Artist on the Green Presenters

One day out of the school year we spend the entire day visiting with local artist. It's one of the students' favorite days. This year we saw a bagpiper, oil painter, puppeteers, cloggers, storyteller, and guitar player. The students had a tough time writing about their favorite artist because they loved them all.

Artisit on the Green

To celebrate Artist on the Green, all our centers this week focused on different forms of art. Check out the fun we had! In science we created "Spin Art". We used an eye dropper to place different colors of paint on the paper. Then we used the machine to spin our work. We made some beautiful pieces of work.

In the science center we studied wood carving and learning how we can change wood by sanding it.

In the games and puzzles center we used oil pastel crayons to create our own jigsaw puzzle.

In the writing center we used stamps to create our own greeting card.

In the dramatic arts center we are learning to put on puppet shows.

In the math center we made quilt squares using pattern block stamps.

We each create our own quilt square to add to our class quilt.

Mrs. Robinson brought in her collection of quilts to show us an example of quilts and demonstrated how to make a quilt.

Busy Little Leprechauns!

We have enjoyed retelling Laura Numeroff stories in the reading center and reading the special book the leprechaun left for us.

Measuring with shamrocks

Putting our months of the year in order and writing a sentence about each month as well as illustrate each month

After experimenting with primary colors we had to write what our results were. We will then place our results in our science journals.

Mixing primary colors in science

Making and writing word families

Lucky Charm Graph

Mixing primary colors of ice and observing what color it makes as it melts

Creating words with magnetic letters

Matching rhyming words in the games and puzzles center

Sorting Lucky Charm cereal to make and Lucky Charm graph

Mixing primary colors to make a color book We folded the paper in half to see what type of picture our drops of paint made.

We used tissue paper to make rainbows. It took us 2 days of centers to finish these beautiful pieces of work!

We completed subtraction problems using pieces of "gold" as our counters.

In the writing center we had to match words to St. Patrick's Day pictures and fill in the missing letters.

Our Hunt for the Leprechaun

The leprechaun visited our classroom on Monday and Tuesday while we were at lunch. On his visits he left us clues and set off our traps. We all checked our traps and there was no leprechaun! Tricky little fellow!

On Monday he left us a clue to make Leprechaun Pie. He said it was his favorite. We made it in hopes that we would catch him like we read about in a leprechaun story.

On Tuesday, we checked the freezer and our pie was gone! The leprechaun was up to his old tricks. He sent us on a hunt around the school for the pie.

After checking all the freezers in the school we finally found it in the teacher's lounge! He didn't lie! He said it was in a freezer in the school! He left his foot prints in the pie, so we think it did take a little nibble of the pie.

Yum! Yum! The leprechaun pie sure was good!

Some of us even had seconds on the pie. Good thing we ate it at the end of the day because there sure was a lot of sugar in that pie!

Do you think we'll catch the leprechaun?

Our home project this month was to create a trap to catch the tricky leprechaun! We loved sharing our ideas with the class and testing them out during centers. Everyone had such AWESOME and CREATIVE ideas! (I still have more trap pictures to post!)