You may not know me . . . so I should give you a quick (ha!) background. I work at a great school with amazing teachers. We grew 20 something points on our AYP and API and CBS and HGTV and MTV and all of that this year. Hooray! Let's keep doing what we're doing, right? . . . Right? . . . Hello? . . . Is this thing on?
NOPE. Let's change everything. Let's go with this district-wide-mandated-
It's been a bit of a rough start. (Rough meaning I may have thrown a hissy fit here or there, or cried on this occasion or that one) My minutes are accounted for. Really. And the Curriculum Cops wait outside my door just dying to handcuff me and take me to Curriculum Prison where "fun in school" goes to die.
And then my wonderful friend, Heather, showed me her Scarecrows. So cute. So artsy. So fun. UH OH. Here come the cops. I take it all back!!
Or . . . wait a minute. Let's call these little critters GEOMETRY SCARECROWS. Yes. YES! This is MATH. Yep. Scoot on out of here, Curriculum Coppers.
There are several ways to accomplish this.
1. Make patterns.
2. Kids freehand it. (Wow - you are BRAVE)
3. Copy the patterns onto construction paper using a machine. (It's okay. I am not lazy. I was just pressed for time.)
4. Use scrapbook paper. (I wanted to do that but see number 3.)
5. Use a glyph. (Thought about it, but again, please reference number 3.)
Here's how the little guy (or girl) turns out:
And lastly, here is a pic of my bulletin board. I was going to ask if you thought it looked cute . . . but instead, I will ask:
Can you count all the squares? How about the triangles? If you added the rectangles and the circles together, how many would you have?
On a side note, this bulletin board was the absolute cutest thing in my head. I even drew it on paper during Bible Study the other night. (it was more of a doodle while I was listening very intently to the discussion) When I got the fence posts (or stakes) up, it was too cute. The little grass around the bottom made my day. And then it came time to get those scarecrows up. And they just TOOK OVER. No crows will ever come near that field, let me tell ya! I still have 4 more that I have to squeeze in somewhere because 4 of my boys were absent. I would have added leaves and pumpkins and a sun but I am waiting on those 4 other little guys. SO! Lesson learned. I have two other huge bulletin boards that I could have done this on . . . but I already had ideas for those. So I used my smallest board. I am truly bright. A forward thinker. Oh well. The kids LOVED it and that's all that matters. Most of the time, anyway. :)
By the way, I think the Curriculum Cops moved over to the second grade building.
Thanks for joining me! And a special thank you to Jennifer, Heather, and Daphne for inviting me over here. I had so much fun!
These scarecrows are "spook"tacular, Kristin! Thank you so much for being our guest today! Please go pay a visit to The Teeny Tiny Teacher...you won't be disappointed! :)
