FUN FRIDAY: Working on our calendar words for April.

This is Quentin our Quality Penguin and he is holding our word of the day.  My students love coming in and seeing the new word in Quentin's flippers.
Since our word was silly, I decided it would be fun to do some silly things for FUN FRIDAY.

We put our word of the day calendar piece up and clap the syllables and discuss the meaning of silly.  Then we go back to our seats and write the word in our calendar notebook.

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This student decided to use some other words of the day.  I was so happy to see how she put all these words together!

I am also seeing my students using their calendar words in their daily journals.  Wow!  She even circled the words after she wrote the entry.

I also was excited to see this student point out a calendar word from our January calendar."Look Mrs. Beckner, the word blizzard.  This was one of our calendar words."  How cool is it to see them remember words from a couple of months ago!  Yay!!

This little guy is working on putting words in order for our April Activities.  They loved that I put the words on egg shapes because they asked me to do that for April.

 This gal had the great idea to highlight the calendar words on her sheet.

The words are cut out and glued.  Then they copy the sentence, in their best handwriting of course:)

Then they illustrate the sentence.  I always love to see their illustrations!

And the last part of these print and go sheets is to write your own joke.  Some of them were actually pretty good.  I imagine thy heard them somewhere.

I let the students tell their jokes to each other and they had a ball!  This is a great oral activity, especially for your ELL students.

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We read this book for our Read Aloud and then we decided to write about being silly.

I promise, just one more.  They are just so darn cute:)

We decided it would be fun to do a silly dance outside.

This kiddo wanted to do his own silly dance.  I love it!

Well that is the end of our silly day.  It would also be fun to have the kiddos where silly hats or outfits to school.  I just didn't think of it until now.  Oh well, next year.

We hope ya'll enjoyed FUN FRIDAY with us and feel free to share any of ya'lls silly ideas.  We would love to hear them!

See ya next Friday when we will share a great plant song and activities.  Have a great weekend!!

Monday Mood Lifter #11

Welcome to another Monday, teachers!  Here is your inspiration for the day:

 "Don't follow your dreams; chase them." - Richard Dumb

Tell us about a time you encouraged a child to chase his or her dream.

BIG SPRING CLEANING SALE

So, our FUN FRIDAY is a BIG SALE for Spring Cleaning.  It is a great time to get those fun new spring games and products for your kiddos.  We know how active they get as the warm weather hits so grab some fun scoot games for them to play as they learn their facts.  It will keep them moving in a productive way:)  Look for this sign from lots of great stores that are also having sales.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Sol-Train-Learning

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Scoot-Hoppy-Spring-Addition-1-10-1180415

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Scoot-Hoppy-Spring-Subtraction-1-10-1180403

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You can get all 4 games in one for a discounted price.

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We hope ya'll will find some great products for spring and please join us next Friday for a FUN activity from the Moments that Count in the Classroom.
Have a great Weekend!!

MARCH MADNESS SALE

We hope you will follow our store if you like our products.  Thanks!!:)

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• http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Sol-Train-Learning

Here is a great Brain Bounce Game on March vocabulary:Just a $1.00  

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We also have a fun Quality Quest game with March vocabulary words.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Vocabulary-Quality-Quest-Game-March-Word-

Crumbs-1137343

Come get all of our March activities and games as well as March Scoot games for a $1.00.

You can check out our new April activities as well:http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Word-of-the-Day-April-Calendar-1160116

Here is the April Brain Bounce Game:

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You can pick up these and all of our April Word of the Day games and activities as well as all of our products for 20%:)

Monday Mood Lifter #10

Here is your inspiration for the week.  Hopefully it puts you in a positive place!

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." -- Goethe

This is a difficult path to follow sometimes.  Tell us about a challenge you faced with positivity and optimism.

FUN FRIDAY ACTIVITY: A Science Experiment

We worked on a science project this week.  You start with a boiled egg.

And a clear jar

And some vinegar

Submerge your boiled egg in vinegar.  And watch and record what happens for 5 days.

These students were drawing what they saw.

They thought it was pretty neat to see the bubbles all over the egg.

This guy was pointing at all the bubbles on the second day.

Checking the egg at all angles

This was the fourth day when we noticed the shell disintegrating

On the fifth day we pulled the egg out of the jar and washed it off.  The shell was completely gone and the egg felt rubbery.  The kiddos thought that was great!

Then we put our own science board together.

We made a graph of how much of the eggshell was disintegrating each day.

This was an easy and fun science experiment to do.  This was a good way to get my little guys ready to do their own projects when they are in third grade.

Hope ya'll enjoyed this FUN FRIDAY ACTIVITY!

Thanks for stopping by!

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:

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

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

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