Five for Friday- Dr. Seuss Edition

Like every other school in the US we celebrated Dr. Seuss's Birthday/Read Across America Week! So here's my Five for Fraturday! If you wanna link up just press the button below:

First up, our Dr. Seuss activities! I didn't do too much this year because I wasn't around the weekend before. The photo booth is always my "go to" for this week. To start the week I did my make up to match The Cat in the Hat and we read lots of Dr. Seuss books! Friday was the big celebration. We had a photo booth, a craft for my little peaches thanks to the Glyph Girls! We also used First Grade Blue Skies directed drawing on Thursday for art! My favorite activity was making The Cat in the Hat's hat out of strawberries and bananas. How did you celebrate this week?

After reading Erica Bohrer's guide to getting started on TPT I decided to open up a store. She walked step by step through the process and recommended some great fonts and clip art. Lately, I have been a clip art addict! I see the clip art and get so many ideas! One of my first products was a Verb Mini unit. My second grade peaches were learning about verbs so I whipped up a little mini unit with readers, a write the room and a matching pictures page. I am really enjoying this journey and have so many great products in mind for the future. If you wanna check out my Verbs Mini Unit click the picture below or click here!

 

This week was this little peaches birthday. The girls had so much fun treating her all day whether it be her going first for whole group math problems or just fixing her tutu. It was great seeing these three get along! Her mom also brought a pinata for the kiddos along with cupcakes and goody bags. It was a mini party at school. Everyone had fun!

Thursdays I teach art! I always try to find something that will interest the older peaches but isn't impossible for my little peaches. Luckily, one of my fifth grade peaches wanted to do an art project with duct tape. So we split up! I did pom pom pens and she did duct tape bows, wallets and pens. If they weren't working with me or my student they were coloring their directed drawing of cat in the hat! Everyone enjoyed the art projects!

On Friday, my peaches learned about fact and opinion. I used the OREO (Opinion, Reason, Example and Opinion) method to write an example on the board. After practicing for about 25 minutes they wrote an opinion about their favorite animal/animals. One peach did one about her mom that was so sweet! This lesson definitely successful and they understood what was an opinion and what was a fact.

Bonus: 

Every now and then I'll find fun notes or drawings from my peaches! Well, Thursday I asked one of my second grade peaches to help his peer finish his sentences for spelling. Let's just say it did not go over well. That bar looks mighty full which would have been bad for his best friend/worst enemy.