The beginning of the year is so busy I’ve barely been able
to catch my breath! Here’s a little bit of randomness
and a few things we accomplished this week!
Like you I’m sure, I’ve been wrapping up all of the beginning
of the year assessments and pushing to get to our “normal” routine.
Finally! We’re ready to roll!
Assessment folders done. Reading table cleared.
Groups up and running. Thank goodness for
small victories!
In an effort to work smarter,
not harder, I’m planning to make some
generic reading charts that I can flip through
and reuse as needed
and reuse as needed
I love these comprehension strategies posters from
Gabby’s Classroom! I’m planning to put the story structure
ones on rings to display as I teach them.
Last week we made these adorable goal setting guys and gals!
Be still my teacher heart, her goal is to write a good,
detailed fiction story!
This one looks exactly like the child who made it!
Click on any of the pics to find the templates I used.
My class loves that it looks like everyone is holding hands!
We’ve been learning about landforms this week and used our
white boards to play a game called “Define the Landform”
We also started a landforms project where students
create an imaginary island with a story to tell.
This 3-week project is an absolute highlight for
my class and one they talk about for a long
time afterwards.
These islands, with all of their special features
and landforms culminate in a creative
writing project that I’ll post more
about when we finish. You can
see last year’s post on our landforms
building and writing project and
see our completed writing projects and
landforms literacy centers.
Here is the landforms resource I used.
These Frixion pens are the BEST for taking
running records! They’re super fine lined so I can
smoothly and quickly write between the lines
of the text. They also come in
erasable, fine-line markers. *swoon*
Use my affiliate link to get them from Amazon.
I made these little funnies for my teammates
because after all, a girl’s gotta have a good pen
when she’s check-marking like a maniac!
You can grab these Hey Girl gift tags {HERE}
Speaking of pens, how stinkin’ cute is this paintbrush pen
from my friend Jenny at Art with Jenny K?
In other news…..
I got my emergency sub plans turned in!
Like I said before, thank goodness for small victories!
Last week in math we wrapped up working with measurement
and two-step word problems. This year we’re using the
Eureka Math program and it’s been a pretty big
transition for us!
I always have students write their solution in written form.
It requires them to locate and focus on the question as well as to
write a complete sentence using the question to form their answer.
I was hoping to get another year out of these yucky
whiteboards but I don’t know if I can make it!
We began this week working with place value and
bundled straws to create larger units.
That was our week, how was yours?
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