Our Mother's Day Gifts

 Take a peek at our wonderful Mother's Day creations!  The students worked with blending colors in art class, on a canvas... then we added their silhouettes.  After everything was dry I had them write their message to their mom!

ENJOY :)

My latest creation for our School Auction.  Melted crayon on canvas, like the previous post, then added silhouettes of my students holding umbrellas :)   I hope the parents bid on this one;  I had a hard time giving it up.  It turned out better than I imagined! <3

Melted Crayons & Bible Verse Flowers

With working at a Catholic School, our biggest fundraiser is our Annual School Auction.  This year each teacher is in charge of coming up with something to put in the auction that the students helped make.  I have seen numerous melted crayon projects on Pinterest and wanted to add a religious twist.  I melted the green crayons, on a white canvas, so they would look like stems.  Then using copied pages of specific bible versus we cut out petals, Mod Podged them onto colored paper, and glued four petals to the back of giant colorful buttons. The flowers were glued into place and you end up with this amazing project!  I just might need to go bid on it myself... or make another ;).

Mooseltoe!

Wowie... It has been WAY to long since my last post.  I am so sorry!  Here is an activity we did during our Christmas party.  We read the story Mooseltoe, then created our own moose.  We used yarn and gobbed on glue so that we could shape the moose's mustache. These dried for a day, then at our party we decorated them with anything we could find (garlin, bulbs, glitter, candy canes, etc.).

They turned out SOOO cute! ENJOY

NEED YOUR HELP!

Hi All,

The Kindergarten teacher and I are in charge of the schools Student Council this year since the previous leader found a job else where.  We usually hold a "Fun Day" the Friday after our Christmas Concert,  it usually lasts an hour.  In the past the typical All School Movie, All School Carnival, and All School Relay Races (team games) have been done... A LOT!  I like being different... so I was hoping to try and come up with something new, it just seems like the students on Student Council are stuck in the past and have a hard time coming up with something "outside of the box".  I want to show them that there are other options out there... so that is where you come in... Any ideas on an all school activity?  Please remember, we are in Wisconsin and it is starting to get cold about now... so it usually takes place in the Gym.

**I don't have a whole lot of followers yet... so if you could link this to your site so that others might click it and respond/help as well that would be AMAZING!!

  Thanks for your time, cant wait to hear all of your ideas.

Sunshine Award!

A HUGE Thank You to Tina  at Quench Your First and Barbara at GradeONEderful for giving me the Sunshine Award.  Here are the rules-

1. Thank the person(s) who gave this award and write a post about it.
2. Answer the following questions below.
3. And pass the award to 10~12 fabulous bloggers, link their blogs and let them know I awarded them.

• Favorite Color?  GREEN
• Favorite Animal?  Koalas, oh what I would give to hold one :)
• Favorite Number? 33?  Not sure why.
• Favorite Drink?  Water... but I have been known to have a glass of wine after a long day of teaching!
• Facebook or Twitter?  Facebook
• Your Passion? Teaching... and anything that involves sports.  Running, volleyball, rowing, etc.  the list goes on and on. 
• Giving or Getting Presents?  I LOVE to shop for others... it's dangerous on my checking account.
• Favorite day? Friday.I always tell me students that Friday is my favorite day because I get to see their smiling faces... but I also know I get to sleep in tomorrow.
• Favorite flowers? Lilies

My SUNSHINE AWARDs go to:

1. Love, Laugh, and Learn  (She is a good friend of mine and has some AMAZING ideas!!  be sure to check her site out and follow her)

2. Mrs. Jumps Class
3. The First Grade Parade  I am sure all of you know of this blog... but I had to choose it as one to receive this award because this blog is the reason I created one in the first place :)
4. Spend A Day In Second grade 
5. Playing With Pixie Dust
6. Mrs. Tabb's First Grade Awesomeness
7. One Extra Degree
8. Crazy For First Grade
9.Castles and Crayons
10. I Love 2 Teach

Happy Blogging!

50th Day Fun

Happy 50th Day!!  Well... actually ours was on Tuesday, I am just a little behind.  What did you do to celebrate the 50th Day?  We dressed up, hand jived, drank root beer floats, and hula hooped with the Kindergarten class.  There were also 50th Day classroom activities incorporated through our busy, busy day.