Get The Egg!

The title of my post is the same as the title of the story we read recently that inspired this project!  It was about Brad and Kim and how they saved an egg that had fallen from the nest.  The companion story to the main selection was How To Feed A Bird.  It gave instructions for how to build a feeder.  So we did!!  They turned out so cute.

All you need is a pine cone, peanut butter, bird seed, and string.  Super easy peasy lemon squeezy!

 I gave each child a paper plate with a dollop of peanut butter and a mini wooden popsicle stick and let them get to it.  They just spread the peanut butter all over.

After that, they brought it up to my table and we dipped it into the bird seed and put them paper bags.

In the bags they stayed until they went home that day.  :-)

Other than the occasional whiff of peanut butter I get still, this was a great success!  You should try it!!

Happy Teaching!

Anchor Charts, Festivals, and A New Book! Oh My!

I have been so busy lately!  Isn't that the life of every teacher though?  I have a few updates to do but I am going to put a couple into one post.

Anchor Charts

These things are all the rage!  And I totally get why.  I LOVE them!  They are such a great asset to my classroom.  My students look forward to the new ones on Monday mornings when I am introducing a new weeks set of skills.  These are just a few of them.  If you use Pearson's Reading Street for Common Core then they will look familiar to you.  I have done one so far for every week, but I only took pictures of these two so far for some reason.

I also LOVED this chart that I saw on Pinterest so I copied it for my room.  I would love to give credit to whomthe original author was but unfortunately the photo I pinned doesn't trace back to a web page.  If you know who it belongs too, please let me know.

Fall Festival

We recently had our fall festival at my school and it was a HUGE success (HUGE Caroline!!....I couldn't resist!). Our PTA raised a lot of money and the kids had a wonderful time!  I was manning the popcorn station for a couple of hours.  My co-worker and teammate was there too.....

This was only 20 minutes after it opened and it was jamming already!!

We had about 8 bounce houses and jumbo slides, inflatable games, carnival games, corn hole, and every kind of junk food imaginable! Such a great time!!!

A New Book

Do you read the Divergent Series?!?!  

 If not, do yourself a favor and pick it up!!  At the urging of two friends, I finally did and killed the first two books in 4.5 days.  Well, on Tuesday the new book and final one of the series was released.  I am having a love/hate relationship with the outcome.  I feel complete but so completely mad.  I hate when authors do this!

Another post coming soon of a bird feeder project we did!  Happy Teaching!!