In kindergarten we have been learning about the season of fall. So, we made scarecrows! It was super fun, except that I didn't predict the mess it would create. We took two pieces of butcher paper together and stapled it for heads. Next, we stuffed them with newspaper (the vocabulary word of the day? Stuffed!!) We then decorated the heads, made hats, and added shredded paper for hair. I think the kids loved it, but when all was said and done, there were puddles of glue on the tables, a wastebasket overflowing with newspaper, but mostly, shredded paper everywhere!! So, it kind of went like this, "All right, boys and girls, how many of you can count to 50?... Good! Go pick up that many pieces of trash!" Well, the kindergartners worked really hard, but you can only shove so many pieces of trash into your hand before you have even more leaking out the other side. :) I'm making really good friends with the custodians!
Actually, one of the custodians there in the evening is Ron. Ron and I are friends. I keep reminding him that we're friends in case he forgets. Sometimes about ten minutes before we are supposed to be out of the school, he gets on the intercom and says, "Teachers, we are beginning to lock up. The building will be closing in ten minutes." I don't know why he gets on the intercom. I'm the only teacher there to hear the message... and he has to walk down the hall to lock my door in a minute anyway. One of these days, I'm just waiting for him to get on and say, "Miss Parrish- go home!" I think if I wasn't there every night, he'd miss me. I'm sure of it.
Here's a picture of some of our scarecrows. The paper to the left lists all of the directions needed to make a scarecrow as excellent as ours!
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