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Rainbow Week

Thursday, March 10, 2016

This week was Rainbow week!! I am not going to lie. I LOVE when this week comes around! I just love all the colors in my room!! It's so pretty and cheery and happy!

Here is {last year's} Rainbow Week.

This year's board is pretty similar....

The Rainbow streamer idea comes from {A Cupcake for the Teacher}.

The Pots of Gold writing and craft is a freebie from {The Teacher Wife}.

I also make our Name Rainbows. This cute idea came from{ Reagan' Rainbow Namebow!} I send home "homework" for the parents to write adjectives that describe their kids that start with the first letter. When they bring them back, I write out the adjectives on some cut out strips. I give them their cloud that I have traced out and written their name on and the strips and have them put it together.

Our stories of the week were a nonfiction and fiction book.

For the fiction book, we summarized it - and we learned a BIG lesson.... using pictures to help us! The character isn't named... nor does the book use any pronouns. So we had a BIG discussion on whether it was a boy or girl...using pictures to tell a part of the story the words don't.

Then they wrote it out on their own. You can grab these free summary cards {HERE}.

We also did {Rainbow Similes}. I LOVE doing these! I've been doing them for YEARS, with 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders!

We start with making lists of things that are those colors.

Then I make my own similes with their help...

and this ALWAYS brings good conversation about using the a/an articles. This anchor chart is a freebie from {The Teacher Wife}.

Then they write their own in their learner's notebook....and after I approve it, they get the neat paper to write on. They sharpie and trace over the color words.

Then it's time to do the tear art rainbow!

Don't they look just so pretty!?!?

Another thing we do that I LOVE to do is another version of my Math with Food! This time it was {Skittles} or also known as {Rainbow Candy Math}.

I usually make "books" out these activities. I have the kids decorate the cover and then they glue it on the book. I LOVE how this girl used what she learned during our science talks to illustrate!!

Here are some things we did in our book....it really is amazing what kind of math skills you can review using Skittles!

Click the picture below to check it out in my {TPT Store}.

Rainbow Similes {Freebie}

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Doesn't that just make you happy to look at?! I just love seeing it when I walk in the room!

This was our rainbow week...in pictures!

We read A Rainbow of my Own. They always love this story. Then we summarized it.

I always love to see their illustrations of this story. Some of them have some great visualizations!

You can get my summarizing cards freebie {HERE}.

For our writing we did another round of similes. This time we did them with color. I love doing this activity. I do it every year!

First we brainstorm things that are the different colors of the rainbow.

Then I did my example on the chart paper. Yes, I realize I didn't draw a Smurf for that sentence. I can barely draw. I don't trust my skills. ha!

Then it was time for them to write out their similes. They wrote their "sloppy copies" in their learner's notebook, then after I approved it, they got their neat paper.

After they wrote out their neat copy, I told them to go over it with a Sharpie. It's amazing how much they love using Sharpies - such a motivator!

When they were finished with that, they got to work on their rainbow. I cut up a whole bunch of colorful strips about 1/2 inch wide and then they tore the strips to glue down.

They cut out the rainbow and glued the rainbow and their writing down to blue paper. I just love them! They came out so cute!!

If you want these freebies, click on the picture to download them.

Another activity we did real quick this week, was to do our Pot of Gold writing. The template came from The Teacher Wife, and the writing paper I made to fit the pot. They just wrote about how they found the pot of gold and what they did with it. We added some glitter to their gold and it just made them come to life!

THEN, we added them to my back board! Oh. My. GOSH. I just LOVE this board!! I am never taking it down. Well, I will, but for the rest of the year, it is staying up. The pots will come down (and my big pot), but the rest will stay up. I just love this rainbow. I got the idea from A Cupcake for the Teacher. It just makes the board so much more vibrant than just using my actual bulletin board pieces. I love it!

I hope this posts makes you as happy as it make me... I mean the colors are just so happy!!

Insect Visual plans, a freebie, and a Giveaway!

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Here's this week's plans! This week's "them" is Insects, which will also carry over to next week, with my "garden" theme.

Remember...click the picture of the plans (or click HERE), and it'll take you to a PDF document to download...when you download the PDF, you can click on all the pictures and links to take you where you can find all the activities (TpT, blogposts, websites, or Freebies!)

Click the pic below to see my post on Bookflix, which includes a video on it!

We're still working on my 2-D Geometry unit this week, they were having so much fun with it last week!

The Scholastic News I'm using is from last year, but I LOVE that one.

I'm starting up with some of my Spring Time Centers this week.

And more of my Geometry pack

I'm trying something different this week - the FREEBIE is included with the visual plans download - so make sure to download the plans! This Rainbow of Similes is something I do EVERY year, but I just made it "prettier" to share with you. ha!