A month in pictures

Hi Sweet Friends!

I hope everyone had a relaxing weekend and had time to recharge your batteries.

Cooler weather has been moving in to my neck of the woods this past weekend, so 

my husband and I had a date night that included lots of Christmas shopping.

I was also inspired to do some Fall cooking.  I just love cooking this time of year..

It's also nice to have meals prepared ahead for the busy week.

Today I'm linking up with Michele from Run Miss Nelson's Got The Camera.

Michele has an awesome monthly linky in which you showcase your month in pictures.

Here are our October classroom pictures:

1.  Pumpkin Observations

Sink or float?

How much does it weigh?

What's its circumference?


2. Multiplication Fun

Groups of

 Arrrays

Putting it all together in our interactive math notebook

4.  Nouns

Nounsters...

5. Government and election of a class mascot

Working on their campaign speeches for their candidate

photo ops with the candidates... these were for their campaign posters

6.  It's Party Time

Frankie Food

Mummy wrap game

7.  AND finally our folktale and fable unit

Comparing Lon Po Po with Little Red Riding Hood

Working on their folktale literacy stations

As I began looking through our month in pictures, I amazed at just how much we teachers can accomplish in just one month's time.  It's AH-MAZING!  Don't forget to link up with Michele by clicking on her linky party picture above.

Have a great week! 

Share It Sunday

So many things to share.. 

Isn't it great to FINALLY get your kiddos into a routine?!

I have been loving using the Daily 5 ( we do the Daily 4) in my classroom and 

Math Workshop.  It has given me more time to work in small groups

with my kiddos that need that extra one on one. I also feel like the other activities are keeping

my higher level students challenged.

I thought I'd share with you our week in pictures with some of the fabulous

TPT products  I used with my students this week.

1. Fall Word Work Activities by Chrissy Beltran- I used these in our Daily 5 Word Work Area

2. Author's Purpose Picnic by   Mandy Gregory     

  We used this as a station for our Family Reading Night , and I have used it as an activity for when students are finished with their work.  It's been a fabulous way to practice author's purpose.

3. Summarizing Task Cards by Rachel Lynette

 I also used this as a station for our Family Reading Night.  The parents would read the cards to their children, and have the child tell summarize the paragraph.

4.  "Owl"Star Kids Book Club Kit-  I have also been using book clubs/literature circles with my 3rd graders.  I love the  book club discussions I am hearing from my students!  I wanted to take those discussions to a new level using many of the terms we have been working on such as author's purpose, summarizing, connections, inferences, and so forth.  I also wanted my students to incorporate that "show evidence from the text to support your answer" which is one of the Common Core Standards.  So I created an "Owl Star" book club kit for my students.  Each student chooses a question from the "Owl Star" book club container to research and prepare for their book club discussion the night before.  After completing it for the first time this week, I really liked the higher level of questioning and discussion that was taking place in the book clubs.

Thanks for stopping by!  I will send the first 3 people who comment on this post about how they would use or how they use book clubs/literature circles in their classroom a copy of the "Owl"Star Kids' Book Club Kit.  Please include your e-mail address. 

Have a fabulous Monday!  

A week in pictures

Hi Everyone!  

I want to say thank you to all of you who purchased products from my

TPT store this weekend during the Fall Sale!  A huge THANK YOU goes out to Casey 

from Second Grade Math Maniac for putting this linky party and sale together. 

I was able to empty my wishlist on TPT and make several purchases.  Woohoo!

I LOVE to read posts about what others have been up to in the 

classroom especially in 3rd and 4th grade classrooms.  So

I thought I'd share a week in pictures with you.  Here's a little peek about what my sweet 3rd

graders have been up to:

1. Summarizing...  We have spent the last couple of weeks working on summarizing during some of our mini lessons in reading.  

We made a summarizing foldable.

I also included a lesson on cause/effect and summarizing with a lesson posted by Amy Lemons using the story " A Bad Case of the Stripes."

2.  Writer's Workshop.  I introduced my students to their writing binders.  They were so excited to have a special place to keep all of their writing information!  I like to begin the year with working on informational/expository essays (after we've gone over complete sentences and types of sentences).  I always introduce this after our yearly Harvest Days field trip.  It's a perfect informational essay for my students to write about. We begin VERY S-L-O-W-L-Y.  I've been working on an informational essay unit to share with all of you that goes through the steps of the writing process with power point presentation mini lessons , writing binder inserts, " Ring of Possibilities" expository essay prompts, and picture books to use with teaching expository essays.

3. Math Workshop-  We wrapped up our unit on addition and rounding.
Here are a few of the stations in action:

4. An entry in our interactive math journals

5. Our Map and Globe unit.  I forgot to take pictures but my students completed their " Student Made World Map" Activity.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  I love your comments!

As we are just beginning a new week and feeling the "rat race" to get everything accomplished while trying to spend quality time with our families and friends just remember this: