Team Costume Fun

 Costume fun since 2013...a walk down memory lane...I realized that I hadn't updated since 2016...costume post

2021...frizzle inspiration 

2019...7 continents 

2018...the vowels

2017...food groups 

2016...5 senses 

2015...4 seasons and mother nature

2014...teenage mutant ninja turtles 

2013...Super teachers

Dot Day, Zucchini Bread, and back to NORMAL

 The decision was suddenly made 2 weeks ago to return me to my special of STEAM by administration.

Okay - so on a Friday - I had to figure out how to regroup and teach my class.  Oh wait - I was going to be teaching a double class of STEAM and library with an extra adult to help (aides and/or principals!).  

I was ready but not ready for this experience.  My class of students that I had been with for 7 days was now divided among the 4 other classrooms at that grade level.  

So I pulled out my Dot Day lesson plan with modifications like NO technology.  

Originally...students read the book called "The Dot" by Peter Reynolds 

Then - we watched the illustrator/author create Dot inspired art work:

Then it was time for students to CREATE images...the last part was to practice uploading to either TEAMS assignments or SeeSaw.

Here are a few pictures:

FARM TO TABLE

Starting on September 8, I started doing a Farm to Table lesson about Zucchini Bread.  My last group got bread on October 1.  It took 3 weeks to teach a lesson to every student.  I ended up making 30+ loaves of zucchini bread.  I think it was 12-15 batches of zucchini bread.  I have left over eggs and need to use them up ASAP.  However, most of the frozen zucchini has been used at school!  

Students watched a cooking demonstration, discussed what is zucchini, tasted the bread, and more!

It was a busy time with the oven in a completely different wing of the school...but we made it work.

I would say that 95% of the students tried it and over 90% LOVED the recipe.  I do not have many pictures because it is hard to demonstrate and take pictures.  

PUMPKIN RUN

In addition, the librarian and I made sure to share the story of the "Pumpkin Runner with almost all 500 students in STEAM and/or library.  This even meant a co-teaching day!  

The event at the track was AWESOME!

As you can see, it has been a crazy first 22 days of school.  I have been out of my room about 9-10 days.  

I did hang my first week of school projects too!  Those were all about initials and names.  I called it a creativity design challenge!