This is what I got done today, ready to be cut. I have fishie clock labels, fishie decorations, spelling words for the first three weeks of StoryTown, and fun ways for students to line-up.
I even got my husband to help ;)
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Meet My Best Friend
I spent time with my BEST FRIEND today! You want to meet them? Here's a picture:
This is what I got done today, ready to be cut. I have fishie clock labels, fishie decorations, spelling words for the first three weeks of StoryTown, and fun ways for students to line-up.
I even got my husband to help ;)
This is what I got done today, ready to be cut. I have fishie clock labels, fishie decorations, spelling words for the first three weeks of StoryTown, and fun ways for students to line-up.
I even got my husband to help ;)
Monday, July 8, 2013
Cursive Freebie on TpT
At the beginning of each school year, I give my students a one-minute math assessment. It is double sided sheet with the same equations on both sides. They take the assessment in August and then again on the last day of school. They LOVE to see how much faster they are at math in just one school year.
So this got me thinking, why don't I do this for cursive handwriting? So many of my third graders are PUMPED about {finally} learning how to write in cursive. I searched for a cursive "pretest" on TpT and didn't find anything simple and easy, so I created one myself. And it's a freebie for you!
Use this Cursive Pretest at the beginning of your school year to see how much cursive your students know. It's great to get a snapshot of your students' undersanding of cursive handwriting.
Something fun to do with this pretest is to keep it to look at in May. The students will LOVE seeing how much their handwriting improves over the school year!
So this got me thinking, why don't I do this for cursive handwriting? So many of my third graders are PUMPED about {finally} learning how to write in cursive. I searched for a cursive "pretest" on TpT and didn't find anything simple and easy, so I created one myself. And it's a freebie for you!
Use this Cursive Pretest at the beginning of your school year to see how much cursive your students know. It's great to get a snapshot of your students' undersanding of cursive handwriting.
Something fun to do with this pretest is to keep it to look at in May. The students will LOVE seeing how much their handwriting improves over the school year!
Sunday, June 30, 2013
New Product: Reading Talking Sticks
This is a great guided reading or whole group reading product! Print these thought bubbles out onto cardstock and attach them to
sticks. Use these Reading Talking Sticks create discussion in your whole group
or guided reading group about a passage/book.
Ex.
I want to remember ____ from this because…
The setting is ______, I know this because…
The character changed when…
Ex.
I want to remember ____ from this because…
The setting is ______, I know this because…
The character changed when…
Friday, June 28, 2013
Local Library Book Sale
Our county library system had a book sale. All the children's books were $0.50 (paperback) or $1.00 (hardback). I was SO EXCITED to be at the sale, I even got there ten minutes early so I could be one of the first in the room. I ended up spending just $38 and look at all I got!
Thursday, June 27, 2013
Beginning of a Decorated Classroom
I am trying to choose one day a week this summer to work on my classroom. I have my bulletin boards up on our large walls. Two of the walls in each classroom are bulletin/cork material so we can build bulletin boards any size we would like. It is great to have this option when decorating! Here are the fabrics I am using to go along with my fish theme:
This is the view from my desk:
This is the view from the classroom door:
This is the view from my desk:
This is the view from the classroom door:
Friday, June 21, 2013
New CCSS Standards for 3rd Grade Science
At the end of the school year, each of the elementary schools in our district had a representative get together to create a new grade card that aligns with the CCSS curriculum. We have had meetings for the last two years to help up learn more about math and reading CCSS. In my opinion, the Science curriculum is where most of the changes will be.
Keep: Forces & Motion, Investigations/Experiments, Impacts on the Environment
Out with: Matter, Sound, & Rocks
In with: Hazardous Weather, Animal/Plant Survival, Magnetic & Static Electricity
I have been Pinterest-ing and TpT-ing to find some resources for these new standards. I hope this help those 3rd grade teachers out there!
Hazardous Weather
Animal/Plant Survival
Magnetic Electricity
Static Electricity
Keep: Forces & Motion, Investigations/Experiments, Impacts on the Environment
Out with: Matter, Sound, & Rocks
In with: Hazardous Weather, Animal/Plant Survival, Magnetic & Static Electricity
I have been Pinterest-ing and TpT-ing to find some resources for these new standards. I hope this help those 3rd grade teachers out there!
Hazardous Weather
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| Tornado in a Jar |
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| How Does It Rain? |
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| Make a Cloud Rain |
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| Self-Watering Seed Starters |
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| Fossil Rock Song |
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| TpT: Inherited Traits vs. Learned Traits |
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| TpT: Four Types of Fossils |
Magnetic Electricity
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| Magnetic & Non-Magnetic Sort |
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| Magnetic Strength |
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| Magnet Lab |
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| Strong or Weak Magnets |
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| Static Electricity Activities |
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| Static Electricity Discovery Tube |
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| Static Electricity: Stationary Charges |
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
MIA Blogger
Wow! It's been a while since I have written!! I took a couple weeks off to decompress after the school year ended.
Next school year, I am moving back into our actual school building and out of the modular unit that has been my home for the last two years. My class will be a fish/ocean theme and I am SO excited to get started decorating. I have some fishie fabric up on my classroom walls already, but need to liven it up a bit. I have pinned lots of ideas on Pinterest to liven up my fish/ocean theme. More on this later :)
On a personal note, during the first week of June, my husband and I went to California to visit my sister and her family. My niece was being baptized and we are the Godparents of Mila. I also surprised my darling husband with a day at Disneyland!
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