Super Bowl Party

Prepping for our Friday Super Bowl party. I have football task cards in my store to cover math review, then I love these ELA activities from Dana Designs (TPT), and the kids decorate the helmets from Sweet Clip Art. We watch a little of The Super Bowl Peanuts movie too. Fun times ahead. #superbowlinschool #teachersliketohavefun #teachersfollowteachers

A photo posted by I Love My Classroom (@ilovemyclassroom) on Jan 28, 2015 at 8:20pm PST

My 4th graders love to PARTY anytime I give them a chance.  Last Friday before the BIG GAME, we had a Super Bowl Party in class.  It was more football related, but still was a great chance to review those important skills.

We used the ELA activities above from Dana Designs - kids had comprehension work, subject/predicate, and fact/opinion.  A really good review!

For Math, we pulled out the football task cards that I have in my store to review Long Division and Multiplying Patterns (Freebie).  The kids had used them for Scoot while we were learning the units, but this time around they were in a workshop rotation.

In the afternoon we had a little fun and the kids got to decorate their helmets and complete the Word Search while we watched an old favorite You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown.    

All in all it was a fun day.  :)  

Did you celebrate the Super Bowl?  

Simile Snowflakes

I love this project, even though it creates a trail of silver glitter throughout my classroom.

For this, my students brainstormed items that they considered unique, fragile, and light.  We made a big list on the board, and some of them we had to really discuss.  Then they wrote their own idea on their papers, and glued it onto the bottom of the black construction paper.  I had picked up those foam snowflakes when Target had then 90% off (after Christmas sale), so they glued that on top, and then could decorate the design on top of the snowflake.  I was in charge of the silver glitter outside on my ramp, and the ground outside is still completely glitterized.  They look so pretty though, and my kids had a good review of similes - so it's worth it!  I'm sure my custodian would also agree.  :)

Do you do something similar?  How do you review similes?  Share!  

100th Day of School

The 100th day of school was a couple of Fridays ago, and just like the rest of this year, I'm running way behind in sharing.  We did a couple of activities that my big kids absolutely LOVED.  

First up was using the numerals 100 to create whatever type of picture they could imagine.  A lot of faces, but then there were some extra creative ones.  Big Hero, turning it into a person with a cast, pirate,  minion, etc.  Jivey shared about this a couple of years ago, and it's been a welcome art project for the afternoon.  I just used powerpoint to type 100 as large as a single slide, then I printed 2 pages per sheet.  They grabbed a piece of white construction paper and could create anything that was school appropriate. 

My kids also created their 100th Day posters (by Elementary Lesson Plans).  I love her posters! (I own most of them since they are cheap!)  I print these off half size (2 per page), and they then fit perfectly in our Show What You Know pocket chart.  

We also used this LA Scavenger Hunt pack from Collaboration Cuties in groups.  It was a race, and it's always a big deal to the kids when I say, "Ready, Set, Go!"  Groups of 4 worked together to gather 10 of each type of part of speech - we had out our reading books, novels, basals, silent reading books... Fun times!  

So that's basically how my class celebrated this year.  We did head over to our 1st grade reading buddies to help them count to 100, and to help string their 100 fruit loops.  It's always fun hanging out in primary land on the 100th day.

Do you celebrate in your classroom?  What did you do?