Five for Friday

Hey yall!

 

Thank goodness its Friday. I didn't quite think I was going to make it this week! But Friday's here and all is well in the world :)

 

I'm linking up again with Casey.

 

 

Here's my random 5 for the week:

 

 

1. This little one came up to me during reading one day and said "Mrs. Lemacks, I made a text-to-text connection!" He was so super excited and I couldn't have been more proud.

 

 

2. We played this fun math game this week to celebrate Earth Day. This is from the fabulous Kelly Dolling over at Teacher Idea Factory.

 

 

3. We worked a lot with our hundreds {and 120s chart} this week. These kiddos were playing tic-tac-toe.

 

 

 

 

4. The hubs and I spent some time working in our yard this week. We have all these huge bushes in front of our house that we just weren't crazy about. So we decided to redneck it and just yank them out with some chains and the truck :) The hubs was absolutely giddy!

 

 

5. The end of the semester is drawing near and I am sooo ready to be done with this thesis class! Unfortunately, I won't be done with my actual thesis until December, just getting through the beginning phases. I'm actually here at my university's computer lab trying to get my research proposal done....see how focused I am????

 

 

Earth Day {freebie}

Hey yall!

 

Short and sweet tonight.

 

First off, I just want to say how shocked and saddened I am by today's events in Boston. My heart and prayers go out to all those involved.

 

I'm not really sure how to transition smoothly from that so........

 

I have been seeing all these great Earth Day crafts and freebies around the blog land lately, but I somehow managed to still blank on planning enough activities for it. My kiddos are going to be making this owl craft that I created last year and then I also whipped up a quick and very simple page that I will have them work on sometime in the craziness of the week.

 

 

Click on the picture to purchase your copy!

Click on the picture to get your FREEBIE!

 

This week is the BIG testing week for us, with 3rd-5th grades taking the CRCTs and K-2nd taking the SLOs. Plus, we are having a pep rally tomorrow, schoolwide test prep on Wednesday, and a field trip on Friday. Whew!

 

But I'm not scurrred....I've got Ryan by my side :)

 



 

We Love the Earth!

Hey yall! Is it just me, or was today completely exhausting? Whew!

We have had lots of love for our little ol' Earth in my classroom.

We started on Friday by reading these books.





We also watched a Brain Pop Jr. video on reducing, reusing, and recycling. We discussed all the ways that we could take care of our earth, and made a graphic organizer of our ideas (forgot to snap a picture of that ).

Then we got to creating :)

We made these really awesome earths, and wrote 3 ways that we could take care of our earth.





My bulletin board was already full of our achoo people, but I just had to get these up! Ignore the stacked chairs in the picture :)

Today, we finished our Earth Day fun by reading this book.



We discussed what pollution is, and how to avoid polluting our earth.

Then we made these stinkin' cute little owls from my Give a Hoot! pack.



I LOVE how they all used the same tracers, but they each turned out a little differently. I especially love how some of them added eyelashes and bow ties :) I much prefer work that is not 'cookie cutter,' as I feel it truly does reflect the students personality. See that last one, how it is all crooked and odd? That sweet girl is most definitely an oddball :)

Gotta go...my hubby is cooking me dinner, and it's starting to smell yummy!

Sicklings, Bubbles, and Earth Day!

Hey yall! Is it Friday yet?

Our school is knee-deep in state testing and I am O.V.E.R. it!

First graders in my district don't have to test. But my school is having first graders take mock CRCTs to get them ready for the real thing once they get to third. Soo....last Wednesday, Thursday, and yesterday we took mock CRCTs.

Today and tomorrow, we won't have testing, but will still have to be quiet as little mice for the older grades.

The worst part? We don't get our specials :( and we have to eat lunch in the classroom. This means no break for me :( or my littles...boo.

So what have we been up to with all this quiet time?

We talked about being sick and made these little cuties, inspired by Kristin (do I even need to say at A Teeny Tiny Teacher?).

We also were working on writing instructions, and I just KNEW this would be the perfect time to make these! I found this from the teacher wife, but not sure where the original idea came from...

We tried soooo hard to round out our balloons, but they all just kept looking rather pointy!

Yes, I know what they look like...but what can I do?



In science, we have been discussing organisms. We made our own aquariums and added plants. Then we got to add snails last week, and today we got to add guppies! 

The littles were all given hand lenses and got to observe these creatures up close. Then we made a Venn diagram to compare and contrast.

Sorry for the crappy quality...

Need some last minute Earth day acitivities? How about making this little cutie?



You can find this acvity in my Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute! packet.



This packet includes:

*Template tracers

*Printable template for colored paper

*2 different writing prompts

Click here to get it from TN and here to get it from TPT.

Alright folks, I'm off to work on my Pinterest Exchange gift!