Random thot of the day

Some days all you can do is trust and keep going...thats how I feel with these little people...where am I leading them? Where will they be at in June?...in 20 years from now?...We are building futures!

Camping Theme Classroom

Well I'll try n give you a few ideas & a picture of what my camping classroom looks like!!It's been a real hit! Right by my door I covered the wall with night sky bulletin paper. I found a double sand colored flat sheet at Wal-mart for a great price! So yes!that went on the floor for sand. Set up a 2 person junior tent, set some camp stools in there & covered some pillows with plaid fabric threw those in to complete my reading corner! Thanks to my dad & lil bro we have a campfire infront of the tent! We used a small swirl cage fan & a red bulb covered that with a lampshade that we had covered with small logs teepee style. Then I cut "flames" from red foil tissue paper & yellow cellephane & glued those out the top of the lampshade. I'm quite pleased how it all turned out! I've stuck some little yellow craft birds from dollarama around my class. One wall is my good work wall. Title is s'more good work with a clothes line to hang work on. I glued graham crackers, mini aero bars & laquered marshmallows to clothes pins for on there. Composition wall is "Campfire Stories" with a picture of a fire. My table has a red & white table cloth with a lantern sitting on it. For cleaning jobs I titled it "Camp Cleaners" and made little sleeping bags out of that quilted fabric, painted the job names on and then they clored pictures of children that I mac tact and stuck in the sleeping bags! Anyway thats some of the ideas of the fun I had creating this place I spend so much time at with my bunch!

Need Ideas!

Every Friday for about the last hour we have "art"! Its the highlight of the week! Anyway i need some fun, quick, cheap ideas that 1 teacher can handle with 9 students! I love to do seasonal ones sometime so thinking about making a big picture as a class with sticks for trees and logs, leaves, grass, wheat, imagination!!!Any other ideas?!

Cozy Story Time

Another day done wth the bunch...I just love them all! Each so much their own little (or big :) )self! This year i did a camping theme (post details about it yet!) so at story time today we turned off the lights and sat in a circle in front of our tent and read by the light of our campfire(fake ofcoarse!) and lantern! So cozy and fun!! They loved it!

A Bit About Me

Well as it says on here I teach grade 1-3...Tomorrow marks the beginning of the 2nd week of the 2011-2012 term n it already looks like a great year!!I'll be putting some ideas on here for any of you teachers n welcome any ideas back!!also other day to day stuff will go on here cuz there is a little bit of life not taken up with school! Anyway must get some sleep so can face my bunch with a smile tomorrow! and we'll see how this blogging thing goes!