I'm linking up again with Doodlebugs Teaching for Five for Friday
I have successfully survived the last 2 weeks! Praise the Lord!!!
Honestly I wasn't sure how I was gonna make it. For some reason, March has been the busiest month of this school year.
We have had so much going on which is why I wasn't able to blog last week.
Here are just a few things I've been up to:
St. Patrick's Day Mischief
We had a little "visit" from the lepracons to remind us it was a special day.
The kiddos were pleasantly surprised by our special treat. Under the message from the lepracons, there was a box of lucky charms cereal. We used the cereal to help us work on sorting, graphing, and counting.
We always love learning with food!
At the end of the day I passed out these little treat bags.
It was a super fun day!
And That's a Wrap!
We finally wrapped up our transportation unit.
We've had a blast learning all about landforms!
We recently wrapped up our landform unit by designing and creating our own islands.
We wrote letters and post cards to our family and friends describing our islands.
It was a successful unit full of learning and fun!
If you're interested in adding a little interactive fun to your landform unit, feel free to check out the unit I used: Landforms, Continents & Oceans {A Science, Writing and Literacy Unit}
This was such a great purchase. I'm very glad I was able to use it to make learning more meaningful!
Homecoming Weekend
We kicked off our weekend on Friday, March 20th with an alumni gathering at Lagunitas Brewing Company
It was such an amazing time of hanging out and catching up. Since I am an alumni and a current teacher, I really enjoyed going and connecting with old and new friends.
Me and the hubs
Alumni & Friends
Saturday, March 21st we had two events which were both a BLAST!
We had an alumni basketball game. Our current basketball team played alumni that were on the basketball team when they attended our school.
My K/1 students have been learning a hip hop dance which they performed at half time.
I could not have been more proud of them!
They were quite the little performers :)
Later that evening, we celebrated and honored our middle school teacher who retired at the end of last year after 20 years of faithful service. We had a dinner and auction which were both wonderfully successful.
This is our beloved Sharon Losey who we were so grateful to have for 20 years.
We also had a school wide competition to see which class could come up with the most creative door. We all decorated our doors for homecoming weekend.
Kindergarten/First Grade
Fourth/Fifth Grade Door and Bulletin Board:
Middle School (6th-8th Grades) and the Art Room
The Library and Computer Lab (Our P.E. Coach has his desk in the lab so the door is dedicated to him)
Our Principal and Vice Principal's Doors
And Lastly, the high school History door
Totino the Turtle
{name curtsy of my hubby, he said the turtle looked like a little totino pizza roll}
This little guy made his way into our classroom yesterday morning.
I was teaching math and a parent of one of my students came in holding him. She told us she found him in the middle of the road right outside our school. She was worried he was gonna get hit by a car.
So we made a little home for him and decided to research the pros and cons of keeping him.
One of my other students moms was very knowledgeable about turtles. She was able to share with us lots of information about turtles.
We learned that Totino is a boy because the bottom of his shell has a big curve in it.
Yesterday I told my students (1st-3rd grade) they could earn extra credit if they researched our turtle and came to school today ready to share what they could find.
Several students came to school with some great info.
It turns out, our little friend is a Western Pond Turtle and this species is technically endangered.
We learned that it is illegal to keep them as pets.
We all agreed the best plan would be to set him free back into the pond next to our school.
This afternoon, we took a walking field trip behind our school to set him free in the pond.
Unfortunately, the part of the pond that is directly next to our school is completely dried up and we learned turtles need water to eat and thrive.
I told my students that I would have to release Totino after school when I could drive to a different location and release him in a pond with enough water.
After school, my hubby helped me drive a bit and find the perfect spot for our little friend.
I think he likes his new home.
We will definitely miss him, but I sure am glad he will be able to thrive in this new environment.
So Long Totino!
