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This year we have added a Stem Challenge to our math rotations once a week! </div>
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Our first challenge was a fairly easy challenge from our Building and Design Center <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/STEM-Task-Cards-Building-and-Design-Center-3653179">Task Cards</a>. </div>
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Kids worked in groups to build the tallest tower they could with the materials their group was given. When they were done they recorded their work in their science journals. <br />
They were so proud of their work that we decided to take photos and add them to the journals as well.</div>
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Our second challenge was a little more difficult. We had been reviewing the letter A at the beginning of our third week so we decided to tie our stem challenge into our review of A. <br />
First we watched the book <u><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRB2Ps959Qg">I Saw An Ant on the Railroad Track </a></u>by Joshua Prince on YouTube. <br />
You can read the book as well but our students loved watching it on the smartboard.</div>
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After listening to the story our students were asked to design and build a tool that would allow them to move an ant from the railroad track without touching the ant with their hands.<br />
Since this was our first time using our Maker Space boxes for building we decided to let each student try the challenge on their own. <br />
This way they were able to take the tools they made home to share them with their families.</div>
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To challenge our students more we told them they had to use at least 3 materials to make their tool. We gave them 9 materials to choose from: Scotch Tape, Masking Tape, Rubber Bands, Pipe Cleaners, Foil, Popsicle Sticks, Tongue Depressors, Cotton Balls, and Paper Plates. </div>
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They worked diligently for their entire math rotation and came up with the greatest tools!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, READING, ENGINEERING, ART, MATH!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">These are all important components in a balanced, exciting, and hands on curriculum!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our students love the <b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Malibu-Mutts-Kthru2inmalibu/Category/STEM-STEAM-STREAM-325288">STREAMing through the Alphabet </a></b>units that we have created. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">They focus on each learning area of STREAM while incorporating the alphabet. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">They create a fun, hands-on learning approach and encourage our students to <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ask questions, draw conclusions, take risks, be creative, develop oral language, and problem solve. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Our students create, cause, assemble, manufacture, achieve, invent, generate, produce, craft, build, and construct as they </span>develop their critical thinking skills all while reinforcing the letters of alphabet. Here are just a few of pictures from some of the ABC challenges.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As we began to get ready for our incoming students, we thought it would be fun to dedicate a place in the classroom where we could display all of the STREAM learning going on through photographs and displaying their challenge worksheets. To highlight this area, we made a darling STREAM header for a bulletin board. This board will be the perfect place to spotlight their creations from both our <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/STEM-STEAM-Alphabet-Challenge-Makerspace-Task-Cards-for-the-YEAR-3756922">MAKERSPACE </a>task cards and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/STEM-STEAM-Engineering-Alphabet-Challenges-all-YEAR-26-WEEKS-of-Challenges-3756640">ABC STREAM Challenges. </a></span></div>
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6 DAYS until the first day of school!!!</div>
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We are at the point were we really can't do anymore to set up our classroom until<br />
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This is the first year we are using Fry's for our word wall.<br />
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We created an adorable word wall but wanted an easy way to see what words the<br />
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To make recording easier we broke the main list into lists with 10 words each. This allowed us to create a sheet of flash cards for each list and made it easier for us to use the recording sheet. </div>
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We printed the flash cards on different colors and laminated them.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844814535452757244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076170940638888021.post-31606109070539949132018-08-10T06:59:00.000-07:002018-08-10T06:59:50.394-07:00It's About Time!<div style="text-align: center;">
Learning to read an analog clock is so difficult for our kiddos! </div>
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It it a fun and colorful way to make this challenging work more interesting and accessible. </div>
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If you need clock numbers and labels you can grab them <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Clock-Minute-Display-Labels-Black-and-White-Backgrounds-3986913">here</a>!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We love our smart boards but they replaced much of our bulletin board space. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This year we decided to try putting our word wall directly above our alphabet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This way all of our kids will be able to easily see it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">We bought this adorable alphabet from Lavinia Pop last year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It is part of her <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-to-School-Chalkboard-Classroom-Decor-BUNDLE-1303198">Back to School Chalkboard Bundle</a>. </span></div>
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We just found a super cute and simple Back to School gift for students!<br />
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A huge thank you to <b>Teach With Laughter</b> for the adorable </div>
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"Glowing Back to School Student Gift Freebie"!<br />
If you would like the tags you can get them from her TPT store or click <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Glowing-Back-to-School-Student-Gift-Freebie-1339967">here</a>.<br />
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Once we found the tags all we had to do was make a quick run to Target for the glowing bracelets! They were even on sale - 15 bracelets for $0.50! </div>
