Red Ribbon Week, Character Pumpkins and Batty Equations!

Hi friends! Just a quick post to share some pictures with you! We're having Red Ribbon Week this week and we made the cutest door display:

 It is sooo cute! I adapted the template found here.

I love how they all came out so differently!

 I had no idea Yoda was in my class!

We did my Batty Equations Activity and my kiddos LOVED it! For some reason they all started picking sides, either wanting True to win or False to win (have the most). So glad it was a tie lol!

 I have come to understand that this group of kids loves to color! I mean, they will take 20 minutes coloring in borders and pictures before they even get to the meat of the work! We are working on getting the math done first and then coloring!

I sent home a Character Pumpkin homework assignment from Simply Kinder and got the cutest pumpkins back. Here are some of them:

 

 

I am a little bit afraid about going into school on Halloween tomorrow - hoping no one got into the candy early! I hope you all have a great day!

Batty Freebie and More!

Hello friends! Fall Break was so much fun! I spent a lot of time loving on Sullivan and watching movies with the whole family!

 Here's Sullivan during the break. Such a happy little man!

Here's Sullivan during the school week - he's not quite sure what he thinks of mama going to school every day! He's starting a new daycare on post on Monday, and I'm crossing my fingers that he adjusts well (its closer to home and will be easier for daddy to pick him up on days I have events after school, plus its military-run so you KNOW its spotless!)

Now that we are back in school, my kiddos are LOVING our Roll & Cover games. Seriously, they can't get enough of them! They are one of my activities for when they have finished their work and I keep small baggies with tokens and dice with the laminated games. Each day this week I ran out of game sets!

Thankfully, we also had Smilemaker's Blast Off Fact Family Chart to use too - its so funny to watch them "balst off" after they've completed the fact family equations!

I've created a new Fall Graphing pack that is going to see a lot of use in my room - some of the activities will be enrichment activities for early finishers, while some we will do whole class.

 Counting and graphing cookies!

My Fall Graphing pack is on sale tonight too!

I'm also bringing out my "5 Little Bats" poem pack. I love doing a pocket chart poem or story each week. Speaking of bats, I made a "Batty True/False Equation Pack" and I'm offering it as a freebie! We're going to sort the cards in a pocket chart as a whole group and then my kiddos will complete the recording sheet as part of their independent practice. You can grab it from my TPT store by clicking the image below:



I'm off to feed Sullivan and finish lesson plans! Here's hoping that having Halloween on Thursday doesn't make your week too crazy!

Ghostly Math and Blasting Off for Fact Families!

Woohoo for Fall Break! 5 days of relaxation and playing with Sullivan! He is gearing up for Halloween:

I am gearing up for more parent/teacher conferences! I had 22 out of 28 scheduled, then 6 no shows so that means I have 12 more to do this week!

I'm also gearing up for decorating our classroom for the Fall - I'm going in on Monday to work on getting our tree ready and switching out our Ten Frame cards for these monsters from my Fall Holidays Ten Frames pack

Speaking of new decorations, I received a new  Fact Family BLAST OFF pocket chart from Smilemakers and my students are LOVING it! So far we've been using it in whole group in the afternoon as a review, but my kiddos keep going over and checking it our like these little guys did during breakfast:

Each afternoon we put a new fact family card up and then figure out the addition and subtraction sentences we can make. Once we have the chart complete we crouch down, count backwards from 10 and then leap up shouting "Blast off!" The kids are enthralled the whole time and they are really starting to get the hang of fact families!

Smilemakers gave me the pocket chart to review and I have to tell you, I LOVE their site! So many cool items! I am eying a bunch of stickers as well as erasers and art supplies! The best part is being able to sort the site by occupation so I can see all the educator items easily!


I am getting a student teacher next week and I'm a bit nervous since I've only had my class back for 10 school days. We still haven't settled into a complete routine. One thing we're working on is work stations or centers. Since there are 28 of them, it has a tendency to get a bit noisy to say the least! This week I'm pulling out some fun Halloween things to give them an incentive to work quietly:

 We're working on comparing numbers, missing addends and place value, these fun printables will be a hit for sure with my kiddos!

I made a Halloween Addition Search pack so my kiddos can have fun searching for addition sentences and solving them.

 Missing addend clothespin activity.

 Write the room for missing addends.

 Addition & Subtraction Roll & Cover games.

 A 120 chart and number lines to help with comparing numbers, addition and missing addends.

All of these can be found in my new Ghostly Math pack, my Halloween Addition Search or my Halloween Roll & Cover pack.


I haven't finalized plans for Literacy this week - off to watch Despicable Me 2 with the kiddos and then I will work on my ELA block! I hope you're having a great weekend!