~Becky
Hi everyone, it's Becky! I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for another Five for Friday! We had such a busy week, but it was filled with lots of fun!
It was conference week, and I am happy to say that I met or spoke with all of the parents of my kiddos! I enjoyed speaking with everyone and was glad to share their progress and where I plan to take them this year with their learning.
We finished up our subtraction unit in the beginning of the week. I wanted my kids to further review fact families, and since we had been reading some non-fiction texts about bats, I made a little bat fact family craftivity! They loved it and the bats turned out so cute! You can find this craftivity in my Wim's Winners TPT store!
We then jumped into tallying and graphing after our subtraction test. Cara Carroll's Creepy or Cute Bat Graph was a perfect way to introduce pictographs while staying with our bat theme. We found out that a large majority of our class thought bats were cute, while a small few (myself included) thought they were creepy!
The next day, I had the kiddos work in pairs to create their own pictographs. Thanks to my friends on IG, I gave into the Target dollar spot temptation and bought a bunch of fun little halloween erasers! While I wasn't exactly sure what I would use them for when I bought them, it didn't take long for me to make a decision. I realized we were learning about graphing this week and thought it was a perfect fit.
My kids rolled a die to see how many halloween erasers they would put on their pictograph. From there, they took the data from the pictograph with the eraser data, and transferred it to a blank one where they drew in the data with circles. (We keep it simple when they draw things in math.) From there, we were able to analyze our data and answer the graphing questions.
If you would like a freebie of these graphing pages, you can get them by clicking on the image below! Enjoy!
We also read the book Crankenstein by Samantha Berger. I originally got this book for Grayson because he is cranky on a regular basis! But when I was reading it, I thought that my own students probably had moments like this too. So bring on a short writing project! (WARNING: Although I like this book, I do not like that it uses the word "hate" in the text, so I changed the wording when I read it aloud!) We completed a short 3-square writing about what makes us cranky, what we do when it happens, and what we should do when it happens again! Although some of my students thought their behaviors were funny, I was quick to point out that their parents probably didn't think it was funny or appreciative of their behaviors. They had fun with it, but also came up with good ideas about how they should change their behaviors. We then wrote our short story, and used A Cupcake For the Teacher's Frankenstein Craftivity to go with it! My kiddos really enjoyed this activity!
My last item doesn't have to do with anything about school, but I just have to share! We had our fall family pictures taken on Sunday by Laura J. Brown Photography. The boys were not the most cooperative pair, so needless to say we were a little worried that we wouldn't have any good shots. Laura eased our fears with this fabulous sneak peek photo! I can't get over how great it looks!
Well that's all for now! I need to head to bed and hopefully kick whatever illness I feel coming on. So far between Greg and the boys we've had croup, an ear infection, and laryengitis this week. I was really hoping I could be the healthy one, but it's not looking good. At least conferences are over! Be sure to check out all of the other awesome bloggers and their activities on the Five for Friday linky!
~Becky
4 Comments
10/24/2014 07:55:52 am
Love your Frankensteins! I just bought Crankenstein and cannot wait to read it to my (sometimes) cranky kiddos! I love your graphing activity and your bats! I am a new follower!
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Becky
10/24/2014 02:13:12 pm
Thank you Melissa, and thanks for following! I hope your kiddos enjoy Crankenstein! Have a great weekend!
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10/28/2014 01:02:21 am
I have nominated you for the Leibster Award. Go to the post below for details!
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