I have spent the past two hours filling out online applications...yuck, but absolutely necessary to achieving my end goal...A JOB! As always, Pinterest has pretty much taken over my life, but it has been in a good way :) We have done TONS of Pinterest activities in class this week and the kids have just been lovin' it! They are super engaged and it's more fun to teach too :)
Here's what we've been up to in Math: Fact Families and Arrays
The kids each made a Fact Family Flower and they got to choose whatever fact they wanted to for the center
Our beautiful spring looking front board...if only it would be nice enough for these flowers to grow outside ;)
Lots of practice with arrays, and you know a kid's best friend...FOOOD!! We used Cheez its to represent different arrrays!
Lots of crumbs which could have resulted in a total mess, but I caught that one before it became a disaster ;) Cheez its on the desks only!
I got these foam dice for Christmas and have yet to use them, so today was the day! The kids rolled the dice and had to draw the array. Whichever partner filled their sheet up first was the winner! :)
In Language Arts, we are quickly approaching the state assessments, so we are working on reviewing lots of concepts with the kids through their weekly reading story. This week we focused on a story called Alejandro's Gift (which was quite the hit since a kid in my class' name is Alejandro ;)
The kids made paper plate Venn Diagrams and compared this story to another story we have read this year. They turned out so good!
Kids LOVE stations/centers! (Of course, this is way more work for the teacher) but it is worth it because the kids get so excited about them AND they get to review multiple skills at once. Today we did five different stations that focused on homophones, r-controlled vowels, prefixes/suffixes, and spelling practice. We had a great time!
Of course each station had a Directions card so the kids knew what the expectations were.
You can kind of get a glimpse of the kids sheets, but this was rainbow spelling!
The homophones station which incorporated paint chips! The kids LOVED THESE!!!
This was a game I created during my block classes and I actually got to use it in class today! Safari Adventure was quite the hit (even though half the groups argued the whole time about who's turn it was, who was cheating, etc.)
Prefix and Suffix trees...they turned out so cute!
Each student had to choose a prefix or suffix, write the meaning, and then write examples on the leaves of the tree.
Yay, so cute! Thanks Pinterest :)
Tomorrow is Friday folks, yahooo!! Have an amazing JEANS day!
Happy Teaching!
Ms. Boyers
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