I've clearly been busy....barely any posts this year! I'm going to try to get back into my blog...so I'm starting with a long post tonight to kinda catch everyone up!
I can't remember what my last post was about, and quite frankly I'm too lazy to look! So I may repeat myself some ;) but since the beginning of the school year I've gained 1 new student, making my classroom total a whopping 16!...I'm sure many teachers right now want to strangle me...but please don't!
There's so much I've missed posting about - especially Halloween (my favorite holiday ever!!). But my memory's long gone since then...all I know is I made my classroom as much like a haunted house as I could without scaring my kids, showed my age when I dressed up as a pink lady on Halloween (the kids just looked at me and didn't even acknowledge I was dressed up...I had the jacket, lipstick, scarf - the whole deal!...and then when I asked if they knew what I was they stared at my like I had 4 eyes ;) ), and had an AWESOME Halloween party hosted by my very generous parents. We even mummy wrapped the kids in toilet paper...as a result my room looked like it had been TP'd and you wouldn't have even known there was a floor!). I also learned ninjas and pirates are very popular costumes amongst 6-7 year olds :).
Now for Thanksgiving I was determined to kill 2 birds w one stone. Unfortunately for the kids we don't have an art teacher at our school (I say unfortunately bc they're stuck with my unartistic ideas!). So of course during Nov. we had to make SOME kind of turkey art - it's practically tradition! ;) so I decided to hit an art standard while I was at it. I taught primary and secondary colors using turkey feathers!
When I was originally planning this lesson I went out on a whim and bought a book off of Amazon hoping it'd be worth then money. Turns out its one of my all time favorite books now!! It's called "'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving" is is SUPER cute and funny! The gist of the story is a group of kids went on a field trip to the turkey farm, only to find out these turkeys were soon to be chopped up and baked for Thanksgiving the following week! Needless to say, the kids were traumatized and when the teacher wasn't looking they hid the turkeys under their shirts and waddled on the school bus back home. And alas, the turkeys spent Thanksgiving with their new, young friends :). My students LOVED this book (...and maybe I did more than them!).
After reading the book we talked about what they would eat more of in place of turkey. Then we wrote about it (one super short sentence). It's a spoof on the old chick fil a cow so we said "Save a turkey! Eat more...". There were many popular choices, but "Eat more people." isn't the most humane, so I let the originator of the idea write it and everyone else had to choose something different :).
After writing, we created our turkeys! I'm not going to go step by step because you'll get the idea from the pictures, but they were asked to make primary colored feathers and then secondary colored feathers on their turkeys. Here are some pictures below of justs a few of them!
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| Save a Turkey! Eat more metlof! |
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| Save a Turkey! Eat more salid! |
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| Save a Turkey! Eat more hash browns. |
I loved this project and would definitely do it again!
Now onto our current holiday...Christmas! I couldn't wait to get festive in my room. Here's a few pictures of my decorations below. I personally think the pictures don't do it justice - it's much more festive looking in person!
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| My mom sewed (I poorly painted on their names and year) my students some super cute stockings - thanks, Mom! |
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| Some holiday border! Here is also our schedule...a glimpse in the lives of first graders :) |
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| My homemade UT wreath hangs right above our brownie points (class reward system). |
And of course, Christmas doesn't mean much to 1st graders unless Santa's involved. So of course, I pulled some strings with Santa and we now have an Elf in the Shelf watching over our class! We voted on the name Charlie Sprinkle (okay...I used their name ideas and combined 2 of them, but shhhh they don't know that!) and boy do they love him! They come into the classroom trying to find what silly Charlie Sprinkle was up to last night. Below are some pictures of Charlie Sprinkle's crazy adventures in 1S (1st grade Schletzer)!
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| Charlie Sprinkle's 1st appearance! |
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| He gave our classroom some new decorations - a countdown to Christmas :) |
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| Riding our class pet, Brownie! |
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| Sleeping beauty, ZZZZZ... |
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| Littlest pet shops take over! |
Charlie Sprinkle is a great new addition to our class! He gives the kids something to look forward to and helps them be on their very best behavior. You'd be amazed at how much easier it is to stand in line when the teacher says "Let's she Charlie Sprinkle a good first grade line." What seems to be a blob magically turns into a pin straight line! Oh the magic ;)
Thanks for reading this super long post if you got all the way down here! I've got some upcoming posts I'm excited to share with everyone soon! Until then, stay safe during the holidays and keep being merry and jolly :)
Love,
"Ms. Schletzer"
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