More Snow Fun!

Rosy Cheeks & Cotton Balls

This morning the girls were begging me to go outside to play in the snow. I decided that we would go out for a few minutes before lunch. That was PLENTY of time for us all to get cold, rosy cheeks. Although the girls had a blast playing in the snow, they were ready to go back to the warm classroom!

Here are a few cute shots of my rosy cheek girlies having fun in the snow...

 Later this afternoon, the girls made cotton ball snowmen. It always amazes me how unique their creations end up being although they all have the same materials!

Rainbow Chalk Numbers with Julia

Today Julia was my teacher helper. She would show the girls a flashcard, the girls would count the number of objects on the card, figure out how many, and then write that on their chalkboard. The rainbow chalk was used for this occasion, which made it even more fun!

In reality, though, I think there was more time spent deciding on which chalk color to use and admiring how "chalky" their hands were getting rather than actually writing the numbers. Ahhh, yes, teaching Kindergarten girls is so much fun! :-)

Show & Share and Marble Runs

Every Friday, we have Show & Share. Today some of the girls wanted to pose with the toy they brought.

Ayme and her dinosaur, Rhino Dino :-)

Sarah with her dog and "Boo Boo" bear, and Cally with her frog, Samantha.

This afternoon during play time, the girls were working on a marble run. It got rather tall and impressive looking so I had to take a picture. Ayme and Sarah chose to pose in the picture to better show how tall it was!

All Back Together Again!

After almost 2 weeks of either sickness or snow, my Kindergarten girls were finally back together today! It was quite the day. Calm, cool and collected....

Riiiiight...far from it!

Crazy, chaotic and comical are the words I would use!

I sure hope we can get back into a normal routine soon....Sickness and snow - STAY AWAY!!

Bad Days & Lemon Juice

Ever have one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days? If you are familiar with this children's book you know that I am talking about...

 

There are some days I just want to move to Australia!!!

 (you must read the book to understand what I mean :-))

Due to sickness going around, I only had 3 of my girls today in class. In the afternoon, we were going a bit stir crazy in the classroom, so we were invited to join the elementary students in their afternoon activity. First of all, the students listened to the story being read about Alexander and his terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, and then they discussed why his day was so horrible - because of his stinky, grumpy attitude!! Hmmmm...I know I needed an "attitude check" by this point in the day!

 

In the story, one of the things that went wrong for Alexander was that his teacher did not appreciate the "invisible castle" he drew in class. After the story was over, the students were given the opportunity to draw an invisible picture. Did you know that if you write with lemon juice on white paper and then stick it in the oven to heat for a time, your hidden message or picture can be revealed?! The students enjoyed discovering that today!

It was hard to take a good picture of the end result, but my girls enjoyed themselves :-)

Calendar Puzzles with Samantha

Samantha was my teacher helper today. She came up with the idea to make puzzles for the girls. I gave her some old calendars, and she spent quite some time cutting out the pictures, gluing them on cardstock paper, and drawing some lines across the pictures. She then had the girls cut out the pieces, and then try to put the pictures back together. It was a great fine motor activity for them!

ABC Matching with Jacob

Yesterday Jacob was my teacher helper. He set up an ABC matching game in the classroom across the hall. On the one side of the room, there were capital letter cards, and on the other side were the lowercase letter cards. The girls would flip over 2 cards in both piles during their turn and hopefully find a match.

Jacob was rather overwhelmed by the enthusiasm my girls displayed when they actually got a match. At one point he asked me, "Is this normal behavior for them?"

Yes, Jacob....it is :-) Welcome to my world!

Junior Boggle & Paper Snowflakes with Anna

After a 2 1/2 week Christmas break, both the Kindergarten teacher and her girls were ready for school to begin again today! Now if we can get back into a routine again... :-)

Today Anna was my teacher helper. She played a quick round of Junior Boggle with the girls. Basically, before the buzzer went off, the girls had to try and make a 3 letter word with letter dice. It was a good way for them to quickly find a correct letter and the proper letter sequence of a word. 

And then it was time to cut out our paper snowflakes. We wanted to make the classroom look like winter with snowflakes everywhere! I had already cut paper into circles, so all the girls had to do was fold up the paper and start cutting out designs.

The table soon became covered with little white pieces of paper everywhere.... :-)

But the results were quite cute!!!

Our classroom is officially decorated for winter now!

Happy Birthday, Ayme!

While on Christmas break, Ayme celebrated her 7th birthday! She has been looking forward to this birthday for MONTHS. I think she started talking about it the first week of school whenever we had calendar time. :-) "My birthday will be soon!!" she would exclaim nearly every day. The countdown was definitely on once December hit!