End of the Year Memory Book 2013

I know this post is a little late in the making, but I am consumed by my dissertation these days. Here are pictures of my kid's memory books.

This shoe craftivity came from the Bubbly Blond

First Day of School Page 

School Bus from TLC Lessons

A Visit from Station 5 and Firefighter John 

Fire Truck from TLC Lessons

Learning about our Country and our School Mock Election

Flag from TLC Lessons

Thanksgiving Program and Feast

Turkey from TLC Lessons

Christmas Party

Christmas Tree from TLC Lessons

Polar Express Day

Train from TLC Lessons

The 100th Day of School

Math Lessons

A Friendship Page

Learning about the Sun, Moon, and Stars

Our Class Picture

Our Field Trip to the Zoo

Elephant from TLC Lessons

Happy Birthday

Presents from TLC Lessons

Field Day

Our Class Picnic

Watermelon from TLC Lessons

Apple from TLC Lessons

I Made up My Own Owl Craft but the Paper and Idea Came from Alissa Manning-Telisak

Alissa's unit comes with several different writing pages and an owl craft. 

This Craft and Writing Paper Came from Amy Lemons

Misc. Pictures from the Year

The Clumsy Crab

We read The Clumsy Crab. Then we brainstormed other ways Clumsy Crab could use his pincers. We used Pebblego to learn facts about real crabs.

The directions for making Clumsy Crab

Each child needs:

(1) 6 X 9 rectangle (red) the body

(1) 1 1/2 X 2 rectangle (pink) the mouth

(4) 1 X 1 squares (orange) spots

(6) 1 X 6 rectangles (red) legs

(2) 1 X 2 rectangles (red) eye stalks

(2) 2 X 2 squares (red) outer eyes

(2) 1 1/2 X 1 1/2 squares (white) inner eyes

(2) 1 X 4 rectangles (red) short pincer legs

(2) 6 X 3 rectangles (red) pincers

to make the body: hold the rectangle side to side, clip the bottom corners and round

to make the mouth: hold the rectangle side to side, clip the bottom corners and round

to make the spots: clip all four corners and round

to make the eyes: glue on the eye stalks, clip all four corners and round the outer eyes and the inner eyes, glue the outer eyes on the eye stalks, color black circles in the middle of the inner eyes, glue the inner eyes onto the outer eyes

to make the legs: accordion fold 6 long legs, color black on the ends, glue onto the sides of the body

to make the pincers: glue the short pincer legs onto the crab at the top, hold the pincer pieces side to side, clip the side corners and round, the cut a "v" out of the other side to make the pincer, glue them onto the pincer legs

Our Finished Pond Mural

We finally finished our pond mural. We added beavers, fish, and snails.

To make the fish:

First, we cut a triangle out of the side of the plate to make the mouth. Then we used a black crayon to draw scales and an eye on the fish. You have to draw the black lines very dark so that the paint will wash over them. We used a paint wash to paint the plate. After the plate dried, we used paint to make fingerprints on the scales. 

To make the snails:

First, we clipped corners and rounded a white 5 X 5 square. Then we used a black crayon to draw a spiral line on the circle. You have to draw the black line very dark so that the paint will wash over it. Then we painted a brown or orange wash over all over the circle. We clipped all four corners and rounded a long narrow rectangle to make the body. Then used scraps to make the antenna. 

To make the beavers:

These came from the TLC Lessons Animals book. 

Mallards for our Pond

We read Make Way for Ducklings (fiction) and a Pebble Go book on ducks (nonfiction) today. Then we made mallards and wrote facts we had learned about ducks.

More Pond Stuff...

Our turtle and frog work. We will be adding more animals and writing to our pond mural.

A few books about turtles and frogs...

Pond Life

We started our study of ponds and pond animals today. We made a circle map to show all of the things you can find in and around a pond. These are the plants and animals we will be learning about over the next few days. The black lines for the circles do not actually show up in this picture for some reason.

We are making a pond mural. We started with the lily pads today. I will post pictures throughout the week as the mural comes together. 

I found these lily pads here. They are the ones we are making. We painted the plates today and will finish the water lilly flower part tomorrow. 

a few of the pond books we will be reading this week...