Fantastic Friday full of Fun!!!

Thank you to all of our Friday Mystery readers so far!  I've gone ahead and added slots for 2nd semester so have fun signing up!  Here is the link if you need it again... http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0b4aaaa82faafa7-mystery

 

 

Clearly the funniest book ever is "The Book With No Pictures" by B.J. Novak!!!

 

 

We've really got in a great Daily 5 routine during our Language Arts block!  They are doing better and better self regulating themselves while working, being productive, and working together with each other.  Each day there are different literacy based activities they can pick from.  They typically get to go to 2 or 3 different activities unless they are on a computer that day.  They look forward to this time each day and are always eager to pick their activity.  There are various levels for each activity which enables everyone to be successful and be challenged no matter which activity they pick. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Never Eat Sour Worms...

This morning we had some new word work for our daily 5 practice!  We had trays, magnetic letters, and cards with our spelling and high frequency words on them.  Everyone had fun practicing spelling new and old words as well as some other ones!

 

 

 

We also had some new boom sticks with harder words on them :).

 

 

And of course dry erase boards always make sentence writing more fun!

 

 

 

This afternoon we also started working on Maps and Globes.  We started with something super fun...the compass rose!  On our schedule it said our activity was "Never Eat Sour Worms" and all day long there were questions about what that meant.  They were VERY eager to get to that part of the day!  Once we got there and I told them that "Never Eat Sour Worms" was a way to remember the order of the compass rose they thought it was very funny!  Then of course we got to eat some sour worms...to help stick it in the brain of course!!!

 

 

 

 

Right before Art Carolyn read us a book that she had made about Zoo Boo.  Everyone is now very excited and ready for Zoo Boo...just a month or so too early :).  Thanks for sharing your book Carolyn!