it was back in the kitchen while we learned about families and homes! I also grabbed these baby bottles at Dollar Tree. We talked about how families take care of each other, and then I saw them acting out these skills in their dramatic play. (Except for one boy that kept carrying his baby around by its' ankle... yikes!) Here's a look at the great books we read/had available at Listening Center and Library this week. And let me just say that my kiddos LOVE Robert Munsch. Alligator Baby and Love You Forever were the definite favorites this week, and you can also download the mp3's for free at Bob's website by clicking here. Just click on the book you want, then click listen, and right click on the "Download File" button. Easy peasy! Amazon.com Widgets And yes, most of these books have animal families (but there's a reason for it... next week is Animal Homes!) If you're wondering where math/science is, I have a confession... there aren't any pictures because we didn't do that block this week! I have come to the realization that I am not superteacher. I cannot finish 13 page progress reports for my class, make a summer field trip calendar, prepare to present for a staff training, and prepare for an upcoming corporate visit on top of daily teacher dealios with no planning time and no school breaks. (Trust me, I tried. It made me very sleep-deprived and grumpy with my kids, so it wasn't worth it). SO I let my kiddos have a bit of a "breather" last week (which worked out well since we also had inside recess almost the entire week) and I made some headway. :) Are you ready for your last freebie? I posted this on the blog on Friday but in case if you missed it... Lucky Lacing Cards! My kiddos loved the Christmas and Valentine's Day cookie cards from Karen at PreKinders, so I thought I'd make my own for St. Patty's (and Easter, those will be upcoming!) Click on the picture to grab yours! Aaaaand don't forget to check out everyone else on this lovely Manic Monday! :) Till later my friends! Can't wait to catch up on all our upcoming fun Dr. Seuss celebrations!
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A display of kindergarten abstract masterpieces. These paintings were created at the very beginning of the year during our line and color study. We coated them with glossy Modge Podge to help the colors pop. Well, my helper moms and I can finally sleep in! The school-wide, hang-up-and-display-everything-we've-made-all-year art show is ooooo-ver. I'd like to thank the kids for their hard work, my amazing mom-helpers who put in countless hours hanging masterpieces, my former student teacher Lauren who worked for hours on the day of the show and my dear mom who drove down from Indiana to help and cheer us on. It was a huge success...one that will be hard to top next year. I thought I'd share with you the two-dimensional artwork from the art show. This is a photo-heavy post...and just the tip of the masterpiece-iceberg. Stay tuned for the upcoming episodes of In the Art Room: Clay Display and, not to be missed, our Walk Like an Egyptian program performed by our Super Second Grade Stars! But for now, sit back and enjoy these fabulous works of art. I'll provide a brief description of each. Feel free to leave a comment with any questions or thoughts below. Enjoy! These sweet kindergarten self-portraits were on display along side photos of the artist. The self-portraits were created on flesh colored construction paper with oil pastels. These were cut out and glued on top of bubble printed paper the kids had made. Hair was then painted. Finally, construction paper that we had cardboard printed was placed on top as a shirt, complete with collar and name tag. Kindergarten display of collage cats, winter landscapes, and fall printed trees. For this kindergarten winter landscape, we began by learning about tints and shades and painting the sky and snowy land. From there we collaged trees and houses. Finally we used metallic oil pastels to enhance the sky, the trees and the house. Because I have my classes for 1/2 hour, I had to think of a quicky project for my wee little ones. They were able to create this butterfly relief sculpture in just the nick of time. Egyptian collage landscapes by my first grade artists. You can read all about this lesson here. The idea of using the first grader's weaving for the body of a crocodile originally came from pinterest. But art teacher Lauren came up with the genius idea to create crocodile puppets. Here's the lesson. Love those teeth. The first graders also created these abstract collages at the beginning of the year. We did some leaf rubbing and painting. From there, we tore the painting into strips and glued them down to a larger piece of white paper. This was a great lesson on positive and negative space. In the second grade gallery, we have our circle loom weavings which we attached our Sculpey beads to, our Egyptian profile portraits, leafy prints and our golden tree paintings (not pictured). I also have the students write an Artist Autobiography every year that is placed along side a framed photo of the artist. Leafy Print Lesson can be found here. Our third grade gallery includes our sarcophagus, foil leaf reliefs, cardboard weavings and our haunted trees. Not pictured are our photos and bios. You can read more about our sarcophagus lesson here. A close up of one of the third grader's cardboard weavings. This year we tried our hand at adding beads to our weavings. We attempted to hide the cardboard with some scratch art paper designs. I hope this artist is able to find a good place for tacos while she's artin' it up in Paris! When painting our sarcophagus-es (sarcophagui? We eventually took to calling them our sarcopha-dudes), some of the early-finishers tried their hand at optical illusion drawing. This lesson was pulled from pinterest and was so simple, that I just wrote out the directions on the board and the early-finishers followed the steps. Fourth grade awesomeness: framed photos and bios, Mona Lisa group project photo (seen on the far left) Egyptian prints, cartouche, moon-light paintings, woven pouches, and Egyptian god portraits, Egyptian god portrait lesson here. The kid's all time favorite thing in the whole wide world to do: weave! Once the fourth graders get a taste of weaving, there is no turning back. I have one sweet girl who has woven 12 pouches now for her family members in Mexico. All the time and hours spent are immediately forgotten when you get a sweet note like this the following day...love it!
Ref. http://www.wikipaintings.org/
