100th Day of School - 2019

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Today we celebrated our 100th day of school!  We had so much fun!

I decided that I was going to have my name on me 100 times - because I'm pretty sure I hear my name AT LEAST 100 times a day!

 

Shout out to the Bar-T staff for helping me with my back!

I even put baby powder in my hair.....

Some of my students dressed the part today too!

During the morning and part of the afternoon, the students rotated through seven centers.

Note:  We had so much fun that I didn't take as many pictures as I wanted to, but here is what I have!

Center #1: Draw a picture with the digits 1, 0, 0.  I found this idea on Pinterest and thought it was so cute!

Center #2: 100 chain links.  (I think we made more than 100!)  We were going to see how long it was and identify items that were longer / shorter / taller / smaller than our chain, but we ran out of time.

Center #3:  The students wrote what they would do if they had $100. 

Center #4: 100 hearts - students traced and cut out hearts.  Then they wrote kind things on them.  We didn't quite get to 100, but I will have the students finish them tomorrow during Valentine's Day.  

Center #5: Students collaborated to complete a 100 piece puzzle!  The puzzle didn't get finished until the last rotation - how lucky were we!

Center #6: Students created 100 Lincoln Hats.  The students are going to measure items using the Lincoln hats.

Center #7:  The students drew pictures of themselves at age 100! (Thanks to third grade for letting us borrow the mirrors!)

After the centers were finished, my teammate brought her class down.  A former teammate of ours who is retired, came in and read The Wolf's Chicken Stew.  If you've never read it, it's so cute!  The wolf is trying to fatten up a chicken so he can make a tasty stew.  He makes 100 doughnuts, 100 pancakes, and a cake that weighs 100 pounds!  I won't give away the ending - but it's fabulous!

After reading the story, we made our OWN stew!  (I found this idea here and modified it. slightly.)
We used popcorn, pretzels, Goldfish, Cheeze-its, Kix, Cheerios, Fruit Loops, Raisins, marshmallows, and M & M's. 

After mixing it up in a big bag, each student got a cup full to eat while they watched Emily's First 100 Days of School.

All in all, it was an AMAZING 100th day of school! 
Now I need to switch gears and get ready for our Valentine's Party tomorrow!

Take care!
~Stacey~

Fabulous 50's

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For several years, I have celebrated the 50th day of school!  It's always a blast.  (I didn't do it last year as I was out that day.)  

Of course I dressed up! :-) 

 

I even managed to convince my co-teacher to wear one of my extra skirts and other accessories!

 

I decorated my room:

 

My boys came in looking SO handsome!  (Some of the boys wanted to wear my extra glasses so I let them!)

 

I had dresses if my girls wanted to wear them.  Some wanted glasses.  They ALL wanted the necklaces! :-)

 

Then we had a group shot!

 

We had a blast today!  (I'm sorry I didn't take more pictures.)

We compared the 1950's to today.  They were SHOCKED at how there were no computers, cell phones, or cable TV back then.  They also couldn't imagine watching a small tv in black and white for the most part.  We did a picture sort of items from the 1950's and today.

We counted by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s up to 50.

We made root beer floats.  Afterwards, they wrote how to make a root beer float and wrote their opinion on if they liked the root beer float or not and why they felt that way.

Finally, we had a dance party full of 50's music!  I did take a few pics here.

 

You can read about 50's day from 2013 here and from 2014 here.

Thanks for stopping by! :-) 

~Stacey~

Mini Pirate Week 2015!

Ahoy there me mateys!

If you remember my Pirate Day post from last year, then you'll know I put together an awesome Pirate Day with 15 hours notice!

I wasn't going to let that happen this year!  I've been (over) planning this out for awhile.  Knowing that Pirate Day would fall on a Saturday, I decided to do a mini-Pirate week!  We celebrated Pirate's Day Wednesday-Friday!

I started off on Wednesday by showing them a bunch of pirate books I checked out from the library.  As I held up each book, I asked them to tell me if it was a fiction or an informational book.   Then, I read How I Became a Pirate!

Next, we made pirate telescopes out of toilet paper rolls, black paper, red paper, and a skull / crossbones picture.

Then we made our hooks!

Take a red cup, carefully cut a hole in the middle (ADULTS DO THAT STEP), take a sheet of tin foil, roll it up and insert it.

We also decorated parrots.  They could choose between two:

We attached the parrots to cardboard and the kids put them in their hats when they worn them on Friday.

We also made a pirate hat (although it wasn't your typical pirate hat!)

Sometime that afternoon, we watched "The Magic School Bus Takes a Dive."  (Short version is one of Ms. Frizzle's ancestors was Redbeard the Pirate and the kids followed a treasure map to a coral reef.)  The video was actually two-fold in purpose:  1)  The pirate connection of course.  2)  Eventually my students will be choosing our big research project for the year - rainforest, coral reef, or zoo project. :-)

Thursday, we read a short story about a pirate named Mark.  (Story and next activity taken from here) There are many -ar words in the story, which talks about how pirates like to eat chocolate bars for breakfast.  So what did I do?  I bought little miniature Hershey bars for them to eat! :-)

Afterwards, we did an activity about -ar words (From the same SUPER ADORABLE PACKET ABOVE!!!!!!) They read / cut out the -ar words, glued them on a piece of paper, and turned it into a map!

The students were SO focused on this activity! It was amazing!

That afternoon, we discussed things that float and sink.  We experimented with objects I had in my art  bin.  Most of what I had floated - the kids couldn't believe it!!!!

Then I told them that they would be collaborating in order to make a boat.  They had to decided if they were going to make a boat that would float, or a boat they could try to sink.  I made a quick flipchart page to let them vote and then we interpreted the data.  The students compared the numbers using greater than and less than statements.  Then they gave me the 2 addition sentences!

Boat that floats is the winner!

I split the class up into 5 groups and gave each group a bucket of stuff!  (Popsicle sticks, yarn, qtips, masking tape, glue, and more!)  I let them go to town!  They worked for close to 2 hours!

This sweet boy below, wanted to make an anchor and figured out how to do so!  Then he went to each of the groups and showed them how to make one!

Friday!  Definitely dressed up!

The kids LAUGHED so hard when they saw me! :-)

We started off our day with a pirate themed photo shoot! Props came from Oriental Trading! Here are a few of the pics!

My best dressed pirate!  (It was individual student picture day!)

I added the smiley face.

My co-teacher! :-)

After the photo shoot they created their own treasure map.

Then we made pirate faces!

Then it was time for a TREASURE HUNT!  First we put on all of the things we made on Wednesday!

Argh mates! 

If you want to see your treasure, you’ll have to follow my directions!

  1.          Go to the courtyard and look for the clue.  Remember:  Don’t make any noise when you look for the clue!

2.      Go to the room with many colors for the next clue!

3.      Go the room with all of the books.

4.      Go to the room where you go when you don’t feel well.

5.      Go to Mrs. Lynch’s best friend’s room.

6.      Go to Mr. Johnson’s office for a clue.

7.       Tiptop into the office and say, “Excuse me, do you have anything for us?"

8.       Follow their directions to receive your treasure!'

I had this printed out on regular paper which I then sponge painted with watered down light brown paint to give it than old look!  The clues were spread out around the school.

The students had a BLAST on the treasure hunt!  After we found the treasure, we went back to the room, explored the treasure a little bit, and then celebrated by eating pirate's booty!  I had planned on doing a sensory writing with the pirate's booty but we ran out of time.

We had a fantastic Pirate's Week!  Thanks for reading all about it!

Until next time!

~Captain Stacey~