Butterfly life cycle

Here is a quick assessment to check the students understanding of a butterfly's life cycle. 

Graduation gifts

Here are a couple things I give my class for graduation. 

The first is a little puzzle I got from a dollar store and glued a cute little poem on it along with smarties. 

Here is the card I give my class.

Fancy word review

To review understanding of our fancy words, I started to go over one word a week. Every Monday morning my class would find our class mascot holding the fancy word of the week. 

We the. Go over the meaning of the word and use it in a sentence. I asked the class to go home and find a picture to go with the word.

Word family review

I did this as a quick review of our word families. I made three columns and gave each student a different word. They came up to the board and wrote their word in the correct column. 

Mother's Day

For Mother's Day I had my students fill out this paper about their mom.

After reading the book Love You Forever, we made a mommy and baby flower picture. I used an Ellison  machine to cut flowers out of the dried up wipes I saved from the butterfly paintings. 

 

I traced each students' hands and they made this fold up card for their mothers.

Letter O

I found online an owl for the letter O. 

It turns out like this...

Easter

Easter time! Here are a few things we did during Lent to prepare for Easter.

Here are a couple of chicks we made. I had all of the pieces cut already. The students got to decorate the egg however they wanted. 

For this cross egg, I used painters tape to make a cross cut out stay in the middle of the egg while  the students used bingo dotters to cover the whole egg. 

Here we made a banner with Jesus' name. We also learned how to remember how to spell His name by using the bingo tune. 

 There is a man who we all love and Jesus is His nameo. J-E-S-U-S!

To hold all of our goodies we got at our egg hunt, we made bunny baskets from milk/juice cartons. To save time, I ask the parents to wash and dry the inside of the carton and cut out the ears. I do this project with the help of 8th grade. The students cover the carton with cotton balls, add face features, and add Easter grass inside the carton.

 

April showers bring...

From all of this rain we've been getting, in our writing center the students had to finish the sentence, "April showers bring ..."

I got some pretty silly answers from my kids. 

Dr. Seuss week

                          Dr. Seuss Week!

We first learned a little bit about Dr. Seuss.

We created Thing 1 and 2 and created a Cat in the Hat hat with the -at word family on it.

For snack we had green eggs and ham! (It may look gross but it tasted delicious!) I put the scrambled eggs and ham in the crock pot an hour before I went to work and left it on low temp when I got to work until snack time. 

After reading the Foot Book, I had the students pair up and Trace each other's feet on a piece of paper and they were to create their own kind of silly feet.

Our community

This week we have been talking about our community  and street signs.

The picture above shows our made up neighborhood. Each group drew a picture of their own house and I put them altogether and as a group they named their street.

First we made a traffic light.

Then I lined up on the board pictures of various street signs. I gave each student a paper with five different shapes of street signs. They filled in the shapes with whatever kind of street sign they wanted to copy.

Earth Day

For Earth Day we created this craft. I already had the world and people cut out. The students colored the land and glued the people around the world. We talked about how we need to work together to keep the earth clean. 

Spring birds writing

I found a spring birds color and cut page online and turned it into a writing lesson. The students had to make a story from the picture they made.

Spray the letter

I saw this on Pinterest and the kids loved it! I wrote the alphabet scattered on paper towels with markers. Each student came up and sprayed the letter I called out with a water bottle. It also turned into a science lesson from watching how the black marker spread out with all of the different colors it's made up of. You could also do this with numbers and sight words.

Handprint butterflies

For spring and Lent we made butterflies from our hands. They turn out so colorful! I use bright paints and put 3 colors on both hands. I put the butterflies in the middle of the paper to turn it into a picture frame the kids design. 

After they dry, I write their names and year on the top and on the bottom I write "Jesus brings new life!"  The students decorate the frames.

Religion kites

During Religion time we talked about how God helps us. We made these kites that say The Lord lifts me up! On the kite we drew how we feel when we think about God and how good He is to us.

Letter Q

For the letter Q all the students did was glue on the queen cut on onto the traced Q. They could color the queen and Q if they wanted.

Letter J

For the letter J I had an uppercase J already made for them to glue on. The students colored in a jack in the box and glued in wherever they wanted on/near the J.

Parts of objects

In science we worked on parts of objects. I asked the class to pick something in the room to draw and point to the different parts of the object they chose. They labeled the parts the best they could.