It's A Pirate's Life For Me

Did I already say how much I love our school's Pirate theme? Because I LOVE it!

Last night we had our Open House and it sure was a blast. The little pirates were all so excited to show their parents around and complete a treasure hunt of the school

The Kindergarten teachers and I placed a treasure chest out in the hall filled with maps that led the students on a hunt around the entire school.

They also grabbed their pirate hats that they made in school using our school colors, green and orange!

With the help of their parents (or maybe the other way around) they voyaged around the school using Chicka Chicka Boom Boom clues to visit all of the stops.

After completing the map and collecting a treasured sticker from each stop they landed on shore back under the palm tree in my classroom. Here the treasure awaited them!

I made the treasure chest out of a styrofoam cooler covered in packing paper topped off with a red X! Inside there were treasure bags for each student. I picked up these cute treat bags that were printed to look like a bag of treasure for 2 dollars at fun party store.

Inside I included a note with some goodies!

The little pirates were thrilled to discover the treasure inside!

My pirates all together decked out in their pirate hats around the treasure!

We had a great night! Thank you to all of the parents who came out to check out our school and our classroom!

Nepal Geographic Paintings

All About Me

Trying to post at the beginning of the year has been such a challenge. Between starting up the classroom, setting things up, getting used to teaching all day again, and taking care of things at home I can easily say I am exhausted!

With that said, I have been having a blast getting to know the new kiddos and starting up all the units. Our first week we took some time to learn about each other as well as our selves. We talked about what made each of us special and different from others.

We finished off the week by creating our own self portraits. Everyone go at chance to look in the mirror, study facial characteristics, and decorate their own person.

It was interesting to watch all of them as the studied their eye and hair color then attempt to replicate it on their own personal figure. They really had a lot of fun. One girl even found it funny to made a funny face then copy that onto her person. 

Every one did a fabulous job and got creative!

Finally we added some writing by learning to write the sentence "I am ______." This week's sight word was I so it was the perfect practice using the word as well as familiarizing everyone with sentence structure!

Good Job #104!!