The Lovely Blog Award

I was pleasantly surprised and joyous when I learned I received another "Lovely Blog Award" Thanks to Heather's Heart for my first one, and a special thanks to The Honey Bunch for my second. :)  And FINALLY in keeping with the rules and my word-I would like to return the favor and show my love for these LOVELY blogs....

Tickled to teach

Teaching my Calling

 

Thoughts of a third grade..

 

2B Honeybunch

 

SMARTBOX and Patty's Day freebie

Yes, I realize that Saturday is St. Patrick's Day so I am CLEARLY late and getting my freebie posted. :(  But hey, it is a FREEBIE! :)  I learned of "smart boxes" from another teacher and conformed them to meet my needs, they're a great go to for early finishers as well as easily prepared holiday and theme activities for Daily 5 or Language Arts centers.  So here's what I did:
create a "directions" page for the box, decorate and label a file folder box (not sure on the actually name for these type of file folders), gather 4-5 student leveled books, and any worksheets that may be needed (I put these in a folder) last but not least if you have and file folder games put them in too!  I've taken some pics of mine, and my St. Patty's Day SMARTbox is free @ my teacher store!  Also, I've uploaded a link to the page for reading comprehension and a great math activity from abcteach.com.  Enjoy!
Reading Comprehension
Pot of Gold

AAHAHAHHAHAH!!!

It's report card time, Busy Bodies Day, class performance next Thursday, teacher work day Friday, AND to top it of it.......its a Monday.  Need I say more!
I received another award and I am sooooo returning the goodwill hopefully this evening if not tomorrow.  I feel horrible I haven't gotten to it sooner, and hope to post a freebie on St. Patrick-better late than never.  Who knows maybe someone will need it.  :)

Awards

Tickled to Teach: Another Award!!!: Another sweet surprise this weekend when I was awarded the Lovely Blog award from The Journey of a Substitute Teacher , Dragonflies in First...http://tickledtoteach.blogspot.com

This teacher has created an adopt a teacher to help aid those effected by the recent tornadoes-let's all pitch in!

http://kreativeinkinder.blogspot.com/2012/03/teachers-taking-care-of-teachers.html

Math Notebooks

Math Notebooks

So I've taken it upon myself to try to revamp my math program, etc.  It's been a process to say the least!  I began by revisiting, and review stuff from college and became inspired.  With my inspiration I have devised a game plan-sort of. :)
First step was a "Math Notebook"  I have seen several great post with some awesome ideas.  We had a "Math Journal" an expensive notebook I order at the first of the year and pretty much the whole class has filled theirs up.  Staples had composition notebooks for 50cents this weekend which I bought up with my Staples rewards (so nice to not be out of pocket for things).  I began my "teacher" copy this weekend and designed it much like the older grades with  the Table of Contents, subjects and page numbers (subjects and page #s as we go).  Next year obviously this will be done at the first of the year, but my students seem to lack a good foundation in Math anyways so I decided it wouldn't hurt.  AND they'll be my trial run to see how this works!  We wrote our first page (Numeration) today and it went great!  The kids were amped about it and I really think they'll start getting more out of math with completing their notebooks.  The first few pages are basically their reference pages and after that work will be done in the rest.  I'll try to upload some pics this afternoon.