Behavior chart

Here is a picture of my classroom behavior chart. I love to use every opportunity as a learning opportunity which is why I chose to use money. The students start the day with 5 pennies. For every penny the loose they loose time at recess. If the students end the day with 5 pennies they earn a nickle. Once they earn  5 nickels they can trade it in for a quarter. Our treasure box costs 25 cents (wink wink). Once they have a quarter, they can cash it in at the treasure box. This worked out great this year. I plan on making it more in depth next year once the students have a better concept of money.

Schedule

My schedule board worked great this year. I have updated it and added a little bit of glam for next year though!

The Rainbow Fish Fruit Snack

To end our Rainbow Fish friendship unit the students made Rainbow fruit fish snacks. It was a yummy semi healthy treat they could make themselves.

 The Yummy ingredients (above)

 The students each got strawberries, grapes, and bananas that they cut into small bite size pieces.

 They had to fill their toothpicks up with fruit and then use the three toothpicks to create a triangle (the fish's tail)

 Then, they got a dessert shell and filled it with whip cream to act as the fish's body.

 Next, they decorated with the remaining fruit.

End result was a rainbow fruit fish..... if you squint you can kinda make out a fish :) The students enjoyed this activity and really enjoyed eating it!

The Rainbow Fish- Friendship activity

As a class we watched The Rainbow Fish using storyonline.net (fabulous website sponsored by the SAG). After watching the story and listing the story elements the students had to choose all of the qualities that a "good friend" would have. They wrote the qualities of a good friend on scales and we decorated a fish (see above). Later, the students had to choose the number one quality they look for in a friend and write it in the belly of their fish (see below).

Spring Tissue Paper Flowers

As you all know my favorite craft material is... TISSUE PAPER! To brighten up our room the students made these great flowers by painting tissue paper onto cardstock with a mixture of water and glue. Great for OT.

Tissue Paper Easter Eggs

 This was a great easy inexpensive technique for dyeing Easter eggs. My students loved this activity. I think they were so interested because it was a way they never saw before.
First we cut tissue paper into different size squares. Next, we dipped the tissue paper into water and placed them over the egg (see above). After the eggs were completely covered we let them dry for about an hour. Then, we peeled the tissue paper off of the egg.... though it basically fell off! Below is the finished product! This was a very messy project though because the dye drips off the tissue paper and the egg. My hands are still blue!

Easter Eggs

This is our version of dying easter eggs. The students cut out egg shaped ovals. Next they each designed their own pattern or drawing in white crayon. Then they took turns dripping food coloring on their egg while I sprayed water so it would run together. Fun activity but very VERY messy!