Adjectives

I saw this idea on Pinterest and fell in love.  My class was just introduced to adjectives this week and we needed a project to help demonstrate what they are.  I took a picture of each student and printed it.  Then each student brainstormed on the SmartBoard adjectives that they would use to describe each other.  Once we printed the list out for each student they wrote their adjectives around the pictures.  They are hanging up in the hall and are so cute!


Here I am!







They all turned out so good!  I have to admitt I was a little nervous because "marker doesn't erase!"

~Ms. Anglin

He loves me, he loves me not...

Happy Valentine's Day!  I love this holiday- the pink, the hearts, the chocolate... what's not to love?  We had fun decorating our room.

I think this bulletin board is so cute but it does look kind of skimpy...  There are only 8 'chocolates' in my heart box.  Of course it would look better with more kids.  Next year I might try larger pictures inside coffee filters.  And it is true, they really are my sweeties :)

Every year they think this is magic!  I have red, white, pink, and purple crayon shavings that we sandwich in between two pieces of wax paper then iron.  This is more of a 'watch what happens as your teacher does all the work' kind of project but that's ok. 

One of my Valentine's Day gifts to my students was heart shaped crayons.  It is way easier that I thought it would be.  The most time consuming part of making these was breaking up the crayons into little pieces.  On mine, there is a clearish wax layer that floated to the top that doesn't produce any color. But when using they adjust the crayons and they can create such cool pictures!

Happy Valentine's Day!

~Ms. Anglin

100 Days?!?!

On January 28, 2013 we celebrated the 100th day of school.  WHAT!  I cannot beleive how fast the year is going by!  We celebrated by dressing up like we were 100 years old, brought 100 food items to mix together for a snack mix, rested for 100 seconds, took 100 steps, dribbled basketballs 100 times, and made "100" glasses to wear.  It was an awesome time!

Here we are dressed how we think we would look at 100 years old. We had gray hair, canes, and old looking clothes. I must say, I love my outfit :)

I found this idea on Pinterest.  It was a poster but I created a frame.  Each student put on their cool "100" glasses and held the frame up for a picture.  The frame says "It's time to party, you're a 100 day old smarty!"  They loved taking their picture with this.  Then I hung the frame and the pictures up in the hall for everyone to see.

I hope everyone else had a great 100th day!

~Ms. Anglin

Winter Wonderland!

I've been a little slow at posting, I know.  But I've just been so busy!  The snow definitely showed up in our state this year!  We made plenty of crafts to decorate our room and hallway.

For our winter bulletin board, each student water color painted 3 round coffee filters.  Once they were dry we folded and cut away.  Colorful snowflakes, huh?  Makes me think of snowflakes made from acid rain...

We made snowmen to hang in the hallway.  Picking out the buttons to hang down his tummy is always a favorite part of this project.  I like how individual each snowman looks, from the different scarf patters to they way the faces look.

Our last addition to our hallway decorations were penguins.  These also turn out cute because they are all put together a little differently.

Happy Shoveling :)

~Ms. Anglin

Crafty Christmas!

All of our Christmas crafts are finally done!! I am so excited! It seems like we have slowly been working on these for months :)

We made pencil holders for moms, dads, grandmas, cousins-- whoever would use one!  I love this idea and how great of a keepsake it can be.  My dad has the one that I made over 20 years ago in his office at work. Here are some closer up.

We also made picture frames as gifts.  These are generally what I plan as mom gifts but they can be given to anyone really.  The kids loved painting the frame and the old puzzle pieces.  They giggled and giggled at how the Rudolph's turned out.

We also made 2 different ornaments for our classroom Christmas tree.  When the students leave for Christmas break they will take them home to put on their own trees.  We made trees out of popsicle sticks, glitter, jewels, foam, and buttons.

Our last project was making beaded wreath ornaments.  The kids thought this was so easy since they just had to follow a pattern.  They looked beautiful on the tree!

 



Have a Merry Christmas and a great winter break!!

~Ms. Anglin

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Season's Greetings to all!  Our class has been busy getting in the Christmas spirit!

We started decorating with our bulletin board.  Each student got a brown gingerbread person shape to cut out.  Then they could dive into my craft supplies to decorate their boy or girl.  They did a fabulous job!  I even had to add a little to my example because their decorating skills were showing mine up :)

Then we put up our Christmas Tree as a class.  We all helped fluff the branches, string the lights, and hang ornaments.  It looks beautiful!

A very fun and cute writing project was done this week as well.  The students had to write a story that started with "If Santa got stuck in the chimney I would...".  They were all very creative.  Some are going to jump on him or pull on him and some are going to pour water to losen him up.

 

The Santas legs and feet sticking out of the chimneys look so great in the hallway!  They have been getting lots of compliments.

More Christmas pictures are coming soon!

~Ms. Anglin

Gobble, Gobble, Wibble, Wobble

I read that line in a story this week "Ten Fat Turkeys" by Tony Johnston and it makes me smile :)

Thanksgiving in our classroom started with a bulletin board showing things we are thankful for. 

Each student traced a buddy's hand 3 times on 3 different colors of construction paper.  Then they cut out their 3 hand prints and wrote 1 thing on each hand that they are thankful for.  Examples were family, friends, school, Ms. Anglin :), and food.  Then the hands were stapled up to look like the tail of our turkey.

A fun project to display in the hallway was our scarecrows.  We used a little paint, glue and straw to make these scarecrow heads come alive.



The kids loved using real straw for the hair!



Scarecrow Boy

 

Scarecrow Girl





Our last Thanksgiving project was paper plate turkeys.  These take more prep time than actual project time.  I had all of the body pieces except the tails stapled together in advance.  Then it was just a matter of painting.

  

Gobble Gobble!

~Ms. Anglin