Sneak Peek

Here is a quick peek at what I've been doing the past few days. It's a whole new theme next year for my room. My kids are so mad I didn't do it this year. 

Earth Day

It just so happens that our reading series has been doing stories on renewable energy and wind energy. How perfect is that since this week is also the week we have Earth Day. As if fate isn't smiling enough, our third grade also gets seeds donated every year. That means we get to plant seeds just in time for them to start sprouting for Mother's Day. Let's just call all these coincidences serendipitous fate trying to make my life easier right before testing. 

Symmetry with Art

Shapes are actually something I really enjoy teaching and it can be a ton of fun. We started 2 dimensional shapes and today's lesson was symmetry and I decided to let the kids really have fun.

I will state now that this was not my idea. I've been dying to do it since I saw it though. Amy Lemons from Step into Second Grade with Mrs. Lemons had this on her blog. She took a picture of herself, cropped it so it only showed half her face, and then had the kids fill in the rest to show symmetry. I absolutely love her blog and she does so many cool things with it! If you teach in lower elementary I suggest you get over their ASAP and follow her.

I was skeptical on how it would turn out but my kids loved it and the drawings really surprised me. This was a quick thing to put together. Tomorrow I'm going to have them complete pictures of themselves. Then they'll get to decide which one to hang in the hall.