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 started the year with a unit titled We Had A Great Summer. The different boxes highlighted places staff vacationed.

Students made Scottish castles in green Floam. A flag banner represented the British Virgin Islands.

 

 

 

 

 

A spinning rocket was perfect for a NASA box.

There were dolphins to find in our mini Discovery Cove.

 

 

 

 

We made our very own Icelandic black sand beach using kinetic sand.

 

 

 

They searched for the letter B for Brazil in colorful rice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next, we went with our school wide theme—-Safari!

 

 

 

 

We had a cool jungle umbrella.

Lots of animals to find.

 

 

 

 

 

The students had a blast with the fun props.

 

They totally rocked the safari hat!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They counted butterflies in colorful pasta….

 

 

 

There were 5 to find.

 

 

 

There were crocodiles and fun measuring cups in the water!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yellow tinted shaving cream made a perfect lion’s mane.

Orange and black rice hid tigers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Hispanic Heritage Month with learned about Puerto Rico.

We learned that gold is found in the rivers and stream.

The students loved exploring the gold in this box.

 

 

 

 

Stars like the one found on the flag were pressed into Moonsand.

The letters P and R were found in red, white, and blue rice—-the colors of the Puerto Rican flag.

 

 

 

 

They made sand castles in our sandy beach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oobleck became “coconut milk” and

the students went fishing in our mini ocean.

 

 

 

 

Dora the Explorer came next!

There were lots of characters to find in this box.

We recorded the Dora theme song on a voice output device.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The students had fun with chennille stems in rainbow colors like Tico’s vest.

They had fun with them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

We filled discovery bottles with beads and characters from the show.

The bottles were pulled out of a purple backpack–just like the one Dora wears!

 

 

 

 

Mr. Potato head facial features were pushed into purple Bubber—to make “BackPack”.

The students moved Dora figures UNDER and OVER in the rice box.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A water wheel made a fun waterfall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fluffy shaving cream clouds swirled around the world that Dora explores.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We finished the month with a unit all about college football—–Go Team Go!!!

This box had a variety of football related objects….. including a small helmet and mascot items.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They used t-shirt and football shaped cookie cutters to cut shapes out of red play dough.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course, we had cheerleader shaker pom poms.

These were a hit!

 

 

 

 

A green rice football field had numbers and football players to find.

There was also a picture to find at the bottom of the box.

 

 

 

Small pom poms in favorite team colors were sorted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Football shapes could be swirled around shaving cream with more mascots.

and hands were rinsed in water containing the letter F and still more team mascots!

 

 

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