tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24136739536080488152024-03-19T01:01:49.732-05:00The Alphabet GardenLearning, Laughter and Literacy!Mrs. Hicks@hicks-thealphabetgarden.blogspothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06185346681423095510noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413673953608048815.post-86275597064404358682012-12-09T16:56:00.000-06:002012-12-09T17:39:06.911-06:00Auntie Claus Preview and our Polar Express Day!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I wanted to give a sneak peek at our Auntie Claus unit that my friends, Michele and Elana (Lana) and I are finishing up for teacherspayteachers. We are publishing it under the name jemworkstudio (using our initials, get it?!).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">First, we read this wonderful book and stop partway through to make a prediction for our writing</span>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Next, we generate a naughty and nice list. How do we end up on the naughty list? How can we stay on the nice list?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Their answers were very interesting...</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We write about staying on that nice list</span>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In our unit, we have a Venn Diagram activity comparing and contrasting Auntie Claus to The Polar Express. But first, we had Polar Express Day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> All aboard!! After our principal, Mr. Bonner has read the story to us, we board the train in the library after our tickets are punched. We have the movie soundtrack CD playing as the children board.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lana takes the children on the ride to the North Pole, narrating all that we are seeing on the way. Once we arrive at the North Pole, we have a special guest!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">IF they have stayed on the nice list... :)</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">While the children are taking turns seeing Santa, they make bell necklaces at tables and color the Polar Express page I made using Scrappin Doodles. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">See my earlier post for your free copy!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Two of my teammates and I are working on some new units for all of you and will be making our big debut in the next week. So look for a new post soon with a fun Christmas unit. Stay tuned...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">In the meantime, I thought I would offer a Polar Express freebie since our Polar Express Day is this Friday!! Have a wonderful week!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now that all the dust has settled and we have finished out another great school year, I wanted to catch up on some posts! This is a follow-up to my earlier post about matter when we began our Rubber Egg Experiment. Check it out </span><a href="http://hicks-thealphabetgarden.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-04-22T21:50:00-05:00&max-results=2"><span style="font-size: small;">here.</span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is how the eggs looked after the weekend! I think beginning any of these </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Look at the change in the egg!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now it's time to examine our eggs and notice ALL the ways they have changed</span>.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> They sure do LOOK different!</span></td></tr>
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I saved this experiment for the last day of school. I know, crazy, but it WAS fun and something to look forward to! Don't be jealous of my smooth dance moves as I try to run BACKWARDS to keep from getting soaked! <br />
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This is so simple and I'm sure most all of you have heard, seen or performed this experiment for yourselves so I know I'm not sharing anything new but I wanted to tell you how I tied it in to our study on Matter. The liquid (Diet Coke) has a gas already present (the carbonation). When the solid (the Mentos) meets with this liquid and gas, you get an IMMEDIATE result! Needless to say, the kids LOVE it. Look how high the soda shoots up! I use three different 2 liter bottles of Diet Coke-less sticky when it sprays all over you :) -to see which bottle will spray the highest. The kids vote on which bottle sprays the highest by clapping. **I used Steve Spangler's Mentos tube made just for this experiment. So much easier to get those Mentos into the coke bottle and make a quick getaway!<br />
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We then go back to the room and complete a very quick lab report and then our Matter Matters! book is finished! Learning til the last second, people!! Fun, fun, fun!!<br />
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I'm still working on math games for Eric Carle but I couldn't wait to use my new fairytale graphics from Scrappin Doodles! I have more cards that I would like to add but I thought these would be a good start for sentence or story writing for a fairytale unit. Have some fun, the light is at the end of the tunnel, people!!
