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Showing posts with label Ocean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ocean. Show all posts

Sunday, May 26, 2013

We Went TOTALLY Overboard for our Ocean Themed Open House!

Our 2 week study on ocean coincided perfectly with Open House, so why not do it up OCEAN SIZED, right?!?!  It is like I couldn't stop myself ... I kept wanting to add more and more and MORE!  I know I needed to stop, but I was totally out of control.  It looked like we vomited ocean everywhere in the hallway {with a slice of dinosaurs on the side}... My poor co-teacher buddy, Mrs. Johnson, probably had a rough 2 weeks putting up with me.  I have to give her major kudos, though, because she really rolled with it like a pro surfer on the Big Kahuna!

This is what was featured in the classroom.  It made a huge SPLASH!  To enter the classroom, families had to go through the waterfall which was made of long butcher paper cut into strips.{I forgot to get pictures of that, but you can kind of see it through the window...}
Here is a peek at what was inside the classroom.  We had the overhead lights off and the warm glow of lamps on.  We also had Hawaiian/Tiki music playing in the background. Mrs. Johnson said that she will never forget one parent's face when she entered the classroom... it was wide-eyed and mouth dropped... now that's the reaction you want! :D
Here is our hallway display:
 
Are these compilations too hard to see?  I thought that it might be too much to add them one by one.


Thursday, April 25, 2013

Wanna go whale watching?

Isn't this little guy "WHALEY" cute?!  My {personal} "Smart Tarts" discovered that we can go whale watching anytime and anywhere when we have this little guy around!  I am excited for my First Gators to create this for our ocean unit {and Open House!} 

  I found this idea on: krokotak.com