Space Travel

Today the K-1 children illustrated two words- Earth and stars. (Photos to come, oops)

We also listened to these books:

 The older children traveled to Mercury.  First thing we did was to to figure out our weight on the planet.
The 2 & 3 grade children came  up with these facts:

 The 4 & 5 grades came up with these facts:

 They also traveled to Venus. We figured out our weight there too!

Blog Hop 2010

I was on the search for new Word Work ideas and came across tons of ideas.  The one that I chose was using my old Vitamin Water bottle caps to make a new center for the students.  We give the students five new words each week. I write vowels in red and consonants in blue. When my students are done making their words, I have them take a photo of their work.

Now on to my blog hop.  I asked several people to come hop along with me.  Check out all of their wonderful recycled items that they use in there classrooms.

Luanne http://putyourwholeselfin.blogspot.com/

www.whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com

Kathleen at http://growingkinders.blogspot.com/

http://seedsofnoledge.blogspot.com/

A Day with Dr Jean

I spent the day with Dr Jean!!!!!

I was lucky enough to see Jean again. Check out another workshop I attended. Here is another workshop I went to also. They were different years and different topics. :)

Having fun and learning with Dr Jean. Photos to follow :) many ideas to share.

Space Words

We began discussing space words.

Space Words:

Girl Student: "5"
Me: "5?"
Girl Student: "5 4 3 2 1"
Me: "oh, countdown!"

 For the K-1 children, I came up with the words, day 1 we just glued these in.

 On one of the pages, we colored and cut out the rocket.  Here was the example. (It is the Other R)

Moving and Groovin!

We are in motion for the next few weeks. We gathered different balls from all of school.
We brainstormed all of the balls we could think of in 3-5 grades.  This is what they came up with:

We had two different groups of 3rd-5th graders figure these out.

My favorites: cheeseball and meatball!


We described them, we classified them, and we talked about their attributes. For our hands on, we picked one of the balls. We drew our ball in our science log. Then we described it. Finally, tested them out. We used different blocks as ramps and predicted and tested how far they rolled.

Teacher Must Haves

Just like Oprah has her favorites, I have mine too!

Teaching Favorites

Vitamin Water Spark my favorite flavor

Colored pens

Desktop computer :)

Discover Boxes (get them from  Discover Cards about 1/2 way down the page)

iPhone I can blog right from my phone. (It is so I don't  forget the  interesting things the children say!)

personal laptop

Materials for my week go in here (copies and books needed)

Okay, so the smell is for me :)

I keep all of my office supplies in here.  I can see where everything is.

I use these plus the cut out ones for  my CAFE board.

Sharpies every size, shape, and color.

Need I say more? :)

This is the home to some of my stamps

Venti Vanilla Latte

Tag Readers.  I received 6 of them for my class. I piloted them for LeapFrog last year.

Keep materials inside

Everyone should join!

Binders

Dry erase markers

Sheet protectors

Pampered chef tool turn about- I keep these on my tables for supplies. Being a Pampered Chef consultant has its perks!!!! 

Crayola twistables they don't break as easily.

Cameras- one for me and one for the students to use.

Foaming soap. (Although before they had this, I used my Pampered Chef Suds Pump for the same effect!
 I was the coolest teacher with the awesome soap!)

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