The Kissing Hand

The Kissing Hand

 

 

This week was a busy week.  We listened to The Kissing Hand.  The story is about Chester Raccoon and he leaves his mother to start to school.  We made our handprints on a sheet that I made for the students.  It was a great week.  The students are doing a great job.

 We read Silly Sally and Mrs. Wishy Washy.  I have some character posters that we use for the characters in Mrs. Wishy Washy and we enjoyed acting for our classroom audience.  On Friday, I brought my love cookies for the children.  They seemed to really enjoy the cookies.  I forgot to take my phone to snack and take pictures of the children during snack time.  I will add some pictures of their handprints soon.

 

 

 

Pencil Can Project

I have recycled my coffee creamer containers as pencil cans for several years but I decided to decorate the containers to give them a nice touch instead of just writing broken pencils or sharp pencils on the outside of the container. I recycle the pencils so the student places the broken pencil inside the container and I bring the broken pencils home to sharpen.

I strip off the cover and wash the container in the dishwasher.

 The flip top lid is easy for my kindergartners to push the pencil in and not spill. I have used the Clorox wipe containers but the lid does not work as well for my students.

This is the first one that I covered with scrapbooking paper that I had on hand.  I put it on the table to dry as it has an umbrella rod to position it to air dry.  I just used an equal part of water and Elmer's glue to adhere the paper to the container.

I tied a green ribbon and inserted some pencils just to get a feel for how it would look.  Then I placed the lid on to see how that would look.  I still need to spray with a polyurethane spray but that is locked up in my closet at school and the hall floors are being refinished so the finishing touch will have to wait until another day.   So I had another sheet of scrapbooking paper and I tried it on another coffee creamer container.  I spray painted the red lid black and added a red ribbon.  The curvature of the container makes it a little tricky and I might need to spray the container to match the lid so that the white does not show up.  The red ribbon has a few bubbles in it  but I thought I would see how it looks after the polyurethane spray.   

Here are the two containers ready to be finished with their polyurethane coats.

 I may want to spray paint the next one and then stencil a design on it. 

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Erasing Mistakes on Laminated Name Plates

Do you ever have a short supply of laminated name tag plates and then make a mistake with a permanent marker? Thank goodness they are laminated. I left my Goo Gone at school and I had mistakes on some of the plates left from last year. So I tried Mr. Clean Magic Eraser and it works. Thanks, Mr. Clean. My name plates are finished without wasting the ones left over from "last year's mistakes". Another tip is to be sure that Mr. Clean sponge is not very damp, dry wipe with a clean cloth, and let the name plate air dry before marking on it again. The Sharpie Marker will not mark smoothly if the plate isn't dry.