Math Work Stations-Patterns

I switched out my Math Work Stations (available for sale here) and updated them from Sorting to Patterning.  I took several pictures and wanted to include them:

The children will be completing the patterns with Unifix cubes.  I drew the patterns on sentence strips with markers and just drew squares.

Manipulatives Work Station-the children will be completing [...]

September’s Limbo!

Okay, so we really haven’t been doing the limbo in my class room in September, but it sure feels like it to me!  I was able to teach my kids for the first 2 1/2 weeks of school, and ever since then, my student teacher has been teaching full time, so I feel like I’m [...]

Classroom Photos 2009-2010, Long Post! :)

I charged my batteries in the camera and took some pictures.  I’ll take you on a tour and you can also check out my photos from last year here to see the differences.
Everything is mostly in the same place, but a few things were changed.  First, I’ll start with some general views:

This is a look [...]

LWS Check Sheet

Hi Everyone!
Only 4 1/2 more days of school left!   I’ll actually be really sad when the last day arrives, but it feels nice to say it now, being on this side of it!
I’ve been working on planning my workshop this summer.  We’ve decided to call it, “The Farmer’s Market; Inquiry Based [...]

Seeds

We are reading a big book this week titled “Seeds”.

Because there are a few students who will be leaving early this week to head out on Spring Break, we did not do a Predictable Chart, however we did do several neat Inquiry Based things in Science.  I like to begin almost all my themes/units with [...]

Lucky Charms Graphing

Here are the pictures–a little bit late…
I made the graphing sheet and sorting sheet MANY years ago and we always end up having to scribble out some picture of a marshmallow and adding whatever the new “special” marshmallow is for that year.  I can’t find it yet (still looking on my computer) so when I [...]

Growing Vegetable Soup

I’m tired of the cold weather, so I decided to get everyone excited about Spring and do some planting!  But plant what??
That’s when I chose our Big Book for this week: Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert.  

We also started a new Predictable Chart:

(Sorry the computer is being funky here–I’ll try to undo it’s funky-ness [...]

What a week…and it’s only Wednesday

Have you ever had one of those crazy weeks where the gods seem to be working against you?  Yeah–that’s been my week so far and it’s only WEDNESDAY!!!
My poor assistant Pam is out with strep–GET WELL SOON PAM!! and has been out all week so far.  You don’t realize how much you depend upon them [...]

Dr. Seuss’s Birthday 3/2/09

We will be celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday along with many others tomorrow and here’s what we will be doing:
I will be dressing up like The Cat!  I wear all black and my red and white striped stove pipe hat–no paint or anything!
Here is the link to Seussville.com (there are TONS of printables there [...]

President’s Day #4 and #5

Thursday, we completed the graph that went with our Patten Block Snowflake (PDF page under “P”).  
We also read Silly Sally and I showed the children how to act out the story using the Drama Props.  We also did Cut Up Sentences and we really got some of the sentences mixed up!  We [...]