Valentine's Day! Pirates & Princesses!

Yo Ho Ho and Sugar-n-Spice Makes Everything Nice!

Oh what fun we had at our Valentine’s Pirates and Princess Party.  We started it all off with our typical rotations.  The children made Valentine flowers out of xoxo and heart tissue paper.  They then rotated to a painting station in which we painted their hands to make the shape of a heart hand print.  They also enjoyed making their own Valentine cookies in which they frosted and decorated with yummy goodies.  After these activities, we headed down to the gym and continued the party by doing line dances with Mrs. Rothweiler.  The students were great and already knew the steps to the dances.  They got their picture taken in front of our lovely princess carriage and pirate backdrop.  Finally, we finished it all off with face painting.  Oh yeah, they LOVED opening their Valentine goody bags!  Thank you so much to all of our fabulous parents that helped out at the party.  I could not have done it without you!!  I am so grateful for the help with clean up too!  Thank you to our wonderful Mrs. Porter as well!  Happy Valentine’s Day!!

Valentine's Day! Pirates & Princesses!

Painting Like Elephants!

This week, we read a story called “Can Elephants Paint?” by Katya Arnold.  This is a true story about elephants painting!  As the pictures show, the students pretended that they were elephants and painted with their pretend trunks (mouths).  They could not use their hands!  Then they wrote a summary about the story and expressed their opinion about the book.  The students did great and had a blast!

Painting Like Elephants!

The 100th Day of School!

100th day is here, come on give a cheer,
100th day is here, come on give a cheer,
100th day is here,
Hooray, Hooray!
100th day has come, come on join the fun,
100th day is here,
Hooray!

Wow!  What a great 100^th day we had today!  We started it all off with a great breakfast of doughnuts, sausage links, juice, and mixed up cereal that the students brought in after they counted 100 pieces.  They made the number 100 on their plates with the sausage link and doughnuts.  Then we creatively made 100 designed glasses and wrote about “If I could have 100…..”  We rotated stations that involved the students doing fun activities such as reading a 100^th day book, counting money to 100, making 100 shapes with the geo-boards, painting a picture with 100 dots or shapes, filling in a hundreds chart and skip counting, and working in Brain Pop Jr. with 100.  The students got to wear really fun 100 day visors around the school and one of our very own students read a 100^th day book to the class.  It was a great learning day and thank you to all our parents for the donations!

100 Days of School!

Holiday Festivities

What great holiday festivities we had in Mrs. Barfield’s class! We began by having a very fun class party in which we made ginger bread houses, played the dreidel game, ate some delicious food and made reindeer footprints on canvas. The slide show is below. Thank to all of our great parents who sent items in and helped out! On our last day before break, we had a Polar Express Day. We all wore our pajamas. We watched this amazing movie, drank hot coco, and ate some yummy treats. All of these activities were a great way to celebrate the season!