Happy Halloween!

 
It's a bird....It's a plane...It's...
 

 

A Bucket Filling Superhero!

SUPERRRRR LISTENINGGGGG!!!

 

 The DK Team!

 

Halloween Time FRIENDS!

Everyone loves a good quality pumpkin patch!

I gave my students orange paper, black scrap paper, scissors, and glue sticks. Very cute.

I will admit it. I went a little Halloween decor crazy. I just couldn't help myself. I kept thinking of all kinds of things to do!! Halloween is here!

Flutter, Flutter Little Bat,

How I wonder where you're at.

Swooping through the darkest night,

You find your way without a light.

Flutter, Flutter Little Bat,

How I wonder where you're at!

Haunted Houses.........

We also did a Pin Poke Cat. Such a classic. The cat was traced on black paper with a white colored pencil. The students used push pins to follow the lines and "cut it out". Oh and tear paper pumpkins with a Mod Podge coating.

Happy Halloween from Room 111!

Michigan vs Michigan State

I put this up on Thursday morning and by Friday afternoon it was COVERED with signatures. My students loved it. Miss Sinnott loved the outcome of the game. Win, Win.(Note: My lovely, awesome 5th grade helpers took my idea and made it happen on my door. Thanks girls!)

Clifford Day

For "C" week, we celebrated Clifford Day. Yes, celebrated. We spent the whole day in Clifford mode. Needless to say, it was adorable, but I'm glad it only happens once a year. We read Clifford books, created paper Cliffords, made Clifford headbands, and ate "dog food" for snack. It was a fun day! I wish I could show the pictures of the students with their headbands on...it was too precious!

We put the dogs in the hallways for decoration for a few days.

Snack was Reeses Puffs cereal. As I sit here and reflect, I think of how crazy that day was....and well, it is no wonder they were so hyper about Clifford Day...I fed right into their excitement. Who creates personalized dog "bowls" for their students? This girl.

Oh. I love my job.

It has been almost two weeks!

OH YIKES! It has been so long since I last posted! I have a good reason. I promise. For some reason, the last two weeks, I have been EXHAUSTED! I don't know if the excitement of the first weeks of school has passed, or if my classroom is taking more energy from me, or what the issue is! I have a lot to catch up on...stay tuned...I will do it tonight after school. PROMISE.

Acorn HOUR

We had a lovely DK gathering where we learned a cute poem, collected acorns, and ate an adorable acorn snack! The snack was a donut hole, frosting, Cocoa Krispies, and a pretzel stick!

I'm an acorn small and round, Laying on the cold cold ground. Everybody steps on me, That is why I'm cracked you see. I'm a nut. I'm a nut.

My sister is a NEWS ANCHOR!

For anyone that read the title, you are probably confused becuase you know that I do not have a sister. Well, if you are a DKer in Miss Koster's class, you might think differently. I met Erika Koster in August when we both started working in our rooms here at school. Miss Koster is new to DK, but has a lot of great teaching experience in Florida, Wyoming, and of course, Rockford! Like all of my other teammates, we have developed a very great friendship. A few weeks ago, Miss Koster took her class on a Bear Hunt (see previous post about Bear Hunts if you need an explanation). I was visiting her room beforehand and the students were telling me all about what they were going to do. I told them that afterwards they BETTER come to my room and tell me how it went. Well, Miss Koster's class really saw a bear outside (think stuffed animal bear in a tree) and were bursting with excitement! They came and told me all about it and I just couldn't let it go. I pretended to get on the phone and called NEWS CHANNEL 8!! I told the boys and girls that a news anchor and crew were on their way to interview the children about what they found outside! You better believe I dressed up in a costume and went upstairs (relax, my students were in Music class for 45 minutes...I wasn't ditching them!) to talk to them. I made Miss Koster's papapro Mrs. B use a Kleenex box as a video camera. I had a remote for a microphone and I was asking them all about it. They tried to call me out for not being a news anchor, but I quickly convinced them that I as the news anchor was actually a woman named Brenda....Miss Sinnott's TWIN SISTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Talk about a good time. I really think they believed me...well, most of them. To this day some of them still ask me about Brenda and when she is going to come visit. Well, boys and girls... Brenda may come visit when you least expect it...

Even though she was laughing hysterically, Miss Koster captured some great moments!!!!!

Little ears could be listening...

"Miss Sinnott, I am going to tell you what I talked about last night because I talked about it last night so now I am going to tell you what I talked about last night which is Obama is about the people and Romney is about the money." UHHHHHH WHAT?! YOU ARE FIVE... WHY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT POLITICS?!?!?

Thursday was BEAR DAY!

This week we talked about the letter "B". Everything we talked about was surrounding the letter "B". Mrs. Greca (my mentor) and I decided to make Thursday "BEAR DAY" (if you must ask, bear starts with the letter "B"...). I told the kiddos they could bring a stuffed bear from home to have the entire day except at lunch, library, and recess. THIS WAS ABSOLUTELY HYSTERICAL. Those bears worked on jobs with my students, played with my students, ate snack with my students, and even sat on the rug with my students. I set up a "Bear Hospital" with all of the doctor equipment. It was so cute. They were taking it very seriously. For snack we had gummy bears and teddy grahams. When the kiddos were gone at lunchtime, Mrs. Augustine arranged all of the teddy bears on the carpet and I turned on a movie. I pretended that I never went to the room (I usually eat in the teacher's lounge) and headed to pick up my little ones from recess. We all walked into the room together and saw the bears sitting on the rug watching the tv! My students were literally speechless. SPEECHLESS. They didn't even know what to say!!! After a long, long pause, one little boy said "MISS SINNOTT. THIS IS HORRIBLE. THE BEARS ARE BEING SO NAUGHTY! YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO GO THROUGH YOUR TEACHER'S THINGS!!!!" Ha. Ha. Anyways, so Mrs. Greca and I decided to have a bear hunt outside. It was so beautiful out (about 73) and we wanted to get our kiddos moving. So we go on this bear hunt outside and teach the littles how to quietly walk, use binoculars (their hands), and "back up slowly" if you come in contact with a bear. They were all set. Well, Mrs. Greca lead the kids outside and I quickly made bear biscuits (Pillsbury biscuits, butter, sugar, cinnamon). I joined them and we started searching for bears in the woods. Instantly, a few kids started bawling their eyes out!!! "I don't want to see a bear!!! I'm scared!!" I did NOT see that coming! Once we made it back to the door, we found a note from the bears to our students (I hung it up after making bear biscuits). It basically said that they were sorry we couldn't find them but they left us treats (bear biscuits) in our room!! We went back to our room and enjoyed our snack. Once finished, all the kids shouted "This was the BEST. DAY. EVER!" What a fun day! Mrs. Greca teaching us how to FREEZE!

Looking in the woods....

Looking in the meadow...

I am a teacher not a baker/chef...

One cutie brought in a Thank You note the next day. "Miss Sinnott, I had my mom write my words."

When one door closes, another one opens!

Today I was officially booted off of my parents insurance (car, life, health, dental, vision). Today is the end of an era. I am now officially an adult with a career and my OWN insurance. Let's have a moment of silence. HA! Like I even know what a moment of silence is...I teach 5 year olds.

Fall is here in Room 111

We fingerpainted orange, yellow, and red on fingerpaint paper. The next day we traced maple leaves (reflection: a maple leaf is far, far too hard for these little ones to not only trace but cut out...next time, a different type of leaf will be used) and cut them out. Mrs. Augustine hung them up and BADA BING! BADA BOOM! a fall themed tree.