Group Work

Bust out these wrist bands (I purchased these ones from Smiggle, and the hanger from Howard's Storage) when doing small group work in the classroom.

It helps prevent kids swapping and changing during group work.

Fonts

 

These are some of my FAVOURITE fonts, free for everyone to use!

1001 Free Fonts has lots of free fonts for downloading onto your computer, as does DaFont.

Just download them, install into your computer's font file and you'll have automatic access to them next time you're using Word.

Poster Display

We love making poster displays from cardboard. Just cut them out in the desired shape and create a collage using pictures from the Internet or magazines!

Hand-Held Fans

 

Year 1 made these hand-held Japanese fans for our cultural unit of work.

 

We started off with a blank piece of paper and drew Japanese scenes in lead pencil.

Some ideas include:

• Mount Fuji
• Map of Japan
• Japanese flag
• Zen garden
• Lanterns
• Pandas
• Japanese landscape
• Festivals

Students then painted the scenes using water-colour paints and folded into a fan.

Birthday Door Display

 

We used this door display to show our visitors whose birthday it was that day. 

The names were affixed using sticky-back velcro under the rainbow.

Literacy: Mr Quangle Wangle's Hat

Mr Quangle Wangle's Hat 

by Edward Lear

Check out these cute collages by Kindy! 

After reading 'Mr Quangle Wangle's Hat', Kindergarten made these collages out of cardboard hats. 

We used ribbon, scrap booking paper, sparkles, glitter, stickers and other decorations to beautify our hats.

Adjectives Activity

Wordle (as previously blogged about here), is a web tool which creates beautiful word clouds.
I have used Wordle twice with my students; the first as an adjectives activity where they had to think of words that described themselves, and the second as a Warm Fuzzy activity, where each child was assigned a partner they had to describe and create a word cloud for. These were printed off and laminated for classroom display.