Goldilocks and Bears

One of my favorite units to do during the year is Goldilocks. When I say we're doing Goldilocks, usually my boys groan, but then they see all the books I bring out and they get excited about it. ha!

 

I usually read A LOT of them throughout the week, and they can always read them on their own, but I usually pick 3-4 to actually compare and write out on the comparison chart.

Then, by the end of the week (usually day 4), we have a mock trial for Goldilocks! We have prepped for a few days, learning the terms and such....

I bring out my old graduation gown from college to turn into the judge.

And the kids become the different positions of the trial. 

After both sides present and we get to the end of the arguments, the jury deliberates... I usually have one or two kids who always bring up the argument that she is NOT guilty, so we usually have a hung jury. I love it!

To finalize, I have the kids write down THEIR verdict. 

As we're going through the week, we're also researching bears - the nonfiction component to our Goldilocks week.

I use Reading A-Z books, Bookflix, ,Discovery Education, and other nonfiction bear books.

The students are filling out their Bear Research Booklet as we go throughout the week. 

We talk about animal adaptations, where they live, important body parts and how each one is important for the bears. 

Then, at the end of the week, they can make a google slides presentation or a BoardBuilder on Discovery Education. This is new to me this year, so I've been trying these out lately... 

Here's a closer look at what's included in the the Goldilocks Unit.

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Letters, Spelling, 3 Little Pigs giveaway, and blogger meet-up!

We FINALLY finished our letters from my Goldilocks unit....whew!

They even addressed and stamped them!

ready to be mailed!

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This week we've also been doing Three Little Pigs, and all the different variations of it.

(notice I don't have that linked...STILL not finished with it. I got SICK SICK SICK last night and I was home alone with the girls - I almost made hubs come home from work-ugh!)

We did a window foldable on the story structure...

They wrote characters, setting, problem, and solution on the inside of the flaps, and then illustrated on the inside.

How cute are they?!

And they've been doing my centers...

Here's the adjectives one:

Here the math ones:

Counting bys:

Fact family matches

Literacy

-Realism Vs. Fantasy: sorting and illustrating

-Adjectives with the Three Little Pigs and Adjectives Poster

-Writing with the Three Little Pigs

-Who is the Wolf? Descriptive Writing

-Book suggestions

-Wanted Poster

Math

-Counting Pigs: counting by 2s, 3s, 5s, and 2s starting with 1 (so like 1, 3, 5, etc..)

-Piggie Family: Matching addition to subtraction fact families, but they DON'T have the answers

-This Little Piggie Regroups: This centers has a few options. You can use 2-digit addtion, 2-digit subtraction, 3-digit addition, or 3-digit subtraction. This lets you differentiate with your kids, or  you can use it different times of the year! :)

Ok, I am going to give this unit away! It's not uploaded to TpT yet, so this giveaway will MAKE me finish it! ha!!

How do you enter?? See THIS Post!

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Florida blogger meet-up update!!

I'm all excited because it's only 45 minutes away! lol..We've looked at everyone's place of origin and thought this was centrally located to everyone. We've changed the time to let more time to get there.

Head over to Mor's post about it to sign up and see more of the details!

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I wanted to show you one of my spelling centers that I use quite a bit...

I give them 10 words and they choice 5 of them to figure out how much it's worth. 

They have REALLY gotten good at counting money - gotta squeeze it in wherever I can! ha!

Click {HERE} to get the freebie!

And click below to see other fabulous freebies!!

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Crafting and Creating

Hello my friends...this is going to be a long post with lots of topics - so bare with me :)

Last night was the first time I could actually sit and read posts in a while....do you know how many I had??

422.

Nope, not  a typo..

422...isn't that crazy??

I was able to get it to about 220 last night...
(I'm sure it's higher now since it's taken me about 30 minutes to do this post. lol)

I have good reasons though...

I was getting my craft on....and made my friend's baby shower gift:

I took the cloth diaper inserts (that everyone uses for burp cloths) and sewed ribbon on them to make them cute...

Then I was busy planning my friend's goodbye party...
I made this cake:

(yes, little miss A got to it - not only did she pick at the bottom there, but she also ATE the P!! lol  Luckily I had some more yellow to do the P again...oh my child. NEVER a dull moment around here!)

Do you see her on the right?? She was so surprised!!  That's me on the left - I'm so bummed I couldn't get a picture of her face, I was just excited to see her reaction, that I forgot to take a picture.

And then, in the midst of all the crafting and planning, I've been distracted by this cutie pie:

I just LOVE this picture of B!

AND I've been making a new unit...

I bought Reagan's Piggie unit a while ago and I'm finally getting using it next week!!

But, you know me - I like my math and reading centers to coordinate, so I had to make a centers unit to go with it :)

Reagan's unit has a lot of stuff that I want to use for whole group, so I only really needed to create my centers, so it's a little smaller than my other units.

It's not completely finished yet though, it was finished enough for me to go to UPS to print the stuff up, but not enough for me to share/sell it...lol..

BTW - I refer to the UPS guys as my boys now...lol! I'm there almost every week printing my stuff in color, they even told me that to keep my cardstock there (I have to bring my own cardstock, but the printing is MEGA cheap, so WHATEVAS!). So they have a drawer labeled "Jen's Paper" - haha!!

This past week, we did my Goldilocks centers - they kids had so much fun with them!!

We also did the science experiment using Teddy Grahams that's in the pack...

ewww....lol

They loved it!!

Before they made their hypotheses, they got to eat one of each to be able to use that as their reasoning for their hypothesis. Love when we can add food to science...or math...or writing...or reading. lol

Then...I came up with this Teddy Graham Math activity on the spur of the moment..so it wasn't in my Goldilocks pack - but it is NOW! ha!

I stole  borrowed some teddy bear counters from our K teachers...and it was perfect because there were small, medium, and large sizes - JUST LIKE the Goldilocks bears...ha!!

I also came up with next idea on the spur of the moment...I found this book in our public library...

So cute!!  So I had my parent volunteer cut out some shapes on the die cut machine.

Afteer the kids passed their 2-D shapes "quiz" with a perfect score, they got to make a shapes picture - I LOVE how they turned out!!

And we FINALLY finishef the "Who Is Goldilocks?" writing and craftivity.

If you bought my Goldilocks unit, check back soon for the revised copy (both lit and math), I've added some stuff to it!! It's now a whopping 83 pages! Still the same price though :)

Also, don't forget to join my linky!! 

(if you do, you may just have a better chance to win something...like a new unit maybe?? (when I finally get it posted... hint hint! ha!)

Thank you to all of you who have already linked up - I'm seeing some GREAT ideas that I need to start working on over the summer...

Ok, I must go laminate and cut out my Piggie centers...

Hope y'all had a GREAT weekend!

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