Wordless Wednesday~ Easter Fun!

Linking up with Miss DeCarbo for Wordless Wednesday!

What are you doing to celebrate Easter with your kiddos?

I am really looking forward to our little celebration. 

Tomorrow we will be doing an egg hunt, doing a fun little creativity and then at the end of the day I'm gonna pass out treats with these tags:

Feel free to download a copy HERE

What are some fun traditions you like to do with your kiddos for Easter?

Wordless Wednesday- Sick Day and No School!

It's time again for Wordless Wednesday! 

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What do you do when you're feeling icky?

Last week I was feeling miserable. I got a cold right after Thanksgiving. Our flight from Ohio got delayed twice Sunday night so by the time we made it home it was close to midnight.

I was not ready for a sub Monday so I decided to just push through and teach anyway (*note to self, make emergency sub plans ASAP!!)

So long story short, a parent volunteer who helps me every Monday, saw me looking pretty sad (and sick) and decided to make up this little get well gift.

It was packed with all the essential items to help me feel better quickly. 

I don't think I've ever received a more thoughtful or timely gift. It totally hit the spot!

Thankfully I'm much better now and will be enjoying the rest of these items for many weeks to come. 

We just had school canceled for tomorrow due to inclement weather so I'll be snuggling up on my couch, enjoying this tea and donning my new fuzzy socks  :)

I'm one happy camper!

What's your secret "cure" when you're feeling sick?
My main "go to's" are airborne, Emergency, hot tea, cough drops and juicing (I like to juice fruits and veggies). I figure maybe the combination of all those things will speed up the recovery time.

Wordless Wednesday~Turkey Crafts

I'm linking up again for Wordless Wednesday

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This week I had an exciting thing happen to me.

 One of the teachers I follow on Facebook was doing a giveaway and encouraged all her followers to like her page, comment on the product and tag a friend. I have done this so many times with other giveaways, in hopes that I would be a winner. 

Well, what do ya know- winner winner chicken dinner- I FINALLY WON something! I was so surprised and ecstatic! I mean seriously I felt like I won the lottery. I know that's a bit dramatic, but it's a really good feeling especially when you aren't expecting to win anything.

So I actually won two units. The first one is pictured below and the second one will be featured in my five for Friday post.

The units were created by The Appleicious Teacher

and all I can do is rave about them! 

They were seriously a godsend and I found it so easy to work them into my lesson plans this week.

The pictures below show examples from this amazing unit: 

No Turkey For Thanksgiving

Students had to write a persuasive essay trying to convince their reader to eat something other than turkey for Thanksgiving. Their arguments were very cute and convincing. I mean come on, who wouldn't want to eat ice cream for Thanksgiving??

So here are my questions for you:
1. What kind of fun crafts do you do with your students leading up to Thanksgiving?
2. Have you ever won a unit from a Facebook giveaway?
Wishing you a Wonderful Wednesday!

Wordless Wednesday- 50th Day of School!!

I'm linking up with Miss DeCarbo again for Wordless Wednesday!

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Today was our 50th day of school. What a fun celebration we had!

Every year our elementary (grades K-5) get together to celebrate the 50th day of school.  We've got about 35 kids so we split them up into 4 groups and have each group visit a different station. Every group gets a color coded "necklace" to wear.

After they visit a station, we put a sticker on their necklace to help them keep track of how many stations they've visited.

We used Cara Carroll's 50th Day Mini Unit which you can download HERE!!!

Here are the stations we did this year:

 
Delicious Doubles (adding double numbers) and ABC order word sort

 50 seconds activity where students do an exercise/activity for 50 seconds and count how many times they complete it.

And measuring the circumference and area of the records.

Wordless Wednesday question for all of you:

How do you celebrate the 50th day of school?

Wordless Wednesday- What Are You Thankful For?

Linking up again with Miss DeCarbo at Second Grade Sugar and Spice for Wordless Wednesday

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Since we are entering the season leading up to Thanksgiving, I thought it would be good to incorporate an ongoing activity to help my students keep gratitude in their attitudes while we are gearing up for the holidays.

I found this idea on pinterest and decided to make it my own.

Every day leading up to Thanksgiving, I'm having my students write one thing they are thankful for and post it on our 'thankful tree.' 

By the end of the month (which happens to be very short!) our tree will be full and our hearts will be happy! Okay I know that was a little silly, but you get the gist. 

(please excuse the blurry photo. Yuck!)

So here is the question for you: What are you thankful for? And how do you foster gratefulness in your students? 

Happy Wednesday Friends!

Wordless Wednesday: Pumpkin Science

I'm excited to join Miss DeCarbo over at Sugar and Spice and join the link party again for Wordless Wednesday!

And Now... A Little Bit of Pumpkin Science!

A learning activity I tried last year that I absolutely LOVED, and my students went gah-gah over was, planting a classroom pumpkin patch.

As we learn about pumpkins, we grow them in our classroom and see the life cycle unfold in front of our very eyes. 

It is pretty awesome!

Before we planted:

After we planted our seeds:

We planted our seeds and now we will be recording our observations daily to track our little seeds growth.

Stay tuned :)

What do you do to teach pumpkin life cycles in your classroom??

Wordless Wednesday- How do you Cheer up?

I'm linking up again with Miss DeCarbo for Wordless Wednesday!

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What do you do when you've had a horrible day? I know we all have those occasionally :)

A strategy I have been using since I started teaching is to have a "good day" folder. 
I did not come up with this idea, but can't remember exactly who did. I believe I heard about it when I was student teaching (back in the day)

So here's how it works:

When I'm having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, I open up this little folder and re-read all the sweet notes I've accumulated from my students over the years.

The goal is to turn my horrible day back into a good day- and it usually works!

Sometimes when you're down in the dumps, the best cure is a little encouragement.

This is what my "good day" folder looks like:

 

 

 

 I have this little mailbox on my desk that my students can use to write me notes.
Whenever I get a little note from them, I write them a little note back.

It's a fun way to brighten up the day!




Have a WONDERFUL Wednesday!

Wordless Wednesday! Apple Week Sneak Peak

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Today was just about all kinds of crazy in my classroom. Every year I attempt to do all my apple baking projects on the same day and every year I wonder why I take on this level of stress?? Then my students always say its the best day ever and we totally enjoy eating all the tasty treats and somehow I go into an apple coma and get apple amnesia and the whole thing starts all over again the next year.

So this is what we did today:

1)Used my juicer to juice the apples we picked (went on a field trip to the apple farm yesterday)

2) Turned the other apples into crockpot applesauce

3) Made mini homemade apple pies! (first attempt, and I'm pretty happy with how our experiment turned out!)

Definitely more pics to follow in Friday's post.

So here is your question bloggers:

What do you do for apple week?

I look forward to reading your comments and seeing what you are doing with your kiddos!

Toodles!!

Abbie ~