Glitter!

Today was probably one of my faster-moving days of the year.  I was subbing in a morning kindergarten class and it just seemed like I was barely there for a few minutes before I was taking the kids out front to get picked up!

Here's a smattering of what we did:

I introduced an activity where the kids would draw a picture of their favorite book as well as write the name of it.  The paper they were drawing/writing on already had the words, "My favorite book is ______" on it.  I was going around the room asking kids what book they picked and helping them write the title.  I came to one boy and asked him what book was his favorite.  He proceeded to tell me about his picture ("Its and alien and a person and the alien is attacking.  See his arms?  See the spaceship?  See, that's the alien and that's the person.  The alien is attacking.  See his arms there?  That's his spaceship." - you get the picture).  I asked him what book this was from.  He then told me about his picture again.  I told him I liked his picture, and asked again what book it was from.  He told me about his picture - again.  I interrupted him and asked, "I know, but what book is this from?  What book did you pick as your favorite?  What is it that you wrote here?".  He then told me.....about his picture - AGAIN!  I finally gave up and wrote on his paper that the book was called "Aliens".  (I wrote the correct spelling on their paper after they attempted to write something and told me about it - that way the teacher would know what it was because some were nowhere close to right or they were illegible.)

Later in the day we did a project for the 100th day - which is tomorrow for these kiddos.  They made glasses that looked like the number 100 - the 0s being the holes.  They colored and then I helped them add glitter glue accents to the glasses.  This was very exciting for them but did result in some very large globs of glitter glue that may not be dry by tomorrow!  I was like a broken record saying, "Squeeze gently!  Don't turn the nozzle anymore, they're already open.  Gently, gently!  Don't squeeze so hard, please."  Oh well, they had fun and the glasses look much prettier after the kids "made them POP!" as one girl put it. :)