Let's Give Thanks!

Another fun Thanksgiving has come and gone in the Growing Giraffe room!  We had fun reading different stories, doing activities and had a blast creating our Indian vests and headdresses!  Our feast was pretty awesome also!

For some funny art, we made turkey drumsticks!  The kids tore brown paper and covered the turkey with it then we added shiny iridescent glitter for the stick/bone part.  The had fun and they make funny art projects!

I make this turkey every year...the kids make the feathers out of bell peppers dipped in paint.  I cut the bell peppers in half and the kids use one half for each color.  They make the feathers first and then we glue the body and the rest of turkey parts on!

We make special place mats every year for our Thanksgiving Feast!  I always end up doing the same thing but I love these handprints so much!  Then the children add a mosaic touch to them with the square border.  Sorry, the picture is just awful!  I thought I took a better one but I guess it was not focused well.

To work on motor skills and let the kids have some very cool fun, I had a bag of small feathers and each child got play-doh and had a blast sticking the feathers in their play-doh just like on a turkey!  

Here is a glance of our Indian vest we made and our necklaces...

And lastly, another shot of me and my sweet girl at our Feast...

Falling Into Fun

Fall is here but not for too much longer!  Again, sorry for the delay!  Enjoy some of the Fall activities we did in our classroom!

Here is our Fall classroom door... the kids made pumpkins by painting bubble wrap with green and orange and then we twisted up some green paper for vines.  We are asked to use a "Biblical" saying on our door since we are in a church so what better to go with a Pumpkin Patch than, "Hand Picked by God!"

We let the kids make a fun Fall tree using triangles in colors of brown, yellow, red, green and orange.  The kids glued them all on to create their own special trees!

Of course, Halloween also was a fun part of Fall... here is one of my favorite crafts we did!  We made handprint candy corns and I found the best poem to go with it that had a Biblical theme!

And just for fun... here are two more pics - the first is of the fun treats I made for my own class, my daughter's class and my son's class.  It is a Halloween Play-Doh Kit!  They all loved it!  Then the last is myself, my aide and our suitemates next door in the Alligator room.  We wanted to do something out of the box for our school costume... so we were the "Spice Girls!"

Fire Safety Time

Yes, I know I am behind!  But times are crazy around here!  Trying to keep up with not only this blog but the life with two very active kids!  

So, here is a taste of what we did for Fire Safety Fun!  We did a few fun activities and got a fun visit from the local fire station and Sparky, the Fire Dog!  

One of my favorites that we do is definitely the Five Little Firemen Handprint!  I love doing this and save it every year for our art show.  Not only did we do this craft with the kids but we also made the Firemen a Thank You card with my handprint made into the Five Little Firemen!

We taught the kids all about the what number you dial in case of an emergency... 9-1-1!  The children got to hands on with this activity by using a red stamp pad and make thumbprints all over the 9-1-1 worksheet!

Then to add a little math/number lesson into our weekly theme... we practiced gluing our number line on to a fire hose.  The children did such a good job!

Here a few pics of our fun with the firemen & Sparky...

And last one... this is of me and my sweet little girl, Sullivan, who is in the Middle 3's class at our school:

Alphabet Posters... Again

Okay, e-mails go out tonight with the files!  I am just not with it on this to put it on here.  How, I do not know since I am super computer literate but I will be e-mialing them tonight!  Thanks!

Okay... here I go again!

I am so excited!  I just spent some time googling and found out how I can post it on my page.  I am super computer literate but on things like this, I have my problems!  So, now I may try to finish all the mess ups tomorrow night and post it all at once for you on here!

Alphabet Posters... Letters A-F

Hey Everyone!  Whew... I just got a new laptop last week so and nothing has transferred over so I am trying to get all the alphabet posters back in action for you!  I have perfected letters A-F right now and will happily send the links to anyone who wants them!  I may try to post the link on here if possible!  I am not sure I am quite that with it right now but I will try.  If a link does not work, I will e-mail everyone!  Thanks for your patience and I will get back to work on fixing the remainder of the alphabet!

Update:  Okay, you will all be getting e-mailed!  They are done through Microsoft.  I normally cut out each clip art and wording and use half sheets of poster board to make my posters.  I just glue or tape them on and then laminate.