Sandy/K/MO - Welcome everyone to March ideas :-)
Sandy/K/MO - Should we start at the beginning and do Dr. Suess b-day 3-2 ?
Kathleen - Seuss :-)
meeha/ece/tx - sounds like a good plan, Sandy!
lorip123 - Is anyone doing "Read across America?"
disney cathy - Is anyone doing anything special for Dr. Seuss's Birthday on March 2nd?
TeachNS - We did a unit on Dr. Seuss two weeks ago.
tyke_patrol - We are doing our kickoff for Read
blt - we will do seuss activities all day and have a birthday party in the evening
Sandy/K/MO - I am going to use the websites during computer time.. and have celeb. readers ...
disney cathy - Teach, what were some of the fun activities you did?
lorip123 - Does anyone have a good source for Seuss activities?
Sandy/K/MO - Cooks are going to make us green eggs and ham for lunch
blt - tomorrow we start a trivia question each day about seuss, winners drawn each day will get a prize, we will have a question each day thru 3/2
meeha/ece/tx - That's nice of them, Sandy!
TeachNS - We read Green Eggs and Ham, then we made green eggs. The kids loved it.
tyke_patrol - We are doing our Read Across America kickoff with a Senior housing facility. We are having a reading hour. The activity will be featured on the cover of the local magazine!
al-IA - Any one doing anything for women's month
blt - we also have a fishbowl full of gummy fish in display case of library, kids guess how many, winner from each grade gets a "cat hat"
meeha/ece/tx - one school I subbed in a few years ago had someone dress up like the Cat in the Hat and read to each of the primary classrooms. I think they read "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"
Sandy/K/MO - http://www.afn.org/drseuss.html
TeachNS - For the Foot Book we painted the kids feet and let them stomp on paper
disney cathy - oh boy teach,I know they loved stomping their feet!!!
tyke_patrol - We do an intergenerational activity 1x/month
blt - last year we had the "phantom bookmarker" going around all day, if you were caught reading she gave you a bookmark
Sandy/K/MO - http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/
tyke_patrol - Teach, great idea, we do foot painting every year, but I have never connected it with that book!!
kc - For Reading Month, our theme is March into Reading.
TeachNS - disney, What level do you teach?
kc - How do you manage foot painting, do you have help?
disney cathy - teach, I teach kindergarten
TeachNS - Great Age!
Jan/ohio/2 - Do you celebrate Right to Read Week?
blt - kids brought all their seuss books in, we weighed them for each grade level, then made a graph
Sandy/K/MO - tyke & Steach did you go to t net and mailring and sign up again?
tyke_patrol - Yes, I have help with footpainting. We put paint in a 9x13 cake pan, lay roll paper on the floor, walk in paint then on paper. Careful, it gets slippery!!
jpm/ct - we are doing these themes for march good health nutrituion green week signs of spring using our senses any ideas
Kathleen - Did you get this one (NEA Read Across America)? http://www.nea.org/readacross/
bmde - what kind of graph
Sandy/K/MO - At the beginning of the year we did an exchange with a class in England about our favorite Suess book...
TeachNS - That sounds neat Sandy.
Sandy/K/MO - do any of you do weather? lion/lamb
bmde - how about the one fish two fish red fish blue fish!
meeha/ece/tx - when i paint feet, i try to apply lotion or oil to the kids' feet before the paint -- it helps the clean-up to go faster!
blt - bmde--we made a bar graph showing the book weights for each grade k-6
kc - I can't imagine getting the feet clean, but I will try next week!!!
Kathleen - You can Venn Diagram red, blue and red&blue fish
blt - bmde--that's why we are doing the fish in the fishbowl
jpm/ct - one fish two fish red fish blue fish is my favorite book i remember i made my dad look forever for it in the library when i was 5
Sandy/K/MO - graphing is great with the younger kids. :-)
bmde - oh cool sounds like a neat idea did they win a prize for the books that weighed the most
Ron, Intern/1/FL - Sandy, how'd you get the hook-up with England?
Sandy/K/MO - here at t net.. on the main board
blt - bmde--no prizes, but the satisfaction of winning, you could give a prize though
jpm/ct - how do you vhen diargram it
Sandy/K/MO - moving on in the month... St. Pat's day activties..
tyke_patrol - I would love to do that with another Prek, Sandy, is anyone here interested?
blt - this year we are graphing our favorite seuss books
TeachNS - Well I have to go help my son with his homework. It has been great chatting with all of you.
