You have to laugh when…

You have to laugh when you hear your co-worker calling your name and “Yelling I need your help in here.”  You walk down the hall to find her with her butt up in the air reaching between her desk and the wall.  In a soft whisper you here her say “I’m stuck.”  Once I stopped laughing which took me a few minutes.  She yells, “I’m being serious I’m stuck to a mouse trap, it’s stuck to my dog tag (name badg on a lanyard) which is stuck to the desk.”  She thought I was laughing before once she said that I laughed so hard I could not breath.  Once I started laughing she started laughing and we had a hard time composing our selves to get her unstuck.  We are talking those industrial sticky mouse traps have some serious stick to them.  It took everything I had to get her unstuck off that desk, and then what?  It stuck to me, both hands.  Nothing like a good laugh to get the day going.

Take the time to laugh with one another because, what soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul.

Roll On Painting

Don’t toss those used up roll on deodorant bottles; reuse them as roll on paint bottles.

Here is what I did.  I ran the empty bottles through the dish washer twice to make sure that there was no deodorant left in the bottles.

I did not fill the bottle up with paint, I placed shallow bowls with a little bit of paint in them.  The children simple rolled the bottle through the paint dish and then onto their paper.

Lap Books to Big Books Fall Collection

Lap Book to Big Book Fall Collection

Emergent Readers

Emergent readers are designed to help beginning readers practice reading.  These books give children the opportunity to practice their reading skills.  These books are designed for large group readings and guided reading groups.

Books Have

·         Strong Picture Support

·         Carefully Controlled Text

·         Repetitive Text

Fall Collection Includes

o   Apples on Top

o   Green Pumpkin, Green Pumpkin

o   Scarecrow, Scarecrow

o   Who will help the Little Red Hen?

o   The Color of Leaves

You can find this collection on Teachers Pay Teachers

Lap Book to Big Book Fall Collection

Rolling Out The Paper

It is amazing at how children will want to come and draw and write if you just simple roll out a large sheet of paper. 

This child would not draw a person for us at small group activity time, but lay out a large sheet of paper and he sat down for about 20 minutes and drew people after people.