Easter Egg Balance

Today was such a beautiful day outside! I taught my class the letter E. We had a day full of EGGS! We decorated eggs, read an egg hunt book, and then played Egg Balance. Look how cute this egg set is! When the plastic egg falls, it cracks in half and a bean bag yolk comes out!! So stinkin cute. My room mom last year gave them to me. They are by Play Wonder and I think she got them at Target after Easter on clearance. But, they would be super easy to make too! Love them! The kids did too!

Cookies, Cakes, and Doughnuts! Oh my!

Today, I turned the drama center in my classroom into a bakery. The kids absolutely had a ball! I baked salt dough cookies and doughnuts last week while Chad was in Argentina. Then, the children painted them when they got to school yesterday and this morning. Last night, I made some delicious smelling cinnamon playdough for them to play with while in the bakery too. I had to remind a little stinker not to nibble on the dough though. It doesn’t taste as good as it smells! Ha ha. I also made a cardboard felt cake and added ribbon, felt shapes, and buttons for them to decorate the cake. So cute!

Art Show today!

I have been teaching my class about famous artists around the world these past few weeks. After giving them some background about the artist, we replicated their work/art style in some sort of way. Today, we had a class art show and invited the children's parents in to join us. It went really well. After the show, the children had a picnic lunch outside with their family. What a nice day.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!
Today was a fun-filled day full of leprechaun surprises! Yesterday, the kiddos and I wrote a letter to the leprechaun asking him to please leave us a treat. Sure enough he did! ;) We went on a little treasure hunt. A yummy surprise was waiting for us at the end! Lenny the Leprechaun was pretty sneaky!

Kandinsky

I am super excited to show you a painting my class worked on inspired by Wassilly Kandinsky! Here is his painting:

Here is our painting! Each kid painted on a square piece of cardstock. Then, I put them all together and framed it! I think it turned out looking really neat!

Sculptures with the Lil' Ones

This week, I have been teaching my class about famous artists. Yesterday, we learned about Pablo Picasso and then made salt dough for them to sculpt with. I took their sculptures home last night to bake in the oven. This morning, Chad was trying to guess what each sculpture was. He was totally off on mostly all of them (except the bowls)! I doubt he would have guessed that this one is E's mom with eyeballs all over her!

100th Day!

Well, today was the 100th day of School! Wahoo!! Only about 70 some days left of school!! Can't wait! Look at their lil' faces. Wow. They were definitely off the walls today.

Here is an update on the Dr. Seuss chest we have been working on. I am supposed to be finished it by this Friday. Yeah... there is NO way! At at the end of the day today, I was putting the kids hand prints inside of the chest. I need to do 7 more hand prints and then spray the chest. I think I will be finished then! Wahoo!