LJ - bmde -- would you give prizes? if so , what?
jpm/ct - tyke patrol what ??? I am interested in doing something that sandy did
meeha/ece/tx - jpm -- for the 5 senses, try checking out this site: http://www.ghbooks.com/activity/19216410.htm
bmde - Do you guys know of the web site "The Perpetual Preschool". It has alot of different ideas about holidays and different themes
Kathleen - VEnn Diagram- you could use 2 hoops, or yarn circles, overlapping to create a third section in the middle. Lead the kids to sort red fish into one, blue fish into the other, then ask them where the 2-colored (red&blue) fish would go..lead them to put them in the over lap
Ellen/MA/1 - St. Pat's day is a day off from school. Called "sleep in"!
blt - st. pat's day--aims has a great activity to do with lucky charms
tyke_patrol - My favorite St Pat's idea is rather labor intensive, we do a scavenger hunt, with hundreds of little green footprints all over and clues to the next starting point. The end result is a pot of gold(gold candy coins) and a new game or piece of equipment for the classroom
kc - I have a bulletin board "At the end of every rainbow is a pot of good books". Goes along with reading month. Has a black bot with book jackets inside>
Ellen/MA/1 - Evacuation Day
blt - this year i am doing some "spud stuff", each student will get a potato, draw it, name it, measure, count eyes, etc.
LJ - tyke patrol -- that sounds neat and fun
gene - evacuation day, that's a Boston holiday...are you from boston?
TeachNS - Any pre-k teachers interested in a pen pal program for a class activity.
meeha/ece/tx - tyke -- that sounds like fun! (I read of a teacher last year who hid green shoes in the classroom and sprinkeld green glitter about the room ... the little fella did quite a work of mishcief about the room, the kids got to fix it, then the fella left 'prizes' for the help!
Ellen/MA/1 - meeha, that is really a cute idea. Was it messy to clean up the glitter?
Kathleen - I have a few St. Patrick's Day activities in the Lesson Bank, but they don't show up with a search of St. Patrick's, it is Lesson #313, or search for my name
bmde - jpm/ct go under the file tab on the top of the screen and chosse open then when the box opens type in the whole e-mail address
meeha/ece/tx - kc ... LEPRECHAUNS NEVER LIE (Lorna Balian) is great!
blt - i also have an irish tale called "fair, brown, and trembling" (like cinderella) that i read, then we read cinderella and compare using a venn diagram
blt - slices of green pepper are great for printing shamrocks
Sandy/K/MO - any lion and lamb activities? signs of spring?
kc - Does anyone have a St. Pat's party?
jpm/ct - sandy in the Feb addition of mailbox there are 2 cooking activies for lamb and lion we are graphing the days
Leaner - We have a party on the calendar but not anything planned yet. Any ideas?
Sandy/K/MO - kc.. my kids bake cookies.. they shape them
Kathleen - We do a Robin Watch, kids take home a paper with drawing of a robin, record the date when they see their first robin (in Conn, a sign of Spring:-), color the robin and return it to school, where we announce it at Circle Time
jpm/ct - thanks kathleen sounds cool
Cathie/NC/3 - I used to have green jello, green juice and green cupcakes for our St. Pat's party
blt - kathleen--i like the robin idea, we could do that here in pa
Sandy/K/MO - we planted tulips with the journey north projects and they are coming up now :-)
Kathleen - Leaner, check Lesson #313 in the Teachers.Net Lesson Bank for some St. Pat's ideas http://teachers.net/lessons
blt - cathie--i have had the kids bring a green snack for a read and feed on st. pat's day
Kathleen - we make green mashed potatoes, create potato heads with traced, cutouts and wiggly eyes, etc.
Sandy/K/MO - can't spell it but that green pudding as a secret mix
meeha/ece/tx - must be spring here in Texas ... there must have been 10 or 15 robins in my backyard just yesterday!
Gumbo again! - pistachio??????
Sandy/K/MO - Laura would you be willing to host a flat stanley from Mo?
Ellen/MA/1 - As I arrived late, did you post directions on how to make those red/white hats-The Cat in the Hat?
Sandy/K/MO - no Ellen.. I would like the directions too
tyke_patrol - Good question, Ellen, I would love to find an easier way than I am doing it
tyke_patrol - I use tagboard, make a brim, then a ring of cardboard for hat and circle for top, tape all together, very time consuming, not very sturdy
blt - tyke--i've done the same thing and they lasted for the day so the kids were thrilled
tyke_patrol - That's a good start, easier than tagboard
meeha/ece/tx - when you attach the 'pipe' to the brim, do you cut little tabs to tape under the brim? that will help strengthen the joint a lot!
