Field trip # 3.....nature center FUN!

Today was the big 10 count down! 

Had to start it off with a bang! Or should I say "POP"!!

Now who can see the problem that I noticed VERY quickly!!!!

Ummmm....my projector screen! OMG! I moved the balloons pretty quick!

After our balloon count down we loaded up for another field trip! 

We had a BLAST at the Nature Center today! Ms. Bunker is the best animal presenter ever! She made the kids laugh so much! 

Ms. Bunker pulled out all sorts of fun animals for us to see! 

Yes, that is me getting a bearded dragon placed on my head! 

Mrs. Block did a "Wonder Woman" pose to get into snake mode!

I'm so partial to the skunk! Such a cutie! The kids almost died when she kissed him! 

Bus Selfies!

Life science! (And Easter Extras!)

Here is some of my Easter Packet in action with my class this year. They LOVED it!!!

These boys are working through "Jelly Beans For Sale" and they were so proud of themselves.

These girls were working through "Special Order Peeps" where they practiced
ABC order.

"Counting Peeps" was a fun way to find patters and order numbers.

Here they practiced using eggs as counters and they did "Missing Eggs" to find missing addends.

This little guy was such a ham! He loved getting his picture taken!

One of their favorites (and most challenging) was "Flower Fragments" where they matched sentence fragments to each other. 

 

After Easter we started some of our life science fun! We worked on Living and Non Living first. WARNING! Don't let students use magazines unsupervised, HAHA!

 

The class LOVED making Habitat Diaramas!

Peeps A Plenty!

So, I've been working for a while on some fun Easter activities and I'm finally done!

Here are a few before pics to see how it's done, lol! 

Cut and cut and cut some more! 

Then I took them all home and had my two little guinea pigs test them out for me! This was a lot of help for me! My oldest found 3 mistakes and I was able to edit them right there! 

I laid all 12 of the activities out and told them to pic some they wanted to do.......My second grader sat there all afternoon and did all 12, proudly, lol!

"Jelly Beans For Sale" practices counting coins.

"Bunny Families" is where she was taking the bunny's 3 numbers and writing all the fact family number sentences for it.

My first grader loved "Egg Hunt Time" because she finished before her sister was done with her activity, and everything is a competition right now!

We used Tic-Tacs on "Special Order Peeps" to help us work on ABC order.  Best part was eating them after!

Next we worked on "Counting Peeps" where we put the peeps in counting order and wrote the patterns down.

 

My Second Grader said that "Flower Fragments" was the hardest.....because she actually had to think, lol!

 

If you are interested in my Easter Pack click on the link below.

 

Peep's Pack

 

 

 

Measuring and money!

We have introduced our official "measurement" unit in math with a little rainbow measuring.  My kids LOVE to use a ruler!  (Probably because we never use them!) So they were highly engaged! (Insert ROY G BIV mini lesson since they were such good listeners!)

I gave them Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, and Blue strips and we measured and cut strips decreasing in size by 2" each. We then measured each strip with cubes and compared the difference in totals when using two different sized units. (Math talk, blah, I know!)

 

Today we got REAL money to sort!  It's the little things in life that can perk up a lesson!  And of course, ANY chance to write on the table with dry erase will engage any student!

This is "Shopaholic".  The students practice double digit addition using dimes and pennies and grocery items on index cards. (So much easier and storage efficient to use clippings from the newspaper than empty boxes taped shut.)

Then we worked on "What's my word worth" adding up our spelling words.....This was a fun twist to practicing spelling words and incorporating math!

 

You can snag some of my money stuff  below

 

Money Madness Counting Activity Pack

Money Math Game