Science Work Station

Here are a few pictures of our Science Work Station.  We have had our first bird visitors to our window bird feeders this week so the kids are excited to watch for different kinds of birds feeding on our feeders (we have four on shepards’ crooks in the yard and two suction cupped to the [...]

Activities for MWS

Here are some new activities that I have put into our Math Work Stations (we are now working on the Quarter 2 Math Common Core Standards where the children need to compose and decompose numbers). The children have 10 frames for the numbers 11-19.  They lay one 10 frame out and make two rows of [...]

Anchor Wall Charts

Here are some of the anchor charts we have made in my room this year.  I put them up on this large empty space above my counter so we could see them from pretty much anywhere in the room. You can click on the picture for a closer view.  This will also help solve the [...]

Clean Shelf

In order to get the space cleaned off to store my Math Work Station tubs, I had to do some cleaning.  I moved a wire two shelf shelf off the counter as well as all my Science materials (I found a better place for them). The wire shelf had all my buckets of Reading A-Z [...]

Math Work Station Storage

Here is how I store my Math Work Station tubs.  I have a pocket chart where each tub number is listed along with 1-2 students’ names.  They find what number tub they are working with that day and then find it along this shelf.  Because the tubs get put back in a different order each [...]

Science Notebooks

Here is a picture of one of the entries we have made in our Science Notebooks recently.  We are studying Day/Night from the National Geographic Earth Science Kit.  We were drawing/writing about things we can see at nighttime or during the daytime:     This is a page that came with the kit, but it [...]

Some work with Quotation Marks

When we were reading The Little Red Hen a few weeks ago, it seemed like the perfect time to get some work done on recognizing quotation marks.  We used highlighter tape and I folded over a tiny part at the end to help them come off and on more smoothly.  We store the highlighter tape [...]

The Little Old Lady who swallowed a pie…

I’ve posted this little old lady before (either last Thanksgiving or the one before it…http://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/little-old-lady-printables/).  Here are some pictures of her assembled… (She’s really easy–just color, cut and tape on a sandwich sized ziploc baggie with the top inch cut off)   Kristen

Math Work Stations Organization

I’m in a mood to organize things lately…I like to start getting things cleaned up near the end of the year so that my new year will be uncluttered and happy!  Ask me how that’s going the 2nd week of January!!   I came up with a way to organize my Math Work Station materials [...]