Sandy/K/MO - do you remember any mailbox giving the directions?
tyke_patrol - I do make two or three out of fabric for the dress up area
tyke_patrol - no I haven't meeha, but I will now! that should help
meeha/ece/tx - if you check at craft stores and/or places like walgreens around hallowe'en, they're "dirt cheap" -- I've picked up a number of hats like that one for $2 and $3 in the past two years!
Sandy/K/MO - Dr. Suess site lets you ask the cat and he answers along with other games..http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/
meeha/ece/tx - tyke ... we're just starting our Outer Space unit -- the boys are rather involved in planets, rocket ships, start ... we've not gotten to satellites, comets, etc. yet -- could be fun and very interesting!
Steach - March: Wind...kites, windmills, etc
Sandy/K/MO - for a comet we painted a styrofoam ball yellow and stuck a craft stick and crepe paper in the bottom and they could run with it
meeha/ece/tx - tyke -- i teach sped preschool, they get what they can! (we have a lot of fun!) one kid went home Monday and told his mom NOT to send him to Mercury, he would be melted!
Sandy/K/MO - I have some really neat snacks too that are easy and fun will bring home tomorrow
tyke_patrol - What about weather, what are some of the things you all do for that unit?
meeha/ece/tx - today we found a really fun song by Thomas Moore -- THE OPERA SINGER -- a take-off on Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star -- all 18 of my kiddos sang it! (that doesn't happen often!)
Steach - I do Rain Experiment
Sandy/K/MO - we make a rain guage, wind indicator, lion and lamb puppets, keep caledar :-)
tyke_patrol - Steach, Rain experiment?
Leaner - What do you use to make your rain gauge?
Sandy/K/MO - this year going to do a sundial if we ever have sun :-)
Cherie - In weather, we make rain, put thermometers under black and white paper to see which conducts heat the best.
Steach - put lots of ice in container on top of a clear container and observe :)
Sandy/K/MO - just a small plastic test tube.. and a ruler
tyke_patrol - We can't do rain guage here, still getting snow!
meeha/ece/tx - kites and the little hand held wind mills are fun, too!
Sandy/K/MO - we put out a couple, one under a tree and out in the open.. then decide why they aren't the same.
tyke_patrol - I have tried kites a few times with little success, any suggestions?
Sandy/K/MO - ok snow guage :-) make a rainbow mobile
meeha/ece/tx - How about letting the kids make 'wind socks' -- roll a 12 x 18 " piece of construction paper ... glue or staple into a long cylinder. punch holes around the bottom and tie (staple, glue, tape ...) crepe paper streamers, attach string at three points at the top for hanging
Leaner - What about a paper plate with streamers for a kite?
Sandy/K/MO - instead of kites... I had the kids make 3 butterflies and string them with yarn, then yarn through straw an they run... butterflies seem to fly
nat/k/ma - Do you celebrate St Patrick's Day in other states. That is another holiday that we spend a week on studying Ireland, etc.
Steach - tyke I use the cardboard roll from paper towels and cut to size, paint and add strips of tissue paper to end they love to take it outside to playground
tyke_patrol - Wind socks are a definite yes, we'll try them, do you actually get kites to fly?
meeha/ece/tx - really and truly ... I bought two or three kites at the dollar store last year. kids made paper kites that barely fly
meeha/ece/tx - really and truly ... I bought two or three kites at the dollar store last year. kids made paper kites that barely fly!
Sandy/K/MO - he is also patron saint of Engineers and Mo. has big engineering school
meeha/ece/tx - you can let them tie a plastic grocery bag on a long string -- it will fly most of the time (they just run and up it goes!) balloons work ... paper kites are very inconsistent
Sandy Mo - you have evacuation day?
Ellen - It is called Evacuation Day, The day we forced the British Army out of Boston, during the American Revolution.
tyke_patrol - We do a lot of things with Irish and Scottish music for St Pat's, it is such unique music
nat/k/ma - Thanks Sandy. Evacuation Day. I mention it as the days is closing after having a St Patrick's Day party.
Kathleen - I never heard of Evacuation Day! interesting
Ellen - Holiday here in Boston, Kat, no school.
tyke_patrol - I have never heard of it either, are you sure it's not just a bankers holiday? LOL
Kathleen - Ellen, only Boston, right? not the rest of Mass.?
Ellen - It is strictly a Boston holiday!
Kathleen - Mass. has Patriot's Day. we don't have that holiday in Conn.
Ellen - I live outside of Boston, in Quincy and the kids here have school.
nat/k/ma - We also have Bunker Hill Day off. Ellen are you in school that long?
Ellen - oh, yes, we also have that day off in April, but it is during our April vacation week, off that week too!
Kathleen - Next Week: Balanced Literacy. Djinn hosts. :-) bye

 
 

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