Splish-Splash: Blog Hopping Bash

Thanks for hopping by! We are glad you joined our blog hop to welcome summer. Myself, along with numerous others, are here to bring you a freebie, a chance to win a giveaway, and to share some of our favorite things about summer.

Grab the freebies NOW! Our freebies are only available during the hop.  That is May 25-29, 2015. 

The hop is over. :(

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Take a look at my ridiculous summer video!

Come back June 1st for ..

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!