Parksdale II

Today the kids and I are getting ready for St. Patrick's day.  Everyone chose their own coloring paper designs.  We all hope that everyone is having a good day from Ms. A's class.

 

Lincoln Plaza

Fleur de lis in order to celebrate Fat Tuesday!  Mardi Gras!,

Some shamrocks which brought a little color to our computer room:),

and here is our pot of gold ready for St Patricks Day!!!

 

 

Cottonwood Creek

These past two weeks, a couple of children from the computer lab have welcomed new baby siblings into their families.  Because of all the excitement about family, the kids have had many different questions about my family.  I decided to take this opportunity to talk about families and include it in this week's art project.  We all made an abstract family tree!  It was fun because after we finished everyone shared a little more about their relatives.

 

Lincoln Plaza

Hello Coordinators,

Last week we began our St. Patrick’s Day preparation crafts.  However, upon my homework hour I noticed many of my students have been reading for about 20 minutes a day and when they begin to read I noticed many of them just read and expected me to sign their paper that they read.

So when I got home and watched wrestling, the WWE began promoting this new campaign called the superstar reading challenge.  Upon doing some research I noticed that it was several of the wrestlers involved and created a profile where they list their favorite books and encourage reading such as, when they travel that’s all they do.

One of the wrestlers who is known as a bad guy, pretty much made a valid point, that your imagination can take you anywhere you want to go as long as you read.  So this week if the website goes up again from the WWE site, I will make sure all of my kids sign up and you can read the books online and it does keep a record of how many books you read from now until Wrestlemania. WOW!!!, how cool is that!  The good thing about this campaign is when you reach a certain amount of books read you enter a drawing to win tickets to go to wrestlemania or have a superstar go to your school.  As soon as the website is up I will share the link with all of you.

This week we are also beginning to take down all of our Valentine’s Day crafts and prep our computer room with St. Patrick’s Day crafts.  My students are eager to learn new crafts and are willing to show off their sewing techniques which are what we will be doing this week.  We will be doing a few key chains out of felt along with a few shamrocks.  Last week we did a few St. Patrick’s Day crafts like shamrocks and bookmarks which lead me to think about the reading campaign.

Sand Creek

This week as with every week, I start by helping out students that need homework assistance, then with all the kids we all read a book as a group and then after we are done with the book they all write a few sentences about what the book was all about!  The book we read this time around was "Finding Nemo"...One of my students responded, "it's about a dad whose son is stolen or runs away so he goes out to look for him!"  Wow, responsible and loving dad!

Sunrise Villa

Here's some of the crafts Sunrise Villa worked on in the past week!  For Valentine's Day the students of Sunrise Villa/Villa Hermosa worked on really cool arts and crafts! They made coupons for loved ones as well as decorated their own cupcake!

 

Rancho Lindo

 

Here at Rancho Lindo, the kids made some organizers for their room...we used cereal boxes and cans.  The kids were very creative, for example they made an airplane using popsicle sticks and clothespins and for Valentine's day, I had them make an ornament also using popsicle sticks and puzzle pieces!  These were glued and cut out of cardboard shaped like a heart...and on Friday we will be having nachos and a movie night!  Lots of fun and learning:)