I’m still here!

Hi Everyone!
Sorry for the delay in posting…I’ve been taking loads of pictures, but I haven’t found anytime to post them.  I’m busier than usual this November and am having trouble finding time to do much of anything!!!  I’ve taken on several things at school, am preparing for our school Holiday Bazaar, and preparing materials for [...]

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 [...]

Mouse Paint

I can’t believe that I didn’t do anything with Mouse Paint last year!!  I came back to my blog and searched and searched sure that I had at least showed the book to the children and I couldn’t find a thing…which ended up being a good thing to get me back into “school” mode.  I [...]

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 [...]

Heads and Tails Penny Graph

Here is my version of the Heads and Tails Penny graph I used during our President’s Day theme.  If the pictures don’t come across, I would take the boxes that you see on the chart and stamp a penny heads and tails image in only the first boxes on the top section and in an [...]

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 [...]

Shake The Beans and other resources

Here are links to some of the things I have had requests for:
Shake The Beans 6 (I still have to make 5 for you all-I had a copy of an old one I used with my kids)
shakethebeans6
Student Led Conference Sheet:
studentledconferencesheet309

 
Here are the pictures that are supposed to be in my Literacy Work Stations Power Point, [...]

Shake The Beans

Today, during our Math time, I introduced Shake the Beans (3).  I like to introduce it as close to Dr. Seuss Day as I can because I use red and white for my colors.  I don’t know where this game came from, where it got its start, but I just love it and we will [...]

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 [...]