St. Patrick's Day Fun From The Archives

Time Flies When You Are Having Fun

Here are a few former posts just in time for 

St. Patrick's Day!

Make These Cute Leprechauns!

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  Review and practice -ing and -ed word endings.

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 Grab a hat and practice sight words.

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  Use the letters in the word "leprechauns".

How many words can you spell?

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So little time, so much fun!

Happy March!

May Poetry Notebook Pages

This Month's Poetry Notebook Pages!

(Click on the image above to download.)

Please note:  I typed these poems for classroom use.  I did not write these poems.  :-)

Hope you are enjoying the weekend!

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

Since it’s April we're writing about RAIN!  

Here’s a look at our rainy day poems that we completed while studying the water cycle.  

Scholastic's Instant Poetry Frames

On the raindrops, we wrote about healthy and fun ways to use water.

Smiles!

P.S.  Click here for the patterns if you want to add some rainy day fun to your classroom.

Little White Rabbit

Students can write in response and make connections.

Here's a look at our Little White Rabbits!

Hop on over to the author's website!

(I plan to xerox this booklet double sided for student use.)

Have a great weekend!

P.S.  Click here for the "patterns" for the rabbits.

Eggs and Teaching Blog Addict

Click on over to Teaching Blog Addict to view my post tonight!

I just added a few "eggcellent" ideas to inspire your teaching week!

A Reading Response Activity

 Life Cycle Sequencing and Writing Activity

Hope you have a great evening!

Math Mind Map - Jelly Beans!

Bunnies, Eggs, and Jelly Beans, Oh My!

Here's a copy of this week's Math Mind Map.

(Click above to download.)

Students can use real jelly beans to show fair shares for two and three people using the jars pictured on the workmat.

The problems we used included varying amounts of jelly beans.

Here are a few examples:

"I have eight jelly beans.  How would I share these jelly beans with my friend?"

"Show a fair share for two people and six jelly beans."

"Show a fair share for three people and nine jelly beans."

"How would three people share six jelly beans?"

After completing several examples, the students were asked to complete the math mind map independently to demonstrate understanding.  The children used the jelly bean clip art to record a fair share.  Each student completed his/her own fair share. (Please note:  It is not necessary for each student to use all of the jelly beans included at the bottom of the pdf.)  Students wrote sentences to explain their math thinking.

Have a great week!