ICYMI - April

In Case You Missed It in April...

Here are some products created in April that you don't want to miss out on!

These Picture of the Day Products are great for an opening, closing, morning work writing, etc. This is a great way to discuss new concepts and vocabulary. 

These Fairy Tale Retellings are Common Core Aligned, 

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.2

With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3

With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2

Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Five For Friday- 4/17

I am so happy to be linking up with DoodleBugs Five For Friday

Maps, Maps, Maps

We've been learning about Maps this week and here are some books I read to my class. 

We also created a model of our house with a brown paper bag. 

Cool websites I want to share about!

www.CardPool.com

So, I just found out about this site and thought I would share. You can exchange old gift cards that you may not want, because you don't usually go to that particular store or restaurant for a gift card that you prefer. They do take a percentage when you complete the exchange. For example, I exchanged a $25 Cheesecake Factory gift card for $17.50 to GameStop, for my husband. I never go to the Cheesecake Factory, that gift card had been in my purse for almost 3 years.

You should try it out:

Here's another site I would like to share about, but watch out it is super addicting!

www.Jane.com

They have the cutest clothes and items. They send an email to you with daily deals from other sites. I bought the shirts shown below and had SOOO many compliments at work this week. 

Bird Verbs

Fairy Tale Writing

Here are some that we read this week:

We have been reading lots of Fairy Tales and we started writing our own versions of our favorite story today. It is only the beginning of the story and we plan to continue this writing next week. This is a great test for if you can read kindergarten....

Abigayil Riding Hood took cookies to her granny's house. 

Japunzel instead of Rapunzel and she was in a tall castle instead of a tower.

Three Silly Cats Gruff!

Abigayella instead of Cinderella and she had an evil sister. 

Three Princess that built houses.

Yes, this last one says Zombies Gruff and evidently they wanted to hot dogs!

VARSITY TRUCK!

We had a treat from our Administration today, the Varsity Truck visited our school during lunch and we were given a free meal! So good, but I def needed a nap afterwards!

http://www.thevarsity.com/

I ate a chili burger, chili hot god, some french fries and onion rings! Yes, you read that correct, and I survived!

I hope you enjoyed my randomness from the week!

Five for Friday- 3/20

Five for Friday- 3/20

 

Do you GoNoodle? We had some rainy days and we enjoyed indoor recess with GoNoodle. My students thought the Chillax video was hilarious!

Animal Research with QR Codes! Such a success! 

The paper in the pic was just a rough draft, I have since made a more "presentable" Zoo Animal Edition in my TPT Store HERE

STEM Challenge: Create a bridge a Troll (toilet paper roll they decorated) can fit under and 3 Billy Goats (the three cubes) can balance on. We had lots of fun with this today. I also had students retell the story using these props after creating the bridge. 

New Picture of the Day Product where students can compare similarities and differences of animals in real photographs. HERE

Setting up for our Monday PL day with another school. We have another school coming over to see some math and literacy center/stations. As a grade level we tried to pull all kinds of things to share.

So much info in one place!!

Literacy Centers:

Recognizing Letters

Beginning Sounds

Sight Words 

 CVC

 Changing Letters to Make New Words

It looks like I didn't take pics of the writing center ideas...sorry. 

Math Read Alouds

 Math Centers/Stations:

Counting On/Number Sense

 Geometry

 Technology

Addition/Subtraction

 Measurement

Now to make some kind of list of activities/links for these teachers to take with them. Looks like I will be busy this weekend!