THE FLOOR IS LAVA!!!

 

Today the kids came into class and the FLOOR WAS LAVA!!!!  

We had so much fun this morning doing learning centers in the lava!  Students rotated through centers that included playing with toy dinosaurs, making dinosaur and volcano related words with magnetic letters, a drawing station with directed drawings for volcanoes and dinosaurs, cup stacking and pattern blocks.  They had SO. MUCH. FUN!

We had so much fun learning in the lava today! 

Art Fun!

 I recently received a grant from Donor's Choose that replenished some art supplies in our classroom, like tempera paint, liquid watercolors and new paint brushes!  In addition, we also received some oil pastels to share, which was really exciting!  The kiddo's have been working so hard this year so as we are wrapping up units and working hard on end of year assessments, we are also spending some time being creative and creating in our classroom. 

The students had never used oil pastels before so we talked about how to use them and that they are breakable so we need to make sure that we are gentle when we use them.  We then made rainbows on white card stock with the oil pastels.  I love how everyone's rainbows followed the correct color order, but were just a little bit different.  After we used our oil pastels to draw the rainbows and rain drops, we painted them with blue liquid water colors.  They turned out amazing!

Today they wanted to use our new paint brushes so we got out the tempera paint and made these awesome tropical birds!  This project took quite a while as we had to paint the background green and then we had to paint another piece of paper.. then wait for them to dry.  Sometimes the waiting is hardest part for kinder kiddos.  After lunch we used brown oil pastels to make the branch.  We used our paper that we painted to cut out 1 bird and then we used paper a friend painted to cut out a second bird.  The kids did a great job listening and following directions.  They were even great problem solvers when they accidentally cut off a head or a beak.  It was fun to listen to them problem solve with their peers in order to figure out how to fix their mistakes! 

I tried to get some action shots today, but as you can imagine, painting gets pretty crazy pretty quickly!

It is hard to believe that the school  year is coming to an end so quickly!  I am so proud of them and how far they have all come! 

Welcome to Candy Land!

Candy Land Day was EPIC!  We had so much fun!  The kids came into school and the halls and our classroom was transformed to a Candy Land game board. 

The students learned how to play the game Candy Land in the morning, and then did some candy themed activities. 

In the afternoon the students worked in mixed class groups to navigate through the life sized game board.

  They did centers that worked on literacy skills, like reading words and identifying rhyming words.

They also worked as a team to move a marble from point A to point B without using any part of their body.  They also worked together to build the tallest mountain with solo cups. 

They worked on math facts too!  At Molasses Swamp they found math facts in the swamp and had to match them to their answer outside of the swamp!

Mrs. Peterson held a Donut Danger Zone center to work on physical fitness!

Overall it was a very fun day that I hope the kiddos remember forever!