Cowboys and Cowgirls

We have been doing a lot of things important like making our birthday train pictures:

and being lunch helpers in the cafeteria:

and learning about the Pendleton Round-Up and our community that we live in. On Friday we get to do art and I whipped out the paints and we got busy making some cowboys and cowgirls. First we drew them in pencil and then we traced our pencil lines with a black marker. Then came the fun part - the painting!

By today, the paint was all dry and we could begin to cut our cowpeople out and glue them onto our background piece that we also painted on Friday.

Once they were cut out we glued them onto our background piece and viola! They were done!
Look at these cowgirls and cowboys!

They turned out so good that we decided to hang them in the hallway for everyone to enjoy.

Last Friday we also drew our first "golden ticket" winners. Students can earn golden tickets throughout the day from all teachers and workers at the school as they display good behavior. They then turn them into a basket in the classroom and we draw for prizes on Fridays. Our first winners were SH, RT and JH.

Our first Star of the Week brought his poster back today to share with us and it looked awesome! All of the students wanted to touch it and read through it so once AL was done sharing, we hung it up so that everyone could enjoy it some more. Good job AL (and family!)!

Today we also did some journal writing about rodeos and what we know about them. The students have to do the writing first and then they may draw a picture. Here are a few examples:

After everyone had a chance to write and draw, I chose 5 names out of a cup and those people got to come up and share what they had done. We put their journals underneath the document camera and project it up onto the board so that everyone can see easily. RT went first.

AC went next and everyone pays careful attention to the author.

I hope everyone had a great 3-day weekend and I am so excited to see everyone's baby pictures tomorrow! I will let you know what we are doing with them after I get some good pictures of our activity!

Stay tuned for more happenings in Room 12!