Teaching Tuesday: 100th Day of School Overview

 In no particular order, I finally pulled some photos off my phone for 100th Day.  I posted some of the details in previous post, but my approach this year was to create a 'museum' in my room  where students got to explore what life was like 100 years ago.

 I had a station where I found youtube videos of how breakfast, lunch, and dinner has changed over the last 100 years the students could scan and watch.  Each student also got to eat an Oreo (born MORE than 100 years ago) and I printed out what advertisements looked like for some of the foods we still have today (Jello, Corn Flakes etc).

 I had a station for politics and current happenings and found some videos about the President (Woodrow Wilson), women's right to vote (passed this year), and a virtual tour of the Grand Canyon (officially made a National Park in 1919.

 I had another station for fashion where students could watch the fashion and hair styles for women and men change over 100 years.

 I created a nearpod they could tour to look at what school was like 100 years ago.
There was also a station for daily life that included this like how to play jacks and marbles, and had some toys and inventions from 100 years ago (what the telephone looked like, cars, planes etc).
 And I had a station where Charley Chaplin scenes were playing and students could scan a QR to find out about Silent Films, famous stars, and listen to music from this year.

Teachers signed up and brought there students at their allotted times.  I borrowed some 6th graders to be docents for the tour.

 I also placed some baskets in the hallway with cups and yarn for students to measure and build things, along with posters to write things like-100 books we've read, 100 words we can spell etc.

 Each student was given a bag with a bookmark, pencil, classroom ideas, and a Blowpop along with a Science experiment (100 licks to the center-there weren't enough Tootsie Pops at the store, so we had to go with Blow Pops)

 Perhaps most importantly, we made Jello/Oreo Pudding Cups for the teachers to enjoy while their students browsed because....snacks are important no matter what the year!
I've already got (different) plans for next year.....Roaring 20's style, but first....I have the other 80 some odd days to survive until summer!

Teaching Tip: 100th Day Museum

I started sharing about our 100th day last week, but this week, I'm adding another addition.  I'm going to set up a 'museum' in our school with inventions from 1919, food, politics, and news stories.  Another big thing that happened in 1919 was the fact that this is the year Congress endorsed the 19th Amendment.  I made a little flyer with a QR code that leads to a short/informative video about how this came about.  Here is the link to the free printable. 
I also used this website:
https://www.thoughtco.com/womens-suffrage-activists-3530534
to print off info about 10 women.  I'm going to set up a ballot box with their names on the ballots, and I'm going to make a sash like the ones they would have worn during protest. 

Teaching Tuesday: 100th Day of School

Here's a confession, that nobody that knows me will be surprised to hear.....I'm working on 100th Day activities for February.  That's right, it's November....and I've been thinking about what I want to do since last spring.  There are pockets of grades that do a really cute job celebrating 100th day at my school, but I was trying to think of something that would be fun to provide for the whole school to do (amidst their usual celebrations), one idea I came up with was creating a museum of things from 100 years ago.  I've put out a call for some different inventions and items, and I have some food I'm planning on purchasing, but one fun thing about 1919 was the popularity of silent film, specifically, Charlie Chaplin.  I'm planning on running a youtube video and providing this little flyer about ol' CC.  I'm making a bunch of these and trying to create some interactive stations at my museum.  Here is a free printable of this particular station. 

Pencil Cup Squared

 I'm headed to Good Morning Texas in a little over a week and bringing a bunch of pencil themed crafts.  Hello, school year.  I saw these adorable jars and had to give it a go because I love Mason Jars...and pencils.

These are so simple-I got a jar and poured some yellow paint inside, then turned  it upside down and swirled it around so the sides were all covered.  I poured the excess back into the paint container and then let it dry overnight.  I also painted the rim pink and then once both dried I took some polyurethane paint over both so they wouldn't scratch and peel off.  I added a silver ribbon and some black stickers and I'm ready to go.  I'll be making a second jar at GMT as the demo, and then these are going into my class for my sharp/unsharp pencil jars.

Gold Clipboard

 I made this little clipboard for my classroom.  I'm a fan of gold.

 I found these clipboards at Hobby Lobby.  They have a bunch of cute designs.  They were 7.99, but I used a coupon.

