Football Freebie and My Plan for Next Week

I’ve ceased to pay attention to football since I have zero chance at winning any money in my Fantasy Football pool.  However, I do know that Super Bowl season is upon us and our kidlets love nothing more than talking about sports.  Here’s a football freebie for you if you need an extra math warm up or a ready-to-go homework assignment.

I go back to school tomorrow (for teacher meetings and work time) and get back to work with the kiddos on Tuesday.  Although I spent most of the break online shopping and being sick, I think some of the ideas from blog stalking have stayed with me.  Here’s a few ideas and resources I plan to use during that first week back.

In reading we’re going to continue our reading response notebooks.  During every 5 day week students are required to write a letter to me which gives a short summary of a book they’re reading, as well as at least 1 piece of deeper thinking they had as they read the text.  I have gone from hand writing to typing my letters.  It’s a lot of work to keep up with, but I think it’s worth it.  Writing about reading is a goal for 99% of my students and this seems to really motivate them to write, since they know I’ll be reading it and writing back.  Their #1 question when I told them I was leaving for my grandpa’s funeral? “But . . . when will we get our reading response notebooks back?!”  🙂

 Grammatical Name Art: I would do Word Clouds, but I already did these after Thanksgiving break, so we’re going to talk about all the exciting things we did throughout the break through nouns, verbs, and adjectives.  

Division Review: Thanks to Tonya’s Treats for Teachers I now have a division review ready to go

We’re going to talk about informational writing.  I’m excited to use these two TpT products to help introduce the genre.