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Hi! It's been over a month since I last posted, wow! Not sure how that happens but time is flying. We just completed our Rubber Egg Experiment for our Liquids, Solids, Gases unit that I call Matter Matters! Clever, huh. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Would you look at how seriously they are taking their notes?!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Look at the bubbles already forming on the shell</span>. <br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The egg is the solid, the vinegar is the liquid and the gas forms when the vinegar comes in contact with the egg for a period of time.</span> </td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something new on our report card this year is the recognition of a rhombus, trapezoid and hexagon. I made up this matching game to try and help the children with this skill. Have fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">OOPS! After I posted the game last night and printed it for myself, I noticed two incorrect shapes-one for the trapezoid (school lunch tray) and one for the hexagon (stop sign). How embarrassing...anyway, I've added two new shape cards to fix this heinous blunder. Let me know if you have any difficulty! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A new game to play for President's Day and our study of America to help with that sight word reading! These are all of the sight words used in Scott Foresman for Units 1-5 <em>plus</em> color words. I can't enough of all of these fun graphics and I NEED as many Go-To Activities as I can get my hands on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my second year to use Deanna Jump's America <a href="http://mrsjumpsclass.blogspot.com/2012/02/america-unit-part-one.html">unit</a> and I love it!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We make a book out of the activities (of course!) and so I wanted some writing pages for the book this year. So, here they are!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK, I don't know why the first two cards on the first two pages are all wonky! When I click on it and download it from Scribd, it displays normally to print. Let me know if you have any trouble with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">***On a very exciting note....we are on day 170 of my husband's deployment to Afghanistan!! Two weeks from today, I will be on a plane to meet him in London for a few days!! This CAN'T be my life! Pinch me, I have to be dreaming. Now, just to whip out a week's worth of lesson plans and I'm off...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you so very much for your thoughts and prayers, they have meant a great deal. :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, of course, we had to have a poem for the month for our Poetry Journals. I had originally planned to have several poems a month for the journals but reality has reared it's not-so-fun head and I think we will be doing <em><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">good</span></em> to get in one poem a month. Such is life...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next we will make our Five Little Pumpkins artwork for our Pumpkin Book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Below is the page to use with the Poetry Journals. I tried to leave enough room for the kids to illustrate a picture next to each line. Remember, Jessica Meacham has all kinds of poems ready to print for Poetry Journals, I got this amazing activity from Jessica and have loved watching the kids get a handle on rhyming, punctuation and sight word recognition through this process. Check her out <a href="http://www.jmeacham.com/">here!</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the pumpkin pattern page that I will copy onto orange construction paper for the kids to make their artwork for the book. The script I will use on this page follows. Have fun! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are my very long, run-on sentences giving you any indication of how my week has gone? Bear with me...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">****Disclaimer*****</span><br />
<em><span style="font-size: large;">I love our staff, respect our administration and couldn't ask for a better group of people to share the daily joys and frustrations of this job with-education is a tough field today. We have to be willing to show up every day , give it our absolute best and choose our battles wisely. The children are worth it. As simple as that. </span></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know that we all have days, weeks, months where we have to remind ourselves why we have chosen this particular career as our profession. When forced to wonder, I repeat to myself, "I LOVE these children, this job DOES matter, the children are important and SOMEONE has to want to do this with a willing heart. "Send Me, Lord. I will go."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That being said, after depressing faculty meetings with added responsibilities, extra duties and questionable requirements added to the soup, I give you the gift of this story ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My team divides up afternoon duty-half of us go to car line, the other half take bus duty. Michele, Susan and I take Kindergarten out every day to load buses. On Wednesday of this week, it seemed to be a typical day in the bus line. After loading the first seven buses, two remained. While waiting for the last two buses to pull up, we're chatting and laughing with the giddiness of speaking to other adults at the end of the day while holding children's hands keeping them safely away from moving buses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are waiting for Bus 804 ( a fictional number provided to preserve the privacy of the innocent) and notice that it is only slightly slowing down as it makes its approach to the breezeway so we think it is pulling up a little further before it will stop and load. Well, 804 doesn't actually stop (unbeknown to us, all of the older children have loaded the bus and the driver is happily moving along thinking he has everyone on board). So I start walking towards the moving bus, thinking the driver will see me and stop. I'm walking, I'm walking, he's picking up speed, he's picking up speed, I'm jogging, I'm jogging, thinking surely he will notice me in his rear view window and stop. He's moving up the hill... faster, faster. I start to pick up the pace. I start running, all the while weaving in and out of car line traffic. Now I just happen to be carrying a huge umbrella since it looked somewhat rainy when we left the building. Rain would have only made the story more interesting, thank goodness the umbrella only served as a prop in this scenario...