Construction Fun!

We had a new school built thanks to our awesome community!!!! The new school is WONDERFUL! We moved in over Christmas Break and love everything about the new building.  :-)

The students and I were a little sad to say good-bye to the old building and our old classroom.  We talked a lot about our great memories from the old building.  I was especially sad to say good-bye to my very first teaching home!

The construction workers recently began demolition on our old building.... At first we were so sad to see it go, but then the students were very intrigued by all the noise we heard! Finally, I just had to take them outside to see some of the action- from a safe distance of course! Here are some of our photos!

As you can tell, they really enjoyed it! 

Eric Carle Art!

We had so much fun with our Eric Carle author study! We read so, so many of his books! The students fell in love with his books and characters.  They especially loved learning about animals!

While I would LOVE to say that the students favorite part of the author study was some great project...they all unanimously voted that it was the art project!  I set up four different areas: blue paint with sponges, red paint with crumpled wax paper, tissue paper and modge podge, and yellow paint with small spikey balls. The students covered a page using the materials and paint at each station.  At the end of this stage, each child had four pages! 

So , I completely forgot to bring newspaper.....I thought it should be fine, it's washable paint... WRONG! LOL I spent about 45 minutes scrubbing our new tables! (We just moved into this school in January-look for my construction post soon!) Side note to my principal- don't worry the tables are once again spotless! :-) 

We let the papers dry over the weekend.  Then, we looked through some of our favorite Eric Carle books to get some ideas.  The students used their four papers to create an animal just like Eric Carle.  Of course, I was so excited about all of the great pictures they were churning out that I forgot to take pictures! :-( We did have an awesome mixed-up chameleon,  a giraffe, an elephant, a few dinosaurs, and lots of dogs!