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We printed the tags on cardstock and used a paper cutter to trim them down. </div>
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Two quick hole punches on each side and the gift was ready to be assembled! </div>
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It only took about 15 minutes to make enough for our whole class!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">To make the project manageable we spent part of our summer organizing and labeling our leveled library. We had to clear out our rooms entirely so it was easier to start fresh this summer! One plastic storage tub of books came home at a time. Books were labeled with stickers (see below), sorted, organized into the tub, and returned to class. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Once we were able to get back into our classroom the set up began. We started by creating book box labels that matched our class leveled library stickers. We printed the labels on card stock, laminated them, and used a hot glue gun to stick the box labels onto our book baskets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">These white baskets can be found at Walmart. They are also available at walmart.com ~</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> 12 small baskets are $29.99 ~ about $2.50 each. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We're using small baskets for the Leveled Library section of our class library. Because our kiddos are in Kindergarten and First, we'll start the year with two baskets for each of Level A-F books and one basket each of Level G-L books. Last year we started the year with one basket each for Level A-Z books but it took a ton of space and our students were not ready for level M books until late January or February. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week we made these adorable</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">for my kids' teachers!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> This is an easy & super fun project to do with your kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">First, you will need to decide on a container - there are all sorts of possibilities! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">You can use a craft storage box (that's what we did </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">- we ordered them from Hobby Lobby),</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a mason jar (after our boxes came I saw some great ones </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">at the 99 Cent Only Store),</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a pencil box,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">a first aid kit (they sometimes have these free with purchase </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">of items at Target),</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">or any other container you have available. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After choosing our container we headed to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">the Travel Size section of Target</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">& the 99 Cents Only Store</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">to fill up on Back to School Emergency items. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Our kit contains:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Advil</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Tylenol</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Lip Balm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Mini Lint Roller</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Deodorant</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*First Aid Kit</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Nail File</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Shout Travel Wipes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Wet Ones</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Sewing Kit</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Diet Coke</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Fruit Snacks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Assorted Candy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Mints</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Gum</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Kind Bars</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Oatmeal</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Goldfish Crackers</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Quarters for the Vending Machine</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once our shopping was complete </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We made a tag for the top of the container</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">and one to put on when we wrapped it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The kids are all set to give their teachers a Back to School Treat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you want the tags you can grab them <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Back-To-School-Teacher-Emergency-Kit-Label-3970366">here</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Summer!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Best of luck getting ready to go Back to School!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844814535452757244noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076170940638888021.post-30547597620987502912017-03-06T14:53:00.000-08:002017-03-06T14:53:11.632-08:00Hurray for Dr Seuss!<span style="color: red;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;"> Dr Seuss inspired artwork!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Today we had Dr. Seuss Spirit Day at school! Everyone was invited to come dressed up as their favorite Dr Seuss character. It was so much fun and everyone was so creative! Our office staff even got into the school spirit and brought One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, and Blue Fish to life! My TK students were so excited to join in the fun. When I opened my door this morning, I was surrounded by Cat in the Hat, Thing 1, The Grinch, a Snitch, and even Mr Brown. In class we talked about Dr Seuss and I shared a short video about his life on BrainPopJr. We read many of his books and looked at his illustrations. Then we drew our own characters from our imagination. Some of us even wrote stories about them. The highlight of the day was making a Thing 1 and Thing 2 craft with our 4th grade buddies. It was a great day!</span><br />
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Professor Higgins as I stand in front of my classroom trying to connect with my 5 year olds while I introduce a new concept and wonder to myself,
“Do they get it?” Their little eyes </span><span style="font-family: HelloBillionaire; font-size: 18pt;">look</span><span style="font-family: HelloBillionaire; font-size: 18pt;"> up at me like I am an alien speaking some foreign language from outer space.
