Looking back at the photos, we were pretty busy in March! Here is a quick photo recap of our adventures!
One of my favorite units to each, despite my medicore feelings toward Shakespeare, is Romeo and Juliet. If I may pat myself on the back, I feel as though I have created a fun, engaging, and challenging unit. The unit ends with sock puppet shows, where students work in groups, create sock puppets, and perform a snippet for the class. We added the awesomeness of 3D printing to the mix, using the school's 3D printers to make crowns, hats, mustaches, and swords for the sock puppets.
General goofiness:
Exploring fans and air:
Back to super hero training!
Our friends Tim and Elizabeth were gone for much of the time around Lilly's birthday, so they came and celebrated Tim and Lilly's birthday, bringing a sweet train cake with them.
They acted out the Nutcracker together. Tim and Elizabeth are such amazing friends, so willing to just be silly and goofy with the kids.
In cleaning out Lilly's folder one evening, I discovered this great bookmark. Also one that said, Yes, you are awesome.
The local parks and rec joined forces with some other local businesses and organizations for a free indoor play event. There were puppets, boxes, fake snowballs, and a bouncy house. The girls had a lot of fun, Greta nearly got a concussion in the bouncy house, and it was fun to see so many people playing together.
My penance for making my parents play school with me after a full day of teaching, Lilly is also big into playing school. The assignment was to draw a picture of friendship. (Song Lee is who she was, a character from the Horrible Harry series).
Some miscellaneous photos:
Dying Easter Eggs. I think I mentioned my club, Kitchen Science. One of the experiments I did with the high school students was coloring eggs with Cool Whip and food coloring. The girls and I tried it as well, and they turned out beautifully!
One of my favorite units to each, despite my medicore feelings toward Shakespeare, is Romeo and Juliet. If I may pat myself on the back, I feel as though I have created a fun, engaging, and challenging unit. The unit ends with sock puppet shows, where students work in groups, create sock puppets, and perform a snippet for the class. We added the awesomeness of 3D printing to the mix, using the school's 3D printers to make crowns, hats, mustaches, and swords for the sock puppets.
In my Connections class, a junior/senior elective. We were talking about vampires and their role in society. I drew this on the board and was rather proud of it:
General goofiness:
We also took the girls over to the Duluth Children's Museum:
The girls trained to be super heroes and explored the imaginary play world upstairs.
We had dinner with friends:
In cleaning out Lilly's folder one evening, I discovered this great bookmark. Also one that said, Yes, you are awesome.
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We also took the girls bike riding that afternoon. Winter coats are acceptable biking apparel.
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| Then switched into snowsuits to play in the snow. |
Speaking of school, Lilly was the Star Student. Each student put together a little info about him/herself. One of the perks of being the Star Student is having your mom or dad or some other special person read your favorite book to the class and then have lunch with you. Luckily I work with amazing colleagues who were willing to cover my classes for me so I could go read The Book with No Pictures to her class and have lunch with them.
I was also kindly reminded that elementary school students, while adorable and energetic, are not my teaching cup of tea. It was also fun to see the work of Lilly's teacher, who I admire and consider a master teacher. Watching her kindly guide the students to appropriate behavior (Simon Says to get in a straight line) was amazing.
Some miscellaneous photos:
Dying Easter Eggs. I think I mentioned my club, Kitchen Science. One of the experiments I did with the high school students was coloring eggs with Cool Whip and food coloring. The girls and I tried it as well, and they turned out beautifully!
That's all I have for tonight! Next up, April and Greta's birthday!
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