The Winner and Freebies!

And the winner is....

 

but, because I want everyone to have something... here are a couple of freebies for you! But first some back story (remember good things come to those who read on! ha ha) 

So, we are working on contractions this week in HM, and this is always such a tough one for the kiddos... so we started with this chart and my "rules for contractions"

we do this great finger play to go along with the rules that the kids LOVE! 

 Then we did this interactive poster (courtesy of Abby at The Inspired Apple - love her!). Way easy to understand and the kids jumped right on!

I choose the contraction ahead of time, the kids highlighted the letters to leave out, helped me write the remaining letters and added the apostrophe!

And... tomorrow we will be doing this sort in small groups and the worksheet during workshop! So, you should have them too! Click the pics to download and I hope you enjoy them :)

Have a wonderful Monday! See you soon :)

Happy Saturday!

Hope you all are enjoying your weekend so far... I go back to school on Monday and I can't wait... crazy right! But, I am implementing a new UA/Workshop plan and I am excited to try it out! I'll let you know how it goes...

Anyhoo... I have posted a couple of new math activities to TPT :) Bets of all, they are super cheap!

 
Does anyone want to win them?? Leave a comment and I'll choose one person to win all three :)

Snowman Day!

We celebrated snowman day and had all sorts of snowman fun! We spent the day reading snowman books, doing snowman work, and making snowman art...

We started off with the book Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright.

If you haven't read it, Sneezy is one cold snowman that tries to get warm, but has terrible luck (hopping in the hot tub, standing by the fire etc..) until his friends give him some better ways to get warm. It's a fun story with rhyming and some repetitive lines that allow for kids to chime in! All in all the kids liked it, could easily do a retell of it and were able to make text to self connections.

After we responded to the story by thinking of different ways to get warm than those in the story. This kids had some great answers, I was totally impressed. We took our ideas of how to get warm and put them with some snowman art. The girls did purple hats and the boys blue.

When I need to get warm I get under my warm blanket.

When I need to get warm I get in the bed and turn on the music.

Later we did snowman soup! Have you had that stuff? Delicious! I swapped out normal hot chocolate for white hot chocolate that I found at Safeway. It went over great as "melted snow" :) Each kiddo got the ingredients for the soup on a plate and one cup of snow. Then we read through the recipe together and added them one step at a time altogether. I wish I had taken more pics, but you know how that goes!

1 candy cane, 10 mini marshmallows, and two Hershey's kisses

The one pic I managed to snap, with all of ingredients added the kiddos are happily mixing their soup!

After we enjoyed our soup we determined weather or not we liked it and did a classroom vote. All but 1 child enjoyed the drink. Then we completed a tally graph and analyze page ( a favorite of mine to do). Click the pic to get your copy!

Also... Here are the recipe pages: I projected the larger one as we mixed our soup and I let the kids take a mini one home with them to tell their parents all about it! Click the pics to download and thanks scrappindoodles.com for the fun clip art!

Finally we made our snowman ornament thanks to the cute idea from A Cupcake for the Teacher. I did all of the hot gluing, the kiddos stuck on the snowman parts and drew on the eyes and mouth. Love them!

Snowman day was a blast! If you do one too don't forget to check out my other snowman stuff here!

See you soon :)