St. Joseph

Last Friday, we did a family activity about St. Joseph. I found this activity on the website Catholic Inspired. I modified it so that we could do the activity for 230 kids and only spend $85.00.  I got sandpaper at Home Depot. I bought a large bottle of Mod Podge at Michaels craft store and divided it up into 18 baby food jars. I bought 2" scrabble tiles at Joann's. I printed the pictures off of the internet.

First, the students sanded the writing off of the scrabble tile. Next, the students trimmed the picture of St. Joseph. Then, the students wrote St. Joseph on the wood. Last, the students used Mod Podge to glue the picture of St. Joseph onto the wood tile. Here is the finished product. It is not quite dry yet. The Mod Podge dries completely clear.

Kindergarten Cooking

Today, for cooking, we made strawberry banana kabobs.

Here is the kabob I made with my first group of students.

 The kids cut the fruit all by themselves.

 Then, they used the fruit to make an AB pattern (red, white, red, white...).

 Then, they ate their kabobs.

Dr. Seuss

Monday was Dr. Seuss' Birthday. We did many fun activities for his birthday. The kids worked on putting words from Dr. Seuss' books in ABC order.

We talked about plural nouns and made green eggs and ham plates. The students could chose to make up to three eggs.

We ate green eggs and ham treats. This is a pretzel, white chocolate and a sour apple jelly belly.

We also ate a red fish treat. These tasty treats were made with sugar cookies with blue frosting, fish confetti, and a Swedish Fish. My room mom did the cooking. She is awesome!

100th Day of School

Last Thursday was the 100th day of school. We did a lot of fun activities. Normally, our class has a party with food and treats for the kids to eat. This time we decided to bring in soup cans and donate them to our local soup pantry. Our goal was to collect 100 cans of soup for the 100th day of school. We collected 205 cans of soup!

St. Martin de Porres

This week, the fifth grade class had chapel mass. While they were at mass, the other students got into their family groups (two kids from each grade level) and learned about St. Martin de Porres. Here is a little craft that the kids did. The first one is my sample.

The eighth grade students wrote a summary for the younger kids. This is what one Kindergarten student copied off the board.

Here is the same summary that one of the older kids wrote down for another Kindergarten student.

Catholic Schools Week

Last week was Catholic Schools Week. The kids had a lot of fun. Sunday was parent appreciation day and open house. The students decorated clay pots with their fingerprints. Here are a few samples of how they turned out:

Monday was spirit day. Each class chose a color shirt to wear to show that they belonged to a certain class. My Kindergarteners wore white shirts. The school had a spirit assembly where each class presented a cheer that they wrote for their class. Then the whole school danced the Cupid Shuffle. Since we had the Scholastic Book Fair at our school all week, Clifford joined us in the Cupid Shuffle. It was a lot of fun!

Tuesday was sports day. The students wore their favorite sports team's jersey.

Wednesday was student appreciation day. The kids got to wear crazy socks and crazy hair. They also enjoyed a Popsicle at the end of the day. The teachers were not allowed to give the students homework that day either!

Thursday was teacher appreciation day. My kids brought me many flowers that I put into a big vase. They also made me cards. It was so sweet. My son made cute flower vases for his teachers (I got the idea off Pinterest).

Friday was grandparent's day. We had many grandparents join us for Mass. Then they were invited to stay at school and visit their grandchild's classroom, have refreshments, visit the book fair, and take photo booth pictures with their grandchild.

Igloo Estimation

We have been working on estimation. Since it is winter, I made an igloo out of blue paper and taped it to the board. I put one square "ice block" on the igloo and asked the kids to estimate how many ice blocks it would take to fill up the whole igloo.

The kids made some estimations and then they helped me fill the igloo with ice blocks. It took 24 whole ice blocks and 6 half ice blocks to fill up the igloo (27 ice blocks altogether). The closest estimate was 21 ice blocks.

Try this activity using small ice blocks, medium ice blocks, and then large ice blocks and discuss why the kids' estimates change for each size.