Music Video Week

After carnival week we had music week.   We dressed according to the genre of music we had selected for the day and played appropriate music during free time.  We had Rock-n-Roll day, Country day, '70's/Hippie day, and '80's day (my favorite!).  It was so much fun!

We also made a music video that week.  We divided up into groups of 5-6 and took turns lip-singing Footloose as I recorded them.  I just used the video feature on my point-and-shoot to record and Windows Movie Maker to piece the video clips together.  I added the music and some effects and burned it to a disk for the class to enjoy on the last day of the week.  It turned out so great!  I can't share on here of course, but this may be my favorite of all the activities we have planned to do this summer!

Playing catch up! Carnival Week

I am so behind! The last few weeks have been CRAZY!  So I am going to try to play catch up in the next few weeks.  I don't want to catch you up all in one post because it would take days to read it! The last week I wrote about was Spirit Week.  The week after that was Carnival Week. 

We popped balloons for the activities every day.  One day we tie-dyed t shirts to wear the next week. We used a Tye-dye kit from Wal-mart. The process was back breaking! It took us all morning to get everyone's shirts dyed and all night leaned over the bathtub to get them rinsed.  Then I had to find a place to hang 15 dye-dripping shirts up to dry.  They ended up on my front porch (they definitely added something to our curb-appeal!). I will not rule out dying shirts again, but I will never use this method with more than a couple of kids at a time again.  It was chaotic.  Next time, I will spring for the spray dye.  The results were pretty awesome though.

    At the end of the week we put together a small carnival in our gym.  We played ring toss, bean bag toss, clothespin drop, and other simple games.  We also put up a bounce house.  The kids LOVED it! The teachers wished it would have held more weight so we could join in too!