Tis the Season

 Students glues together red and green construction paper petals of a poinsettia.  Adding glitter for a special touch.

 My loft was invaded by the gingerbread man and snow flakes.

 Students were practicing writing color words onto their own copy of the above chart.

 Finished product hanging in the classroom.

 The students were introduced a KWL chart from our story about how owls grow.  These are their thoughts and questions about OWLS.

 Students were asked to draw and picture and write about what they did at Thanksgiving.  I took their dictations.

 This is their foot and hand prints that they traced with the help my TA and then they cut out their hands and their foot adding a nose and eyes to make this cute reindeer.  Parents are going to love having their hands and foot forever.

 This is a wreath with their hand prints in green paint.  I added red paint for the berries and then some I added glitter.

fall is in the air

The first picture is a project my students did about turkeys.  It is a windsock turkey.  I have done this for a few years and the kids love it.  The second photo is of my loft.  I turned the loft into a fall tree.  I used brown butcher paper to make the trunks of the tree and attached them to my legs of the loft.  I then placed leaves I purchased from the Dollar Tree and stuck them in the ceiling tiles to give the ceiling the tree look as if the ceiling was part of the tree too.  The kids enjoyed going to their reading center in "the tree".

Garden Veggies

 Lettuce from the first grade gardens.

 Tomatoes from the third grade gardens

Zennias from another first grade garden bed that survived the hot hot summer

Banana peppers in another first grade garden.  Our garden beds had a hard first year with a sizzling summer of 112 degree temps and construction workers moving beds that should have not been moved.