Color Survey

I gave the kids a color survey to see how different colors make them feel, or what they associate with different colors. These were the interesting results. :)

Red = hot, love, and warning

Pink = happy, love, and spring

Orange = hot and fall

Yellow = happy, spring, and summer

Green = money, nature, and spring

Blue = cold and calm

Purple = good and calm

Brown = nature and fall

Black = bad and hate

Gray = sad and winter

White = cold and white

Other interesting findings on the survey were that no one thought that these colors were associated to these things. (does that make sense? :-)

Red is not a calm color.

Pink is not bad or cold, or associated with hate.

Yellow is not associated with bad.

Green doesn't make them feel sad, bad, or cold, and it is not a warning color.

Blue is not associated with the word hot.

When it come to seasons, these are the colors they think of.

Spring = pink, yellow, green

Summer = yellow

Fall = orange, brown

Winter = winter, white

Personal Flags

This week, we read a story in our reading book about the American flag. To go along with the story, we learned about flags and made our own flag. We first looked at the 12 main types of flags. Some of the names of these flags are the tricolor vertical flag, bicolor horizontal flag, quartered flag, and bordered flag. Then we discussed colors, and how certain colors symbolize certain things or make you feel a certain way. Bright colors like yellow and orange can symbolize happiness. Blue and green are calming colors. Earth and nature can be symbolized by brown and green. We put our knowledge of flags and symbolism to work by looking at various flags in books and discussing what their different parts mean. Then we were ready to create our own flag about ourselves.

For this project, the students had to choose a type of flag, use at least 3 colors that would symbolize something about themselves, and include 1 symbol on their flag. Then they wrote about their flag and what each part symbolized. I was amazed at what a wonderful job all the kids did on the flag project!

Earth Day Shirts

Yesterday we worked on coloring special Earth Day shirts that we are going to wear tomorrow for Earth Day. They were also watching the movie Fern Gully while they were coloring. That's why some of the kids have that glazed over "I'm watching TV" look on their face. (You know... we ALL do it! :-)

Goop

To wrap up our chapter on the properties of matter in science, I thought that it would be fun to have the kids make goop. Goop is a weird substance that, when done right, is both a solid and a liquid. It is really cool. My class made it last year, and it went pretty well. The recipe calls for both white Elmer's glue and starch. Unfortunately, this year things didn't go as well as last year. All we did was end up making a big sticky goopy gluey mess!

Here are some pictures of our "experiment". In the end, they had fun.

And on a Friday before a holiday, that's what counts! :)

It was so messy and runny, that I had to have the kids stick their hands in their cup and they had to be walked, with me holding the cup, to the bathroom to wash their hands.

Chinese Jump Rope

What goes around, comes back around.

When I was in elementary school, I remember using a Chinese jump rope. Last week when Chloe brought in her Chinese jump rope, it really brought back memories. Here are some pictures of the kids jumping. The girls even coxed some boys to join in!

These kids can jump!

Cookie Islands

Before Spring Break we made cookie islands. Since we were finishing up our study of landforms, maps and map keys, we used our knowledge for this activity. I gave them a cookie and a variety of candy to make their creations. They had to have at least 4 landforms. Once they were finished making their island, they had to name it and make a map and map key of it. Everyone had a delicious time, and all of the islands and maps turned out AWESOME!

Here are two examples of the finished product.

Chloe and Matthew...the candy is to go on the island, not your face! ;)

Here are all our islands!

Mrs. Crull, Tyler

Angelina, Cameron

Megan, Gabby

Jade, Matthew K.

Claire, Sydney

Matthew T., Allie

Evan, Emma

Ryan, Chloe

Corie, Noah

I hope I matched up every one's cookie island with their name. :)

Crazy Sock Day

This week is National Library Week. To celebrate this, the librarians have come up with special "dress-up" days. Today was CRAZY SOCK day!

Here are the kids with and without crazy socks!

Pictures of the Class

Awhile back, Sharon True came in and took some pictures of our class. We really needed a new picture of the class, since we hadn't had a new picture taken since the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL! Thank you Sharon!

The Children's Museum Field Trip

A couple of weeks ago we went to the Children's Museum. Here are some pictures from the field trip. I tried to get at least one picture of everyone. I had a group of my own, so there are a lot of those crazy critters! I think we all had a great time!