I'm diabolical. Truly.
I got the brilliant idea to purposely leave the lids off a few markers and gluesticks and let them dry out.
Today, when we were making our No David! puppets, I innocently handed out the dried up gluesticks for the kids to use. They tried and tried, but those noses just kept falling off. A few kids caught on pretty quickly..."Ms. Warner--someone must have left the caps off these gluesticks and now they won't work anymore!" (Me, in response) Really? Well what should we do?
We agreed that I would give the tables all new gluesticks and they promised they would always put the caps back on so they would never dry out! Then I taught them the song--which, by the way, I wrote wrong on here a few weeks ago. It actually goes like this (to the tune of London Bridge):
Put the lid back on the glue, on the glue, on the glue...
Put the lid back on the glue, so it won't dry out! SNAP!
Tomorrow...same lesson with the markers! (I think the kids really get it now.)
By the way, another helpful hint...
Keep a collection of spare lids. Because no matter how great your lesson is, lids are still gonna get lost!
Can you share your No David! lesson! I love that book and would love to see your puppet. Also, amazing idea!
Posted by: Claire Kazen | 08/26/2011 at 05:44 PM
Ok never mind! I just found it, did you just put it up or did I just miss it?? I think I am going crazy!
Posted by: Claire Kazen | 08/26/2011 at 09:22 PM
Love this lesson!
Posted by: Karen | 08/27/2011 at 06:11 PM
I just found your blog! Love it. I can NOT tell you how many glue stick we go through. Marker lids are always showing up in crazy places :)
Posted by: Wild about K kids | 09/04/2011 at 10:05 PM
Brilliant idea! I'm going to use the lid on the marker song with my kids. I am constantly findng poor little dried out markers around my room!
Posted by: Katie Westacott | 09/27/2011 at 10:44 AM
If you seal up a dried glue stick with a wet paper towel in a baggie or other container it will re-hydrate. That tip has saved me lots of glue sticks.
Posted by: Elizabeth Wolf | 12/27/2011 at 03:32 PM
If you seal up a dried glue stick with a wet paper towel in a baggie or other container it will re-hydrate. That tip has saved me lots of glue sticks.
Posted by: Elizabeth Wolf | 12/27/2011 at 03:32 PM