Spring School Time

There has been a TON of stuff going on at school these days. We have been jam packed with tons of exciting stuff including the 100th day of school, Valentines Day, Clubs and today we celebrated

Character Dress up Day!

Me, Deiley, Ramirez and Gurka in the gym during synergy rally! 

The kids thought it was hilarious and all the teachers got really involved this year. Adminstration and 3rd grade were "Where's Waldo", 1st grade was "Miss Nelson is Missing" , in 2nd grade there was a Captain Underpants and 5th grade had a teacher who did"Bad case of Stripes". We will all vote for who is our favorite next week and the winner I believe gets catered lunch and their class covered for extra 30 minutes. Our kinder team won last year when we dressed up as "Hey Diddle Diddle!" Hopefully we will win again.


100th Day of School!
SO the 100th Day of School was last Wednesday and the kids had a blast. We were busy filling in 100s charts, doing 100 exercises, counting out 100 pieces of snack, making 100 fruit necklaces and so on. It was great that we got to watch 101 Dalmatians in the afternoon to get a brain break from all the work.

Classroom signs. The skid were so pumped to see this when they walked in. It was a celebration all day!

Hats that we decorated to show the school we were 100 days smarter!

blurry picture of snack. They got 10 goldfish, marshmallows, pretzels, apple jacks, cheese balls, rice chef, m&m's,cheerios teddy grahams and cookie crisp. All add up to make 100 things to eat! 

Fruit Loop Necklaces! We used counting mats to make sure we got all that we needed and we used gummy lifesavers to separate each group of ten. I forgot to get a picture of a finished necklace :(. 

I gave each group a 100 piece puzzle to try and complete. Winners got to take home a puzzle!

Filling in the missing numbers to the 100s chart!

 Here are some of the 100 collections that the students brought in. 

Valentines Day

Student sorted candy hearts by color then graphed how many they had of each. They LOVED this. I was nice and even let them eat one candy. They had to save the rest for home. 

Clubs!
A new thing we just started last week is clubs. This year I am on the Foundations Team and also the Lighthouse Team. Between both groups, we wanted to do something where every student felt like they belonged to something important. We wanted to be able to reach ALL students and the idea of clubs arised. It is AWESOME. We had an early dismissal schedule so we were all packed up by 1:30. Then the ENTIRE school went to clubs for 45 minutes.  Some clubs were just k-2 and some were 3-5 and some were all grade levels welcome. We had kids that could go to a play dough club, sign language club, origami, cheerleading, line dancing, rumba, running, fitness, bubbles and chalk, poetry, reading, cake decorating, no bake cooking, gardening, art etc. It was SO fun to see kids so engaged and excited. Administration said they had zero issues with behavior. All the students were excited to be where they were. The reading coach and I were in charge of the cheerleading club. It was so fun to teach old cheers from years ago. We also tried to do some jumps but were afraid of ending up in the hospital!!

The plan is to have clubs meet 3 more times this year and possibly be able to switch the club they go to each time. It was fun for all, teachers and students.

Well March is almost here so I am sending positive thoughts to all you 3-5 teachers out there who are prepping for STAAR. I know you have all been working so hard and so have the kids. Celebrate how far your kids have come and how you have impacted their life. It may not show on a test, but I know it shows in their hearts.

Happy Friday Everybody!!