100 day... a little late!!

Well, with report cards finally being finished up, I made some time to get my pictures up from 100 day. We had the best day.

Here is Grandma Dunn, I may have pretended to be my Grandmother all day, and it may have actually worked.

The students dressed up too! We did super art project. The kids made themselves at 100 years old. They turned out just adorable.

We did centers all day and the kids really had a great time.

Making 100 day glasses

Making 100 day crowns

100 day writing booklet

Reading 100 day stories

Making words from one hundred

A student modelling the crown and necklace

Most of these activities were found on Teachers Pay Teachers. We had a super day, can't wait until the next 100 day!
Mrs. Dunn

New Chair Pockets!

So you may remember from before that I had bought book sox for chair pockets. WELL, it was becoming a bit of a disaster. A few of them broke, and so we had small piles of students things in various corners in the room, and when I went to get more book sox, they only had the smaller size. So.... I bought them.... and they broke within a couple of days. SIGH.

I got frustrated, I looked at those little piles of student things and I became obsessed. I would try to organize, them, I would tell the kids to organize them, I would look at them, and then I began to loathe the little piles that soon turned into heaps of things.

I took the big step. GULP I bought those really expensive chair pockets that I had vowed at the beginning of the year not to buy because, oh the book sox will work so well.

 I am now officially a happily organized and obsessive free (well for this anyway) first grade teacher. They are beautiful. They fit everything, I don't even need my name tags on desks anymore because they go in the back of chair pockets. There are no more growing mountains of things popping out of corners.

SIGH, so happy! Now to avoid showing the hubby my credit card bill. . .

Mrs. Dunn

Valentine's Day- Pinterest inspired

It was a pinterest-y valentines day for my students on Wednesday. They had so much fun!

THE PIN

Brilliant Beginnings Preschool

Student work

THE PIN

Teacher Bits and Bobs

Student work

Hope your Valentine's was as great as mine!

Mrs. Dunn

Five Senses and MY FIRST VIDEO POST!

We are STILL working on our five senses unit in science class, it seems to be dragging on FOREVER, I'm tellin you. 

We read the story "The Black Book of Colors" which is so cool and has words in braille and raised pictures. 

We then talked about what it would be like to not have our sense of sight and be blind. All of the students wrote out their names and then used the "secret code" to make their name in braille. They glued split peas onto the sheet after colouring in the dots to make the bumps.

I then did a lesson on how scientists smell. Sorry it is so choppy and you can only see my face and lovely lights, just keeping privacy of the children in mind! So excited to have my first video up. I was actually inspired by Cara Carroll, she posted a video of her teaching and it was neat to see what a great teacher she is in real life!!

Mrs. Dunn 

Baby You're a Firework!

 Well it's hard to believe that we've been back in school now for over a week already. The kids are settling back into routines nicely and it has been a pretty calm couple of weeks. Just thought I would share some of the activities we completed from my TPT New Years package. 

Students made their cityscapes with grey paper and cut up pieces of yellow for windows. I then put a blob of sparkly paint on their sheet, and with a pointy stick they pulled out to make the fireworks. Here is what the entire bulletin board looked like:

Students also made their New Year's Resolutions on these little people and I hung them beside the bulletin board.

Hope you have lots of fun with your students in the New Year!

Mrs. Dunn

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

It is hard to believe Christmas is already over and 2013 is almost here! I had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends, eating lots and relaxing lots.

If you are looking for activities to do for the beginning of the 2013 school year I have made a package of different games and activities to fill your first days.

New Year Countdown

Wishing everyone a blessed and happy 2013!!

Mrs. Dunn

Polar Express and the World is Ending

Well, yesterday was the last day before Christmas break, WOOHOO! I came down the hallway to hear proclamations of " I saw the meteor, I saw the meteor, I saw it!" and then "Mrs. Dunn, I think the world is ending" 

Oh Dear. Well it looks like we've survived to see another day, what a relief.

On to the Christmas festivities! Thursday was polar express day, so we all wore our pyjamas, so much fun.

The students spent the entire morning at Centers and then watched the movie in the afternoon.

I usually give out tickets and at the end of the day each student gets a bell.

Here are the centers:

CH words

Inspired by Hot Chocolate

Students selected from six marshmallows three that begin with ch.

The first give of Christmas bell. Students make their bell and write on the back what they would get if they had the first gift of Christmas.

 Students listen and watch story book the Polar Express on the SMART board with the earphones.

Five Senses: I had vocabulary cards, and the students drew and wrote about what they could see, hear, smell, taste and touch in the Polar Express.

I found a sight word game the students enjoyed playing here.

I got this idea super cute doubles matching activity from TPT here.

The kids had so much fun!

Mrs. Dunn