tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1234551369733183182024-03-27T16:53:20.748-07:00I Heart Teaching 365!Love Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15134499570712274390noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123455136973318318.post-43275762705812226372012-12-02T18:03:00.000-08:002012-12-02T18:58:44.566-08:00BUSY, BUSY, BUSY NOVEMBER - GREAT FIND AT 99CENTS ONLY STORES<h2 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
November was such a busy month. <br />These are all the things we did. </h2>
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Look what I found at the 99Cents Only stores! Since my kiddos love using dot markers for a variety of activities. I found these Bingo Dot Markers that work just as well as the brand name ones. Affordable!</div>
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This is what I made for each of my student helpers from the state university college. They were so wonderful and such talented helpers. They will make future great teachers!!!<br />
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This is what we did for November "I am Thankful For" Writing Project. </div>
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We also finished our Ecosystem Writing Project, which stem from Our Ecosystem Writing book (poem, reading, vocabulary and drawing) that we had been working on all week. I will probably post the student book PDF later.<br />
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Hope you had a great November and Thanksgiving!<br />
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Love Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15134499570712274390noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123455136973318318.post-63738137656653759332012-12-02T17:24:00.000-08:002012-12-02T17:24:15.854-08:00Election-Voting Fun!This is what we did for our 3rd Grade November Election! We had so much fun making I VOTED TODAY hats. This activity, including the hats and talking about presidential election, might seemed time consuming, but turned out to be much simpler than expected and well worth the time!<br />
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I pre-cut 1 inch strips from red 8 1/2 X 11 regular paper. You can cut the paper horizontally or vertically. Cutting smaller strips was easier. I copied the I VOTED TODAY! stars on bright yellow paper and the smaller stars on blue paper. Then my kiddos just glue everything onto white sentence strips. <br />
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Super quick voting box: I took an blue empty tissue box and added some yellow die-cut stars to each sides.<br />
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Instead of asking the students to vote for a president. I asked the students to choose 3 things that we could vote for that we would want at the end of the week if our group earned the most points. <br />
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We use the voting strips from No Monkey Business (created by Michelle Harper). <a href="http://nomonkeybusinessmichelle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Click on Michelle Harper's Election Day Freebie.</a><br />
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0VZQxjoDed8M1V4MlY1QkVoeWM/edit" target="_blank"><strong>Click here for the I VOTED TODAY! and small stars.</strong></a><br />
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Hope you enjoy!<br />
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<br />Love Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15134499570712274390noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123455136973318318.post-63456552278259834362012-11-02T22:22:00.000-07:002012-11-04T03:10:19.386-08:00Batty Fun!Today was the last day of our exciting two weeks unit study and writing about bats. My kiddos had so much fun learning new facts, making their own bat, and writing about bats. <br />
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First we did a KWL chart using die-cut bats for each kiddo to write their own facts and questions.<br />
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Then I read a great book (Bats, by Gail Gibbons) that had lots of bat facts and information. Then we finished writing bat facts we learned. <br />
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After we were finished with the story and KWL chart, my kiddos completed their bat packet (which had a few reading bat paragraphs, bat life cycle, labeling the body parts of bats, writing rough draft paper, and graphing fun activity).<br />
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Then we did an <strong>are</strong>, <strong>can</strong>, <strong>have</strong> graphic organizer to record facts we learned, either from the book or the facts paragraph in the bat packet. The we formulated these facts into sentences, in preparation for our writing. First we drafted out the facts into complete sentences and paragraph, then we edited our paper, before rewriting our final draft. <br />
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Next, we labeled the parts of a bat together as a class. I cut a large bat then typed out the words and then laminated both (the bat and words) for durability. Next, I used black velcro dots to stick the words onto the bat. This way, we can reuse the bat and words as a labeling the parts game or activity. <br />
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For the bat project, I painted toilet and paper towel rolls with 2 layers of black paint. The toilet rolls were the perfect size, but since I didn't have enough saved for this project, I cut the paper towel rolls in half. Having the rolls painted before hand saved time. I copied the bat's body (see below) on black construction paper. For the hands, I took 12" by 18" sheets of black construction paper and cut them into 6 equal squares. I had my kiddos traced their hands and cut them out. Then we took our white crayon and drew two eyes, a mouth, and 2 teeth. <br />
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I displayed the toilet paper bats with my kiddos' writing on the cabinet wall. <br />
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After all the writing and project was completed, my kiddos did a graphing survey to see what their classmates thought about bats, whether they were cute or creepy (activity from Cara Carroll). This activity can be done as a whole class or individually. I included this page as part of my bat packet and told my kiddos to ask 10 students what they thought. Then we came together as a class to tally and share our results. <br />
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This was a very exciting unit! We had so much fun doing and learning about bats!<br />
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Love Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15134499570712274390noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123455136973318318.post-55251772896344785992012-10-26T01:38:00.001-07:002012-10-26T01:45:31.052-07:00FREEBIE-Shape Witch Craft & ActivitiesI love sharing my ideas and projects so whenever I finish creating a project, I always try to post it for free for a little while before putting it in my TPT store. This craft comes with easy to copy templates, is simple and fun, and teaches the little ones how to count shapes. The shapes on the face are optional. You could use it or just let your kiddos draw their own face. Looks cuter than the pictures are showing. <br />
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Love Teachinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15134499570712274390noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123455136973318318.post-23113524476552484922012-10-14T15:18:00.000-07:002012-10-26T01:19:37.752-07:00FREE Scarecrow CraftIf you are lucky enough to find my blog, you can download this free scarecrow craft project, which comes with patterns and templates ready to be copied. I will be posting more projects and activities shortly. Don't forget to sign up as a follower to receive notification of free items postings. <br />
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This free scarecrow craft will be available to download until the end of November. Hope you enjoy!<br />
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Here are the ones my kiddos did. They love doing it! Although the scarecrows looked so cute on the walls, the kiddos took them home to decorate their house. <br />
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I use these to store lessons, worksheets, activities, etc. that I will be using for the week. Sometimes when I'm super efficient, I plan a week or two ahead. All I use is a yellow cardstock sheet as a divider with a small sticky note (with the date, for example W-8/26/12) on the top right hand corner of the cardstock. This is worth the investment. You can also do this with other bins as well. What a great way to be ready to teach with materials at hand! <br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">(I think that's a pretty good deal!) </span></div>
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