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laugh. This is when you can see me making silly noises, wearing funny outfits,
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844814535452757244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076170940638888021.post-90297262976555349562017-02-12T20:27:00.003-08:002017-02-13T00:01:03.187-08:00Happy Valentine's Day!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Look! Our TKs took what they had learned </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">about Pablo Picasso's Rose Period and applied it to hearts for Valentine's Day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wow! Don't they look GREAT!</span></div>
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Today our firsties learned about Pablo Picasso! <br />
At the end of the lesson we all knew that Picasso was a famous artist...<br />
not a soccer star-as one of our very energetic kiddos thought when we first said his name!<br />
We learned about his Blue Period, Rose Period, African Influence and Cubism. <br />
They loved looking at <i>The Weeping Woman,</i> <i>The Three Musicians</i>, and <i>The Old Guitarist</i>. </div>
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We were planning a lesson on <i>Bouquet of Peace</i><br />
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We let our firsties choose their own colored paper for their guitar collages.<br />
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Blue Period and natural tones similar to the colors in the <i>Guitar. </i><br />
Check out their amazing work below. The results were dramatic! </div>
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Everyone was successful with their expression of Cubism! </div>
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The directions for this art project and two more Picasso inspired works of art </div>
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are available in our BRAND NEW Meet <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pablo-Picasso-Famous-Artist-Unit-Art-Projects-and-More-3004430">Pablo Picasso</a> unit on TPT! </div>
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He is one of the featured artists in our new Famous Artists Series! </div>
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We can't wait to show these off at the Southern California Kindergarten Conference!!! </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "hellopicasso"; font-size: 20.0pt;">If you are like me, one of my favorite ways to teach my students
Math, Science, and Language is to integrate it with </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "hellopicasso"; font-size: 20.0pt;">art. The only problem is when my students compare</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "hellopicasso"; font-size: 20.0pt;"> their art to one another or I hear the dreadful words,</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "hellopicasso"; font-size: 20.0pt;">We focused on his painting,</span><span style="font-family: "hellopicasso"; font-size: 20pt; font-style: italic;">The Weeping Woman. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844814535452757244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076170940638888021.post-58754221309086764692017-02-08T09:41:00.002-08:002017-02-08T09:41:31.286-08:00LOVE These Valentine's Day Cards!!!<div style="text-align: center;">
Yesterday we had our firsties make valentines for their families! </div>
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Students then placed the paper letter upside down on top of a 2 1/2" x 2" styrofoam rectangle.<br />
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With Groundhog Day rapidly approaching we decided to combine a Groundhog Craft with Felicia Bond's story, <u>The Day it Rained Hearts</u>, to create a cute February bulletin board!</div>
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After sharing this story during read aloud time, we made this adorable groundhog. <br />
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We ended our day by discussing whether we thought Phil the Groundhog<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> It includes math, language arts, and a cute craftivity! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844814535452757244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076170940638888021.post-43335038979495150242016-12-14T18:33:00.003-08:002016-12-14T18:33:58.988-08:00Happy Grinchmas!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We recently had a training for </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Write From The Beginning and are focusing on using </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We combined two mini lessons for this cute activity. The focus was on ending punctuation and capital letters. We begin each school day with our daily news. Our Busy Bee of the day helps us fill in information as he/she reads the news to classmates. After we completed our daily news, we read The Gingerbread Man. Any version or book will work!</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844814535452757244noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1076170940638888021.post-19275316093521148872016-11-15T07:23:00.000-08:002016-11-15T07:23:17.357-08:00We Are Thankful For You!We have been on a blogging break but are returning in time to thank you for reading our blog. <br />
This year we put a new spin on our "Thankful Writing"! <br />
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We have been working with thinking maps and decided a tree map would fit perfectly with this lesson! Our kiddos brainstormed a list of nouns that they were thankful for! We had them break it down into people, places, and things on our map!<br />
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We then had them complete their own tree map listing at least two people, places, and things they were thankful for. In a later center the students took they information from their map and wrote a sentence on their paper. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Countdown Fever!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">12 days until our open house!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">21 more days of school!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We spent Saturday morning at school doing some open house prep!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today our students began painting the zebras, lions, and cheetahs!</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So much fun and oh so cute!</span></div>
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Ours is about 4 weeks away!<br />
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Our main theme at Open House is HABITATS AROUND THE WORLD.</div>
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We have been focusing on this theme since January! </div>
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We began with the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Polar-Habitats-Unit-Common-Core-Aligned-with-Craftivities-1757018">polar habitats</a> and then explored the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Desert-Habitats-Unit-Common-Core-Aligned-with-Craftivities-2421356">desert</a> and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-Habitats-Unit-Common-Core-Aligned-with-Craftivities-2461493">ocean</a> habitats. </div>
