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.
I found you from a post on Facebook by Fern and I'm glad I did. I'm going to do your Grammatical Name Art Activity tomorrow. Thanks!
-Mercedes
Surfing to Success
Stick on circle due date…brilliant! My kids can never remember when to turn in their journals! Thank you!
Laurie
Chickadee Jubilee
I love the reading journals. I always wanted to try. Good idea to put the day labels on them!
Sarah
Using My Teacher Voice
I want to thank you for the Super Bowl assignment. I think it will be great as a homework challenge for my third graders this week! Thanks again!
I did reading response journals last year when I was in 3rd grade. It is definitely A LOT of work, but I saw the difference in my kiddos writing and their thinking about reading. Their questions were outstanding and by the end of it each of my students and I had our own little relationship within the journals. It was such a rewarding experience— The labels are an awesome idea… if I ever get back to 3rd (I'm in 1st now) I'll definitely be doing that!
Have a great day tomorrow planning!!! I'm jealous!
Brittany
Closing the Gap… in a Cute Outfit
The Super Bowl Challenge is exactly what I need for my higher level learners in my 3rd grade class. Thanks so much!