Surfin' Through Second: Mother's Day

Aloha friends! Welcome to May!! It's that time of year again and we are in the last legs of another busy school year. Our school has been testing and with the new SBAC test here in Hawaii, it has taken tons of time. Luckily 2nd grade is not a testing year for us!!

Last week I had posted about the paper flowers that I was going to attempt to make with my class.

This is my version. I cut 3x12 strips for the stems and the flowers to make it easier on little hands.

All of my kids did fine with rolling each of the flowers up. Once they did that I showed them how to glue the flower in a spiral onto the stem. I started it for many of them and they were able to do the rest on their own.

Then we made our tissue paper decoupage vases. To make it easier I chose 4 colors and cut squares of different shades for each one.

I was worried the blues were going to be a mess because some of the paper I had was bleeding tissue, but they all turned out great!

I am going to have the students add a coat of shiny varnish to finish them off this week.

Ceramcoat Interior Varnish, 8 oz Gloss

Those of you who were on the fence about making the flowers should just jump right in and try it. The kids were really excited about how they turned out. They were actually wanting to use them as magic wands! Here is the original post with the tutorial---> Swirly Paper Flowers

Mahalo for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your weekend!!

Aloha Friday everyone! Can I just say I am so glad it's Friday. This week has been emotionally exhausting and I am in need of some relaxation and quiet time.

I am linking up with Kasey today to share some of the things we have been up to in class lately.

I wanted to make these cute flowers for Mother's Day and the vase so we started this week. Today we got as far as making the stems and rolling the flowers. We used 3x12 strips to make it easier than the original design on the Blog Post from DIY Heaven. Next week we will do a few more flowers and then glue them to the stems.

We just finished our unit of data and graphing. I had the students collect their own data and create a picture graph. They came out really cute!

Our Beach Bucks are in full swing and I often catch early finishers pulling out their money and counting how much they have.

Do you have those Early Finishers that you can never seem to keep up with? I have a handful that are finished within seconds of me passing out assignments, especially during math. The solution was to give them a project to keep them busy but having fun, especially now that the end of the year is quickly approaching. I taught my class how to make paper chains and they are loving it.

Click {HERE} for instructions.

The strips of paper are 1x8 inches. This little gal is trying to see how long she can make this by the end of the year. So far it's taller than me!

Finally we made these adorable Name-Bows from Reagan Tunstall last

week to brighten up the classroom.

I hope you had a lovely week and are enjoying spring weather along with the end of the year just around the corner. Head over to Kasey's blog to check out the other Five For Friday posts.