Today actually went very smoothly! Either the students were feeling much like I was (Sleepy!) or they are finally getting the hang of being back in school (fingers crossed!).
I wanted to post some pictures of the bulletins Mrs. Hoffman and I have been working on with the class the past few weeks and the activities that correlate.
Last week, Mrs. Hoffman read the students a story called Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by
See how it looks like the letters climbed the tree and are making it lean to one side? That's how it happens in the story :)
They turned out great!
We also did a taste test of 4 kinds of M&Ms and each student got to vote which they liked the best. Mrs. Hoffman's room "theme" is M&M so this activity was a great way to start the school year.
Luckily, there are no serious allergies in the room this year so all the students were able to participate in the M&M taste test. We passed out 1 of each type of M&M to each student and tried them 1 by 1 as a class.
1. Plain M&Ms
2. Peanut m&Ms
3. Peanut Butter M&Ms
4. Mystery (Coconut)
The students got a slip of paper to write which number they liked the best. We then created a graph representing the votes for each type of M&M. This was great to visually represent 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th most liked flavor. The students could connect that the flavor with the most votes, meant that was the flavor most people chose. Creating graphs and talking through them is a great activity and this was a fun (and tasty) way to introduce a basic graph.
Each student also created their own M&M person to hang outside in the hallway with our graph. They got to choose which color they wanted and then we created them together step by step, like the coconut trees.
Because we only have art class once a week, we do a lot of art activities in class. It's great seeing Mrs. Hoffman walk the students through drawing and being precise, especially when drawing people. She talks about shapes and actuality of creating figures. She breaks the activity down so that it really is an actual art lesson. Art is easily incorporated into a lot of activity and I think it's really important to have art lessons in school, so it works great to tie it in with math and literacy!
Plus, the art projects always turn out so darn cute!!
Ruby, you express yourself so well through your writing! I feel as if I was sitting with you, Mrs. Hoffman, and the children in your classroom! What fun activities you described. I have to say that your experiences sound like a lot more fun than mine were. Of course, that probably has more to do with the fact that my youngest students were seniors in high school, community college students, or university students! I think I missed out on the "fun" things! Love hearing what you are doing in the classroom!
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