Creation Booklets

Happy Tuesday! We have finally gotten around to finishing our Creation booklets from my TPT store and I wanted to share them with all of you. These projects took us about a week and a half to make with us focusing on a different day of Creation each day. Here are a few of the pages once they are completed:

 

This is the front cover.

 Our page for light and darkness with the tissue paper squares.

 

Our cotton ball clouds with our page copied on blue paper.

 

We were going to use stencils to trace in a sun, moon, and stars before painting but I had to leave for a meeting and leave another teacher in charge and didn't want to put her through all that so I made a copy with a sun, moon, and stars already there for them to paint in.

 This is one of my favorite pages!! I love how the blue cellophane makes their fish look like they are under the water!

 

And our last page, the "grand finale" for the parents, is a picture of their child resting to represent how God rested on the 7th day. When they are all finished (our last two pages still have to be laminated) we bind them together and make a book out of them.

I did not upload every single page because that would be too many pictures, but if you want to check it out a little more you can head to my TPT store. In the packet are directions for how to make the page each day.

I keep forgetting to take pictures of our apple crafts and worksheets but will hopefully remember tomorrow. We will have a cute new apple bulletin board tomorrow too so I will try to post pics of that. I hope you're all having a great week!!

Happy Easter!

This whole week (Monday-Wednesday) we celebrated Easter before we left for our Easter Break (woohoo!). We made Easter Egg "Stained Glass" art projects to hang up in our windows. These are similar to our "Stained Glass" crosses we made during Catholic Schools Week. It is hard to tell from the picture, but the template was made from a deep purple cardstock which we then put contact paper on one side, let the kiddies put cut up pieces of tissue paper on them to decorate, and then covered the other side with contact paper again. I wish there hadn't been a strange glare that makes everything look so dark, but they ended up turning out very cute!

Then we had our Easter Egg hunt. The children in my class all have numbers they are assigned to which helped to make filing their papers, changing centers, etc easier. Prior to the hunt, I labeled all of the eggs with each child's number. This made the hunt a little more challenging. Instead of just running around grabbing every egg in sight, they had to go find the eggs that had their numbers on them. This also helped me make sure everyone had the same number of eggs.

Two of the boys checking their numbers :)

One of my boys checking the numbers.

Then came the highlight (for me!)- our Easter Cross lollipops. Each student got to make their own cross lollipop. I swear, they were more excited about this than the Easter Egg hunt because it was something they've never done before. They were super easy to make too! The kids picked out 5 Jolly Ranchers, put them in a cross formation on the shiny side of aluminum foil, and we baked them in the oven on 325 degrees for 6 minutes. When they were done, I pushed the sticks into the melted Jolly Ranchers and gave them a little twist. Once they cooled down, we put them in sandwich baggies, and tied them with cute ribbon. 

 

 I cannot take credit for this wonderful idea, it came from www.catholicicing.com.

Dental Health Month

Ok well I finally got around to posting our Dental Health pictures! One of the many activities we did was an idea I saw on the blog "The First Grade Parade". We read the story "What Does the Tooth Fairy Do With All Those Teeth" and created little tooth fairies to go along with our writing prompt. They turned out so cute!!

 "I think he turns them into golden teeth for people" I LOVE that this one was a male tooth fairy- too cute!

"I think that she turns your teeth into dust"

 This one is a little blurry but it says "I think she finds out what kind of teeth they are"

I had cut out the major parts of this craft for them and then let them decorate their own faces and make their own hair. I loved how creative some of them were!

Catholic Schools Week

This week is Catholic Schools Week! Woohoo! For those who don't know, Catholic Schools Week is an entire week of school dedicated to celebrating attending a Catholic School. We have many fun activities planned for this week and I can't wait to post them!

One of the fun activities we did was a door decorating contest. On our door, the students made stained glass window crosses out of tissue paper, construction paper, and contact paper. They also colored in the CSW symbol for this year and we made them into a class quilt. Sorry for the blurry picture!

Here is a close up of one of our crosses. My wonderful assistant cut out the hearts for them to put in the middle and then they placed the little tissue paper squares all around to make it look like one of the stained glass windows we see when we go to mass!

Here are our crosses hung up on our windows after the door decorating contest was over. They look SOOO much prettier on a sunny day so I will have to take another picture when it is sunny. The kids LOVED making these so we are making heart shaped ones for Valentine's Day. I can't wait!!