Silly Weather Worm

How to make a Silly Weather Worm:

• Bunch together as many lengths of yarn as desired and tie about 1 inch from the top. 
• Tie the lengths together again about 2 inches from that. 
• Braid the yarn the rest of the length until you reach about 1 inch from the bottom, and tie the braid off with a smaller length.  
• Glue (hot glue) the eyes onto 2 inch opening.  That will be the head of the worm. 
• Tie on laminated poem:

Silly Weather Worm

Hang me outside.

If I'm wet, you know it's raining. 

If I'm white, you know it's snowing.

If I'm moving, you know it's windy.

Amber

Rainbow, Rainbow Big Story

This is my favorite book that we make together to hang in the classroom.  On each page, I will have the students work in groups of 2 or 3.  I try to use as many different art materials as we can.  The students can be so creative sometimes.  I would have never thought of using poms poms for the inside of a flower or tin foil for lightning!  When the pages are completed, I hang the story by fishing line in the middle of our room. 

Amber

Spring Bullentin Board

This is one of my favorite bulletin boards of the school year.  
I got the idea from Mrs. Ramseier (who teaches 2 doors down from me - lucky me!). 
She uses the title - The Colors of Spring.

100 Day Activities

As a class we make our T-shirts the week before.  The students stamp the front with fabric paint and I (or a REALLY GOOD FRIEND) will write the names on the back of their shirts at 12:00 on a Saturday night to get ready for the big day.

The students will make thier 100 days smarter hats when they arrive.  I got the idea from The Chalk Box and I love it.  They have to put 10 little stickers on 10 strips and count by 10's to 100. 

One activity that I enjoy doing but did not get a picture of this year is when the students draw a picture of their face at 100 years old on paper and then we crinkle the paper up into a ball.  When we open it up, it looks like they have wrinkles on their face.  So cute!

 Did your Dum*Dum sucker disappear in 100 licks?  Yes or No 

Amber

Valentine From The Teacher

This year, I bought Pop Rocks for my students.  The note says...Amber Rocks! Thank you for being so sweet!  Love, Mrs. Osterman

Sorry!!! I cannot get the picture to turn!

Amber

Valentine Bulletin Board

I know this bulletin board might be late to do this year, but I think it turned out so cute.  I believe I found the idea on a blog and the teacher used it as a classroom-made book.  I turned it into a "SWEET" bulletin board!

The sheet says... I love you. You love me.  I am Amber, can't you see!

Amber

Sweets "R" Us

During the month of February, I turn my dramatic area into a candy shop called, Sweets "R" Us.  The students use real coins to buy differnet kinds of candy and valentine cards. 

Amber