How did I we survive?

This shirt was made for me!  I love it! And my sweet girl wearing it!!!


One of our best field trips this year was the AR reward field trip! PTA paid for us to go to the new movie theater in town and we all got a snack pack! The theater is amazing because there is enough room to walk up and down each isle without people having to move their legs. AND we all know going to the movies with a million first graders will definitely have some one on one "stop throwing popcorn" conversations throughout the movie.

Me and my team! LOVE these ladies!

When it rains almost every day or night the last two weeks of school you get desperate and do ART stations!!! Da-Da-DAAAAA! They got just a TAD excited when the paint and modeling clay came out!

There's a reason I save everything, LOL! for rainy weeks when you need to find other ways to entertain the kids besides a movie!

Of course I didn't get a front picture of this guys habitat box.  He did sea turtles and he had the cutest moving sea turtle hanging from the top of the box that would swim when you turned it on!

Reading his research paper on snakes to little sister!

Ok, is this smile not the most infectious smile ever! I will miss his sweet smiles!

In this little gals box was an ocelot, and she used the cutest mine craft toy for her ocelot! We have that toy at home and my girls love it, lol!

This little Dalmatian was on a running track! She was so creative!

Field Trips and Fun!

For Earth Day we walked to Unidad Park and picked up trash! It was perfect timing because the next day San Angelo was doing the Children's Fair at the park and we got to watch them get ready!

Here we took our yearly trip to the Nature Center! This lovely woman is the best presenter for children I have ever seen! She is by far one of my favorites!

We walked to Tom Green County West Branch Library and enjoyed hearing about all the summer programs about to begin.

May 7th we had our first official "Fun Run" at Unidad Park on the Red Arroyo Trail! It was so fun! and a great success! Join us next year for "Run the Red" 5K/1Mile fun run!!! 

Icky Bugs and other stuff!

Ok, I just don't understand how people can keep up with there blog so frequently!!! LOL! I have two busy little girls that keep me on my toes so it is hard to post regularly....I have gotten better since last year...Maybe by next year I can post a few times a month-haha!

So we Finished up insects and I wanted to add some pictures to show you what we have been working on! (Yes some of my anchor charts look similar to Pinterest finds....That is how I gain inspiration!!!!)

We Talked about insects first then went into 6 different specific insects and made a fact book with a page for each insect.  Similar to my ocean fact book from last May.

We then talked about life cycles (again) and used pasta to make the life cycle of a butterfly.  (I recommend using a hot glue gun to make the pasta stick!)

 

 My favorite (beacuse it was super easy) was to talk about the adventures of a lady bug.  I asked each child to tell me where they found their lady bug and then draw it.  I found wooden ladybug stickers at Michaels!!! They added a POP of 3D!  The kids loved them and this was a nice break from our Insect Fact Books (where I make them write 3 complete sentences....you would think I was asking some to walk on hot coals for that one, hehe).

I love the one that lands on his nose....he gave himself a nice little belly and kinda forgot to draw a nose to go with it!

 We also read the book Hey, Little Ant and watched the song on youtube (Hey, Little Ant Song) We then talked about weather the little boy should step on the ant or not.  We used three fingers and a stamp pad to graph our opinions. 

 Then we wrote about what we wanted the boy to do.  (Now, I usually pull 5-6 kids at my guided reading table to do long writing prompts like this so I can help guide their writing better.)

 

Our lovely public library for Tom Green Country has an anual "READ TO ME" petition.  All elementary school in and around San Angelo are invited to participate in a "March" around our county court house.  We chanted "READ TO ME! READ TO ME!" to all the local people of San Angelo.

We then crammed hundreds of kids on and infront of the court house for a picture.

After our picture Sam's Club was so generous and provided water and Cheez-its! Then we broke off by class to small groups where high school and middle school children prepared read alouds and skits for us....It was fun!  And the big kids worked so hard!!!  

 

 

Lastly I wanted to include a link to my TpT ocean unit and ocean clipart that I just posted! 

 

Ocean Commotion Activity Pack

Ocean Commotion Clipart

 

Check it out and enjoy!!!