Today I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday!
ONE: St. Patrick's Day
We celebrated St. Patrick's Day all week with these great read alouds. My kiddos enjoyed the tales of leprechauns and luck!
We graphed in one morning to answer the question Do you believe in leprechauns? We worked on a graphing unit in math this week so we used this during our math workshop time to discuss graphing and we were able to answer questions using the graph.
We've been playing St. Patrick's Day math games over the last few weeks. Prior to this week we worked on addition and subtraction spinner games. This week we turned up the heat a bit and played a missing addend sort game. A bit more challenging but the kids did a great job!
TWO: US Symbols
The kids were so excited about starting this unit this week. Our ELA program included a nonfiction piece about Washington D.C. so this was a perfect week to begin the US symbols unit. We took a "field trip" around our school to find different US symbols that we will learn more about next week. The kids loved taking our clipboards around the school to look for these symbols.
Reading these nonfiction books and watching a short video on BrainPop Jr. helped my kids located the symbols around the school. Our leveled library also had some great books that worked for this week as well!
THREE: Word Work
Reading these nonfiction books and watching a short video on BrainPop Jr. helped my kids located the symbols around the school. Our leveled library also had some great books that worked for this week as well!
THREE: Word Work
This week I changed up some of the work work activities during our Daily 5 rotations each day. I was finally able to find Scrabble Cheez-Its so this week we built our spelling words (oa/ow patterns) with Cheez-Its. By putting these worksheets in page protectors we were able to use dry erase markers to write our sentences. This is a great paper saver and the kids love using the crackers to build words. We'll be doing this again next week for sure!
This week I also had my kiddos building sight words with clothespins. They love this activity and to add more meat to the task I had them write sentences on a recording sheet. Can't wait to give this a try next week again!
FOUR: Graphic Organizers
Last week in the Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites chapter we talked all about graphic organizers. This week I gave a few of my organizers a face-lift and we used them during our guided reading lessons. I love how versatile they are.
FIVE: Plants
Our plants finally started to grow this week. My kiddos were so excited to see the small sprouts in some of our pots. We've been working hard the last few weeks watering the plants. It was great to see how excited they were to see the first few sprouts. We even got to draw a picture of our plants this week to document the life cycle of a plant!
Thanks so much for visiting! Have a great weekend!
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