Serapes, Vocabulary Parade and What Nots

Hey everybody! Long time no blog. I know I’ve been MIA but that’s what a sinus infection while preparing for the end of school will do to a gal.
I’ve got a few things to share as far as the haps in my class. BTW yesterday was the last day for students…today was my last day. I’m Living My Life Like It’s Golden…holla if ya love Jill Scott. Her Storytellers episode on VH1…da bomb!

We have a wonderful Spanish teacher who made Serapes with our students. Here’s my class styling and profiling. Don’t they look good.


Every year our second grade teachers put on a Vocabulary Parade…from this book…

I look forward to it every year. Here are a few pics.
                                                           Head Strong

       Lightning                                                Scale
            
  Disguise                                                     Head Strong
          
Graduate                                                     Knuckle Ball
          
                                                             Bookworm… I love it!!!

Here are a few pictures from Math Stations this past week.
Students use the dice tool and add ten to the number rolled. Then they get to cover that number.

                                     Students are adding three numbers


                                                 Working with time


                                                 Movie Night Addition


                                             Collecting Addition Facts



Have a wonderful weekend!!!!!

Money Money Money

We started money this week, and here’s a money book we made on Monday.  The students keep these inside their work folders. We will refer to them often during our unit. A K teacher friend gave me a copy of the poems…not sure where she got them from. But the first two pages are for the mini book…it’s just copy paper cut in half the long way. The rest of the sheets are coins pictures and poems. I made each into a 8.5 by 11 mini poster. They are hanging on our calendar board.

  

            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coin Poems

 

Ms. A

Sight Word Concentration and Other Stir Crazy Things

 

Okay so all the snow days this week  gave me a chance to do something I’ve been trying to do since school started.

I love the book Making Word Walls Work. Judy Lynch was a Reading Recovery teacher (have to support my peeps) and I use this book everyday for my word wall routines. One of the activities she has is Word Wall Concentration. You pick 6-8 word wall words (that would be 12-16 words total) and place them in a matrix in your pocket chart. Then you cover the words with number cards in order 1-12 or 1-16(depending on how many words you use).

*This should be done before students enter your room, you don’t want them to see where you put the words. Then students call two numbers and you uncover the words. If it’s match then the class can cheer, if not you keep calling on students to give two numbers they want uncovered. My kids love this game, they ask to play this all the time. Sometimes they'll choose it on Fridays Work on Words and play with a partner. It’s a good review, it's fun and it helps my strugglers. I hope the directions are clear, if not e-mail me.

Anyway, I said all that to say I usually just write the words and the number cards on index cards or squares of construction paper. But a while back I decided I wanted them to be more appealing to my students…so my plan was to make sets for all the Fry words and all the words in our reading (Reading Street) series. So last night I started creating. They have ocean animals because that’s my classroom décor this year. But I felt like they were generic enough to be used anytime. Hope you can use them. Let me know what you think.

 

                        Set 1

                         Set 2

 

                          Set 3

 

                     Set 4

Fry Phrases

As I blog, our state is right in the middle of a Winter Weather Advisory (Snow and Ice). We will have a snow day on tomorrow. Yes! So thought I’d share a few things.  

I read Ladybug Teacher Files blog about embedding a document right into your blog…so here it goes. I hope it works. I use Fry Phrases all the time. Each of my students get a set of the first four sets of phrases. They can read them during free time, or quiz each other. They can also time each other to see how many phrases they can read in a minute, we also use them during whole group games like Around the World. Hope this works and thanks for the tutorial!

 

 

Short and Long A Review

I just uploaded this short and long a review to Teachers Pay Teachers. I’ve also uploaded two Valentine’s activities. One is for word work and the other is for math. Click on the picture to check them out.

 

 

 

 

The Three Little Pigs Literature Study

This week we started a literature study of the Three Little Pigs. On Monday we created a Circle Map with all the things we knew about The Three Little Pigs story.

The students were also given a Three Little Pigs Reading Response Log. This is where we are keeping all the information about our literature study. We completed a Story Map after we read each story.

 

      

          

Click here to download Three Little Pigs Literature Response Journal

 

After reading a few stories we created a Noun Chart. The students each choose a noun from the stories to illustrate.

 

Here is the beginning of our Story Map chart. This is where we will place all the story elements of each story we read.

Yesterday our Buzz Book was devoted to describing the Big Bad Wolf. The students later completed their own charts in their Reading Response Journals

 

 

 

At the beginning of next week we will explore variations of The Three Little Pigs. Here are just a few of the books we’ll read.

 

Have a great weekend.