Mrs. Anderson's Show and Tell last Friday

My darling little twin grand daughters, Lyla and Olivia, came to school for a visit.

They were very charming and the students thought the girls were extremely funny.

Of course, they LOVED all of the ducks in the classroom...

who doesn't??

Red, Yellow, and Blue

I LOVE art. 

  I've dabbled in watercolors, acrylics, and oils.

I love coloring with oil pastels and have tried my hand at colored chalk. 

  I even married an artist.

But...all of these art experiences pale in comparison to children's art. 

My heart skips a beat as they discover the most basic and fundamental principle of art.

That is, that all colors are derived from just three colors...

red, yellow, and blue.

Here's Jon working on his color wheel.

To teach this principle, I love to take clay ("plasticine" for all you Canadians) in the primary colors.  Then, we take a small amount of red and a small amount of yellow.  Knead them together and VOILA!  Orange!

The surprise on the students' faces is priceless.

Then we repeat with yellow and blue=green 

then blue and red=purple.

A great activity.

Ethan, Gage, and Katja

working with the clay.

Zack, Melany, and Dallin making some green for their color wheels.

The finished product!

I'm not sure if this is a "color wheel"

or a "colon wheel"!  HA!

Once again, illustrating the power of proper letter formation.

What Time Is It?

It's 5:00 somewhere isn't it???

Oatmeal or Chocolate Chip?

I loved, loved, loved this Math activity.

So did the kids.

Part probability.

Part graphing.

Lots of counting.

Lots of FUN.

Teeny Tiny Tortilla Maker

Lizbeth brought a little wooden tortilla maker. 

It was from Mexico.

I fell in love with it and so did the class.

Lizbeth's mother prepared some tortilla dough and sent it with Lizbeth to school.

We made a little roll of dough and smashed it flat between two wooden blocks.

I had so much fun that I had to make two.

Too bad we didn't have a frying pan and some grated cheese!

Yum!

(Kyare, in pink, carefully hiding her show and tell behind her back.  The element

of surprise is a bonus when it comes to S and T.

She brought a cute little ballerina music box and her dance pictures.)

Toothless Wonder

Silver

As some of you know, I am a champion tooth puller.  I can't help it.  I was born with it.  I've been known to have "magic fingers" and can get a wiggly tooth out with no pain.  I have even had parents call me to see if they could bring their child with a loose tooth to my house on Christmas break to pull a tooth because their child would "only let Mrs. Anderson pull it".  They are very proud moments for me.

Mind you, I would NEVER pull a tooth that I wasn't absolutely certain would come out with a little flick of my finger.  Most of the time I have to tell the wiggly-toothed child to keep wiggling it a bit more.  When a child loses a tooth at school, it is a very special day.  He/she gets a special tooth shaped necklace to keep the treasured tooth safe.  You have never seen anything quite so cute as a child beaming a toothless grin after a freshly harvested tooth.  (Not counting the adorable child at the head of this post of course!)

So, today after lunch, I went into the classroom and Silver was in the room with Zack.  Silver had blood all over his mouth.  Zack insisted that I pull Silver's tooth.  Silver didn't look so sure.  I had him wash his mouth really well, then I gently but quickly popped that tooth right out.  I praised him for being so brave.  Zack said "I'll bet that didn't hurt as much as getting my wart burned off!

Anyway, we got him all taken care of.  A mere one hour later, he came running to me with more blood...another tooth was ready to pop out.  That was a first for me.  We pretty much repeated the same procedure for the second tooth.  As you can see, he is also missing his top two teeth.  So, FOUR teeth are missing on the top.  Two teeth in one day!  

Lucky Toothfairy.  Lucky Lucky Silver.

 

The two tiniest teeth I've ever seen.

Silver with my home-made blood stopper.

Notice he has TWO tooth necklaces.

We Have a Student Teacher!

Her name is Mrs. Debra Spencer.

She is from Washington.

She is a student at Brigham Young University.

She's left-handed.

She loves the children.

She remembers everything that I forget.

And,

most AMAZING thing of all...

She has a three week old baby girl, Josephine, at home!