Showing posts with label Extended School Year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Extended School Year. Show all posts

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Five for Friday....July 11, 2014.. Hermit the Crab


Happy Week-end! Linking with Doodle Bugs Teaching......


ONE
The weather was edgy all week, lots of rain but we managed to have recess every day! 



Sometimes I still can't believe that we live in this amazing place, I think to myself "I'm going to wake up and be in my bed in Oklahoma". I have mixed feelings about that, because if I lived there I could easily drive over to my Dad's or sister's houses!

TWO
We are in the house buying process, we were pre-qualified for a loan, BUT now that we are closing in on a house, there are more questions. I did a foolish thing also, I purchased an item on payments and now I need to explain it! I'm wishing someone had told me not to buy anything  until all of this was finished! I am feeling dumb......

THREE

Sea life was the continued theme this week. We read A House for Hermit  Crab by Eric Carle.


The crab art project really turned out cute! The most difficult part for the students was folding the strips.

FOUR

My daughter is getting married soon and the supplies are coming in.....

We are so excited!

FIVE


Here's our awesome bulletin board!

Next week is our last week of ESY (Extended School Year). Our final theme is "camping at the zoo". I have found some good stuff from the measured mom blog and huggies.com to get us through the week.

Later,

Paula




Friday, June 27, 2014

2014 Camping Classroom...Stations

Our summer school theme is Camping! First, we are camping with dinosaurs. Kids love dinosaurs! I am linking with Doodle Bugs Teaching:



The students have a variety of objectives to work on so we are splitting into small groups and calling it the "Station Rotation". Note: This is my morning session, a MUCH smaller group compared to the afternoon session.


The chart helps the students be more independent, I ring the bell when it is time to switch. Initially I was going to use pictures to represent all the stations, but realized this would be much simpler! 


This chart is my guide, so I don't have to think so hard!


The stations are marked with matching construction paper.

Here are  the stations:

Blue
motor and sensory skills

The rug is from a thrift store and the pins are made from water bottles with gravel to weight them slightly.
I really really want a ball pit ! I think the kids would get a lot of good from it.

Red (the picnic table)
math skills and games


Green (the tree)
reading and writing skills


Yellow
free choice reading

There are still some bugs to work out of the system, but the first week went pretty well.

Later,

Paula