I used my cricut to cut out my initials and apply them to the clipboard.  So....one new addition for the end of the year/beginning of next year.  I chose to apply it to the side with the clip facing me b/c I'm going to hang it on the wall, otherwise I'd add it to the back so it was more visible when I was using it because cute school supplies is necessary for a successful school year.

Book Page Pencils

 Today I'm headed to Good Morning, Texas to do some book themed crafts.  This is one of three projects.  I'll post the video later here.  Recently, we were cleaning out some books in our school library and tossing out some books that were missing their covers etc from too much lovin'....this is a good thing for a reading specialist.

 I cut down a page from the trash bound Charlotte's Web to the size of a pencil.

 I covered the pencil with mod podge and then rolled the paper around it.

 I smoothed it down, cut the excess off and added a little more mod podge to close it off.

It doesn't get much easier than this, and it would be really cute with old dictionary pages as well!

Fish Bowl Treat

I made this last fall for one of my teaching friends.  I got some Swedish Fish....gold fish would work as well, and I filled a fish bowl I grabbed at the dollar tree.  Think of all the things you could be 'o 'fish' ially' thanking someone for.  Regardless...cute and easy.

Chalkboard Information Boards

I had some old clipboards from the beginning of my teaching career with some ugly stains I wanted to revamp.
I saw this idea on sointovintage and so I pulled out some chalkboard paint to give them a makeover.

These would be cute boards in a center at school to give the students directions, or in my case I'm using these to sell a few things I've been making-which is a rarity for me, but I decided to give it a go.  It gives me the opportunity to adjust the price as well.  Fun and super easy.

Garden: Ladybug Girl Gift

 I love giving book themed gifts to little beings.  My teaching partner introduced me to this cute little story, Ladybug Girl.  I then stumbled across these red gardening tools at Target in the dollar spot (the 3 dollar spot for the little metal pail), and my pal Terry was making these ladybug garden picks last year.  It was too perfect.  I bought the book and collected the gardening supplies to pass along in hopes of helping some of my favorite little ones collect their own ladybugs in their gardens.  A few years ago when I went to visit Blythe she was carefully watching the daddy and Blythe cactus she and her dad had bought on their last trip to the 99 cent store.  I'm pretty sure she'll appreciate adding these goodies to her porch hobby.

Books: 3 Little Pigs Party

Another workshop theme  last year at work during workshops, as we discussed where we wanted students to go/where they were at and what 'foundation' to build our teaching on was The Three Little Pigs.  

We had straws...

 Sticks (pretzel sticks).

Pigs in a Blanket (kind of morbid...I guess that makes us the wolves?).  

And then all our papers were on red acme brick with the info for the meeting for building a solid foundation.  Get it?  Huh?  Do ya?  Whatever...it makes planning workshops so much more fun.  You could also serve rice crispie treat squares as bricks....but it didn't really go with the 'theme' b/c we needed something to tie it all together.  

Books: If You Give a Pig a Pancake

 Part of my job includes presenting and/or facilitating meetings within the district, or within our school.  My teammate and I always come up with a theme.  We realize if you feed people they are a little less upset about the extra hours.  Last year we decided each meeting's food would align with a children's book.  These things are important :cough-to nobody but me-cough:.  BUT...wouldn't this be fun on a bigger scale as a teacher appreciate gift, or just for a bunch of kids that love the If you Give A....A..... series.  We decided to go with If you give a pig a pancake (it was a morning meeting) and I brought up a skillet.  We made pancakes..

 Then put out some different toppings (fruit, butter, walnuts, peanut butter, whipped cream, syrup etc).

 All the papers, of course, given out at the meeting had some icons that follow the book (downloaded online) along with the meeting notes.  I really do this more for my own sanity.  Themes make everything way more fun.  ...or at least a little less miserable.

Duck Dynasty

Every party needs a prop.  Here is a free pattern to cut out beards.  I just cut them out of different colored construction paper, and then glued them to a stick.
...and banners

 I did an accordian fold...

 ...folded it down the middle...

 Then glued two together...

...added my letters, and punched holes to string these together.
There are so many directions we could have gone with this, but my teaching partner and I decided this would be the theme of one of our data meetings at work.   Since we were feeding a bunch of people for a party at work we put together a camo colored trailmix.

 Served up in camo cups (found those at Walmart).  And frog gummies...