Felt Faces

      This has nothing to do with 5th grade. Though I was a preschool teacher many years ago.
    My niece has two young boys who come to visit.  They like to play with my son and daughter's old Fisher Price toys.  I saw an idea for felt board faces on Pinterest a while ago and decided to make a set for the boys when they come to visit.  My future grandchildren will hopefully enjoy it, too. This is what I came up with.  It is very good for color and facial feature recognition as well as fine motor skills.  It could be used in a preschool or speech class as well.

      I used Tacky glue to adhere the cream colored felt to a cardboard.

 I made green, blue, and brown eyes to represent all the kids in our extended family.

 And of course brown, blonde, and auburn hair.

     A snowman is always a fun addition.  Now that I think about it, maybe I should make bunny ears and a little nose, too.

    My children went to Michigan and Michigan State so I had to include their favorite headgear.

It all fits into a gallon ziplock bag for storage. 

Today's Catholic Teacher Magazine

     Today's Catholic Teacher Magazine  has a "Great Ideas" page.  Each month they ask for suggestions for ideas that we use in our class that we can share with our colleagues in Catholic education.  So I sent in my Apostle's Creed puzzle that I use in class to help my students learn this prayer. In the January - February 2015  issue my idea was published. 
     
    St. Michael Catholic School has been my home for 24 years.  Everyone here, the students, staff,  parents, and community are so wonderful to work with.  I am teaching the  children of my former students.  I am truly blessed to have been given this wonderful teaching experience by Sister Carolyn.  She inspired me with encouraging notes in my plan book each week to keep me going.   

Thanks again Sister Carolyn!  God bless!

No School today! YEAH!

   Thursday, January 8, 2015 is a no school day for my students at St. Michael School.  We did not get a big dump of snow, but the temperature and wind chill closed school.
                      408 schools were closed in the Detroit area.

   You can see the present temperature is 0 degrees.

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