ROBOTS INVADE OUR CLASSROOM!!!

To kick off my class Robot Thematic Cross-Curricular Unit, I brought as many robots as I could get hold of into my classroom.  Many of these pictured came from thrift stores, and my own personal collection.  Many students brought in their own, or those they borrowed.  We also purchased a robot for the study.  My class collected quarters, bid, and bought a class robot from Ebay!  What a fantastic math lesson that was!!  The class was given time for free play to explore these robots.  They also collected and changed out the batteries for these robots.  Parents donated some of the robots and batteries, too!  There are many activities included in the unit pictured below, available in my Teacher's Pay Teachers Store.  I will be posting more activities in the coming weeks as our Robot Thematic Cross-Curricular Study evolves!

 

Click Here to See This Robot Thematic Unit!!

A Visit From Frosty! SURPRISE!!!

Frosty the Snowman made a surprise visit to our classroom!

Once there was a snowman,


Stood outside the door.


Thought he'd like to come inside


And run around the floor.

Thought he'd like to warm himself


By the firelight red;.

Thought he'd like to climb up


On that big white bed.


So he called the North Wind,


"Help me now I pray.


I'm completely frozen,


Standing here all day."


So the North Wind came along


And blew him in the door,


And now there's nothing left of him


But a puddle on the floor!

Field Trip to the Ohio Railway Museum!! Choo Choo!!

We took a FIELD TRIP to The Ohio Railway Museum!  It is one of the oldest railroad museums in America. The museum is designed to educate through displays and demonstrations, the role and effect of the railroads in the life of the people and businesses of Ohio and the United States.

The museum's collection includes locomotives, streetcars, and an interurban parlor car #501, nicknamed "The Red Bird." 

Click on the Transportation Unit below for a variety of train, plane, boat, and car activities!

We LOVE Sarah Hale!

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer and an influential editor. She is the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb".  Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving!

Sarah Hale

Sarah Hale may be the individual most responsible for making Thanksgiving a national holiday in the United States; it had previously been celebrated only in New England.  Each state scheduled its own holiday, some as early as October and others as late as January; it was largely unknown in the South.  Her advocacy for the national holiday began in 1846 and lasted 17 years before it was successful.  In support of the proposed national holiday, Hale wrote letters to five Presidents of the United States: Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln. Her initial letters failed to persuade, but the letter she wrote to Lincoln convinced him to support legislation establishing a national holiday of Thanksgiving in 1863.  The new national holiday was considered a unifying day after the stress of the American Civil War.  Before Thanksgiving's addition, the only national holidays celebrated in the United States were Washington's Birthday and Independence Day.

Every year my classes participate in a Reader’s Theater – Thank You, Sarah Hale.  We LOVE Sarah Hale!  

Click  Here for Sarah Hale Reader's Theater!

Halloween Party Poem!!

PUMPKIN PATCH and HAYRIDE through FAIRYTALE FOREST!

Autumn can be such a glorious time of year!  The smell of hot spiced cider, donuts, crisp leaves, and pumpkin filled the air at our PUMPKIN PATCH field trip!!  If you’d like Autumn Activities for your classroom or homeschoolers, click on the items below our Pumpkin Patch pictures!

GIGANTIC SPIDER WEB and SPIDERS!!

What a perfect time of year to read SPIDER books!  One of my favorites is Miss Spider by David Kirk.  As an enrichment activity, I have my students create a spider out of ANYTHING at home and bring it to school for sharing.  The only criterion is the spider must have 8 legs!  I create a GIGANTIC spider web on the largest bulletin board in my classroom.  My students always oooohhh and aaaahhhh as they watch their teacher spin this web!  They are so excited when I tell them that the spider that THEY make at home gets to sit on the web for the entire month of October!  I ALWAYS get 100% participation in this activity!!