It all about LOVE!

Febraury is the love month and boy, we did it big!

We made cute love bugs from paper.

The day we did this, Eric and I went out to eat. He asked me what we did that day and to his surprise, I HAD THE PIECES IN MY PURSE, so I busted it out on the table!!!!!

We made cute little heart wreaths with paper plates and paper hearts.  They hung in my room for awhile and were the perfect touch at the Valentine's Day Party. I also had the best VD party ever because the classroom parents were in and out in ONE HOUR. ONE HOUR. IN AND OUT. I loved that!!!!

Roles have Reversed!!!

Now, don't get me wrong, every day in DK is exciting and a great day however my BEST day yet was when I had a certain visitor in my room. When I student taught in Kindergarten, I was in the best class ever...Laura's class. We had so much fun and worked extremely well together. We have grown to be very good friends. Anyways, I invited her to come to my classroom and see how I do things. I found myself saying "Oh, and you taught me this..." and "You showed me that..." and "I learned that from you...". I was so excited to be sharing my room and my students with her.

Groundhog's Day

Even though the concept of Groundhog's Day is a pretty foreign concept to a 5 year old, we talked about it anyways. I mean , why not!? We looked on a map to find Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. (As if explaining a weather telling groundhog wasn't strange enough to my littles, try explaining "why Punxsutawney sounds so weird?"....my classic answer: "It just does." They didn't fight me.) We also made paper bag puppets:

My First Snow Day!

This post can be summed up into one easy sentence:

January 28th 2013.....


SNOW DAYS ARE SO MUCH BETTER WHEN YOU ARE THE TEACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY back! January...

Holy Moly!! The last three months of my life are literally a blur. So much happening and so busy, yet I can't remember anything! Wayyyy back in January we finished up our main study of winter. We talked a lot about penguins, snow, and snowmen. We took snowballs and wrote our names on them...Cute!

 

 

We made puffy snowmen out of shaving cream mixed with elmer's glue. They turned out okay, but I think my ratio of shaving cream to glue was off so it was hard to dry on them once they were dry. We read The Mitten and The Hat. For both stories, we made both a mitten and a hat out of paper and yarn. We colored the animals and were able to retell the story! We traced mugs onto paper and painted them. Mrs. Augustine put then on a bulletin board with the following poem (that I wrote!):

Mix with kindness as a start,

Then add friendship from the heart.

Make sure to plop in a great big hug,

Watch as it soon will overflow the mug.

When you drink up this warm, chocolaty pool,

You’ll always make good choices at Meadow Ridge School!