Artwork, Food, an In-School Field Trip, and a Celebration!

I just wanted to drop in a share a little about what's going on in my classroom...

We have been working on our multiplication and division unit. As a way to wrap up multiplication and transition into division the kids decided they wanted to make posters of their favorite strategies. I took out a deck of multiplication cards, fanned them out, and let each child chose the fact that they would represent. You would have thought I was giving out extra recess time with the level of excitement in the room.

Aren't they cute?! They didn't take much prep work, just a little creativity!

   

Later in the week I introduced the concept of dividing using The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins. The students chose which snack they wanted to use and went to work figuring out how to divide the "cookies" among the friends in the story.

This week we also had a little in school field trip fun. The local museum came to visit our classroom to teach us about the water cycle and the soil. I LOVE trips! Especially when they come to me!

Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of the influential people that we study each year, we actually already studied him earlier in the year. A few of the girls suggested that we have a celebration on his birthday since it was a school day.  I'm always up for a celebration! 

We read LOTS of books on Dr. King. We worked on determining important information when reading about biographies. We wrote about about reasons we thought Martin Luther King would be proud today and ended our week with the I Have A Dream creativity from Amy Lemons and Katie King's Rooted in Reading pack and a small birthday party for Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Have a productive MLK, Jr. Day and continue to follow the dream!

HELLO 2016!

Hello Friends....

I love every new year! It is a time for new beginnings and fresh starts. Who doesn't like fresh starts? 

I know that I definitely do because even though I am throughly enjoying my class this school year, I have had to abandon my poor little blog due to health issues to start off the school year and having to take on additional tasks since. Needless to say, I needed this winter break something serious! And "break" I did! I have done nothing but rest, relax, shop, spend time with family, and my personal favorite watch lots of football. ( I have to soak it all in because the season is almost over) The only time I didn't spend breaking, I would get up and start decluttering different parts of the house for a few hours at a time. You know how when you start projects like that it always seems to get more messy before it gets more clean. Yeah, well I'm at that stage but it's okay because I know I've made A LOT of progress.

I don't really believe in making resolutions but making a list of things I HOPE to accomplish each new year (hence my one word).

I hope to spend more time with my blog. I have gotten to know some amazing people this year through blogging and I want to continue to take time to share my experiences with others and learn and grow as a teacher through blogging. I also hope to have the courage to do things I have never done before but always wish I would have done. I have a tendency to play it safe and stay in my comfort zone. And finally I hope to have plenty of adventures in 2016!

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