“OW” “OU” That hurt!

Isn’t it fun to make your administration dress up for you and your kiddos to beef up the impact of their learning?!  I decided to pawn off my teaching this week on my principal and assistant principal. They were perfect /ou/ /ow/ teachers.

My principal got the easy part.  He just had to wear an OU (University of Oklahoma) jersey covered in Band-Aids that said “ou.” 

The scenario I gave him was:

You’ll come in kinda out of breath maybe or limpy/sore and tell them you just had to come down to first grade because you learned something very important last night and when you were telling it to Miss Schmidt she thought her first graders should really know about it. You were walking on the OU campus when you saw some OU football players scrimmaging/playing a game of football on the grass. You thought I just worked out (insert flexing :) I can play football with those guys, so you asked if you could join in. Man were you good for awhile too you were tackling those football players and sacking them left and right and you know what those OU football players said every time you sacked them “OU”! (insert pointing to the shirt) The thing is they were pretty good at sacking you too, so in the morning you realized that you were pretty sore and every time you moved you said “OU” too. You realized oh my gosh most of the time when you come across the letters “ou” together they say /ou/. You just had to tell them this important reminder to grow their brains! Just remember OU football players say OU when they get tackled! (insert passing out Band-Aids that say “ou”.)

My Assistant Principal didn’t get off as easy…she was a clumsy clown with “ow” Band-Aids all over her. (She loved it though and wore it most of the morning ;)

The scenario I gave her was:

I’m going to tell the kids that I went to my niece’s birthday party last weekend and I saw a friend of mine there who was the entertainment! She was the clown! Being a clown has always been one of her lifelong dreams. She learned a very important lesson being a clown though and decided Miss Schmidt’s first graders really needed to learn this lesson to grow their brains.

You’ll come in and tell the kiddos:

Oh my Gosh! I just had to come down and tell what I learned being a clown! First things first, I just love being a clown because of the wonderful costumes! They are so brightly colored and so much fun, plus they just make people smile! On the other hand though big shoes are hard to walk in and glasses are hard to see out of and well your just kinda clumsy as a clown. Plus, I love doing tricks like juggling but sometimes they don’t always happen like they’re supposed to and I find myself saying “ow” a lot. Then it hit me! I’m a clumsy clown that says /ow/ (insert pointing to bandaids on your costume) A lot of times when you see the letters ow together they say /ow/. I thought this was a super important reading and spelling tip to teach Miss Schmidt’s first graders to help you grow your brains and become better readers. I’ll leave you with a reminder that clumsy clowns say /ow/ (insert passing out band- Aids with ow on them)

The clown was inspired by a unit called Clowning Around (“Ow” and “Ou”) I got off of TPT from the…

 

I love the activities and the inspiration!  We’re doing some more of the activities from the unit this coming week.  We just had the visitors on Friday, did a word sort of “ow” and “ou” words whole group, and then they completed a little book of “ow” and “ou” words. That’s one set of dipthongs down…now what to do for oi/oy? Pretty soon I’ll have to teach that “ow” can say the long o sound too and “ou” can say ou like in soup…darn pesky English language !

Reading=Chick-Fil-A

I sorta went on a blogging hiatus after only a few short posts!  How pathetic : )! What does it say that it bugs me that my background/title doesn’t look the way I want yet, so I avoid blogging?!  Ridiculous!  I need to get some learning on, on one of my upcoming breaks.

I don’t have much to share (cuz I feel like I need pics and it’s getting late, so I’ll share again tomorrow) except that Eat Chick-Fil-A with your Teacher Night totally rocked !  13 kiddos came out!  Let me tell you some kiddos who have been a little lackluster with their reading logs certainly filled it out this month to get Chick-Fil-A!  They had so fun playing in the play area with their friends that milkshakes were an afterthought.  You’d think they never saw each other!  The parents now want an adult night : ) – I secretly love that they are getting to know one another!  That’s kind of been my dream is to get these parents to bond and know one another, so maybe they will help each other out, share ideas and questions, and just not feel alone, but attached to the people and the school (I have a theory that that’s how you suck them in to volunteering and participating more : ).  I know not all parents feel alone, but their kid is going to be with some of those same kids for the next 5 years in the same elementary school. I think I ‘d like to know who my child was around all the time. Plus, I love anything where I get the community involved.  Once I have the idea I run with it…I just need the idea first and I need to get up the gumption to just ask.  I’m learning it never hurts to ask (businesses)…all they can say is no, but they could say yes!

Anyway, Chick-Fil-A is awesome (all I did was fill out their donation request form) so sweet and free milkshakes (adult smalls! those are big milkshakes for little bodies)!