Behavior Bracelet and Bookmark Beads Building Day

Today was the behavior bracelet and bookmark beads building day. At the beginning of the year I told them that they would earn 1 or 2 beads per week depending on behavior. Then I had to follow through with it. 

So all year long I have been collecting beads in this gigantic bead box. 32 spots, every kid had their own space. Today I pulled their beads out and put them into little bathroom cups and they made their own design on the plastic lacing. 

I don't know if I will do it again next year. Making bracelets and bookmarks were fun today- and the kids LOVED it, but it was a headache all year to manage. Sitting on the floor made it a quiet task and beads didn't go flying. Just my thoughts.

Sorry the last picture is a little blurry - the kid decided to move after posing..  :)  

So many wiggles with only 5 more days of school!  

5 Pictures

5 random pictures...  I have realized I haven't shared on here...

Here are my student gifts. I still need to write their names on the cups, but that's a project for this weekend. Have a Kool Summer!

Parent Helpers are getting a water bottle and a finger ice cream scoop.  Have a refreshing summer!  Thanks for all your help!  

Made up their binders for next year. They are stored at school already.

Printed off my whole class writing journal bundle and realized I had uploaded the wrong attachment. I wish someone had told me- so embarrassing! It's all fixed, and is 50% off for a limited time. My "future teachers" helped me glue the covers onto new notebooks today and now those are also stored for next year.

We did art today! When do we not do art lately? Kids drew pictures of the state symbols today, then painted. Tomorrow we'll add a class photo and they can bring it home. 

6 more days... 

Five for Friday/Saturday: Open House Pictures

I know I've shared a lot of our different projects over the past couple of weeks, wanted to show you how the classroom looked before the families started coming by on Thursday evening.  

This is the back wall - it has the Equivalent Fraction Laundry, Poetry Folders, Learning is Sweet ice cream bowls, and pictures of the kids from the first day of 4th grade.  The bubble gum books and braille names were on 3 sides of the room - it was nice to group things different this year, and not necessarily need everything to be the same exact thing on a single bulletin board. 

These are the tables - all 16 of their end of unit interactive folders, their art docent folder, their real poppy plant, clay poppy, and on the diorama they used our character pillars to make super heroes that battled against the "evils" of the world.  

I absolutely love how the room turned out.  The kites and CA pillows were flying overhead - will definitely be doing them again next year.  We watched a movie yesterday though, so all the hanging items came down and went home.  

Just another view...

Wanted to show this cute gift that I was given...  we celebrated Teacher Appreciation week this past week - so many goodies.  This is so cute that I almost don't want to use...  

Hope you had a good week!  Linking up all my Open House randomness with Doodlebugs.