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Earth Day...Really late...

Ok so I am super late posting this...but well... life got in the way I suppose!!
We did lights out, as much as possible, at school for the day. I didn't actually find no lights too bad to manage with the window open. No technology YIKES!!! My firsties and I really missed our SMARTboard, computers and FM system but I think it was good for them to see how much we use electricity in our day.

I wanted the day to be a photocopy free day!!! It makes sense that we use recycled materials instead of wasting paper... so here is some of our activities. I had the students make pictures out of magazines. They were really creative; robots, trees, penguins, dogs and flowers OH MY!!

 Our next photocopy free art project used a book that was falling apart! I had students write I heart the Earth and then we painted our Earth in the heart. Turned out super cute and was Earth friendly to boot.

It was a great day, but the kids asked if we were going back to normal tomorrow, as in do we get the computers and SMARTboard back ;). Even though we turned our technology back on we are more conscious of how much we are using it and the kids have been reminding me to turn off the lights and SMART board when not in use. 

Happy Earth Day!

Mrs. Dunn

Five For Friday

I don't think that I've every done a Five for Friday before, but I figure there is always a first time for everything right!!!

The hubby came home from Poland this week, so it is super nice to have him home and not be the only one looking after the pup and the toddler. He is so tired though all jet lagged and such that I've had lots of time to get work done! Which leads me to the next post, it has been ALLLL about that math this week...

MATHERCIZE!!

Yup, it's a thing. In my class. That I invented. That my kids think is AWESOME! We practice patterns with our bodies, skip counting while exercising and then we shake it off to Taylor Swift, picking the number and then practicing addition and subtraction. It is so much fun, the kids can't wait to do it and the BEST parts is it tires them out so I can teach my math lesson and they last longer than five minutes without getting the wiggles.

MORE MATH!!

Meet Marvin the Marvelous Math moose. He is a puppet in my class, but I don't have a picture, and this is him in clipart form. So basically he comes and brings our new word wall words and basically makes the kids think that math is really REALLY fun. They ask for Marvin all the time now. Today he read out the students names when handing out work. Apparently, this was very hilarious. One students told me, "Mrs. Dunn Marvin is sooooo funny." Yup.

And you guessed it... more math... I am working on this enormous project right now. Basically I'm making my own math program that I can use that involves centres- Computer, Alone, Manipulatives, Partner, Problem Solving. It's turning out well, but it's taking FOREVER.

And finally, an art project just to round things off.. we are researching winter animals in science and I figured we could do an art project that tied in to the curriculum. These turned out really well, I love how each one is unique!

That's all for me!

Link up here with Doodle Bugs Teaching!

100 Day- A little late!

We celebrated the 100th day of school in mid February, and of course with life being as busy as it is, I am only getting around to blogging about it now. The students had the best time doing 100 day centres all day. We did a lot from Cara at the First Grade Parade and then I changed and added a few of my own. The kids had the best time.
We also did this project that was a hoot! The kids made themselves look like they were 100 years old, wrote about it, and then I used the aging booth app to make the kids look old. I'm telling y'all this bulletin board has been a MAJOR hit. Teacher's have commented on it, the kids can't stop looking at it, and even my Admin made mention of it. So great!!

When I was making up my centre activity cards, I looked around for clipart and was having a difficult  time finding what I was looking for, so I figured I would make some! Right now it is on sale too since it is a new release :) I am also having a giveaway on my Facebook page.

100 Day clipart