LIfe in my classroom

Patricio's awesome drawing. He also has excellent fine motor skills and can make incredible things with his hands already! Last week we celebrated his VERY first all green week which means it was also a no fit week. Wuhoo! the whole class was happy for him :-)

Life in my classroom has been consumed with Saint Patrick's day this month! We have to do a presentation in front of all the kinder kids and my kids are so excited and yet crazy about it! They will be working in their seates (talking in Spanish of course) and then someone starts to sing "I'm a little leprechaun" and they all jump in!

It makes me laugh even thought it's completely disruptive. Besides Saint Pat's we have loved doing science experiments. You know in the book orders where they have the dollar books sometimes? I bought 3 different ones that are simple science experiments: one is "just add salt", "in a bottle" , and "simple color experiments". My kids LOVE this. The hands on part of watching how they themselves can change things! We have a science lab teacher, but she doesn't really do experiments with them, she mostly lectures and yells at them to talk in English.

One of the experiments we did was to pour a bunch of milk in a pie plate and and then add food die and watch as the light colors disappear and the dark ones "eat up the light" with the help of dishsoap and of antibacterial hand soap. After colors we made coffee filter butterflies that turned out super cute. I wish I had taken a picture!

As always the prize box is a favorite in our classroom. Kids get to chose from this if they have a whole week on green (behavior chart), if they fill up their sticker chart (positive reinforcements), if they bring their folder back on 5 Mondays and that's all! My kids have been truly motivated by this and love the things they find in the box! Thanks to all of you who have sent me things! The glow braclets, bouncy balls, notepads, race cars, have all been a huge hit!