Five for Friday! 5/20

Happy Friday, friends! I'm linking up with Kaci from Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday.  I hope you all had a super great week! It was my first week of summer break! It was freezing and rainy here in Kansas, I bundled up most of the week. I miss the sunshine.

I wish I could say I had a productive first week! Haha. But I think I relaxed a great bit of my time. With the relaxing, I did do some creating! I added a few new products to my store. I hope to add more throughout the summer! These are some things I used last year, and just added!

These are great for practicing mastery! We copied them to colored paper and just taped them to their wrists! The best part was that when they wore them outside of our room, others would ask about them. They could then recite what they are learning :) Find them HERE

My students each had a copy of this dictionary in their desk. Anytime they had a spelling question they would refer here first. If they couldn't find their word, then they came to me with their journal and I would write it in. It stopped the constant question "How do I spell....?" If you would like this resource, find it HERE :)

                       

My Donors Choose project got funded today! As I type this, actually. :) I am so excited!! I will be starting an art club after school for the students in my school. Some of our kids stay late to ride the bus, and this will give them something to do! We will be focusing on nature and doing things outside and with materials we find in nature. So I am looking forward to that!!

I joined in my first blog hope this week! That was so exciting! I now have 200 Instagram followers. I know that's not many, but I was thrilled. Hahah. It's the little things ;) I uploaded this FREEBIE to more store for the hop. I added it to my bubble wands for an end-of-the-year gift!

For our last day we did our annual field day! I was in charge of a group with another teacher. We always have lots of fun playing the games. The kids love it! 

My summer #toberead list is getting longer and longer. I've already started and finished a few!

I'm reading in preparation for our Mock Newbery at the beginning of the year. I will also be mailing copies of my list to students I had last year. I hope that they can get in on the action, even when they aren't in my class :)

Here's my list so far:

1. Booked by Kwame Alexander

2. Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo

3. Hour of the Bees by Lindsay Eager

4. Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban

5. Maybe a Fox by Kathi Appelt and Allison Mcghee

6. The Wild Robot by Peter Brown

7. Some Kind of Courage by Dan Gemeinhart

8. The Land of Forgotten Girls by Erin Entrada Kelly

9. The Key to Extraordinary by Natalie Lloyd

10. Pax by Sara Pennypacker 

11. All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor

12. Wolf Hollow by Lauren Wolk

13. The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary

14. Freedom in Congo Square by Carole Boston Weatherford

15. Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier

16. Summerlost byAlly Condie

17. The Remarkable Journey of Charlie Price byJennifer Maschari

18. The Girl in the Well is Me by Karen Rivers

19. Red: The True Story of Red Riding Hood by Liesl Shurtliff

20. Counting Thyme by Melanie Conklin

Do you have any suggestions that I should add to my list?

Thanks for stopping by!

Five For Friday!

Happy Friday bloggy friends!

I'm linking up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching for this weeks Five For Friday!

As the last week of school approaches we've been able to do some fun and exciting end of the year projects. This week we finished up our Geometrocity from Digital Divide and Conquer. My kids LOVED this project. After their cities were put together it looked awesome!

We finished up our Earth Day art activity on Tuesday. We studied the art by Dale Chihuly and created a chandelier inspired by his work. We collected and cleaned plastic water bottles. Then we used sharpies to decorate them, and then cut them out in a spiral shape. We then used pipe cleaners and hung them on chicken wire. We inserted some solar lights and then raffled it off!

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week, friends! I hope you were as blessed this week as I was. We have a great PTCO that treated us with yummy goodies all week. :) I'm also thankful for Go Fund Me. They allowed teachers to set up a project and they are matching donations up to $100 which is awesome. If you would like to donate or share click here. My students and I would definitely appreciate it. :)

The end of the year is approaching, so it was the perfect time to break out some of my new products for review. We used my Luau Color by Sum and my Spring Color by Product during math this week.

This is my Spring Color by Product. It contains two worksheets for each multiplication fact, 1-6. This was great practice for the end of the year. It helped us practice our mental math so that they could exercise their brains and better prepare for next year.

This is my Color by Sum product. Also, great for practice with 3-digit addition. My kids love, love, love coloring pages like this. It gives them something exciting to look forward to after they complete a math problem.

Today was our school's annual plant sale! The kids had so much fun learning about these different kinds of plants so that they could be salesmen. They loved interacting with our customers and trying to persuade everyone to buy the plant they were an expert at. Our class grew strawberries and all of the baskets were sold, which made them so proud!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a great weekend!! :)

Five for Friday!

Happy Friday, ya'll! Linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for this weeks highlights. Check out her post to read from more teachers!

I sold my first ever TPT product! Woo!! I started adding my resources a week ago and can't believe I made my first sale!

Joining the Big Heartland Bloggers for our first meet up tomorrow! I can't wait to meet new people and talk about our adventures with TPT and blogging. I'm a newbie, so I'm hoping to learn a lot!

We are finishing up our research on butterflies! They are learning so much and working so hard. Their artwork is turning out beautifully. Each group had a different butterfly. They had to do a report and color one that I traced onto butcher paper.

On Tuesday we wrapped up state testing for the year! I was thrilled! Surprisingly, my students were sad. They actually ENJOYED it! What!?!?! We did a lot of GoNoodle to celebrate!

Everything in our greenhouse is growing beautifully! My kids planted strawberry baskets! I'm thrilled that they are actually growing. These kiddos are better at gardening than their teacher ;)