Skeleton Relay and Halloween Stations

October 21 - October 25

Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten
I read Teacher from the Black Lagoon to the younger classes and talked about the gym not being a scary place.
Stations:
Haunted house - built a haunted house using cupstackers.
Graveyard - Students threw foam noodles - bones, into a coffin, large tub.
Ghost Droppings - Students picked up green packing peanuts (ghost droppings) with a spoon and carried them to plastic pumpkins.
Pumpkin Toss - Students thew fleece balls through the mouth of the wooden Jack-O-Lantern
Skeleton - I had a simpler skeleton from a bone book for younger students to put together.
Spider ride- Younger students rode on trike with spiders in a Halloween bucket to half court and threw the spider onto a plate.  They then rode back to the wall, touched it and came back to half court to do it again.
Eyeballs and Racquets - We drew eyeballs on white balloons for students to practice striking.
Brains and Skulls- Students practiced throwing the fleece ball (brain) in the air and catching it with a milk jug the bottom had been cut out of (skull.)
Balance Beam - Walk across balance beam holding the pumpkin and try not to fall off

5th and 6th grade students helped their pre-k buddies with Halloween stations.

1st grade - 6th grade worked on the skeleton relay.  Students enjoyed working in teams and putting together the poly skeletons.  We used a diagram to help at first, but later in the week 4th, 5th and 6th grade students had to put it together without the diagram.  Students learned the location of the arm bones - humerus, radius and ulna as well as leg bones - femur, tibia and fibula.

Third grade students posing with seniors
after the dance.

Third grade practiced and performed the Skeleton Square Dance at Wildcat Wake-up as well as the Morrison Senior Citizen Center.

Third grade students performing
the star during the Skeleton Square Dance.

Red Ribbon Week Stations

October 28 - November 1

To coordinate with the Elementary Counselor, Mrs. Horne's drug free activities we had Red Ribbon Week stations in the gym.  Students in grade pre-kindergarten -6th grade participated in these stations.

Say Boo to Drugs!
Students used a tennis ball covered with a white linen tea towel to be  the ghost.  They aimed for the hula hoop and small hoops, trying to throw the ghost through them.  Each team saw how many points they could earn. We all remembered to say BOO DRUGS!

Say Boo to Drugs!

Don't let drugs make a web in your life!
Students had a buddy to play tic-tac-toe using two different colors of spiders.  They had to aim carefully!

Two second grade students playing Tic-Tac-Toe Spiders.

Don't go around in circles in your life!  Make good decisions and stay away from drugs!
Students practiced their hula hooping skills to music.

Students showing off their hula hooping skills.

Shoot a ball - not drugs!
Older students enjoyed playing hot shot.  Younger students used light weight balls to shoot at the basket.

Second grade students shooting balls, not drugs.

Jump Away from Drugs!
Students worked on their short jump roping skills.




Don't let drugs be an obstacle in your life!
Older students had to do a relay race on scooters weaving between cones, going under an obstacle, touching the wall and weaving back.  Younger students weaved down and came straight back.  Several learned a new vocabulary word - obstacle!

Don't let drugs be an obstacle in your life!

Ships and Sailors, School Carnival and Organwise Guest Speaker

October 14 -16

First - Fourth Grade Students played Ships and Sailors.  They run to the east wall if I say, "Sailors," and run to the west wall if I say, "Ships."  Other directions are given and students must stop, find a buddy or buddies and perform the action.

                                                             

Captain's Coming

                                   
                                                                   

Titanic 

                                                               

Man Overboard

                                                           

Bunk Beds

                                                 

Birdie on a Perch

                                                               

Backpack

On October 15th we had our school carnival with lots of fun activities!  Mr. Shade had some of his art students assist with face painting and help with our shaving cream booth.  Even Mr. Shade took his turn being hit with sponges full of shaving cream!

Two high school art students
painting faces.

 Art Teacher, Mr. Shade, being
a good sport!

Elementary student throwing a sponge
filled with shaving cream at Mr. Shade.

Mr. Morgan and an elementary student playing a game of tic-tac-toe

We were all glad to have Mr. Morgan, our OSU student teacher come back and visit and help at the carnival!

Pre-Kindergarten and First Grade students learned about Organwise from Mrs. Miner, our Noble County Extension Educator.  This program teaches students that our organs want to be happy in side of us.  To be happy we need to take care of them by eating right, exercising, getting enough sleep and not choosing things that are bad for our body.  We learned that Hardy Heart likes us to exercise and Sid and Kid Kidney like us to drink lots of water.  Students will continue to learn more about the Organwise guys throughout the school year.

Mrs. Miner talking to first grade students about
their organs, using an Organwise puppet.

Fire Safety and Soccer

September 30 - October 11

Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten learned to stop, drop and roll if their clothes caught on fire.

They also learned the song, "I'm a little firefighter" to the tune "I'm a Little Teapot."

I'm a little firefighter, strong and brave.
Here is my ax; I'm here to save.
When I here the phone ring;  (ring, ring) here me shout,
Fire! Fire! Everybody out!

We also played stop, drop and roll tag. When tagged students stop, drop and roll and then get back up and run again.   Pictured below are kindergarten students playing fire and smoke tag.  If someone with a red fleece ball touches a student, the student is to stop, drop and roll to put the fire out and sit on the ground and wait for a fireman (person in yellow jersey) to touch and free him/her.  If a student is touched by a blue fleece ball he/she must crawl out of the smoke until a fireman touches and frees him/her.

1st - 6th grade also played stop, drop and roll tag.  The older grades enjoyed ambulance tag.  For this game everyone is on a scooter except the four ambulance drivers who are in the jump circle.  On go, 2-4 students with red jerseys sitting on the scooters pursue others on scooters and try to catch their house on fire.  If touched the person puts both hands over his head and yells, "911 my house is on fire."  The ambulance drivers come and push the person to the hospital, jump circle, where the person does five push ups and then leaves the hospital.

Students worked on a soccer unit.  Their vocabulary words were instep, trap, goal, offense and defense, dominant and non-dominant foot.

Students played Steal the Treasure where all but 4-7 students have balls.  Students must move the ball with their feet and protect their treasure.  The pirates, those without balls, are trying to steal the balls.  When the whistle blows you are a winner if you have a "treasure."

Students practiced drills of moving the soccer ball around cones, making goals, passing the soccer ball to a partner and being a goalie.

Fourth, fifth and sixth enjoyed playing on teams of 5 where 3 were offense and 2 defense.  The defense stayed and protected the goal while the three offensive members traveled to other goals trying to score.  If they scored they brought a cone back to their goal.  In the end we counted to see which team scored the most goals.

September 23 - 26

We had lots of fun with the letter "Bb"

Pre-Kindergarten played with balls, bubbles, balloons and walked on the balance beam this week.

Kindergarten practiced starting themselves while swinging, and walking on the balance beam both forward and backwards. Students also enjoyed playing with scoops and wheelbarrows in the gravel.

First grade worked on position words using basketballs as well as dribbling with a basketball. 

Second grade enjoyed dribbling the basketballs around cones and learning correct shooting form on a lowered goal.

Third grade practiced dribbling the basketballs around cones. They also practiced proper shooting technique while playing a shooting game.

Fourth, fifth and sixth grades practiced dribbling and shooting drills. These grades culminated with playing 2 on 3. They really enjoy this!