Welcome to the After Party! Each week after the weekly blog featuring activities in the elementary department is posted, our sensory cart is parked in the media center where it is available for check out by the rest of the school.

 

 

 

 

We began the month celebrating Black History month by profiling our Local African American Leaders.

 

 

 

 

Local school board member Joy Bowen likes to go fishing with her family.

The students went fishing in our little pond.

 

 

 

 

Walt McNeil is our sheriff.

Stars, like the one on his badge, were stamped into gold kinetic sand.

Doris Maloy is our county tax collector.

Since she deals with numbers all day, we put numbers and dollar sign pasta in her box.

 

 

 

 

The students got to pretend to be doctors like Dr. Friall who is the chief medical officer at one of our hospitals.

They had fun with this!

 

 

 

 

 

Casanova Nurse is a meteorologist for a local TV station.

Weather related items filled this box, including a fan, rain stick, slinky rainbow, and thunder tube.

 

 

 

 

 

Coach Leonard Hamilton is the FSU basketball coach.

Fun pom poms in FSU colors filled his box.

 

 

 

 

Dean Anthony Jones oversees the math and science department at TCC.

We added bath crackles to turn oobleck into a science experiment.

 

 

 

 

 

For this unit, we chose Bath and Body Works cucumber melon scent.

The scent reminded us of foods that Chef Shac, a Chopped champion, might prepare.

 

 

 

 

For Presidents Day, we learned some fun facts about past Presidents.

President Kennedy’s family came from Ireland.

Bright green play dough was cut into shamrocks—a symbol of Ireland.

President Obama is from Hawaii—-his colorful box was filled with flowers and leis.

 

 

 

President Eisenhower enjoyed making cornmeal pancakes.

President Reagan was a move actor and Governor of California before becoming President.

 

 

 

 

President Washington loved ice cream so we added some jello to shaving cream to get an ice cream like texture!

President John Quincy Adams kept a pet alligator!

 

 

 

 

 

 

For a fun unit we did Jack and the Beanstalk.

There was a beanstalk umbrella with a giant peaking down.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gold easter eggs, a plush goose, and a bunch of gold beads made for a very eye catching box.

The goose that lays the golden eggs 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were BIG plush balls and SMALL spiked balls to represent concepts of size.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A variety of cows roamed around green rice “grass”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colorful “magic” beans were fun to run hands through.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The students really enjoyed our addition of leaves and an accordion tube beanstalk to the shaving cream.

Bath and Body Works rain kissed leaves was the perfect scent for the week.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The watering can turned out to be to a big hit!

The students LOVED it!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We finished the month by learning about Greece.

There was another umbrella—-

——this time with zodiac symbols.

 

 

 

 

 

The ancient Greeks invented the Olympic games.

Colorful chenille stems were twisted into rings….

 or other fun shapes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Small wooden blocks were used to make temples in sand.

We included a rake so the students could look for more ancient relics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue and white beads represented the colors of the Greek flag.

Fun to sort, wave, or wear!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also used those colors in our rice.

A map of Greece was at the bottom of the box.

 

 

 

 

 

Shaving cream clouds were swirled around Mt. Olympus.

It is the highest mountain in Greece.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In our water there were variety of fish, a boat, and a dolphin, which is a symbol of Greece!

Junipers grow in Greece, so we used that as our scent.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This box was filled with symbols of Greece.

We also recorded some authentic Greek music on the voice output device.

 

 

 

 

Join us next time for more fun and learning—–Group by Group!