ESY 2015.....Week 3!

I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching this week with activities from our third week of summer school!~ It is FLYING by!

 

 

 

We made play dough this week. It was messy and fun!

This is our step by step instructions, we ended up reducing the amount of water because it was WAY too sticky! We still needed to add more flour, it was definitely a work in progress.

  

 

 

There was lots of running to the sink to wash or wipe hands off on wet paper towels, and then they would dive back in. Lots of language (ew....this is gross....ick....mine is tooooo sticky... more flour please...).

A couple of days later, it needed MORE flour, so I'll have to study on this recipe a bit more.

I considered it a SUCCESS as a lesson!

 

 

 

 

 

This week was all about Pirates!

I found this pirate puppet on Teachers Pay Teachers!

You can get him from GreenAppleLessons.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found this awesome, amazing and "funnest" pirate science idea on Pinterest!

 

You can see it on

http://fun-a-day.com/pirate-science-fun-exploding-treasure-chests/

 

The above picture shows the ingredients used.

 

Pour the mixture into ice trays with some treasures in the center of each and FREEZE

 

 

 

Some of the treasure....

The recycled squirt bottles are filled with vinegar.
The kids squirt it on the ice cube.....
and wahoooooooooo!

Magic!

Check out Fun-A-Day.com.

 

 

The books we focused on this week.....
Sounds (a Big book)
Twenty-Six Pirates
and....
another pirate book that I cannot think of right now!

I forgot to take pictures of them this week!

 

Our yard is growing like crazy!

The fires are slowing down in the state and it has been raining often.

 

 

We LOVE it!

 

Hope your summer is going well also!

 

 

Later,

 

 

Paula

Five for Friday or maybe Sunday!....October 18, 2013

Here I am at last...linking up with Doodle Bugs!

1. Twenty-Six Pirates  with a paper bag pirate puppet! Just try saying that 5 times! Which I did because one of my little guys lost his puppet while we walked around the school. The wonderful puppet was in a bag, but my guy is so BOUNCY, a lot like Tigger, that the pirate jumped right out! Soooo...we walked around asking various people "Have you seen a paper bag pirate puppet?"  We never found it, I'm hoping it turns up. In the meantime, I gave him my demo model. I hadn't taken a picture, so my daughter colored another for me and put it together, it is much nicer then my first one!

The pirate template is from Teacher Created Materials, I got a copy from another teacher, then covered the letter that was on the him (I think he was Pete the Pirate). We read the book, Twenty-Six Pirates by Dave Horowitz,  and we noted how each pirate name's beginning letter was somewhere on their person...on their shirt, hat or on a necklace. Their names always rhyme with the next line, for example..."Pirate Arty. First to the party!" I instructed the students to choose a letter and name their pirate. They loved this activity! 


2. Behavior Program adjustment!  Things were just not going well with my current clip system, moving the clip made everyone more volatile! I took a long, hard look at my behavior system...the token cards were working (see my September 27 post), BUT they were bulky and I had to carry three (yes, yes, I tried having them carry their own...). The clip system wasn't going anywhere, they really like getting a sticker on a chart daily when they stayed green. When the chart is full, treasure box time! So I retired the green,yellow, red light poster. I explored Teacher Pay Teachers and found a replacement for the token cards...punch cards! I chose a FREE design from http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kristi-Deroche . There are A LOT of punch cards to choose from on that site, however, Kristi's has paw prints which goes with our school mascot and there are 10 prints.  Thank you Kristi!  I kept the sticker charts, if they fill one punch card, they get a sticker and play time. Tally marks are used when I get a point, The points transform into "reflective minutes" or timeout, take your pick. I put the punch cards on a lanyard around my neck, carry a hole puncher and a dry erase marker.

3. A new rug! 

4. I tweaked the math area a bit....

5. Preparing for Halloween! I hummed that Garfield Halloween Special tune..."what will I be, there's so many sides of me..."while I went through our boxes. My daughter and friend carved pumpkins, I'm not sure they will keep 10 more days..we shall see.

I am wearing down, working 9 weeks now without a lunch or prep time! I do eat with the first graders, so I'm not starving, but I get cranky before the day is over and I don't like to do that. My teacher assistants and I look at our schedules constantly, but there is just not an opening for me to hand kids to someone else and walk away for a little bit. This week, I'm going to talk to my supervisor about it, I hate to be a whiner and don't want that label. There is also a concern that no one will sub for me because they don't get a lunch!

Next week, I go to MANDT training! 

Paula