Happy Birthday to You!
Until next time...
Giggles,
Mrs. D.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
School Spirit
We Love our School!
We had a fun week to celebrate our wonderful Catholic school and our Junior High student council planned all sorts of fun "spirit week" activities for us. Our PTO also planned a carnival to end the week! It was all so much fun!
We had Pajama Day...
And Mix and Match Day...
And, of course, Blue and Gold Day!
And our last day of the week was filled with fun activities like...
board games & ice cream parties...
face painting...
and carnival games!
WE LOVE OUR SCHOOL!
Until next time...
Giggles,
Mrs. D.
Celebrating 100 Days
The 100th Day of School
Our 100th Day of School fell right smack in the middle of Catholic Schools Week this year, so we had way too much celebrating to do!!
For our 100th day, we did everything the 100 way.
The munchkins explored the number 100 by counting and writing on their number charts, counting unifix cubes on the ten-frame trains, and creating 100 cents with our basket of money.
We created 100th Day sunglasses and made a huge banner for our celebration. Each munchkin added nine pictures, which made 99 things in all. So with the number 100 in the center, that made 100 things on the banner.
We wore our glasses and carried the banner through the hall singing to all the other classes (as well as the librarians & cooks) so that everyone could celebrate with us!
We ended our celebration with some M&M fun!
Each munchkin counted 100 M&Ms.
Finally! 100!
Then they sorted them and created a little graph on the work mat to see which color they had the most of (or the least of).
And of course, they got to eat them!
But not all 100 at once!
Happy 100th day of school!
Until next time...
Giggles,
Mrs. D.
Six More Weeks Until Spring!
No Shadow Today!
It was a miserable, cold and cloudy day today. It was not at all the kind of day that makes you think of spring, but of course, the perfect day for Gertie (our area groundhog celebrity) to NOT see her shadow!
We started the day with a graph to see if the munchkins could predict whether or not Gertie saw her shadow. Well, I have to say that the munchkins were way too smart. Everyone realized that she would not, and when we discussed why, they all felt that was the case, everyone very simple stated that there was not sun! I guess that was all for that conversation!
On to more fun things, the munchkins created a setting for a puppet of Gertie. One side was a sunny day (with a shadow) and the other was a cloudy day (without the shadow). The munchkins added the underground home, which they learned was called a burrow, and then used the puppet to play.
No shadow...an early spring!
Oh, no...my shadow!
After some fun stories about groundhogs and a fun little newspaper from "KindNews", we ended the day with a new snack.
A chocolate pudding burrow, graham cracker sand and a little teddy graham groundhog sticking out of her home.
YUM!
Until next time...
Giggles,
Mrs.D.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Preparing for The Presentation
The Presentation of Jesus
We ended the month of January with a day dedicated to The Presentation of Jesus (also known as Candlemas). Even though we are a couple days away from the actual day on our Church calendar (February 2), we needed to fit this important day into a busy Catholic Schools' Week schedule the best we could! (Can you tell it was Pajama Day?)
After reading from Luke, the students enjoyed seeing what was in the Atrium box that went with this Infancy Narrative. Probably the favorite pieces were the tiny turtle doves that Joseph offered as sacrifice!
We created a nice project, which the munchkins were able to take home right away. Each munchkin colored a picture of Mary and Joseph presenting Jesus at the temple, with Simeon holding Him.
They added a bit of writing (to practice some phonic rules we're working on...like using silent "e", and capitalizing names). Our writing skills are just amazing! I am so proud of these munchkins!
To finish the project, everyone traced one hand on a folded piece of paper. When opened, it created a dove.
All the parts of this project were placed together on a poster.
They were really nice when complete!
We ended our day with a fun little addition...
Would you believe it if I said that it was a snack?
We made candle cookies, because The Presentation is also known as Candlemas. The munchkins loved them!
Until next time...
Giggles,
Mrs. D.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
The Conversion of St. Paul
Why Are You Persecuting Me?
We spent some time this past week learning about the story of St. Paul being knocked off his horse by the voice of Jesus! The munchkins listened so intently to the story...almost mesmerized by it.
Afterwards, we all colored a picture of the event and created a stained glass window to hang in our Atrium. It was a great opportunity to take a look at some of the stained glass of our own church, too, discussing who and what the images were.
Our projects were done very nicely. The munchkins colored carefully...
And added the picture to a black window shape.
Then they added beautiful colored shapes to the black border to create the stained glass look.
Pretty!
Did you think I would forget the food?
Never fear!
We made stained glass window cookies. Chocolate iced sugar cookies with a cross made from skittles. Extra skittles were added around the cross to create a stained glass look.
And boy were they good!
St. Paul, Pray for Us!
Until next time...
Giggles,
Mrs. D.
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