Each year our school does an auction fund raiser. Each class makes a collaborative art project and an auction basket. My 8th grader’s class worked together to create a wooden Christmas ornaments for the school fundraising auction this year.
Collaborative Christmas Ornaments
I had each child a wooden circle with a whole near the top. Then they decorated their hand with paint markers in a Christmas design. After they decorated them, we put twine through the whole and added a wooden bead or bow.
Dinner Menu Gift Cards/ Auction Basket
We found a chalk board that said “Weekly Menu” on it. Then strung twine back and froth across the front to hang gift cards from. We used tiny wooden clothes pins to hang the cards.
Well, that went by fast! He’s graduating high school; seems like he just started Kindergarten! He is still by brilliant boy, graduating a year early and starting his college classes this fall.
I am so impressed with Josiah, he loves music and tries teaches himself guitar and piano. He also studies music and tries likes to make up some compositions himself. He plays on the worship team at church on Sundays and Wednesdays, and also played for chapel day at his high school for the past few years.
Along with music, Josiah is also a genius with science and computers. He is excited to start his computer science classes this fall. He will also be minoring in music.
Some of Josiah’s other interests are studying Lord of the Rings, playing strategic board games (it’s always a challenge for me to beat him), and spending time outside with his cousins.
I am so proud of him and try to support him in all that he does.
We are learning shapes this month. We spent a couple days on each shape, basically however long she needed to remember the new shape. Storm is 2 years old, but you could use most of these activities for 3 and 4 year old children as well.
If you are wearing red, Shake your head, If you are wearing red, Shake your head, If you are wearing red, Then please shake your head. If you are wearing red, shake your head.
Blue, touch your shoe Black, pat your back Green, bow like a queen Yellow, Shake like Jell-O Brown, Turn around Pink, give us a wink
Sort colored pom-pom balls into the corresponding colored bowls or in this case I used paint lids.
High-Five Colors: Make hand prints out of felt and have the child give a high five to the color you call out.
Bear Puzzle- I had this wooden bear puzzle that I found at a famer’s market years ago. It has all the colors that we have learned and T is starting to get better at puzzles.
Sort Colored scoops of ice cream onto the correct cones.
Color Wheel Clothespins- Laminate a color wheel and paint one color onto each clothes pin. Let the child attach the colored clothespins to the corresponding color on the color wheel. I have also created one of these Color Spinning Wheels and included it in my Teachers Pay Teachers Colors Worksheets Preschool (Learn to spell 11 Colors) Color Mixing Activities.
Mouse in the Color House- Hide the mouse behind the house and let the child find it.
Three gray mice, Three gray mice, Oh, how nice, Oh, how nice. They ran around the house at night. They found some cheese and had a bite. The farmer’s wife turned on the light. As three gray mice, Ran from sight! –Jean Warren
Color Recognition: Show the child 3 cars or toys (be sure one is gray). Have the child point to the gray car.
Three brown bears, three brown bears. See all their beds, see all their chairs. The mommy cooked in a big brown pot. The daddy’s porridge was much too hot. The baby bear always cried a lot. Three brown bears. –Judith E. McNitt
Color Recognition: Show the child 3 cars or toys (be sure one is brown). Have the child point to the brown car.
If you are wearing red, Shake your head, If you are wearing red, Shake your head, If you are wearing red, Then please shake your head. If you are wearing red, shake your head.
Blue, touch your shoe Green, bow like a queen Yellow, Shake like Jell-O
Discuss: What are the colors of the rainbow? Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple
