K & 1 FUN!

People always say that my job is coloring all day. It's a lot more than that but being an elementary teacher does mean that I can take advantages of certain "holidays" and incorporate them into my classroom.  This past Monday (916/13) was National Playdoh Day!! Since I have 30 min of art/music at the end of the day I took advantage of it.

It was complete playdoh free time (well actually it was Crayola Model Magic but shhhhh).  The kids were allowed to make whatever they wanted, absolutely anything and at the end of the 30 minutes whatever they had would dry overnight and they would get to take it home.  This half hour is at the end of the day right before kindergarten leaves so they're always silly and crazy and today was no different but today they were creative too.  We had hot dogs, mustaches, phones, snakes, cats, dogs, pancakes, glasses, letter etc. SO MANY THING!  Of course I took pictures :)

 Our silly 'staches

 more mustaches

 Mustaches were a big hit

 Creative jewelry 

 And glasses too!

 Everyone needs a good phone

 So fashionable

 HOT DOG!

Showing off what we made

Today is National Talk Like A Pirate Day. I thought it would be a good day to review the letter R. We made pirate hats and walked the plank and said RRRRRRR all day long. First grade also did pirate writings about what they would do if they were a pirate. It was pretty fun. And he high schoolers think I'm crazy for walking around in a pirate hat (but really I just think they were jealous)

 Reading on our pirate ship.

Walking the plank to take a bathroom break

Pirates say "RRRRRRRRR"

My little bunch of pirates (one girl lost her hat somehow so I made her an eyepatch with my hand)