Brand New Math/ELA Bundle and Fun Sunflower Activity

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We are so excited to share this plant bundle of activities! Right at a 100 pages!  Lots of ELA and Math print and go sheets, 2 scoot games, word sorts, and read around the room cards.  We just finished recording the Plant Song and our kiddos love it!  There is a book with colored pages that has the words to it and a coloring book for your kiddos to color and follow right along with you.

I just cut the pages and made a Plant Song Big Book because my kiddos love big books!

Here is just a page from the book.  The kiddos got a black and white copy to color.

This is one of my kiddos using their coloring book to answer one of the worksheets that is included.  My students loved coloring the book that has the words to the rocking plant song!

This is one of our color coded math sheets that are great at math time or as a morning sheet.

One of the 5 Print and Go Vowel Sheets

 There are 2 Fun Missing Addend Scoot Games or there is cute manipulatives you could use in a center to help the kiddos answer these math task cards.

There are Read Around the. Room Task Cards with our mascot, Quentin the Quality Penguin.  My kiddos love to see Quentin!

 These are a sample of the 21 word families that your kiddos can sort in Reading Groups or in ELA Centers.

These are Task Cards that can also be used in a center or as a Scoot Game.

You can get this sheet and 3 more on our Facebook page as a Facebook Fan Freebie:

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This is a fun math sheet that we did after we talked about roots.  My students thought it was cool!

That's enough advertising for now:)

Now on to our sunflower project.

So, we decided to start Fun Friday a couple of days early because this sunflower project is taking us a few days to complete.  But it will be worth it.  First you fold a large piece of blue construction paper at the bottom so your kiddos will know where to glue tissue paper and brown construction paper.  We just had the kids tear it to give it a textured look.

Then you give them a stem to glue or ya'll can just have them cut one out themselves.  Give them a rectangular green piece of paper the width of the blue paper and show them how to cut it to make grass.  remind them not to cut all the way to the top.

Next they can curl the pieces with their fingers.  This makes it look more like grass.  Then they will glue the grass at the top of the brown paper.

Give your kiddos a folded piece of green paper to make the leaves.  Show them how to cut on the fold to make 2 leaves.

We talked about the seed's coat and how it splits  and showed them how to split a sunflower seed with their teeth so they could see the seed in the middle.  They loved doing that!  Then they glued the pieces at the bottom of the stem.

We gave the students a piece of yarn they cut into 3 pieces and glued for the roots.

We will let all of that dry and we hope ya'll will come back tomorrow and see the next part of our sunflower project.  It's going to be awesome!:)

Welcome Back!

 We gave the kiddos a folded piece of yellow and orange paper and this petal pattern to trace.  They traced it two times on the folded paper.  Then cut them out.  This gave each student 8 orange petals and 8 yellow ones.

Then they glued the petals in a pattern on the stem.

We gave them a black circle to glue in the middle and sunflower seeds on the black circle.

Then we labeled the parts and the needs of the plants.

We will write about our picture and add a fun detail that will give us a 3-D effect.

Be sure to join us tomorrow and see the final product:)

Monday Mood Lifter #11

Hello teachers,

Hope this quote lifts your spirits today:

Tell us about a time when you learned about the extent of your teaching influence.

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.