Broadhead's Busy Bunch: 2013

Friday, April 26, 2013

Mystery Skype

My kids had a very special visitor by Skype on Thursday. Landon, a classmate, that has been out of school since October, finally got to spend some time with us via Skype. My students were beyond thrilled to see their friend.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Orange Out

Monday, April 22, 2013

Animal Research Project

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Extreme Bathroom Makeover

Our school is in the second year of the implementation of the 7 Habits of Happy Kids and the Leader in Me. The first year was spent teaching the Habits and understanding the habits ourselves. Recently, we began improving the environment. When you school was built in the early 1950s, it has some ver institutionalized areas. Namely, the UGLY green tile bathrooms. We divided up in teams and each team was given the task to beautify their bathroom. My group was given the girl's restroom on the 2nd grade hall. As a mom to two boys, I was excited to be able to work with "girly" colors. I work with some very creative girls. What should have seemed like a daunting 2 day task, became fun and we were motivated to make it look beautiful for our students. Our inspiration came from the colors on the cover of Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Places You'll Go. We painted tile, added mirrors, quotes, painted doors, and added curtains. I wish we had taken some before pictures. I love how it turned out and I think our students do, too. It makes me laugh to catch them primping in front of the mirror.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Win-Win

This month our school focus is on Habit 4 from The Leader in Me and the 7 Habits of happy Kids. Normally, I try to relate each habit to a historical figure. This month after we read the story "Lily Plants a Garden" from the 7 Habits of Happy Kids, we brainstormed activities that we could turn in to a win-win situation. I think they did a great job. I had just introduced Skitch and Videolicious. We combined the two apps to create a video.
Enjoy!

Monday, January 14, 2013

Goals and Resolutions

As we begin the new year, I had my students revisit and revise their personal and academic goals. My door has a quote from the late Zig Ziglar. It says, "What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." Each student wrote their goal, wore a party hat and blew a party horn as I took their picture. It made an adorable door with a visual reminder of their goals. I was very emotional as I added the pictures to my door because I knew one of my little lovelies was missing. One of my sweet second graders was diagnosed with Leukemia in October and he has not been able to return to school yet. I sent a note home and asked his mom to send me a picture for our updated door. This is what I received.

I think his goal says it ALL. Get Well Soon Landon!!!! We miss you everyday.

New Blog

I've mentioned before that I have written a weekly technology newsletter for all of the elementary teachers in my school system for the last four years. I've struggled with where to house the newsletters. I've tried dropbox and live binder. Both of these are great services but they just didn't fit the need for what I needed this time. I finally broke down and created a new blog that will host the information in the newsletter so that they can be referenced on an as need basis. I hope you can benefit from this, too.
Elementary Friday Five

Have a great week!
Kim

Thursday, January 3, 2013

New Year, New Attitude!

One of my New Year's Resolutions is to be a more faithful blogger. I want to share more of what goes on in my classroom, even it is just a random smile!

Today was the first day back and my sleepy heads needed something fun to add some pep in their step. We will begin a space unit next week. I want to have them write from the perspective of an alien next week, so why not become aliens in Photo Booth to get ready! My kiddos make me smile!!

Broadhead's Busy Bunch