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.

Five for Friday 4/18/14 Bear Unit

Happy Easter weekend everyone, that's right teachers summer break is just around the corner!! I'm enjoying my day off and have taken to cleaning out one of my storage areas in my classroom and I'm so happy that it looks sooo much better. Spring cleaning really helps me feel more organized and lessens my clean up efforts at the end of the school year. Linking up with Doodlebug for Five for Friday!

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This week was all about bears! We are going on a field trip on Earth Day to go see Disneynature's Bears movie. It's been our tradition to watch each Disneynature movie when it comes out and usually I don't do a unit but with two four day weeks in a row I wouldn't be able to do language arts curriculum, not to mention all the spring fever and energy I'm getting with my peaches. So we learned all about grizzly bears while the older peaches learned about their favorite bear. I used three different units from TPT. Thanks to Elaine Swansey, I Love My Kinders, and Rachelle Smith; my peaches had a blast learning about grizzly bears.At the end of our studies I asked questions ,wrote down my kindergarteners responses, and helped my first graders phonetically sound out their answers. In the end, thanks to I Love My Kinders, they had very cute bear reports. Now we're all ready to go see Disneynature's Bears on Tuesday!

My favorite bear, my kinder definitely shows her personality

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We had our spring celebration on Thursday and I was in charge of a craft. So I took to Pinterest and found these cute sock bunnies. They were super easy to make and the peaches loved them. They were super creative with adding carrots, ribbon, braids and bringing their personality to the craft. 

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We also had an egg hunt and it was so fun to watch my little peaches look for eggs. It was even more exciting for them to watch the older peaches look for their eggs. They couldn't help but follow them around and ask if they needed help

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As I was cleaning out my classroom I decided to clean my little peaches cubbies and found a treasure of legos in one of their cubbies. I'm happy I got to clean my room before summer break hits. I wish I took some before pictures but you'll just have to trust that it was a hot mess. Here are the results:

Our incubator is all ready for the chicks we're hatching next month!

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We had a lovely visitor on Thursday, a gopher snake! I saw my first grader backing up from the playhouse area and thought he was running away from a bee. He quickly shouted he saw a snake and pointed it out to us. A swarm of peaches came over to gawk at the large snake. We had fun following him, from a safe distance, until he burrowed into the ground again.

That's it for now! One more bonus photo, me and my sisters during Easter YEARS ago.

Let the countdown to summer BEGIN!!

- Ms. Perry