SPRING FEVER !

So I've got to apologize... I had quite a bit of Spring Fever myself! Halle has been blogging away, but my main focus for the past month was HAWAII! Between my epic return to the land of Aloha, and Terra Nova testing, I have been a few steps beyond busy. I mean, Halle is only planning a wedding, she isnt busy at all.(kidding)Lately, several new tasks have been thrown at us, and overwhelming is not even the word to describe it. Anyway... I wanted to share my Spring bulletin board with you. The weather has been unusually nice in Jersey this year. It hasvbeen so nice that I often catch the kids,and myself, staring out into the sunshine. I was trying to think of a new cute idea and I saw something about spring fever. I tweaked this idea for my second graders, and we had a lot of fun with it. I knew that my little cuties wouldn't know what the meaning of "Spring Fever" was. One of my boys told me it was when spring came and you got really, really hot. I told him he was close, but then I went into detail and explained what spring fever really meant. As soon as I explained, they picked it up immediately. I told them the way I cure my Spring Fever is by taking Kaimana for a walk, running outside, and going to my favorite local ice cream/water ice spot, Sundaes. Once I started this off, the ball really got rolling. We had chart paper filled with all of our "Spring Fever" cures. We had anything from picnics in the park to planting flowers. After this, I let them write their top 2 or 3 cures. They did a sloppy copy first, then I gave them their good copy. After this I gave them a pre-cut construction paper circle, and either brown, black, or yellow construction paper for their hair. I let them make their face and gave them a thermometer that I found on Microsoft Word and edited. Get it, spring FEVER! They created themselves and cut a small hole for the thermometer in their mouth. Then they glued their writing and face to a piece of bright construction paper and.. TA DA! The completed project came out pretty cute if I do say so myself. I'll be putting up a few closer pictures of some individuals tomorrow! Have a great night and stay tuned for some pictures from Hawaii :)

Night
-Jenna