VIRTUAL TOURS/FIELD TRIPS February 18, 2015

I have been racking my brain trying to figure out ways to show my students more of the world because we live in a rural area and even though there are some things we can do, I want them to see that there really is a bigger world out there! So here is what I have found, enjoy and please leave comments if you have any ideas or suggestions.
Smithsonian National Museum of National History

Statue of Liberty

White House

Mount Vernon

Lincoln Memorial

NASA Space Shuttle

http://passporttoknowledge.com/rainforest/main.html  Rainforest Virtual Tour

http://www.sites.ext.vt.edu/virtualfarm/main.html 4-H Virtual tour

PolarHusky.com

http://www.nationwide.com/cps/nw-your-zoo-view.htm This is a virtual tour of the Columbus Zoo.

Next on my to-do list is to create QR codes to go with this and a fun packet for the students to use.  I will post all of this later!  Stay safe and warm friends!!!

President's Day, Pinterest, and Superpowers!

Today is President's Day and I am enjoying the day trying to get organized on all this social media.  Man oh man is this challenging.  My goal is to finally take the time and grow my Pinterest account.  I have been really checking out tons of great ideas for our Superpower literacy night coming up in March!

On another note, if you follow me on Instagram, check out the beautiful (somewhat) pictures I took of some of the birds in this snowy and frigid weather! Which I think I will use as a writing activity with my firsties. I was able to attempt to get a picture of this giant woodpecker that we are always hearing in our woods.  He has definitely left his mark on a lot of our trees.

Icy roads=Level 3!!!! Well we are stuck at home due to the road conditions!  So while I can't leave and get groceries (fridge is almost bare), I decided to take time to blog.










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Wild about "The WILDS"

It was a short week at our school! We ended with a wonderful presentation from The Wilds (Link is at the bottom). If you live in Ohio and haven't visited, do so next summer! You will see some amazing animals! My first graders wrote a narrative about the presentation and chose an animal to write about. They worked really hard on it and some of my sloppiest writers wrote the neatest that I have seen all year!

 The Sloth

                                                                                                             The Serval (She was the coolest)

                                       The Armadillo

                                                                       The Opossum


Have a great weekend!! I'm off to decorate my house for the holidays!!The WILDS

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End of October Fun/Veteran's Day

Lots of fun things have been going on at our little school. We have already celebrated the 50th day of school, made it through our Halloween parties and our Veteran's Day program.

A brand spanking new blog that is finally going to happen!!

I am so excited to announce that our small elementary will begin the journey of blogging!  We are a K-2 building teaching in a rural setting.  We love to collaborate and area always looking to better our teaching!  I can't wait to upload our pictures and have other teachers share their classrooms with you!