Money Flip Book Freebie

Hi all! Happy Spring Break. I just wanted to share another freebie today.  This is a cute and quick money flip book. It will introduce the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar. Or you could use it as a review. I made three different versions that you can choose from.  One version has trace the words, one has fill in the blanks, and the one has blank lines for the kiddos to write what they learned. I hope you enjoy this freebie!

Cover page:

Penny Page:

Nickel Page:

You can download this freebie by clicking here!!

Writing Book Reviews FREEBIE

We have been hard at work writing book reviews.  Before writing reviews on books we learned how to review anything and everything from My Little Ponies to McDonald's.  We used the same "Review" paper so as we reviewed different things we knew that our format of writing would be the same. When we reached the end of the unit the kiddos learned about comparing books to others, including a quick summary (and not a retelling), adding a hook to keep their readers interested, adding reasons and details for their reasons, and rating their book.  Then they used iPads to create commercials to try and persuade readers to read their favorite book.  We had so much fun with this unit in writing.  Here are a few quick pics and a FREEBIE at the end!

 This little guy reviewed Stone Soup….

This little gal review Ramona…..

THese are a few pics of the kiddos recording and practicing their commercials. They had so much fun adding their own voice to the characters.

If you would like a copy of the writing review page that I use, you can download it here!

An Awesome GIVEAWAY!

I just wanted to share this Awesome GIVEAWAY that I am a part of. You can win TONS of fabulous resources for your clipart.  Lessons, handouts, games, clip art, and much, much more! Head on over to enter using the links below:

Here is a list of some of what you can get:

Number of Products: 48

PreK-2: 28

3-5: 19

Mddle/High: 7

Clip Art: 1

Subject Area: Reading, Writing,Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, St. Patrick's Day, Earth Day, Classroom Management

The giveaway is being hosted by powerpointgaming101.blogspot.com to celebrate hitting 300 likes on FB! Congrats PowerPointGaming101!!

Natural Resources and a FREEEBIE!

We began our unit on Natural Resources vs. Man-Made Resources and Fast vs. Slow changes on Earth's Surface this week.  We have a series of hands-on experiments and activities planned. This is just the beginning. Here are a few fun picks of us in action!

This is our Anchor Chart of Resources. The stickies are all of their resources sorted into groups.

We went on a nature walk and used arrows to point out Natural or Man-Made Resources. She is pointing to the sun!

Look, a pole!

A jump rope…..

Then we added all of our findings to a GIANT Chart to hang in the hallway!

If you would like to try this activity and much, much more (over 3 weeks of plans) you can get it here Earth's Surface Science Unit

Within this study we play lots of cooperative learning games.  I wanted to share one with you for FREEEE!

Click here to download it!

Happy Friday everyone!!

Surgery and a SALE!!!

First of all CONGRATS to TpT!! They are 3 million teachers strong and I am so excited that I can be a part of it.  I am joining in on the celebration with their site wide sale from 2/27-3/01. ALL products in my store will be 28% off on 2/27-2/28 and then I am extending the sale to 3/01 where my products will be 20% off!! Okay enough of the advertising, on to the surgery!!

Today we dawned some surgeon gloves and completed Contraction Surgery.  Thankfully all of our contractions made it out alive!!  This was so much fun for the kiddos as an introductory lesson to contractions.  The kiddos put on their gloves and laid out the surgical tools (scissors, index cards, a marker, and bandaids).

Then we wrote 2 words on the index cards (For Example: do not). These words were now our patients. Then we had to cut out the sick part (o) and bandage the patient back to gather so it could make sense again.

I don't think I have ever seen them concentrating so hard.  It was a difficult task bandaging those patients with those gloves on!! Do you have a fun way to teach contractions?? I'd love to hear it!!

Have a great week!!

It's 100 Day!!!

So our 100th Day of School was about 3 weeks ago and I am just now getting around to sharing our fun.  Here are just a few activities from our fun filled day:

A view coming into the classroom.  I taped balloons around the frame of the door for the kids to walk in through.  Then I had blown up 100 balloons and left them loose all over the floor.  They LOVED it!!

Here are some 100 year old cuties!!

Love the pony tail!

For one of our activities the kiddos had to estimate what they thought weighed 100 pounds!  it was so funny to see some of the things they would put into the box.  The closest group to 100 was only about 58 pounds.

Another fun activity was to predict and investigate what ingredients were on the inside of a 100 grand chocolate bar.

 Another super fun activity was that the kiddos had to predict what 100 drops of water would look like and then count out and measure 100 drops of water.

Of course these were just a few of the activities we did.  If you would like to try some of these in your classroom, you can get yours from Andrea Knight's packet 100 Days Of School This is a great resource packed full of a whole days worth of fabulous activities!  Thanks Andrea!!

And of course this is the 100 day old version of Mrs. Gingras (of course I look more like a wicked librarian……) Oh well, I tried!

Sight Word Soccer Freebie

Just wanted to share a fun sight word review game with you.  The kiddos love playing it and it is so easy to make.  Just get strawberry baskets and cut them in half to make the goals.  Then use the decorative gems that usually go inside vases for the soccer balls.  Instructions, tips, and recording sheets can be found in the freebie. You can download the freebie below! Here are some pics of our fun:

 Sight Word Soccer

These are the gems and the baskets.

Sight Word Soccer in action.

If you don't have the baskets, masking tape on the table works also!

Recording their words.

I hope you can use and enjoy this freebie!