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is quickly becoming obvious that this driver is not stopping so I move up to a run (now bear in mind, at 45 yrs. old, I am LONG past my fighting weight which really only lasted for about six months in 1989 anyway, so my physical prowess must have been a sight to behold for the 7,645 parents in car line). So I am running UP hill waving said umbrella madly, yelling for the driver to PLEASE stop. At this point, cars are honking, parents have rolled down their windows yelling in vain trying to help my attempt to get the driver to stop this bus!!! I am asking the Lord in silent prayer to please not let anyone have their phones out because I do NOT want to see this play out on youtube.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blessedly, the driver pauses just long enough at the top of the hill to give me time to catch up to him. I run to the door of the bus, try to catch my breath and the driver, bless his heart, just looks at me... just looks at me. I have to tap the door with the umbrella and stare at the driver pleadingly to o.p.e.n. the door! When he does, I breathlessly try to tell him, politely and kindly, that he pulled off without Kindergarten and did he not notice?! He said he saw me running behind the bus and didn't know what I was doing back there?! Really?!!! I told him, with all due respect, that the next time he sees a fat teacher RUNNING behind his bus, waving an umbrella, would he please STOP the bus! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The story does have a happy ending. Susan walked up behind me, on the trail I had blazed through the car line, with the four children in tow to finally, safely load them onto Bus 804. They look somewhat stunned at having witnessed this sorry display but all's well that ends well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Having put these precious children on the bus, Susan and I turn to walk with grace and dignity back to the building. There are a few morals to this story, I have decided. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) Dress accordingly. I mean, you never know what you are going to ask of your outfit when you get dressed in the morning for this job. Dress for maximum coverage and minimal jiggling.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2) Allow these moments to let you find the humor in your everyday no matter what outside factors creep up in your job to seemingly steal all of the fun. There will be SOMETHING in your day to make you laugh. Embrace it when it comes, it may be all you get that day! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If anyone is still with me here, and bless your heart if you are, I will cheerfully post on 50's Day this weekend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bless all of you who join me in hanging on to the fun in this job and giving these children a reason to laugh, hope, smile and succeed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Have a wonderful weekend! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Your comrade in arms,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Julie </span>Mrs. Hicks@hicks-thealphabetgarden.blogspothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06185346681423095510noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2413673953608048815.post-30443016559697515482011-10-15T22:10:00.002-05:002011-10-17T20:52:33.949-05:00More Fifties Fun!<a title="View Mr. Potato Head Pattern on Scribd" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/69218370/Mr-Potato-Head-Pattern" style="margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block; text-decoration: underline;">Mr. Potato Head Pattern</a><iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" src="http://www.scribd.com/embeds/69218370/content?start_page=1&view_mode=slideshow&access_key=key-1brh83n3zsintgb4brix" data-auto-height="true" data-aspect-ratio="1.2938689217759" scrolling="no" id="doc_2489" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();</script><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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Thank you, again, for all of your sweet messages and prayers, he is doing well. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">OK, I HAD to break down and finally order one of these. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The past several years of putting something together has gotten old </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">so I bit the bullet and ordered this costume from Glor's Store on ebay. $75 later, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">it is mine but the quality is amazing and she makes them in many colors</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> and plenty of sizes! I also ordered some white Keds but there are plenty </span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WkhpPi2Xq6U/TMePvk6EvhI/AAAAAAAAAdE/LGb45Sbnppo/s1600/51st+Day+10+003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" kca="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WkhpPi2Xq6U/TMePvk6EvhI/AAAAAAAAAdE/LGb45Sbnppo/s320/51st+Day+10+003.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;">I made this chart last year using Google images so that we could</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Although, Little Golden Books were first published in the 40's, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">you can find plenty that depict life in the 50's.</span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">On the 50th Day of School, we all wear 50's clothes, have our picture taken</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"> in front of the "jukebox" holding a (gasp!)real live vinyl album!</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">We transform the classroom into a "Soda Shop", play 50's music, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">drink sodas from a glass bottle and have ice cream floats! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> Last year, I had a darling little girl with allergies to dairy and nuts </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">so we had Jello sundaes instead!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> We had Fifties Fun Centers with Mr. Potato Heads, Slinkies, Charlie Brown coloring pages, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs and Silly Putty-all toys that children played with in the 50's!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This year, I am adding a 50's Graph from Deanna Jump and a few games that I have put together. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">It is a super fun day and good way to teach the children about the life </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">their grandparents (or great grandparents!) lived.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Rock and Roll is Here to Stay,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">We Had Fun on Fifties Day!</span></td></tr>
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