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Monday, October 31, 2011

Boy, Am I Tired!

Our Halloween at school was great....maybe the best one I've ever had with a class!  My team dressed up like the characters from Toy Story this year. So much fun....and I'm so, so tired!



Stay tuned tomorrow for announcement of winner of $25.00 Amazon gift card. 

Sunday, October 30, 2011

The Best Laid Halloween Plans

Well, I have a plan for tomorrow.....and we all know how classroom plans for Halloween go!

I'm planning on having a slide show on my Promethean Board ready when we get to our room after Morning Meeting in the gym.

Each slide explains one activity we are going to do during the day.

First up, the students are going to work with their table group and look around the room for clues to help them make inferences about what we are going to do during the day.


Next, the students are going to choose RingPops and use their senses to write a descriptive paragraph. See the PowerPoint file at the end of the post for directions. I got the whole box of RingPops at Walgreens for about $5.00.


Next, students choose a pack of chips and look for nouns in the pictures and words on the pack. Walmart had boxes of Halloween themed chips.



Next, it's Buddy Reading time. Partners will read Halloween stories and joke books together.

After that, we will use the Spooky Noun Scavenger Hunt in our Science books that I posted about earlier. Click on the pic below to go to that post.




Then it's time for some Magic School Bus fun and fact and opinion practice.




Our local Rotary Club delivered dictionaries for each student to take home. The kids beg to race to look up words, so we are going to have a Spooky Speed Demon Race and use our dictionary skills. Click on the pic below for the PowerPoint for the activity or HERE for a pdf file. I didn't put a timer on the slides so that you could do that and use what is appropriate for your class.



For Math, we are going to use the activity I posted for The Thirteen Nights of Halloween. They have worked with it in centers, so now we are going to pair up and make posters showing different ways of representing numbers. Click on the pic below for the original post.


By then it will be time for refreshments. I have my other activities I've posted about throughout the month to fill in any gaps.

Click on the pic below if you would like a PDF doc of the PowerPoint slides or HERE for the PowerPoint files.


I hipe you have a fantabulous Halloween Day with your kiddos!

Don't forget to go HERE to enter my Giveaway for a $25.00 Amazon gift card. You have until tomorrow night at midnight.







Talking Turkey Freebie

We have just started working with division and relating it to multiplication. This freebie provides extra practice in relating the two, as well as identifying different ways of expressing numbers.

Let me know what your kids think!

If you haven't entered my Giveaway for a $25.00 Amazon gift card, go HERE and do it now! It closes midnight tomorrow!



Saturday, October 29, 2011

Whoooo Knows Possessive Nouns?


Here's a freebie to use in a learning station for extra practice. Students sort possessive nouns, then write sentences with them.


Whoooo will leave a comment? :)

.....and if you haven't entered my giveaway for a $25.00 Amazon gift card, go to my original post and leave a comment.
Ends Halloween at midnight! Click on the ghost below for the link.

Graphic from ScrappinDoodles.com






Friday, October 28, 2011

So Close to 100 Followers!

I am so close to 100 Followers....plus it's the Friday before Halloween....so I think that calls for a Giveaway!
No Tricks......Just Treats!
Winner gets a $25.00 gift certificate to Amazon.com! Just think of all the cool books you can buy!

Graphic by ScrappinDoodles.com

You have two ways to win.........


1) Become a Follower and leave me a comment that says you did...or that you are already a Follower.

2) Leave another comment that tells me which of my freebies you have liked the best.

You have until midnight on Halloween night to enter. I'll use the Random Generator to pick the winner.

Happy Halloween!



Thursday, October 27, 2011

Cancer Awareness Celebration

We celebrated Cancer Awareness at school last week. This is an especially happy celebration for my team because one of our members is a five year survivor of breast cancer. Our team finds or designs a T shirt each year, the faculty purchases it, and our principal assigns special days to wear it for a $1.00 donation. All proceeds are given to our team member for her fundraising efforts.



Does your school do anything special for Cancer Awareness?

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Falling Into Arrays

Need more practice on matching up arrays and multiplication facts? Try this matching game.


Please leave a shout out if you download!