Friday, December 23, 2011
Elf Glyphs
On the website www.mathwire.com/glyphs, you can find this elf glyph pattern for your students to cut out and build according to the elf glyph legend. My grade two colleague, Beatrice, found this great idea on the internet and had her students do them. They turned out really well.
Crepe Paper Snowman
My colleague, Beatrice, made these large snowman that covered the height of their bulletin boards. She used crepe paper, cut up, scrunched and glued to cover the snowman. They used colourful strips of fabric to finish off the snowman with a scarf.
Remembrance Day
We use pastels to create a field of poppies for our bulletin board. I give the students tracers, big and small, to trace poppies to their construction paper. I give them instructions to outline the poppies and add lighter colours to the center and blend with their fingertips. The results are impressive.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Emotional Pumpkin
As part of covering the health curriculum, a colleague of mine suggested this fun Halloween related activity. Each student cut out four identical pumpkins. As a class we listed all the different emotions we could think of. We talked about how to handle those emotions and the cause and effect of them. They decided which four emotions they wanted to portray on their pumpkin. Folding them in half, we glued them together to create a 3D pumpkin that we could hang above our desks. Once everyone was finished, I read them the story called, "Mouse Was So Mad".
Fall Scene Using Painters Tape and Paint
We used painters tape to mark tree trunks on the page, and to frame out the picture. At the bottom of the picture, using a sponge tool, we added various colours to represent leaves. Once the paint was dry, we peeled back the tape and drew in some black lines on the trunks to make them look like birch trees.
Thanksgiving Turkey's
Celebrating Fall
To ring in the fall weather, we cut out leaves and made according style arms and legs to hang above our desks.
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