Dinosaurs and a math Freebie!

Hey y'all...

can I tell you??

What a WEEK this has been!

On Monday, we "got" Isaac....

just lots of rain...we still had school, but this was our playground for the whole week...thankfully, there's a "wooded" area that we could let our kids run around in...

and my heart goes out to all the people who were actually hit by Isaac!!

But this lack of playground doesn't even PALE in comparison to my sickness this week....I have been dealing with a sore throat, bronchitis (I've had chronic bronchitis my whole life so when I get sick, it comes back), and laryngitis...I've had NO voice all week...

THEN....I woke up Thursday morning and my eyelashes were "glued" shut! I couldn't open my eyes!

I had pink eye...in both eyes.

FUN.

I blame B...she did it to me...lol....she "clawed" me in one of my eyes and who KNOWS what's in her nails...so I got the "bacterial" form of pink eye - so after I started meds, I wasn't contagious or anything....

So I had to have a sub...

and NO OFFENSE to my sub friends out there (you know who you are!), but I LOATHE having subs in my rooms...despite my VERY WELL LAID OUT PLANS...almost a script, because they are so detailed... things rarely go as I had planned.sigh..

oh well. 

This week was so washed anyway.

Tuesday we had an assembly at the end of the day to promote our fundraiser and Wednesday we had early release so we could analyze our ORFs...did you see that post? 

BUT we started our Dinosaur unit!

Last weekend, A and I made the dinosaur egg....

we had fun paper mache-ing...

Then it hatched at work and scared my dear team mate -- haha!! LOVE this girl.

But before it hatched...we did a little inferring....with some clues..

ummmm....my next science lesson??? 

Which animals hatch from an egg an which are live birth...lol

(this is one of the activities from Deanna's Dinosaur unit! )

Then they've been working on my Dinosaur Math Centers...

and my Dinosaur Literacy Centers

We will be finishing up our dino unit next week...it's a short week...because of Labor Day....BUT, the big change is coming next week too...so it'll be even shorter time with these kiddos.

I'm kind of sad.  I have come a long way with some of these kids.  With their behavior, anyway. And then I could start trying to get ALL FOURTEEN below grade level students to move their way up to become OGL.

Ok, I may have given too much away right there. Still can't tell you about the big change though, since it hasn't happened yet.

ANYWAY....

In math, we also played a game of Doubles Roll and Remove...

They cover up all the numbers, roll one die, double it, and then remove that sum.  click the pic to download a copy.

Ok....I think that's enough of a photo dump for ya for now...

BUT, I want to leave you with my new FAV picture of the week...

FOUR generations of women in my family!!! 

I just LOVE how my grandma is looking at B in this picture....and poor A...look how disheveled she looks - haha! But everyone in this pic is celebrating a birthday - this summer, we all had a birthday...(B had her 1/2 bday - ha!)

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Learning with Dinosaurs

Hey y'all...

Just a quick note to let you know - I finished my Dino Literacy pack tonight!

whew!

I have to get through a few units here quite soon because my mom is coming at the end of August to visit and my baby girl turns THREE in the beginning of September, so I have to plan her birthday party - you know me...I love themes!

PLUS.

School has started - I'm sure I'll get overwhelmed here QUITE shortly - ahh! lol

So here it is, my newest pride and joy - ha!

This dinosaur unit is a great literacy center pack to accompany your dinosaur lesson plans.

There are FIVE center activities, most of which can be differentiated to fit your students' levels within your class OR it allows you to use it during different times of the year.


Dino Sentence Sorting - types of sentences...sentence cards with AND without punctuation and the header cards with a choice of with or without punctuation.
Label a Dinosaur - two different options...label a dinosaur or label a scene and write a caption.
Dino Words - a game using short vowel words
Sorting Dinos - ABC order to the 2nd letter
Making Words - with teacher cards, student cards, and student page they can cut up.

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I'm going to be working on my math version of it, but I won't be getting it up before the sale tomorrow....

don't forget about the promo code!!

check out my fave things to start the year with {HERE}

Also,

I feel tho, tho thilly...lol...

Check out the time capsule you grabbed from me....

Make sure it doesn't say May, 2012 on the end of the year portrait - lol!!

A very sweet follower informed me that I didn't change the year - woops!!

BUT, it's fixed now, so you can go grab the FIXED version NOW

Ok, my friends.

I am off to fill up my cart for the sale tomorrow!

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Dino Fry

I have a student who is just. not. progressing. in Reading.

No matter what I do, or what the other teachers do for him...it's so frustrating!! And he's such a sweet kid.

Anyway, he's FINALLY making it through RTI, and now I have to do IPST paperwork on him.

Well, one of the things they want to use as a monitor/comparative data is his Fry Words (as a comparative to the other students).

So I gave him a test quick word list test.

He did not even pass the first 100.

OMGosh.

So...I took the first 300 Fry Words and made them into fun little flashcards that I can incorporate into all kinds of games.

(I made them these CUTE dinosaurs that Kirsten just posted the other day - HAD to have them :)

 

all 3 dino sets for $1 (the first 300 words)

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I also have just a blank set if you want that :)

 

Grab it {HERE} for free!!

And there's a Sight Word Linky going on over at April's :)

 

I MAY be double posting today, because I want to do a giveaway in honor of reaching 500 followers!! wowwy, wow, wow!! I am beyond words that that many people would want to hear (read) what I have to say!

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