Curious Firsties: Mo Willems

Mar 1, 2014

I wish I could do this whole post in speech bubbles. :) It would be so much fun! We had the BEST.DAY.EVER. today! Today was our *DOODLE PARTY*! WE have been working feverishly for weeks on our Mo Willems inspired stories. Our firsties did an UH-MAZING job and they were so proud of themselves. (We were proud of all of them too!) I LOVED watching them shine today. It was a group effort preparing for this day, so THANKS to ALL who helped! We couldn't have pulled this off without our FANTASTIC team, student aide, aide to the first grade, janitor, and support of our Principal for all our crazy ideas. Big thanks to Em for her continued efforts to inspire me to be creative as all heck! She helps me run with the crazy ideas that pop into my head.

Here's a peek at what we did today.

The invite...

The work.....

The Decorations....

Our Cafeteria before....

Our janitor cleaned this guy super fast after lunch so we could get in there to decorate. Thanks!

The Cafeteria after.....

A few doodles...

I have a few more, but they are on my phone and it's getting harder and harder to keep these old eyes open. :)

My partner in crime....

We also had Pigeon, duckling, Gerald and Piggie hanging from the ceiling. Totally forgot to take pics of those guys.

This is what I walk into everyday. One of the best reasons for having my daughter goes to school with me. :) She's been LOVING all the Piggie and Elephant books in my room . :) Don't get me wrong, she loves the Pigeon too!

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Here's to a weekend filled with Doodles!

Feb 13, 2014

Our firsties are in *LOVE*! Not with us, or each other, not with snow, maybe with hot dogs... :)
They are actually in L.O.V.E. with Mo Willems! We started reading the Pigeon books two weeks ago and we had them HOOK, LINE, and SINKER! We started off with all four (well five since I have one board book) Pigeon books. If you haven't read these guys to your firsties, add them to your list! They are so funny and engaging. Especially since he writes them so the reader will interact with the text, GENIUS! :) In honor of our last Pigeon book we read,

, I made these sweet little treats for our firsties.

These little guys were on sale at Joann's! I was able to make about 38 or so pigeon heads from one bag.

This time I melted these candy melts according to the instructions. I know, I know... I've watched my mom melt these things since I was a little girl and I thought I could do it in my sleep. hehehe.. NOPE They put directions on there for a reason. :)

I used the little scooper to help me dole out the "pigeon head". I only used about half of what was in the scooper because I then pressed a white-ish (they actually had fun-fetti or something in them) candy melt in the center.

I used this guy for the pupil. :) I didn't need nearly as much black. I think I used 1/4 the bag and still had a lot left over.

The finished product. :) My girls said, "He needs a beak!" Not sure what I would have done for that. Any ideas????? I'm thinking about having these at our next writing celebration!

We've also done a following directions activity with our firsties on making a pigeon. It went over well with about half of our groups. At the last second I remembered that I had these speech and thinking bubbles that I bought at Target in the spring I think. Maybe it was the fall. I can't remember. Anyhoo.... We decided to have all the groups write something in the bubbles. This was from one of our lowest guys! He did it on his own!

"Wait a second...."