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This video is from my first year of teaching. I am SO excited to get back into the classroom again! Super proud of the work I put into making every single child in my class their own personal video one year! Even more proud of how much these kids grew that year! I sure hope they all still have these. Had to share one of them with you.

ZOO/wild animals

I couldn't wait until next week to post these. We made the most awesome elephants today and drew the cutest giraffes. It is amazing how children's art looks awesome no matter what. I am all for them doing things independently. Makes it more meaningful when it is their own!

I am having a ball with Deanna Jump's unit on wild animals. Have you ever heard of close reading? I hadn't until I went to a conference last month. I am pretty sure it is basically what I've always done, plus a little more, just never called it close reading. Amazing how much the kids have absorbed.

We measured a 6 foot trunk for the elephants and did a directed drawing of a giraffe.

Mother's day

I am planning my mother's day program (featuring the book I'm Making Breakfast For Mother) for my class this year and thought why not make it a mother's day/end of the year program? I had a mom ask if I was doing the dvds again this year and I hated to tell her there is no way! They took a lot of time and for the same kids..I have decided to just make one slide show this year and present it to them at the mother's day program. I have found some awesome songs to put on it. Stay tuned and I will work on uploading the one from last year on here later today!!

The Very Hungry Catepillar and Insects

4K 2013-This was my unit on The Very Hungry Caterpillar last year. I give them a lot of credit for all of this. They were asked to put the story in order on a sentence strip AND write the name of the food! We made the CUTEST caterpillars out of paper and also with paint using a balloon. We also made caterpillars using the letters in our name! I paired them all up to write what he did on Saturday, you can see some of them on the far right. What a great book to incorporate so many learning opportunities. My favorite blogger gave me such a great idea for next year using Eric Carl. I can't wait!

We learned all about Butterflies

We compared Butterflies and Dragonflies using a venn diagram!

...And Dragonflies

Who knew what kids could make out of patter blocks. I was amazed at some of the insects they were coming up with. Then we graphed our results! 

We created insects using food with our 4th grade reading buddies. SO MUCH FUN! When you heard their explanation of what they created, it made them that much better!

This one was a bee with 7 stingers!

This one was my favorite butterfly

Treats for my PEEPS!

Just wanted to show you that I didn't totally ignore easter in my classroom this year. Mom made the cutest little treat bags for all my kids!

These are the Easter projects we made last year in 4K. Stain glass (tissue paper) eggs, we got to use colored pencils to color in an easter egg (who knew colored pencils were so exciting), and we made bunnies out of paper plates (I let them make their own bunny face, they all turned out so different. I think it is much better when they get to be creative!)

Field Day Fun!

Yesterday was Field Day and the last day before spring break!!! What an exhausting day. We had so much fun though. They really enjoyed the Colleton football team playing with them. What an exciting opportunity for everyone.