I took a blogging break during the holidays. We had EVERYONE at our house which was great but a little crazy and exhausting! Then report cards were due and I had Open House to prepare for... You know how it is.
Here's a quick update:
I had my students decorate candle holders with fingerprint snowmen for their parent present.
Yes, they were glass but we only lost one and had time to make another. I did wrap them in bubble wrap to make sure they made it home. They were so proud to take them home.
Last week, we wrote New Year's Resolutions.
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My second graders used the word resolve and wrote in cursive to differentiate.
My first graders are focusing on adjectives this week. We read
Tacky the Penguin and brainstormed a list of adjectives to describe Tacky.
Then each student picked an adjective and wrote me 2 sentences explaining how Tacky fit that adjective.
I've posted a Tacky craft in
previous years but this year I needed something smaller and less time-consuming. Tammy over at
Live, Love, Laugh, Everyday in Kindergarten was nice enough to share her Tacky patterns so I shrunk them by 50% and copied the shirt and tie on scrapbook paper. I found the writing paper by
Moore Fun in Kindergarten.
I also made an
Adjective Penguin QR Center.
The students read the sentence and identify the adjectives.
I post the cards around the room and the students use clipboards to write their answers on their recording sheet.
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When their recording sheet is full, the students get an iPad to scan the QR code to check their work.
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I feel totally out of the blogging/selling loop. Any interesting news I should know about?