Last Day Fun

This was such a fun way to end the last day.  My class won the Box Top award and PTO Attendance award, so I used the money to buy water toys and bubbles.  These "water sticks" were great!  It was the best 6 minutes of the year, I'm guessing.  Five buckets didn't last too long!

At the end of the year, I have another tradition. Word travels fast, so I know they expect this to happen at the end of the year. :)   I usually have a ton of candy left over and I don't want to take it home, so I call groups of students into the hall and we have a candy toss.  I toss and they run! The principal had some fun this year, too!

We always have a few minutes left, so we go back into the classroom and I let students share one of their favorite things about the year and I toss more candy to them.

It's hard to believe it's the end of the year. I'm not sure if it was the 13-14 snow days, the strange weather or that it's still May that makes it seem like we have more time left.

I'm ready for summer! It's time to Create, Learn and Explore! 

Zoo Animals Area and Perimeter

The last week of school is always fun for review. It's nice to know that everything has been taught! We've been working on animal reports, animal shape poems, our animal wax museum, and today we used our animals for area and perimeter.

I'm really going to miss my artists.  Can you guess the animals?

Sentence Scrambles and Puzzles

We've been working on our multiplication facts.  They've had a lot of fun with these two activities!

The multiplication matching puzzle is for writing their facts 2 times each.  It can be found here.

This activity has the picture puzzle, a card game and fact family cards.  My students put the puzzle together and then used the fact family cards to practice their facts. You can find this product here.

This student is obviously still working on the puzzle.  He wasn't finished when I snapped this photo! Oops! 

After a trip to the zoo or a study on animals, students can edit and sort sentences, rewrite sentences in their own words, make inferences about animal traits, illustrate sentences and complete a word search.

The sentence scrambles really made them think about how words are used.  I need to create some more of these activities to use all year long.  This really kept the interest of some of my boys who have difficulty sitting still.  They enjoyed the challenge, so it's perfect for the end of they year when they have the wiggles!

This product contains 5 mammals.  I made 6 copies of each and let my students choose.  The students will use the same mammal for the remaining activities.  

You can grab this product for 50% off through May 17th! 

Designing a Seal

Today we designed new seals for our village.  Here are a few fabulous examples.  I'm going to really miss my little artists.  I absolutely love the details in their pictures.

It's a Sale!

It's time for another sale.  You can receive 28% off in my store on May 5th and May 6th by entering the code: ThankYou at check out. 

 

I just finished up my most recent product.  Here's the compound word book my students made.