Homework Calendar- April

Here is this months Homework Calendar.

There was a request to change parents to families, so this one has been changed :}

Shout Out Saturday's

So for a while now, I have talked about the other Mrs. R.  Yes there are two of us at the same school.

Yes we are related!


I won't tell you how many years she has been teaching, because she tells everyone she is 27 years old, every year!  lol

I will tell you she has taught in Virginia, Illinois, and Wisconsin.  She has taught everything from
pre-school through college.   She teaches district classes and has taught teachers to be better teachers.

When she comes  to observe my class and she gives me feedback, I know that it is honest and since she is still teaching, she knows what she is talking about.

Okay seriously we didn't plan this- this is really the only yellow shirt I own and then we both wear it on the same day?????  lol

Space Day 7

Today we had the students create the real constellations!  So after they realized that they got more than 4 stars like they did from me, they did this awesome work!!!

We got to read this book..... wait for it.... with 3-D glasses :}

 Books that I shared:

Earth Day and Recycle aka: Lorax

So in honor of the Lorax movie coming out {way excited!!!!!!!}

We talked all about the 3 R's, composting and preserving the environment.
We sang these songs:

 With the K-1 children we broke it down in two days. We began with:

We did directed drawing for those items.  I drew the jar (well we called it a vase-I thought that it would look too much like our can lol)   on day two we did reduce and compost!  The older kids just broke their page in quarters.

                                                                        {source}
I took this photo from on line, click on the source above to see my search.  I can't very well take a photo while we are using the app!  lol  :}  Anyways, now on to what we did.  We went around the room- we did this 4 times!  Each time they would say:

I would {recycle/reduce/reuse/compost} ____________________________. For their friends.  They laughed and laughed at me when I introduced it to them!

St. Patrick's Day

Leprechaun Spinner

St. Pat's Counting Dominoes

Classbook

Classbook

Lots of Luck card matching

 Non-Standard Measuring-Hats

 Non-Standard Measuring-Leprechauns

Non-Standard Measuring-Shamrock Hearts

Pot of Gold Shake Up

You can either use gold coins or beans or shamrock erasers!

Non-Standard Measuring-pot of gold

Card Matching St. Pat's Bear

Earth Day

I know this is early, but it just worked out like that!

This week is all about Earth Day and recycling.

I got these booklets recently and couldn't wait to use them!

There are books for every age level.

 This poster was included in the program.

 Going to use these poems under the ELMO.

 With K-2 we will sort items in my pocket chart.  3-5 will create in their science logs.

 I will be using these for word work.

I laminate the spinner and the recording sheet.

One option is they have to write the letters as they get them,

or you may want to have those letters available.

Still another way is just to have out some

kind of counter and as the children spin 

they put a counter under the letter.

This saves paper- each child doesn't have to

have a page and two

sometimes even using markers 

is a pain to clean up too! 

Earth Day Spinner

Recycle- easy version

Earth Day ABC's 

Recycle Matching Cards

Seuss Reading

Sometimes, with my higher reading groups, I let them do an independent author study.

I found all of my Seuss books and put them around the entire room.  Yes it goes around the whole room lol

Anyways, with my top readers, they all get this sheet and a recording sheet.

I make theirs in black and white.  I do copy it on the 

picture setting on my copy machine.

So after they read the book, they color in the hat under each book.

On their recording sheet.

they record the date they read it.

We have a 3 hat system if the book is 

okay, good, great

They shade in 1, 2 or 3.

Then they tell me their favorite part.

On non-fiction books, I ask them to list a fact.