Read Across America 2017

Last Thursday was Read Across America Day. We did many fun activities all week to celebrate Dr. Seuss. On Thursday we had a Dr. Seuss party. The room moms bought each child a Dr. Seuss book to take home.

Dr. Seuss Word Families.

Dr. Seuss ABC order.

We made green eggs for cooking.

Click here to see more fun Dr. Seuss activities from past years.

Mardi Gras 2017

Last Tuesday we had our annual Mardi Gras celebration. We had a parade around the hall and then we played bingo. It was so much fun!

Earlier in the day, the kids each got to eat a cupcake. If they found a plastic baby in their cupcake, they got to be the king or queen. 

Art Show

Every year my school has an art show. The art teacher works with all the students in the school to create hundreds of art pieces. Then we have an open house to show off the work. There are pieces of student art for sale, yummy food, and crafts for the whole family.  Here are the highlights.

Cooking: Cherry Delight

Last week, we made cherry delight for cooking. First, the kids put pudding in their cup. Next, the kids put a scoop of cherry pie filling in their cup. Last, the kids put whipped topping in their cup. They thought it was a very tasty treat for President's Day.

Class Book 2017

Every year I have my students write and illustrate a class book. This year our book is called Scarlet Octopus, Scarlet Octopus, What Do You See? We use Studentreasures to publish our book. Here are some pages from our book. We based our book on Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? The kids chose animals to include in our book and they changed the color words to more interesting color words. Our lovely art teacher, Mrs. Jones, made line drawings of the animals and the kids colored them in. 

Then, each student wrote about what they want to be when they grow up and illustrated a picture to go with their words.

Last, the kids wrote about their favorite Kindergarten memory. 

It took us two months to complete this book. I cannot wait to see the hardbound copy of the book.

Dramatic Play Center: Flower Shop

Today I closed the Starbucks Dramatic Play center and opened the St. Mary's Flower Shop Dramatic Play center. I had so much fun making this center. Yesterday, I went to Dollar Tree and bought all kinds of cute items for the flower shop.

I bought flowers...

office supplies...

vases, pots, decorative sticks, decorative gems for vases, Spanish moss, baskets...

seed packets...

ribbon, aprons, cans, gloves, and seed kits.

I put the flowers in vases and cans.

I made business cards, pricing guides, flower making instructions, a business sign, and an hours of operation sign. These are cards to write a message on to send with a flower arrangement. The kids are going to glue the cards on craft sticks so that they can put the cards in flower arrangements.

These are the business cards I made for the flower shop.

Here is the whole center.

Here is the desk complete with a cash register, card reader, check books, a calculator, note pad, receipt book, message tablet, phone and open/closed sign.

Here are some flowers that are for sale.

This is where the kids make the flower arrangements.

There is also a flower making station with instructions on how to make tissue paper flowers. Tomorrow I am going to add directions for how to make cupcake liner flowers.

The kids had so much fun at the Flower Shop today.