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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Huichol Art

The Huichol Indians of Mexico are known for their beautiful yarn paintings.   Huichol Indians place hot melted wax over a board and adhere yarn to create a beautiful and colorful image. Our Kinder interpretation of this project was made by using glue and coloful yarn to outline a picture drawn by
the students.
 

Dia de los Muertos Art Project


We love Eric Carle! My students were very excited to learn about author and illustrator Eric Carle.  We created a graph to find out which Eric Carle Book was our classroom favorite. 



Another of our activities while learning about this wonderful author was creating a picture using same techniques Eric Carle uses to illustrate his books.

I made these Very Hungry Caterpillar goody bags for my daughter's 4th birthday party.
 
She likes them so much that she uses them to carry her snacks and school supplies.  The Very Hungry Caterpillar fabric was purchased from
A delicious red velvet cupcake decorated with an apple lollipop and a gummy caterpillar to celebrate.

   
All About Animals 
Roosters

Kindergarten Open House


 Students had fun creating a  full-body portrait of themselves to welcome parents for our Open House. 


Word Families

Students use picture clues to review previously taught short vowel sounds and word families.
This is a beautiful and colorful story about a curious rabbit who wants to find out what makes a rainbow.
The big surprise in the book is when a rainbow of ribbons appears with the turn of each page as the rabbit asks all his colorful animal friends. This is a great book to teach colors.
  Students created a rainbow cloud using white construction paper for the clouds and colorful tissue paper for the rainbow. The colors hanging from each cloud are the colors that each student was able to identify.   

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Earth Day Activities

Recycled Crayons


1.  Find your broken, unwanted  crayons and place in a mold. The rabbit mold from the pix was purchased at Target .
2. Melt them in the microwave for about 3-5 minutes.  Please make sure this is done by an adult.  The melted crayons are very hot and can burn!  Take them out of the microwave and let them cool for about 10-15 min. or until they become solid.  If you want them to cool faster, place the mold in the freezer.
Pop them out of the mold and decorate them any way you like. Here is an example of the goodie bag we sent to my daughter's first grade class for their spring baskets.


Rainbow Rabbit Recycled Crayons