Minute To Win It Games, Auction, Video/Awards

We spent the week playing some fun minute to win it inspired games! The kids really enjoyed playing these and looked forward to learning new ones every day. The first one was called "Flip Your Lid" and they had to flip the cup onto the different sized jars. 

 The next game was called, "There She Blows" and they had to use a straw to blow a cup across the table. For this game, two students raced until everyone got a turn. They had a fun time cheering everyone on until everyone got their cup to the other side. 

 "A Bit Dicey" was a lot easier for the kids than I thought it would be! They put a popsicle stick in their mouth and balanced three dice on top of each other. They enjoyed this game as well!

In the game, "Scrambled Breakfast" they had to put a puzzle together to make a picture of a cereal box. 

The last game, "Face The Cookie" was definitely the kids favorite!! They thought it was hilarious to watch me model how to get the Oreo into their mouths by moving their face muscles and using their tongue to help them! This was really tricky for them! No one was able to get the cookie into their mouth this way and many fell on the floor. We did get to enjoy a fresh cookie though after everyone had a turn!

 We had our end of the year auction and we had a lot of things set up around the room that the students could choose to take home. We auctioned off our color mosaics, our playground map, our number cards, Charlotte's Web sequencing illustrations, documentation panels, alphabet cards, and numbers from our number line

 Here are pictures of what some of the kids chose from our auction!

 We had a great turnout for our end of the year video and awards! Thank you to everyone who was able to come! The kids were all excited to have you all there supporting us and I was very grateful as well. I hope you all enjoyed your DVD's. The kids wanted to watch it over and over again at school so I hope they were able to do so at home!

We also made a circle and reflected on our year together. I asked questions and each student had a turn to think about it and give their answer. Some of the questions we asked were: "What was your favorite thing we did this year? What was the hardest thing you did this year? What was the nicest thing someone did for you?".

 At the end of the week we had a reward of watching Frozen! The kids have talked about it so much this year and I actually hadn't seen it yet. We voted on a couple different choices and of course this one won! 

Thanks for stopping by! Looking forward to a great last two days of school! 

Have a great week!

Mrs. Brittany Garrabrant

Popsicles, Puzzles & Field Day

Emma's birthday was Thursday and with the weather being so hot, it was a nice day to enjoy some popsicles! The kids really enjoyed their fruit popsicle!

We also watched the third and final Stuart Little movie this week. I was interested to see how the kids would like it since it was an animated movie unlike the first two. They seemed to really enjoy it and it was a nice way to relax in the hot weather we had this week!

We also worked on putting together our puzzles for our end of the year gifts. They wrote their  names, 2014 and kindergarten on their puzzles. We then added their thumb prints. This will be a great keepsake for you and your child so hopefully they will always remember their time with us!

 On Friday, we had field day. It was a beautiful day! We all posed together normally and then did a silly picture!

The hula hoop station at field day. The children had to walk around their hula hoop while the music was playing. The volunteers and Mr. Doyle went around and took away some of the hula hoops while they were doing this. If their hoop was taken away, they had to join another student and walk around their hoop with them. When the music stopped, they all had to be inside of the hula hoop. We did many rounds of this until there were a lot of students sharing one hula hoop.

 Pom pom races- they had to use popsicle sticks to hit the pom pom along the track. After everyone got one turn we then tried to use our mouth to blow the pom pom along the track to get to the end.

 Dance party- we did the Cupid Shuffle and a dance tunnel where two children at a time got to show off their dance moves as they danced along the "tunnel" of their classmates.

 We enjoyed popcorn, water and each other's company outside in the beautiful weather!

Bean bag toss- The students took turns with a partner to try and get bean bags in different containers.

 Relay races- We raced keeping a tennis ball under their chin, bear crawling, and just running. 

 Balloon tennis- They used racquets to hit a balloon back and forth.

We had a great week and we have lots of fun things planned for this week as well! I can't believe we only have 7 days of school left!! Our awards and end of the year video is this coming Wednesday, June 4th at 1:30pm. We will be meeting at our classroom and walking down to the Hackett building together. We have worked hard to put together this event and we are looking forward to seeing you all there! Have a great week!

Mrs. Brittany Garrabrant