All this writing leads to a celebration!


So here's a quick picture update on my class this week so far!

We've been working out my Bear Snores On pack....

We listened to the non-fiction bears on Bookflix (did you see my video on it!?)

They've been doing some labeling - with caption writing....


And word sorting - with sentence writing....


And some sentence scrambles - which they LOVE!


They also did their "Pictionary" lol...(remember that game!)


They choose only FOUR words from the vocab list...


That's what I use to hold my words that we're working on

red section is the sight words
blue section is the spelling words (they're gone right now - in the center)
yellow section is science/social studies/reading words (the go hand in hand a lot of times)
green section is the math vocab (right now we're doing my fraction pack)

So they chose 4 words to do the definition on - here's rumbled...


So, I'm sure you noticed a pattern?

Yep - there's A LOT of writing going on.

Let me tell you why.

In the beginning of the year, I had 

16% of my kids score a level 3 (out of 6) or higher on the writing test.

Really???  I was beating my head against the table...almost EVERY day.

Could you hear it from where you are?? 

I wanted to cry. Literally. lol. 

I mean, I've ALWAYS loved teaching writing. It's always been one of my favorite things about teaching. But not with this class....lol.

But I turned to one of my writing gurus, Lori 
and asked for her help, used lots of her ideas... and LOOK what they can do now!!!

This, my friends, is a score of a 5!!!  

Our whole county did a writing test (since 4th grade FCAT Writes was today).


And look at the planning page they ALL did (all by themselves!) - I got the idea from Lori, but changed it a bit... but this 4-square planning works GREAT!

Topic sentence in the middle... details 1, 2, and 3 and in box 4 is the closing... so easy for them!


So - are you curious as to what my on grade level writers is now?

65%!!!!

And almost all the ones who didn't score 3 or higher, were at least at a 2, so they are ALMOST there! You have no idea how SUPER excited I am about this!!!

Speaking of writing... LOOK how cute these are!

We read Molly Lou Melon on Friday...


I just ABSOLUTELY love this book!!

And we are still hounding in those adjectives, so I thought this would be the perfect activity.

I'm sure you've seen the cute picture of me with adjectives around it floating around blog-land....

I took that a step further and added a writing component to it (yep - more writing!)



Click HERE to get the writing paper freebie!
AND
Click HERE to get a freebie for another version of this activity, from my writing guru, Lori.



And in math, for our Numbers Every Day folder we do, we're working in 3-digit numbers now, 

so I've upped the mystery number clues... these were the clues for this week...

four tens
three more hundreds than tens
two less ones than hundreds

They're getting better at them  - I'm impressed! And today, in the addition/subtraction section of the folder, I added in subtraction with regrouping - they got it like "THAT!" (envision finger snapping). I'm so excited! So, I can check that chapter off the list in the book - CHECK! And that's what I love about that folder. I don't have to teach them as chapters in the books.

While I'm teaching 3-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping, my kids are doing my fraction centers from my Hands-On Fractions pack.
Here are just a few activities in the pack...
This is the "Grab Bag" center



And the matching center.


And I have to show you a funny.... Monday, my teammate/friend and I showed up in the EXACT same outfit! lol. So funny! Totally not planned - and what's even funnier? We both usually wear different shirts with our red pants, but we both decided to change it to a black shirt on the same day. lol. It's the little things in life, right!?




6 comments

Lori Rosenberg said...

I have tears in my eyes! Literally! I know I already told you, but, I am so happy for your students. Tell them that Aunt Lori is super proud of them and to keep up the great work! Too funny about the red and black outfit! What are the odds? Thanks for sharing your great pictures and awesome news!
Ѽ Lori
Teaching With Love and Laughter
luvyorkies@gmail.com

Mrs. Wathen said...

Congratulations! That's awesome. I love Lori's resources and ideas. I love how you adapt them to be your own:)

Tammy
The Resourceful Apple

Unknown said...

I have just added your Bear Snores On and Fraction pack to my TPT wish list. Great products!

Stacy
Live Love Laugh and Teach!

Michele said...

The kids look so proud! And it sounds like you are too. Thanks for sharing.
Shine On!
Michele
The Lightbulb Lab

Ben said...

Hey, I really like the I'm Special, I'm me activity. I think it would make such a great display in the classroom- especially when you first get a new class. When I graduate next year and get my first class I'm going to definitely do something similar. Thanks for sharing- I'm going to keep up to date with your blog too.

Hope you can hop along to mine too,
All the best.

Ben
beingbenm.blogspot.co.uk

Alane said...

What did Lori suggest? This is an area my upcoming class is struggling with, or so I've been told. ��

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