Clouds!

Well, one of my good friends is getting her Masters in Atmospheric Sciences (So meteorology), and she mainly works with/studies clouds!! So, she was sweet enough to come in and present some information about the clouds and help explain the different kinds of clouds to the kids! She read a book to the kids first (It Looked Like Spilt Milk) and then we showed a clip of a tornado to get the kids excited! Then she showed us different kinds of clouds and we taught the kids the altitude of the clouds by comparing it to our bodies. We imagined we were giants and the cirrus clouds are by our heads, the cumulus clouds are by our chest and tummies, and stratus clouds are by our feet. Then we watched a video about tornado safety and the kids were intrigued and learned so much! As a culminating activity, we made cotton ball clouds and one of the other teachers made a rain cloud with the steps of a thundercloud. Here are some pictures!

Dollar Store Treasures!

So I went to the Dollar Tree and found AWESOME deals! I found some file folder games, tons of borders, and my favorite Easter chicks and carrots that are shaped like eggs!

Perfect little games to keep the kiddos busy! Although I feel that some of these games are for 4th or 5th grade, some are appropriate for 1st grade as well.

And here are the cute little eggs that I found. I'm brainstorming ideas about how I can use them in my centers!

More pics!

More Ideas from Classrooms!

Alright, other great ideas from wonderful teachers in our little school! I LOVE Ms. Cone's Bee Hive Reading Area! So cute! The Question Words Question Mark is a simple and cute idea that a teacher's student teacher made her.

My Classroom and Others

I want to remember and share some good ideas from my classroom and other rooms from around the school! The pictures of the peacock and little guy with the umbrella are some ideas that I took from the ilearntechnology blog. They have all levels of Blooms questions with verbs as well! Just a friendly reminder to ask the kids different varieties of questions! Also, I took a picture of some pointers that my fellow teacher from Kinder made. She bought dowels from Michael's and used toys from kids meals to put on top. Such a cute idea! I have my dowels, but haven't finished the rest of the project yet! There are pictures of the "Safe Zone"/Reading Area in my room and what is posted on the walls outside my classroom.

We made our own penguins and used a graphic organizer to write a fiction story about our penguin.

We are learning about Bossy -R this week.

We wrote our own Dark, Dark Tale. (We were inspired by the book A Dark, Dark Tale)

Love is a many splendid thing! Before starting our M&M graphing lesson, I allowed the students to "play" with the M&M's so they would listen to me during the lesson. One of the students created this! AND she spelled it correctly! Another student said, "Man! This is the BEST day ever! Do we have to leave?"

Valentine's Party!

Our Valentine's Party will be held Friday, February 11th at 2p.m. Notes were sent home last week with items that will be needed for the party!