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Field Day Fun!

We had an amazing Field Day on Friday! It may be one of the kids' favorite days of the year! Although, we have so many fun days at our school, it may be hard to narrow it down to one! I do believe we are the best elementary school on the planet and our kids believe that too!

We started off our morning by completing a Field Day Flow Map. Flow maps are great to show sequence of events and today was a perfect time to introduce this Thinking Map. Since our schedule was very different than normal, we thought we would start the day by letting the kids know what to expect when. And, yes, we were trying to avoid the zillion questions like, "When do we eat lunch?", "When is it time for Field Day?" etc. :) I explained the schedule of the day and wrote down the key events and times on the whiteboard. The kids drew out the events in order and labeled the boxes to show how our day would go. It really helped and I even overheard 2 kids talking later in the day about when we were going to library and one student told the other..."Check your Flow map!" :)

It's FREE if you want to use it. :) Get this HERE.

The past 2 years, our Field Day has been different than in the past and it is AWESOME! The kids can choose their Field Day buddies (3 kids in a group is ideal) within their grade level and complete the Field Day activities in any order they wish. No more rotating in order and waiting for the whistle to blow for the next station. The kids LOVE having the power to choose and roam around at their own pace. The kids wore lanyards with the activities attached and would get their tag hole-punched as they completed each activity. Another cool part about our Field Day, is that we use our older kids (4th and 5th graders) to buddy up with the kindergartners to help them through the activities. AND the older kids also run the station activities. It is so neat seeing these kids step up and look out for our younger kids. We still have parent volunteers but most of them were monitoring and supervising while the kids managed the stations. :) Special thanks to our amazing PE coach who is the mastermind behind our fun day!

THANKS COACH FARDA!

He had just as much fun as our kids!

Here are a few pics of our fun day...

 Gotta love the sack race!

 Ready for TUG OF WAR!

Tug of War 2nd Grade Champs! Go Mrs. MeGown's Class!

VICTORY!

 Flexing our muscles....this is why we won tug of war. :)

Fallin' For Fall-Fall Writing Prompts

FALL! It's that time of the year! Encourage and stretch your students' writing with these fun and creative writing prompts. Each prompt has its own writing page in portrait and landscape, color and black and white.

Some writing pages offer more or less writing space depending on your student's needs and some pages come with a place for an illustration.

Writing Prompts:

One day I was raking leaves when...

It was so windy outside that...

When I went to the Pumpkin Patch...

My favorite fall day was when...

What do you like to do in the fall?

Once there was a magical pumpkin...

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ENJOY!

Super Sentences! Complete Sentence Bundle with Station Activities

This is a comprehensive collection of complete sentence practice, ideal for grades 1st-3rd.

 Some pages have 2 versions for differentiated learners. All printable pages come in black 

and white for easy printing.

Complete Sentence practice includes: 

-6 colorful teaching posters

-Sentence Sort (cut and paste activity)

-Rescue the Incomplete Sentences practice sheet

-"What's Missing?" practice sheet

-Answering questions in complete sentence

-"Help!" practice sheet (editing sentences)

-Scrambled Sentences #1 (for your struggling students)

-Scrambled Sentences #2 (for your higher students)

This also includes 3 engaging station activities. They are ready to go...simply print, 

laminate and cut out the parts. 

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This is Why I Teach...

Halloween Fun Activity Pack-12 Literacy Printables

With Halloween right around the corner, I've put together 12 different literacy printables to engage and challenge your students! Ideal for grades 1st-4th, there is something for everyone. This activity pack includes a Halloween word search, acrostic poems, 3 different writing papers for Halloween stories, Venn diagram to compare costumes, descriptive bubble maps or webs for pumpkins, ghosts and costume ideas, tree maps for Pumpkins and more!


Here is a Preview of most of the pages...

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ONE WORD

Our school's theme this year is ONE. We have one voice and one life, we are one team. I love it! So, we have asked the kids to think of ONE word that will be their focus for the year. I shared with my class, the first week of school, my one word of the year....BALANCE. It was quite amusing trying to explain this to my 2nd graders. One said, "So you want to work on your balance?? Like standing on one foot? I can do that!!"

I went on to explain that it is important for me to balance my time between home/family life and my life at school. Plus, my hobbies and friendships.... After I explained more, I was quite impressed that some of the kids really understood.

SO...this week I challenged the kids to think of their ONE word by Friday so we could make our One Word posters. Every student chose a word that would be something they would work on, not necessarily describe them.

I took white construction paper and cut a whole in the middle to make a frame for their face. I told them to decorate their poster and draw a symbol to reflect their word. Then I took each student's picture with their poster.  I plan to make a photo collage out of all the pics and post on our classroom door. Hoping it will help reinforce and hold them accountable for their word.

Here is my example...

Here are some of the kids!!

I have to say that I am truly blessed by these kids. Such a great group and I already love them all! I look forward to helping them focus on their ONE WORD this year!

UPDATE!! I decided to take their pics and place on our bulletin board...