Letter P

This was one of my favorite letters. We had a Pirate Picnic. Pirate Pete had hid a picnic lunch for us and we had to follow our map to find it. (this is the kids making a pirate treasure map)

We looked high and low for clues...

We finally found the pirate ship covered in pirate flags and inside was ...

A PIRATE PICNIC !!! Pirate Pete had left us Punch, Peanut butter sandwiches, Potato chips

and gold coins. We had so much fun searching for the loot and eating our Pirate Picnic. We even took the ship out to sea after lunch :) Kids have the best imaginations....

Letter M

In May we learned about the letter M. What better way then a M&M graft. The kids had to sort out the different colors and count to see who had the most of each color. It was a yummy way to learn! We also did a Mother's Day craft. Making a pot full of beautiful and yummy flowers for mom.

Letter O

Learning about the Ocean was fun. We learned alot about Ollie the Octopus. Did you know an octopus has 3 hearts, or that they have blue blood. The octopus can change its color to blend in with its surroundings. They have 8 legs, the legs can re-grow if one is harmed. The Giant Octopus can lay up to 100,000 eggs! The octopus is very interesting but we decided it would not make a very good pet.

The DINO Dig

Letter D was a BIG hit as we learned about dinosaurs!! Each student made a Name-o-saurs. (that's a dinosaur that tells all about you) then we went digging in the sand for some dino fossils. Who knew dinosaurs use to live in Safford?? the kids loved digging up the fossils and then matching them to the right dinosaur.

Quilted Q

Just a fun craft we did with the letter Q. We made quilted Q by gluing fabric on the letter Q with Q-tips. We also went on a quest for the Queen! What brave knights I have.

Shape Carnival

We had a ball at the shape carnival. We made clown faces out of shapes and even had a real clown come and show us some tricks. ( My husband Matthew is the best, the kids LOVED him- look at the smiles :) The kids were given tickets to play 3 different shape games. With the tickets they won they could get their face painted, and get snacks. We had so much fun learning about shapes together.

L is for LUCK!

This was so much fun. We were learning about the letter L and it was just before St. Patrick's Day. As a class we decided to catch a Leprechaun. We made a trap for him and put out some gold. While we were outside playing Lem the Lucky Leprechaun came into our room and made a mess! We didn't catch him but he did leave some goodies for us. I hope we have better luck next year!

Police Officer Eric

We are learnig about the letter P. Police Officer Eric came to our school and taught us all about the diffrent jobs police men have. We even learned that girls can be a police officer. He let us go out and look at his cool police car.The kids really enjoyed meeting a real police man and keep asking when he is going to come back.

V is for Valentine!

We had a LOVELY Valentines Day Party! We made some valentine bags to hold our valentines in. Talley brought cookies for everyone to decorate! (Thanks Talley) They loved the pink frosting and heart sprinkles! I have some pretty talented bakers in my class. Then we lined up our chairs to do our valentine card exchange. I just LOVE my class, they are all so sweet and thoughtful!!

All About ME!!!!!

We traced outlines of each student on white paper. Then they got to color in their face and clothes. We also learned what every ones name meant and how their parents decided to name them. I let the children look in magazines and cut out things they liked and we glued them on their posters. They did an AMAZING job and I loved learning more about them! We hung the posters in the room so we could admire our art!

I THINK I CAN!!!

Self Esteem is so important for young children! We read the book The Little Engine That Could. We talked about how we should always try our best and keep saying "I Think I Can!" I was so proud of them for doing such a great job putting their candy train together!

S is for Space, Stars and Sun

We learned that the Astronauts eat all their meals by sucking them out of little baggies. The kids thought this was a cool, fun way to eat snacks.

"You Are My Sunshine" sun. We used all the kids hand prints to make the rays on the sun. They liked seeing all their friends hands on the sun we called it a friend sun.

Here is Doyle and Talley making there Shape Space Ships. Later we got rockets (balloons) and had a "blast" doing our count down from 10 to BLAST-OFF! Some of the rockets really took off!

Z is for Zoo

We had so much fun learning about the letter Z. We painted zebra stripes on the letter Z and put some zoo animal stickers on it too. We learned about all the different kinds of animals there are and about the Zookeeper who takes care of them. It was winter so we also learned about animals that hibernate. The children wore their PJ's to school and brought a teddy bear. We had fun finding out who had the biggest, smallest, tallest, roundest and softest bear. We decided as a class that we should be more like bears and curl up and sleep for the winter!

Look at what our HANDS can do!

Here are some fun ornaments we made with our hands this week. The kids has so much fun making them and are so proud and excited to hang them on the tree. (yes I did help a little with the snowmen faces, remember they are only 4!)

Today we had the parents come and we sang our Christmas songs to them. The children only had 3 weeks to learn the songs and they were amazing! They are so smart and such fast learners. After we had milk and cookies. We decided Santa shouldn't be the only one who gets to eat them! :) The children did a wonderful job I am so proud of them!!

Run run as fast as you can...

...YOU CAN'T CATCH ME I'M THE GINGERBREAD MAN !!!
This week we were learning about the letter "C". We read a story about a Christmas Cookie "The Gingerbread Man" who gets made by hand in a gingerbread pan. Before the Old Woman can eat him he runs away. He runs away from the Old Woman, the Old Man, the pig, the cow, but not from the fox who eats him up. We made some gingerbread men of our own to put in the oven. (Kids are so much fun, they never noticed that the gingerbread cookies
were already baked and that the oven was cold!) When we went to get them out of the oven they were gone!!! We had no idea how they could have gotten out of the oven and ran out the door???We had to run as fast as we could to find all the clues. Each time we found a clue there was a task we had to do, sing, count, or hop on one foot.
We finally caught the gingerbread men right before they were about to drive off in the car!! This time we got to eat them not the fox :)

U for Umbrella

Just a really fun game we played with the letter "U". I made up a poem "10 Colorful Umbrellas".Then matched the umbrella with the right colored handle. The kids did awesome with this game!

Halloween Party!

We had so much fun dressing up! The kids got a kick out of my green hair! Later we made some Yummy Mummy Pizzas! The kids were great Chefs and even better eaters! They had a blast being creative cooks.

October Fun!

We had so many fun activities in October. We made black cats to along with our song "3 Black Cats". A few of us even got to visit the pumpkin patch and pick out our own pumpkins. It was p

retty stormy that day but we still had fun! The children loved playing with the orange play-doh we made. They made all kinds of Halloween shapes!

Letter "X" Marks the Spot

Our letter this week was X. We made our own treasure maps and went on a real treasure hunt searching for our letter X. We sang "Going on a treasure hunt looking for an x, we can't find it what comes next? Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me. Yo ho yo ho an X we want to see."

After we followed our map and found all the clues we found our treasure. Inside the treasure box were some funny glasses we were hoping they would give us X-ray vision!