Five For Friday -- Oct. 11

Yeah!   It’s Friday!  I cannot believe how fast the week goes by.  It was a short week for the kids, we had three student days and two in-service days. 

This week my top five things in my classroom are:

A Minute to Win It…..this is not my idea.  I saw it on a blog or pinterest.  I cannot remember where so I could not go back and purchase it.  So I had to make it up from my memory.  This is how we played it.  Each child received a worksheet and 25 blocks.  Then they were partner up into teams.  The teams needed:  A tens and ones board and a spinner. 

We discussed out to take turns and waiting while the other person go his/her blocks.

They put all their blocks in the middle and they started to spin & grab.  After one minute they had to stop. 

Add up their score in tens and ones.

They had loads for fun.

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Second, we had another fun lesson with the counting bags and little junk.  The children had to counting out the bags of little stuff to get the correct answer.  Read More Here

My third favorite thing was Spider Show and Tell.  One of my students brought in a spider in a jar, however when he went to look for the spider the jar was empty.  He was so sad. 

Next, I put together my assessment finder.  It is the home of all my important papers for the students fro the year.  The front of the pocket in for notes and report cards and the back of the folder is for assessments. 

Lastly, we made these fact/opinion spiders.  The students had to read the sentences and put them on the side of spider facts or spider opinions.  I used the fact and opinion slips from the spider unit I purchased from Kristen Smith at A Day in First Grade.    The unit is amazing.  I highly recommend it.  I incorporated almost every idea from here unit in my lesson plans.  Thanks, Kristen.