St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day is right around when we are doing the Building Things Unit in Grade One Science, so it ties in PERFECTLY. I have the kids make traps at home and then we do activities with it at school, including this one.

 

The students put the directions in order for how to make their trap. The students set their traps the day before, so make sure that parents know which day to send them in, and then that rascally leprechaun comes overnight. He left little footprints and made a disaster in the classroom. He must have escaped out the window!!

We have so much fun! What do you do in your classroom? For the full resource with my St. Patrick's Day activities, look here.

Blog Link up and New Product

Hey Everyone, Happy New Year!

What a busy holiday it was with a new little one, oh my word, a whole new meaning to the word pack up the car for a holiday. 

I'm linking up with Simply Kinder, basically you can find some new blogs to follow for this lovely little link up. 

Also wanted to share a new product, for the "athletic competition that is coming up in February for many countries to go to and get really excited about". Wink, wink, apparently copyright infringement to even mention the name so there you have it. It's a bulletin board to use in your classroom during the games!!

Go For Gold

Mrs. Dunn

Thanksgiving

Although we have already had our Thanksgiving, I know that American Thanksgiving is coming up soon. I have been working on making brain breaks for each holiday and have completed my Thanksgiving ones.. Check them out.

Thanksgiving Brain Breaks

 Once I complete Brain Breaks for all of the holidays I will Bundle them all together along with my Yoga to make a package for the whole entire year!
Mrs. Dunn

I'm Back!!!!

Well it is hard to believe that my little one is already two months old!! I have been enjoying my time off, and missing school only a little bit.

The puppy and the baby!

So now that I'm not as exhausted and babe is taking some nice little naps, I've been working on some school activities. I haven't made a lap book before but really like the look of the project and thought I would use this form for an Advent project. I think it is a great way to show the theme for each week all in one spot. All you need is a file folder and the activity pages. Try it out!

You can get the activity pages here.

Mrs. Dunn

Flooding- NO SCHOOL

This is kind of unheard of, we go to school even if it is -40 and the roads are terrible in the winter. Today schools have officially been closed in Calgary! The flooding is unreal, and it is even worse in some surrounding communities as well (Canmore, High River others). 

Thoughts and prayers with the 75000 people evacuated our of their homes and hoping everyone stays safe today. 

Looks like a movie on the couch in PJ's kind of Friday!

Mrs. Dunn

Father's Day Part 2 and.... MICE!!!!!

After firing our Father's Day plaques in the kiln, we finally got to paint today and they turned out AMAZING!

First we used Tempera paint and did the entire thing yellow. Then I mixed acrylic with some white and water (a super suggestion from my artsy partner teacher) and painted the word DAD in blue. We then painted the face, and used sharpie for the hair and dots on the eyes. The kids were so proud of their work!!!

On a completely unrelated note, after we finished painting, we had a visit from a . . . well . . . rather unwanted visitor today. MICE. Cue children and their teacher running and screeching and hopping up on top of chairs. Yah, so not a lot of productive work can get done when this happens. Trying to complete agendas amid shouts of "It's over there!" "AHHHH I just saw it" does not really work. 

So I decided to try and get it. Because really, how will we get anything done otherwise. After a few tries, I finally got a bowl over top of the mouse and the children shouted hurrays, as of course this makes me very heroic (this will make an awesome story to tell parents tonight, oh boy) Then one student goes, uuuuhhhh I think it escaped. So, I go over and sure enough I see that little guy out and about. I couldn't figure it out so I lifted the bowl and BAHHHH there are two of them. I  shouted in terror told the students to remain calm and put the bowl back over the other one but still one escaped. This went on for a while trying to catch the second one until finally it was time to go home, and the custodian came to round up the mice.

Talk about an exciting afternoon.

Mrs. Dunn

Father's Day

I found this amazing project just in time for Father's Day from the amazing Gail (That Artist Woman). Check out the inspiration here. They turned out super cute, each one really looked unique.

I have also created a Father's Day resource based on the "If you give a" stories. Check it out!

If you Give a Dad a Marshmallow

Mrs. Dunn