Music Ed Bulletin Boards

 Meet the NOTEFRIENDS. A magical way to learn the length of the notes in a fun way. Watch my Ed channel, YouTube.com/AvahHam and see how I use the stuffed notes.

 Basic musical symbols on the board. Makes a simple, colorful, and educational board. You can put pictures of the holidays or seasons in place of the pumpkins.

 Flying notes. When you walk into the music room notes hanging make an interesting "vibe"!!!

Teaching the recorders are one of my fav things to do in music class. Dynamic,melody,rhythm,harmony,beat, and form are ALL used.

We The People

Love this bulletin board teaching about American symbols and the US Constitution.

GOD Bless America!!

They crumpled the paper to give it that old'ish' look.

Hope you are having a wonderful November. Enjoy Veterans Day.

Halloween for Pre-K and Kinder

I saw these in a hallway bulletin board. The teacher came out into the hallway and told me that it was easy for the little ones.  Great hand/eye coordination skills using scissors. Some of the parts were cut in advance.

Here are the close up pictures of each craft.

I LOVE Halloween. Send a link to some of your fav Halloween crafts for little ones in the comments below!
HAPPY HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!

Paper Towel & Paper Plate Art!!

 I went into a 2nd grade classroom and couldn't believe it when the teacher told me that the hanging banners were made from paper towels!!! They folded the towels and dipped them in food coloring! Beautiful, tie dye style art.

 Glyph...everything has a meaning.Eyes-what subject you like
                                                        Hair-birthdays
                                                        Mouth- brothers , sisters or none
                                                        Nose-where you live
                                                        Hat-Letter you name begins with
                                                       

 Using the children's name as art. The teacher helped with the letters in the name
  and the student are using line and color in many ways.

Wonderful, colorful, creative!!

Thanks for coming by.

Back to school!

 

School has started and thousands of children are back to reading,writing, and arithmetic!

             This is a cute bulletin board to show shapes. Great for Kinder.
                                      Shapes are found everywhere!
 

        Every student in the class will make one of these and they are holding hands!
                                                           Making friends.

                                                         The reading center/library.

                                       Gingerbread man step- 1

step 2-  Decorate and put faces on

          Finished product. Now we can read the stories that go with this cute craft.

This year has started with many changes for teachers.
They are all still dedicated to the children
no matter what is going on in our world, society, and their personal lives.

 God Bless the people that teach.
Thanks for coming by.
Avah

The Busy Classroom!

 I enjoy decorating my room with tons of art work, classwork, and enrichment bulletin boards.
We made the EARTH out of balloons, paper, flour and water. Then we painted them. I had a parent help.

      Paper chains help for keeping track of our hundred days.
I also use paper plate crafts. The one you see above, is the SUN!!

      Students collect fake money for good behavior, good deeds, great papers, listening, and through many other ways. Then they can go to the class store and "buy" something. This helps 1st graders with using coins and money. Parents donated what students buy. They get excited to buy something before recess every day!

Bulletin boards can focus on the best papers of math, spelling or writing works. I change them out to the most recent work weekly. At the bottom of the board are tissue flowers.

 We take a field trip to the tide pools. Students made crabs out of paper plates, star fish with cheerios on them and put them on our board that had sand glued on it.  They had a blast making this board. I have shells on the book shelf, they can hear the ocean with the conch shell . After our field trip we put pictures of the students with their parent or guardian who came with them!

 We studied homes of people and animals then each student made their own home. We put them on the white board and drew a street in front of the houses.

This Board had measurements on it. Above, watercolor paintings.


Yes...this room is VERY busy, I cover every inch.
School starts early this year, August 14.
Hope you have a restful summer and enjoy each day as a gift !
I count my blessings and am thankful for so much.

DAY #5 Healthy Living- Blogging 5 Days/ 5 Ways : Household cleaners

                             

DAY #5

Healthy Living without toxic

Household cleaners

 The toxic effects of breathing bleach and formaldehyde from the cleaning products lingering in the air can cause allergies and upper respiratory problems. We need to eliminate toxins in our home environments that can make you sick.

                                                                

DIY Cleaning products

You can make our own cleaning supplies by just using a few              

simple ingredients. You may already have some of these in your cupboard or pantry like- 

                                       Lemons- they have acid in them and can fight bacteria,good for brass and copper, a natural bleach

Baking Soda

White Vinegar

Borax

                                        Essential Oils (from health food stores)

Castle Soap

Spray Bottle

Using these are healthy for you , not to mention less

expensive than buying costly cleaning products.

Homemade solutions

    Window: A bit Vinegar on a towel,wipe clean.

               Toilets: Put into the toilet,baking soda, vinegar and a drop peppermint essential oils. Let sit for awhile,brush and flush.

Kitchen counters: Castle soap,essential oils. 

1 part castle soap/ 6 parts water/a drop of oils 

            Air Freshener: Put lemon juice and baking soda in a small dish, set it out.           

       Floors: Vinegar,water, essential oils, mix together

            Carpets: HOT water with baking soda. I rented a Carpet cleaner from Home Depot for $20 for 4 hours. 

I was amazed how clean my carpets are. 

 Here are two sites that give more cleaning recipes.

http://www.theherbsplace.com/Essential_Oil_Recipes_For_Cleaning_And_Deodorizing_sp_177.html

 http://eartheasy.com/live_nontoxic_solutions.htm

                         

                                                Natural Cleaners

If you don't have the time to make your own you can buy some natural products from the store.

Castle Soap

     Seventh Generation

Method

J.R. Watkins

Melaleuca

     Dr. Bronners Magic Soap

Green Forest

                Comet (if you must get one cleaner)

You can buy these at a health food store,Target, Wal Mart,

Home Depot, Markets and some Pharmacy stores.

Thanks for coming by...I learned SO much from researching information for you, I hope you did too!