Oh Warm Weather... Please Come!

Today I took my students outside to reward them for their great behavior last week. We drew pictures on a huge empty space in the parking lot to make us feel hot because it is cold outside. Students drew the beach. They drew large oceans. I counted at least five huge suns, some flowers, a beach umbrella, and one student drew his footprints in yellow sand. My favorite may have been that a student drew a volcano erupting. He said the lava would be really hot!
My favorite part about this activity was that they interacted with a story about Ali that we read last week. Ali drew pictures on the sidewalk to make everyone in her neighborhood feel cool because it was so hot outside.
Now from the looks of all of the work that my students did today on the parking lot, we are all ready for it to get warm outside!