New winter projects

 Name Snowmen....The students put one letter of their name on one "snowball".  Then added the face to a smaller snowball.

 Snowy Day scenes from the book.  Students got to choose the colors of their buildings and then use colored chalk to make the snaw.

 "I have A Dream"....the students were asked to tell me what they "Dreamed" to become when they grow up.

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.

Cute Ideas from my Fellow Peers

 This idea is from another pre-k teacher I work with.  Both our classrooms are doing the Around the World with Pre-K.  I liked her idea.

 First grade classes are doing the yearly hide the turkey family project.

My school gardens

 Our school has 25 raised garden beds.  These are a few pictures of the beds after the construction at our school and the very hot hot summer we had.  The results were dried plants etc.

 Some beds were displaced.

 After fall rains our garden beds are showing signs of life and yummy lettuce and tomatoes.

The garden project of mine has been a dream for several years even when i was teaching at Head Start.  I wanted to create and outdoor learning classroom.  My combining the two things I love to do, teaching and gardening, my dream came true this past spring 2011 when the Indian Health Services provided us with the materials and the students provided the man power and so the learning began.  And hopefully for many years to come.

Photos of students work

The Students have been learning about harvesting.  On this project they made corn by using tissue paper in yellow and orange (twisting them) and placing them on their corn pattern.  Green construction paper leaves were added.

This poster I drew for our school carnival game that I will be running.