No David!

This week we have been learning about the author David Shannon who wrote "No, David", "Alice the Fairy", and several other fun books that my class loves.  Today we made No David puppets.  It was a quick project, but it was fun to see my class with each of their interpretations of David.  It was also really fun to see them interact with each other as they played with their puppets.  I really do have the cutest class in the world.  I'm one lucky teacher.

Happy Halloween!

I've always loved Halloween, but since I've gotten a older the excitement has died down a little bit.  My husband Matt isn't a huge fan of dressing up, but luckily he's a good sport if I ask him nicely and get his costume all ready.  This year we dressed up as Where's Waldo and Where's Wenda (she's the girl in the books) and it was fun to get dressed up together, but it was also really fun to dress up at school with all the kids.  Sadly I forgot to take a picture with our whole class in our Halloween costumes so I've decided to put up a picture of my husband and I and some pictures of some of my students so that you can put the pieces together and imagine our whole class.  

Matt & I

Brock (Thor) & Kiel (a ninja) counting each piece of our witch's brew

Ben (superman) & Addison (a fairy)

Mary & Savanna (Alice & an angel)

Isaac (batman) & Abi (the scary vampire)

Brandon (he took his costume off) and Tait (wolverine)

Logan (Lightning McQueen)

Calvin (spiderman) & Lily (she WAS dressed like a snake)

Megan (Snow White ) & Dr. Tyler Crippen

Decorating cookies during our party

Tyler playing pin the nose on the pumpkin

Making spider suckers

Watching Mrs. Schmidt make the witch's broom (rootbeer)

Audrey (the pink power ranger) 

Our class party was great thanks to Mrs. Schmidt and Mrs. Hayes who helped out!  The kids had a lot of fun and I'm really looking forward to our next class party.  

Messy learning

Things in class have been a little messy lately.  First we practiced our letters in shaving cream...

Logan

Calvin & Lily

Brock & Kiel

Addison & Mary

Savanna

Isaac & Abi

Brandon, Tait, & Audrey

Talmage, Megan, & Tyler

Then about a week ago we read the book "Elmer".  In case you're not familiar with it, it's a story about an elephant that feels out of place because he is the complete opposite of all the other elephants.  After we read the story we talked about how we're all different and it's a good thing to be different. Then I decided to do something a little crazy.  Thanks to my father-in-law I have a bunch of butcher paper in my classroom so I thought that it'd be really fun if we drew ourselves on paper and decorated each of our outlines differently to show that each of us our different, but we're all special.  My students did a great job and they LOVED this activity.  We've done a lot of body outlines right now, but it's been a lot of fun... messy, but fun.  Here's my class and their look alikes :)

Lily

Addison

Abi

Brock

Tyler

Tait

Mary

Savanna

Audrey

Logan

Chalk Time... outlines

Finally a blog update...

Since the weather has stayed pretty nice for such a long time we've spent some time every week outside practicing our letters with chalk.  Here's some pictures of one of our adventures outside.  I asked my class to get partnered up with someone else in our class and write their letters inside of their bodies.  They did a great job and had a lot of fun!

Tyler & Kiel

Brandon & Isaac

Tait & Logan

Ben & Evan

Mary & Audrey

Savanna & Addison

Talmage, Brock, & Calvin

Lily & Megan

Kiel

Tyler

Ben

Isaac

Tyler & Kiel

I'm so proud of my students for learning all of they're letters.  They're all so great!

Videos :)

This is our class version of "Early to Bed"

Sometimes we play the freeze dance game as a brain break and the kids absolutely love it.  I mostly just think this video is entertaining, but I think we could all learn a few new dance moves from these awesome five and six year olds... 

Thanks for taking the time to check out the blog! 

Beginning of our School Year!

I finally have time to post pictures and videos on here and I'm excited.  Teaching has been so great this year and I have absolutely loved working with all of my students.  We've done some pretty fun things...

We made ladybug hats and learned poems (including "Ladybug").  

This isn't the happiest picture of the bunch though haha

Recently we have been practicing writing our names and our letters outside with chalk and it's been a blast.  The kids love it and so do I :)

 Here are some close ups of our chalk adventures...

Abi & Megan

Logan & Tait

Ben, Tyler, & Kiel

 Audrey

 Addison

 Talmage

Brock

 Mary

 Our whole class :) (minus a couple kids that were absent)

Here are a couple fun playground shots...

Isaac

Choo Choo Trains... Calvin, Kiel, Logan, & Brandon (oh and Brock is peeking out from under the slide)

Here is Logan, Tait, and Kiel working at the word work center daily 5... 

they're playing dominoes with letters

Oh and here is my sister Sarah, my husband Matt, and I at the Fall Fling.

More to come soon!!
Thank you for all you do.


Mrs. Calton