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IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN IN ON THE FUN! </div>
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Depending on how much time you have you can easily complete one unit! </div>
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Our units are designed to be a cross-curricular learning experience! </div>
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We include language arts, science, math, and art activities for each habitat. </div>
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Here are some of the amazing habitat activities our first graders have been doing:<br />
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Our <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Polar-Habitats-Unit-Common-Core-Aligned-with-Craftivities-1757018">POLAR HABITATS</a> unit includes the Arctic and Antarctica.<br />
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For more information on our <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Desert-Habitats-Unit-Common-Core-Aligned-with-Craftivities-2421356">DESERT HABITAT</a> unit click <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Desert-Habitats-Unit-Common-Core-Aligned-with-Craftivities-2421356">here</a>!<br />
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These adorable <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-Habitats-Unit-Common-Core-Aligned-with-Craftivities-2461493">OCEAN HABITAT</a> art projects are available <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-Habitats-Unit-Common-Core-Aligned-with-Craftivities-2461493">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Are you ready for Open House?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our Open House is the last week in May...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">just two weeks before the last day of school!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(anyone else counting down?!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We love Open House! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a really B.I.G. deal at our school! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a ton of work for one night but our families L.O.V.E. it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's a great confidence booster for our kids! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each child arrives that evening so excited and proud to share all of their hard work with their friends and family.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the years it has definitely become easier to prepare for the big night! We have become very good at figuring out what we need to save during the year to share at the end of the year. We will do a beginning of the year blog post in August to help you plan ahead for next year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you aren't set for this year's Open House or need something extra special, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have a fabulous American Symbols unit that would be perfect for a</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Symbols-The-Capitol-Building-Non-Fiction-Reader-and-Craftivity-1988342">The Capitol Building</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Symbols-The-White-House-Non-Fiction-Reader-and-Craftivity-1988295">The White House</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Symbols-The-Great-Seal-Non-Fiction-Reader-and-Craftivity-1988246">The Great Seal</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Symbols-Mount-Rushmore-Non-Fiction-Reader-and-Craftivity-1988306">Mount Rushmore</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you have time to do 4 symbols, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">then <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Symbols-BUNDLE-1-4-Nonfiction-Texts-Craftivities-2150522">Bundle #1</a> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(Bald Eagle, Capitol Building, Great Seal, & U.S. Flag)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">or <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/American-Symbols-BUNDLE-2-4-Nonfiction-Texts-Craftivities-2150534">Bundle #2</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">(Mount Rushmore, Liberty Bell, Statue of Liberty, & White House) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Each of the craftivities make really cute bulletin boards! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We actually make an adorable American Symbols book! We glue the craftivities and fact sheets onto large sheets of construction paper. Our kids glue scrapbook paper stars to the front cover and viola...the cutest American Symbols book ever!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you would like to focus on writing, having your class write a paragraph on one of the symbols is a great way to show off their writing skills. This will also be incredibly helpful to you when it's time to do writing grades for report cards!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another cute tie-in for the American Symbols theme is our </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Believe it or not...this sample is from our TK class!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The self portrait was a directed draw and </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This makes a really cute bulletin board! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is also very cute sitting on each student's desk!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We hope this makes the rest of the year a bit easier for you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check back with us soon...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">our next blog post will focus on </span><br />
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March has arrived!</div>
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Our entire school is embracing Thinking Maps! </div>
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We have been introducing them to all students from TK to Fifth grade.<br />
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Look at the fantastic writing our TK students created using a bubble map and a tree map.<br />
They were so successful and excited to write a sentence describing a leprechaun<br />
and then illustrating their sentence!</div>
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After reading, <u>That's What Leprechauns Can Do</u> by Eve Bunting, we brainstormed adjectives to describe a leprechaun and filled in a large class leprechaun bubble map. <br />
Students then copied the adjectives onto their own bubble map.<br />
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Here is my class bubble map with the adjectives my students brainstormed<br />
and a student's completed bubble map!<br />
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Next the kiddo's chose their three favorite adjectives and wrote them on a tree map. They then used this information to write a sentence describing leprechauns on the bottom of the paper.</div>
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Finally, the students published their sentences and added an illustration!<br />
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Have a HAPPY St. Patrick's Day! May the Luck of the Irish be with you!</div>
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