Valentine's Day Pack In Action

My students started working on the stations in my Valentine's Day pack.  THEY LOVED IT!  My students were so engaged and the conversations were great!  I love hearing them learn and talk about what they know to each other.  They were sad when our Daily 5 time was up and can't wait for tomorrow's  Daily 5 time.

 

 

My sister's 2nd grade class also started this today and she said they also loved it.  Her student's told her that I was cool.  :) 

 

 

You can get the awesome packet full of fun things for the kids to do while learning here. That's the best part! 

 

 

This week in a wrap

This week we covered one of my favorite topics in Social Studies and one of my best selling items on TPT.  We did the Social Studies Government Breakdown and oh my goodness the conversations they were having.  I was just smiling walking around the room.  They sorted the descriptions together one day and made a venn diagram comparing/contrasting Mayor, Governor, & President.  Then, the next day they created their tree maps after sorting the descriptions again.  I loved hearing them talk to each other about what they learned and already know! 

 

 

 

 

 

 We have also been going over the Water Cycle and I got to pull out a game I found a few years back.  You can get it here along with other ideas.  It's a fun game where the kids are water droplets and they move all different places (ground water, soil, clouds, river, lakes, ect).  It's neat to see how everybody went different places throughout the process.  They love it!

 

 

It was also the 100th day of school and 1st and Kinder had some cute decorations and activities that I thought I would share.  Second doesn't get to do all that fun stuff but it was sure cute to see around the school!    This is a poster they hung for the 100 days and then said the celebration continues!  Fun!