Monday Mood Lifter #9

Welcome to another week teachers!  Happy ST.Patrick's Day!

We thought this was just precious, and so true.  When did you experience a humbling moment in your
 classroom?




We also wanted to let you know we have Scoot games for St.Patrick's Day if you're interested:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Scoot-Leprechaun-Addition-Game-1-10-1136532

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Scoot-Leprechaun-Subtraction-Game-1-10-1137351

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Multiplication-Shamrock-Scoot-1130396

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Division-Scoot-Over-the-Rainbow-1145266

4 week coin unit with books

These are books from our coin unit.  We also have some fun print and go sheets with our mascot, Quentin the Quality Penguin, games, a coin puzzle,and a coin song.  There is also a coin chart that our kiddos found helpful.

There is also a lesson plan that lasts for 4 weeks.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Money-Activities-Ride-into-Common-Core-Music-Math-and-Economics-681638 

A few more sheets from the bundle.

Fun Friday: Maps plus a free song:)

We read this book to start our unit on Maps.  It is a great book to introduce maps.

Then we sang our Maps and Globes song.  My kiddos love singing this as they are being introduced to Maps and Globes.  We are offering this as a Freebie today and tomorrow for Fun Friday:)

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Maps-and-Globes-Mp3-Song-453041

Several of my kiddos broke into song as they were working on their maps and one little girl said 'I just have that song stuck in my brain." It has a catchy tune.

Then we worked on classroom mats.  I let my students work together on these and I loved watching and listening to the conversations they had about where to place items based on the North, South, West and East side of the room.

This  little guy was saying "This 

is the north side of the room." 

She was saying that Quentin our Quality Penguin sits on the north side of the room.  I love how my kiddos included Quentin in their maps.  They just love him!

Hard to see, but he's working on his legend.

Working hard on their maps.

Sorry I don't have pictures of the completed maps, but we have to finish them on Monday:)

I will post some on Monday, if we don't get snow.

We hope you enjoyed our Fun Friday activity on maps.

Thanks for stopping by!  Please comment anytime on things that you do that would enhance these lessons.

Creative With Pattern Blocks!

So, one of my kiddos used the pattern blocks and made the Cat in the Hat.  

Then another student decided to add Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Then we needed Nick and Sally

And of course, we couldn't forget the fish in the bowl.

It is amazing what your students will create when given the chance!

Monday Mood Lifter #8

Happy Monday Teacher Friends!

How do you get your kiddos to work together?

Fun Friday! All About Community Helpers!

We started by reading our Community Helper book that is included in our Community Helper Bundle  that you can get in our store.

My students took turns reading the pages.  One of my friends read "He builds our houses"
The rest of the class tried to guess which community helper he was reading about.  So they said"builder"

Then we sang and acted out our Community Helper song which is also in our bundle.  These kiddos are saying"Community Helpers are always standing by."

This little guy was having fun doing the last part of the song with his air guitar.

Next, my kiddos dressed up like community helpers.  I gave them the wrong tools on purpose so that the other students would come up and give the helpers the correct tools.  They thought it was pretty funny.

This is one of the students giving our fireman the correct tool.

My class loved dressing up and they had no trouble doing our sheets after singing the song and seeing our helpers in front like this.

This is just one of the sheets in our bundle that has the students match the correct tool to the correct helper.

My kiddos loved making the 9 community helper finger puppets that we sang about in the song.

This creative gal decided to create her own puppet theater after seeing the sheets in our bundle.

These sheets are in the bundle.

We made a class book about what community helper we want to be when we grow up.


We have a video that you can watch about our Community Helper Bundle and you can hear some of the song.

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/499125571174371447/

You can get the bundle for 50% off this weekend:  Mar.7-9.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Community-Helpers-Literacy-UnitSongs-BooksGames-and-other-Activities-618383

We hope you enjoyed FUN FRIDAY!

See ya next Friday for more FUN in Learning.

Monday Mood Lifter #7

Hello everyone!

This is fantastic.  I know it's how we all see our students' efforts:

How do you lift your kids up when they feel they have failed?