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Yessiree, it is that time of year!!!! Mardi Gras!! I LOVE this season. Everything is purple, gold, and green. Everyone is prepping for parades and balls and eating King Cake and it's just great!! I am so excited for my Krewe's ball coming up on February 8th.  My guests are my friends Jessica and Mike and Anna. Of course sharing the table with my BFF Amanda and her guests Jolie, Snooks, and Raven. I might be missing some peoples, but with this lineup we are gonna have a BLAST!!! The theme is Circus!!!!!!!!!!! This is my 7th year in my Krewe and my 3rd year dressing up in costume rather than gown. My costume is: Made it myself :) And I made this little Mardi Gras Activity myself as well. It's about place value to the 100s.  Students match the feathers to the numbers on the mask. I've included 28 sets of feathers and masks. Students look at the number on the mask and match it with the feathers in expanded form.  E.g. 235=200+30+5 I've also included a template for a ma...

This is a fun mini unit with a Wizard of Oz theme!! It is designed as a mini ELA/Science unit to support learning about different types of weather.  We started off reading this book:  This is a perfect book for introducing weather. It's got great pictures and easy to understand explanations. I also created it to introduce our unit on nonfiction. We started out by making an anchor chart of fiction and nonfiction text features.  I introduced some weather words and we brainstormed some more.  The activities are differentiated for different levels of learning.  This unit includes:  Anchor chart: Nonfiction/Fiction Text Features Pictures for anchor chart Features of fiction/nonfiction text center activity: picture cards, picture/word cards, word cards with differentiated process sheets Suggestions for lessons Vocabulary match game (pictures with words, words, and fill in the blank sentences) with process sheets Vocabulary Sentences game (with pictures and withou...

Here are some fun little center games. Check it out!!! ABC Order Train In this activity I have included some Winter Themed words, primarily from the book The Polar Express.  However, I have also included some blank train cards for you to use with your own words.  One way I use this is in my Spelling Center. I write the weekly words on the trains and the children put them in ABC order  Simply print out on card stock or back with construction paper, laminate for durability, and place in a center.  This ABC Center is Polar Bear themed!! This activity is designed to reinforce the skill of alphabetical order. There are words on Polar Bear cards that children sort into ABC order. There is a recording page for accountability.  This center includes  17 ABC bear cards Recording page Center name card Center directions card A Snowstorm of Grammar This activity packet contains activities for use in any ELA classroom. There is a game for nouns, verbs, and adjectives....

I just wanted to do a quick share today about a wonderful classroom management tool called Class Dojo. Class Dojo is wonderful!!! The creators really came up with a winner here. This online behavior management system is designed to help teachers with rewarding positive behaviors quickly and easily by giving points. Negative behaviors result in points being taken away.  Every child is given an online avatar. Once parents sign up, children can customize their avatar and check out their own "wall" to see what their classmates are doing with their avatars and what points they have received.   I have been using Dojo for a little over a month now, and I LOVE it!!! The children have really started watching their own behavior, because they want to have the most points!! I use this in conjunction with our PBIS - at the end of every week, for every ten Dojo points awarded that week, the children receive one Paw Point. Whoever has the most Dojo points at the end of the week gets to ...