March 6, 2024

This is one of my favorite communication activities to do with the older kiddos. I think if you just look at the pictures, you’ll know the activity. If you don’t, the kiddos sit back to back while one describes to the other how to draw (without explicitly telling them, or giving them any hints) the picture. Some of these made me laugh to the point of tears. Can you guess which drawings go with with picture? This is not all of them, just some.

March 5, 2024

While in Santa Fe, we discovered a little shop called Doodlet’s - apparently it’s a community staple - this is where I finally bought myself a glasses chain, isn’t it adorable? Anyway, when I was doing roll call with my first graders, it kept getting tangled in my hair because I kept taking them on and off…because I need to see the paper, but then, I also need to see the kiddo… they were laughing. I said something along the lines of, “I’m still getting used to getting old.” Then my friend Oliver piped up and said, “You’ve been old for like 19 years!” That means I was 29 when I was first considered old. I also need bifocals. #dailyelementarymusings #secondsemester #itsagoodyear #focusonthepositive

March 4, 2024

Today, while helping first graders clean up their puppet messes, a little girl with beautiful, black, shiny, healthy, long hair past her bum said to me, “You look much better with your hair down than up.” Then she flipped her hair at me and walked away. #dailyelementarymusings #secondsemester #itsagoodyear #focusonthepositive

March 1, 2024

Y’all have seen the finished paper puppets, here they are in the beginning stages. The third graders at this school have been begging me to make these puppets since the fifth and sixth graders made them. So, I designed a second/third grade paper puppet unit. Day 1: Make Puppets It did take the entire class time because, small hands take more time. My favorite was all the comments about how it hurts their hands to scrunch the paper up WITHOUT rolling it. Yep! Sometimes Art hurts. #dailyelementarymusings #secondsemester #itsagoodyear #focusonthepositive

February 29, 2024

Nursery Rhymes Time!!! You know I freaking love nursery rhymes. I took these pictures while they were ‘rehearsing’ in their groups. These are third graders and they were the best of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th graders…which is weird, it’s usually the fifth graders… #dailyelementarymusings #secondsemester #itsagoodyear #focusonthepositive

February 28, 2024

At the end of a day full of shit, at least we have puppets! Sock puppets are Kindergarteners and First Graders. Paper puppets are Third Graders. Little hands make wonky puppets😂. #dailyelementarymusings #secondsemester #itsagoodyear #focusonthepositive

February 27, 2024

These Kindergartners made their puppets today! Considering the fact that EVERYTHING has gone ‘not as planned’ for this unit…These puppets are freaking incredible! AND!!! They were made in about 20 minutes… These kindergarteners are gonna rule the world one day. #dailyelementarymusings #secondsemester #itsagoodyear #focusonthepositive