Jeanie and Jim
Jeanie and Jim are a retired couple that live in Winona, Minnesota. They stopped by our classroom in 2011 to share their love of eagles with the eagles4kids students. They have played a very important part in helping us organize our fundraising activities. Jeanie and Jim have donated a majority of the items that the eagles4kids sell at the fundraisers. Jim makes eagle heads carved out of wood and Jeanie sews the eagles4kids logo on shirts, hats, bags and towels. They donate all of the items and their time to help out with the project. Jeanie and Jim also visit our classroom for an hour every Friday and conduct mini-lessons on science, nature, hobbies, art projects, and community service. Jeanie and Jim also have a love for taking nature pictures and they are the ones that provide us with the pictures of our nest and eagles from the ground. The students refer to them as their grandparents. When this project was created we could have never imagined that we would have been so fortunate to have them be a part of our project. Thank you Jeanie and Jim. You guys are awesome!!!
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Jeanie and Jim - May 11, 2012 (6)
Dena -Jeanie and came and visited our room. Jeanie gave us sock purses and necklaces to give to ours moms for mother's day. We had to put the necklaces together with stretchy string and regular string. She brought in a red fox and an owl and read a description about each. Last week Jeanie dropped off some boxes with fabric and animals for us to make diaramas. We got to show Jeanie and Jim our finished diaramas with the animals in them. -
May 7, 2012 (10)
By: Julia - Jeanie and Jim visited again and this time we had something for her! It was a play that me(Julia),Maddie, Thea, and Dena performed in and used her puppet theaters. The play name was called the, "home". Jeanie and Jim talked about arrowheads, round rocks that Jim's brother found by lake Superior bark off a birch tree, and Native American stick games. They brought in a lot of diaramas with animals, and bunnies for a play. She is also brought in arrow heads, and snow shoes We also talked about the storm that destroyed Blair last week. -
April 27, 2012 (7)
By:Julia - Jeanie and Jim came and talked a lot about Native Americans. They talked about the different dwellings that Native Americans used to live in and totem poles. One of the things that stuck in my head was the totem poles and how they are so colourful. She wants us to make totem poles too. I bet they will be super pretty! Native Americans rock! Jeanie and Jim brought 4 more puppet theaters. We are creating a play about Lucy and Larry getting kicked out of their nest by Mr. Bear and Mr. Moose-Tache. -
April 12, 2012 (7)
Janie and Jim had the students make Lucy, Larry, Luke, and Lilly finger puppets. Jeanie also made a puppet theater that looks like the area around the nest. The students are very excited to create plays with their finger puppet eagles. -
March 30, 2012 (3)
Jeanie and Jim came in today and they talked about pond life. Jeanie read us a book about all the different animals and plants that make up a pond. She also brought in some water from her pond and we got to look at some small animals and insects through a magnifying glass. -
March 23, 2012 (13)
Jeanie had given each of the students a beanie-baby to hold onto last time she visited. Most of them are birds. The students each wrote poem about their beanie-baby and drew a picture. They made a book of their work and gave it to them. Jeanie brought material for the students to make kites for their project. The students made eagle kites, but not many of the kites looked like eagles when they were done. Very creative! Jeanie also made an eagle finger puppet for each of the students that she sewed. -
February 8, 2012 (3)
Jim and Jeanie visited and we planned that we could talk about some of the stuff she brought in the past, but did not get to. She brought new stuff to talk about. She talked to the students about hobbies and how important they are to have. She brought in several examples of hobbies and had the students share what they thought were their hobbies. She also shared pictures of eagles and other wildlife pictures she took. We finished our time together talking about our fundraising project. Jeanie and Jim are playing a big role in getting the fundraiser off the ground for us. We thank them! -
January 2012 (9)
Jeanie made a ginger bread house with an eagle nest in a tree, and Lucy and Larry sitting in the nest. The students decorated the house with an assortment of candy. Jeanie had one rule, no eating until the end. They did a great job. Jim made a power point presentation of their trip to Mount Vernon in Virginia. The students learned a lot about George Washington's house. She also created a power point with the directions on how she made the ginger bread house. She also showed the students how to make bird feeders out of house hold items that we usually would recycle. It was a very busy afternoon. Jeanie and Jim had collected pine cones and attached string to them and gave them to the students. She asked them to put peanut butter or something good on them for the birds. -
December 2011 (17)
Jeanie and Jim brought in ornaments for the students to decorate. She also had snowflakes for the students to decorate when they got done. Jeanie baked eagle and trout cookies for the students to snack on along with some oranges and grapes. Jeanie also shared a painting she drew of two owls. It was a Christmas present for her son. She read a story about endangered animals and shared some of her photographs she has taken along the Mississippi River. -
November 2011 (8)
Jeanie and Jim visited the classroom and Jim brought carved wood eagle heads for each of the students. The students painted their eagle heads. Jeanie read poetry about nature and talked about the environment we live in. Jeanie also made eagles4kids t-shirts for each of the new students in the classroom this year.