THE WATER CYCLE !

What an excellent time to review and complete some fun activities to reinforce concepts about the WATER CYCLE!!  I just recently completed a hands on Water Cycle Project!  that you can purchase in my TPT Store It was a good activity to have the kids do since we've had the New York State Math Test this week.  Check out their work!

The Water Cycle!

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My Kiddies had so much fun with this activity!

EARTH DAY & APRIL FUN !!

I feel like I've been gone so long, but I have been so busy preparing for the New York State test and really haven't had a chance to get any fun activities going for my kiddies. However we did have some time to make some cool butterflies last week to launch our butterfly unit! We used the butterflies to decorate our door. They came out really cool. I got some tissue paper and pipe cleaner to make the creative bugs.

Rainbows, Butterflies, & Caterpillars Oh My!!

Does anybody else have any cool door designs?


Earth Day was also another excuse to do some fun activities so I found a cute activity by Amy Lemons for Earth Day.  She comes up with the coolest activities and simple enough for my kiddies to do.  Modifications and adaptations is the story of my classroom with my students, but she always creates activities that are fun, challenging, and engaging that my kids can complete with little support.

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Upper Elementary Link Party

HAPPY FRIDAY my blog friends!  While blog stalking today I came across a new blog that was having a upper elementary link party.  I am so excited about this link party because I get to discover new and inspiring blogs.  It encourages 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade teachers to link up with one another.  Link up with Lorraine at Fabulous 4th Grade Froggies! Click the button below to join the party!  I hope you find creative ideas and meet new bloggers.  Enjoy your blog stalking!

Click here to link up with other

3rd, 4th, & 5th grade blogs!

St. Patricks Day Activities

My kiddies have been doing so much geometry this past week! I decided to give them a break and do some fun St. Patty's activities.  They get a break and I get to decorate my room with some rainbows and pots of gold.  We read the story Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato by Tomie dePaola.  The children loved this story.  Specifically when Jamie found the Leprechaun.  I had my class make connections to the text by asking them, "What would you do if you found a Leprechaun with a pot of gold?"  The end product came out really cute.

The children wrote a paragraph answering the writing prompt 

from a reproducible I found that I used last year.  

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I also stumbled across this shamrock activity by Mrs. Zrihen at A Teacher's Treasure while blog stalking.  She created a shamrock craftivity using a KWL chart.  My kiddies loved it!  Before reading a story about St. Patricks Day we filled in what we know and what we want to know about St. Patrick's Day.  I was surprised to see how much my children knew and how much I didn't know!  I learn too when I teach :) .  Anyway, we then completed the L-learn part of the chart and cut out the craftivity.  She originally used four parts, KWHL, but I decided to modify it to fit the needs of my class.  Our shamrocks came out amazing. SO MUCH FUN!

Making Congruent Shapes

My kiddies have been doing so well with our Geometry Unit!  I used geo-boards this last week to implement a hands on approach to teach Congruence with plane figures.  They loved it!  They did not want to put these boards down.  We also made similar shapes as well.  I purchased these from Lakeshore Learning website.  Check out the pictures.   Click Here To Purchase  geoboards.

Congruent

Not Congruent

My Book Of Polygons!

This activity goes along with my Geometry Unit.  Here is a freebie.  I forgot to post it on Friday.  Better late than never.

      You can download this activity at my TPT store. Thanks!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-Book-Of-Polygons

Polygon Power Project!

I just finished a project that goes along with my Geometry unit we will be working on this up coming week.  We read the story "The Greedy Triangle" by Marilyn Burns.  To review and explore different polygons we made real life objects that represent different polygons. Please Click the link below to purchase on my TPT website.  Thanks!!!

My students really enjoyed reading this book.  The triangle
changes into different shapes by adding sides until he can't
take it anymore and the triangle just wants to be itself.

                 

My students did a great job at choosing things
that were made of many polygons.

Included in this packet is the project along with a Polygon
Concentration game. To purchase click the link below.

                               http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Polygon-Power-Project

    

I will also be posting a Freebie to go along with this Geometry Unit!