Five for Friday

Well, I may be 2 days late, but I can't pass up "Five for Friday". I love sharing what I've been up to throughout the week, both at school and at home! Here we go!

Since Thanksgiving is almost here, we've been talking about how things were different then than they are now. The students are always so fascinated at how things have changed over time! Here is an example of the t-chart activity from my "Then and Now" unit. After reading about the different ways things were different, each group of students was given a t-chart with a certain topic. They had to draw and write a sentence of how things have change over time. Here is one on transportation.

If you are still in school next week for a few days before Thanksgiving, this is a fun unit to do! Grab it in my TpT store HERE!

These next couple of ones count as 2 and 3 because I have so many to share! Since Christmas is right around the corner, I have been loading lots of fun things for Winter time! Some are even freebies! Just click on the picture to be taken it on TpT! They will make any classroom fun during the holiday season!

Target is coming out with their Christmas candy and this is BAD news for my waistline!! But oh so good in my belly!

I have off all next week and I can't wait to spend the week with family and these two fur balls!!

Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your full or half week off! Lord knows we all need it! :)

Then and Now Thanksgiving Unit

Well Dana from Scrappin' Doodles does it again! I contacted her with an idea for a fun Thanksgiving clip art set and she blew my expectations away! This unit wouldn't have been possible with her! So without further ado, here my newest unit!

This is a fun unit to teach right around Thanksgiving time. My kids always love it! They can't believe how the pilgrims used to live! Some of my favorite books to read that go along with my unit are the "If You Lived..." books.

Here are some of the activities included in the unit with many more as well!

I also just posted a fun freebie craftivity on TpT that is a must do for the Thanksgiving season!

What are your favorite Thanksgiving activities to teach?

November Currently and Freebie Hop

I know I'm a couple days late to the currently post, but I had to join in! And don't worry, I have some fun freebies for you since I'm so late in my post :)

Listening: Watching the remake of "The Parent Trap with Lindsey Lohan. Takes me back!

Loving: My family is just amazing! I have been bed rest for the past 2 days. My husband and I have been going through IVF and the embryo transfer was yesterday. Our little guy is getting all nestled in mommy's tummy! And no, we don't know if it's a boy, but we have decided it is :) They have come over every day to bring us dinner and hang out with me :) My sister even stopped by the gas station today on her way over to get me some candy because I was craving it so much! Cravings have to be a good thing right!? :)

Thinking: Life has been so many ups and downs the past year, but now I feel that things are starting to slow down and settle in.

Wanting: I have joined a little Facebook freebie hop with some of my favorite bloggers! Click on the picture below to be taken to my Facebook page where you can find the "Fall Freebie" tab and begin the hop!

Needing: We had our IVF embryo transfer yesterday and are praying this baby sticks! Check out more of our story at my personal blog, Man and Wife and Two Fur Babies. Is that baby just beautiful!?

Yummy Pins: And here are the yummy pins that I have been cooking lately! Both are so yummy!! Click on the picture to take you to the recipe!

Five for Friday

I am so sorry for being so absent from my blog lately! I will explain below in my Five for Friday. Enjoy!

#1 Here is a fun activity I've been working on that I plan on using with my kiddos once Thanksgiving is here. My Designer Turkey helps students practice inferencing by reading clues from kids about what kind of turkey they want for Thanksgiving. I know my kids are just going to love it! I plan on making one for Christmas too! Be on the look out!

#2 Here is another one product I have recently posted. My kids love fractions and you have to do some fun activities and they LOVED this one!! Everyone loves bubble gum right?

 #3 One of my favorite math topics to teach is money, so this product was born! I work with the low kids as the title 1 teacher at my school so we spend alot of time reviewing things they didn't catch onto and money is one of them! I work solely with 2nd graders and some of these still don't know the names of coins. Well we will be changing that ASAP!

#4 Last year I took on another teaching job as a cotillion teacher. I teach 2 Sundays a month. On each given Sunday I teach 4 1 1/2 hour classes of about 60-80 students. PHEW! Believe me, I'm exhausted by the end of the day. If you haven't heard of cotillion, it's very popular in the deep south and also up north. It's a class to help teach students in middle school proper etiquette and proper dance. The first class is always scary for them, but this month we are on our 2nd class of the season and the kids are realizing how much fun it is! Here they are practicing their dancing. Don't worry, there's another teacher to teach dance. No way could I do that!

#5 Lots of things are going on in my family lately. Check out my personal blog, Man and Wife and Two Fur Babies for more details. We are in the middle of an IVF cycle. Any prayers would be greatly appreciated! Hoping I will be posting some happy news soon!

Make sure you go and check out all of the Five for Fridays on Doodle Bug Teaching!

October Currently

Wahoo! Time for the monthly currently!

I hope you enjoy hearing what's going on in my life and other bloggers in the bloggy world!

Listening: I just LOVE Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, and when you put them in the same movie, it's just pure perfection! AND the fact that his chistled abs are just yummy to look at!

Loving: I am so much enjoying teaching the gifted and talented kids for the past 4 weeks! I will be sad to leave them and move onto being the title 1 tutor for another school in the district. I get around, don't I?

Thinking: I am sick and tired of this cold and am ready for it to MOVE the heck on!

Wanting: For those they have followed my husband and I's fertility journey, we are finally starting IVF! We are so excited to finally be able to try since our miscarriage. We will know mid November if the procedure works. Please keep us in your prayers! Especially my husband, since he will have to deal with me on crazy hormones!

Needing: If you haven't checked out the 1st grade Educents bundle, you must do it immediately! I need for you to check this out because it's too good of a deal to pass up! You will be sad if you don't!

Trick or Treat: I am providing you a fun treat! Head over to my facebook page by clicking on the word search page, and click the "Fan Freebie" and you can download the monthly word searches I upload as a fan freebie for my facebook followers!

Enjoy!

Five for Friday

It's Friday my friends! Wahoo! Time for Five for Friday to check out what's going on in my classroom!

We read this ADORABLE book "A is for Musk Ox"

If you haven't read it yet, it's about a musk ox who writes an entire alphabet book about a musk ox. "A is for musk ox because musk oxen are awesome and live in Alaska." "B is for musk ox because musk oxen have black or brown fur." You get the picture.

After reading the book, my students got to start writing a book about them!! This is an ongoing project that we will work on all year long! Here is one student's letter "G". This is going to be fun!

If you'd like to snag this packet and do the activity with your kids, click on the picture below to download through Google Docs.

We also started our first research project of the year! They are so stinking excited! With the "Resident Expert: Research Process" packet {available in TpT, click on the cover page}, my kids are on their way to a successful research project!

We started off by doing a fun poem where the students listed out some of the things they'd like to do if they were in charge of their learning.

Then they went ahead and made a list of what they wanted to research. We will do this many times throughout the year so I wanted them to have a long running list to pull from through the year.

Next, it's time to plan! We wrote down what we knew about our topic and questions we had.

Then we took the questions we wrote, and organized them into sub topics so that our researching would not be so scattered.

After that we went to the library to check out books and then they will start researching on the computer next week. They are LOVING this!

I have made some fun posters and activities for teaching doubles! I hope this is something you could use in your classroom!

And this is a product you don't want to miss! It's a great set of print and go fall themed writing, reading, and math activities! A must have for the busy fall season!

And I must leave you with the cutest thing you've ever seen! She is sitting on her throne right next to me while I'm writing this post. I just love her!

Have a great Friday!