Five for Friday 4/24

I've been getting ready for my summer book study.  I hope you will join.

All you would need to do to join is get the book, write a post for each chapter, and then link up your post.  If you teach grades k-6, then you will link up with me at http://kinderblossoms.blogspot.com/.  

If you teach grades 7-12, then you will link your post at http://kovescenceofthemind.blogspot.com/

(See the posting schedule above.)

The book is called "Reciprocal Teaching at Work:  K-12" and is written by Lori D. Oczkus.  It is available through Amazon.

It's the end of the year, time for floating and sinking activities.  Students here are drawing a picture of the results of a floating experiment.

I have been getting ready for this top secret event. Stay tuned.

This is another year end activity that I like students to do to review long vowel sounds. These pages are free here.

Students working on Mrs. Wishy Washy booklets.

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Five for Friday

We used the left over parts of my Butterfly Vowels project to make these.

Of course, we were busy getting ready for Easter and sending the kids home with goodies.

We had fun using this Heidi Butkus Tooth Subtraction Freebie.  She provides children heads that you can copy, but I was in a hurry, so I had the children draw their own.  We also just used snap cubes for the teeth.

My students love "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom", so I created this activity a while back that uses word families. You can grab yours FREE here.

We made some quick hand flower paintings.  

We have had some beautiful spring weather here in Southern California.  Spring has sprung!

My First Glyph!

This is my first attempt at creating a glyph.  I found it very challenging.  Still, I enjoyed creating this.  I like the fact that the glyph kids don't look like the students who created them. They are representations of their pets or lack of pets! If you would like to try it yourself, click on the image.

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A little late with this one but...St. Patrick's Day!

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I'm all done with my place value bunny center and it is now available for $1.14 in my TpT store. 

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Win one for yourself by entering below. (I hope I did this correctly.)

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Some of the Whole Brain Teaching posters that I have posted on the wall. 

Five for Friday and Random Freebies

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Time to think about Spring! This chick design was inspired by Kinder by Kim. We generated a list a spring words and students wrote them interactively.

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Here is a random freebie. This was created for a springtime activity!

Feel free to download here if you might like to use it.

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Here is another random freebie.  I have been cleaning up my files and have found this creation that I have forgotten about.

Mother's Day Booklet

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I here are some quick 

hand print four leaf clovers we made.

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Don't you love it when your students really get a concept? I was so excited about this, I snapped a picture!

CGI Strategies Posters

I made posters of different strategies and put them on an anchor chart for students to refer to when problem solving.

I have shared them here.

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Last post, I showed the first 6 types of CGI problems.

These are the last types of addition and subtraction problems which I am told by the trainer are focused on in the 1st and 2nd grades. However, I think some of these "put together/take apart" would be good for kinders.

 Especially, if they have the strategies to solve them!

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This is still free at my TpT store.

Click here.

Story Parts Fold Up/Five for Friday

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It was  just a little case of petty theft.  It took four days to listen to the case and reach a verdict.

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As soon as I was excused from court for the day, I drove directly to my district Cognitively Guided Instruction training!  So far, we have learned about the first 6 problem types. According to the trainer, each grade should be the focusing on each type . For example, kindergarten focuses on "add to, result unknown" and "take from, result unknown."

 Here is a CGI Teacher Guide if you want to read more.

Here is a website that has sample problems, if you are interested in trying some.
Kindergarten Word Problems

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This story is called Six Hogs on a Scooter. Six hogs are trying to get to the opera in this story.  They make several failed attempts to get there.  This story is great for reviewing parts of a story! It is available from Amazon.

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Use this freebie to outline the parts of this book.

 (You will  need to utilize a volunteer for help cutting and folding!)    

Story Parts Fold Up 

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 I spent too much money at Barnes and Nobles again!

I'm getting ready to fill in the gaps of my understanding with this new book. I have to get back to you on how it is.

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I thought these were cute.

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