I am linkin’ up with sweet Farley yet again for Currently…February Edition! Check it out below… and while your here, scroll on down and enter to win my 1,000 followers giveaway! :)
Night, y’all!
It’s A TPT Shopping Spree & Sale {1,000 Followers Giveaway}
I can’t believe that 1,000 people really follow all of this classroom craziness that I have going on here. I can not even begin to tell you how much I have enjoyed blogging alongside so many of you and making some wonderful teaching friends along the way. So, thank you…Thank You…THANK YOU to all of you who have left comments, sent emails {even when I am super slow at returning them}, purchased TPT units, and followed along with me here at the Shenanigans. Your support means the world to me and I could go on…and on…and on…about how truly inspiring each and every one of you have been over the past several months! You are hands down some of the most dedicated and wonderful teachers that I have met, and I am so incredibly blessed to learn from all of you! Ok…so I will stop rambling and get on with the giveaway.
Since y’all are super amazing, I am going to do it up big for all of you! I know how we all love a good shopping spree, so the winner of this little giveaway will receive a $100.00 shopping spree to spend on any units that they would like at my shop! These can be present or future units and you can mix and match any way that you would like. Spend it all at once, or break it up and save some for later. {If you are a saver…can you please rub off on me?!? My husband will thank you! :)}
How to Enter:
1. Follow my blog or let me know that you are already one of my lovely followers!
2. Follow my TPT shop.
3. Follow my Facebook page.
4. Blog about my giveaway.
5. Post about my giveaway on Facebook or Twitter.
6. Share my giveaway with a friend!
Please leave one comment per entry. Any additional comments will be deleted. Don’t forget to include your email address so that I can contact you should you be the lucky winner! The giveaway will end this Friday night at midnight!
And as a thank you to all of my sweet followers, I am having a TPT sale all week. Stop on by my shop and pick up some goodies!
And here are a few units that are on their way this week:
Happy, Happy Monday!!!! Y’all are the absolute best! :)
Half Off During Halftime
Alright friends…I know this is short notice, but all of my units will be half off during halftime of the Super Bowl! You can check it all out at my TPT shop!
Here Little Groundhog
On to yet another holiday and another new student. Today, my class welcomed another sweet little one, but this time from India. Yes…INDIA! She has only been in the States since Thursday. Holy culture shock!!! I am in desperate need of a Gujarati dictionary…ASAP. Thank the good lawd that I have another student who is fluent in this language. Can I get a hallelujer?!? She is just way too cute and smiled all day long. Love her sweet face already! My kids can’t get enough of her. They love her to pieces. In fact, I had to threaten to take recess if they didn’t leave her alone at lunch. Poor baby couldn’t even eat!
So, aside from all of our newbies lately and all of these crazy holidays, we really have been tuh-rying to learn! This week, we have been working on our power of persuasion. My student teacher {who is the bomb.com} is designing this entire social studies unit about goods/services which is going to be totally awesome…but the kids are going to need to have a thorough understanding of persuasive writing as they begin to market and advertise their products to our firsties {My firstie teacher friend doesn’t know about this little project that they will be helping us with yet…but she will…soon!} Ha!
I began my introduction of persuasive writing by reading an excerpt from Charlotte’s Web. The story opens with Fern persuading her father to allow her to keep the new little pig. After reading, I began a class discussion with a T-chart and the students identified her opinion {argument} and we worked together to list reasons to support her opinion. Then, we moved on to my all time favorite dessert….OREOS! Each letter represents a step in the persuasive writing process.
O = Opinion
R = Reason
E = Examples
O = Opinion
This provided a simple outline for the students as we began writing. After we listed the reasons that the book gave to keep Wilbur alive, we thought of some additional reasons to strengthen our argument. Finally, the students returned to their seat to write a persuasive letter to Mr. Arable to convince him to “save the pig!”
Then, the students created their own little version of Fern. We displayed their letters in envelopes along with their craft.
On to Groundhog’s Day
Today, to continue our practice with persuasive writing, the students wrote to good ol’ Punxsutawney Phil. {The little “punk” who predicted six more weeks of winter…ICK!} The students used their OREO model to convince Mr. Groundhog to either remain in his hole {which would give them six more weeks of winter} or come on out and prepare for spring. These turned our pretty darn cute. One student even lured him in by suggesting that he come on out and find himself a sweet girlfriend! Ha! Then, we put together a little groundhog craft and added a burrow for good measure!
I just had to choose this writing as my favorite for the day. This is one of my precious little ELLs {I have four now} and her improvement is remarkable! I almost jumped up on the desk for a celebration…BUT I refrained! So proud of her!
Then, for a little reward, we celebrated with “shadow or not” cookies {courtesy of Pinterest}. I made the topper for the bag, but Google Docs is KILLING me right now and will not let me upload. Not that you could use this anymore, but I will try to get it up so you can tuck it away for next year!
I am so serious when I say…TGI{almost}F.
100th Day Craze
Umm…I am still recovering from yesterday’s 100th day extravaganza. I don’t know what it is about changing things up and not following a routine, but I am pretty sure that the 100th day has a way of making you feel 100…no joke! So tired! However, it was totally worth all of the work, because we sure had a wonderful day celebrating all of the success that we have had in the first 100 days of school.
Are you ready for a highlight reel?!?
Happy 100th Day
Our 100th day hats turned out super cute…even if I do say so myself. :) You can’t tell my secret, but the 100 feathers was my absolute fave.
Love this one too! All eyes on Jesus! :)
No worries, we only lost a few hundred objects as we walked down the hall and transitioned from activity to activity. Ha!
For morning work, the kids came in and wrote about what they would do with 100 bucks. So many of them wrote about what they would buy their sweet, sweet teacher! That may or may not have been because I threatened to take recess away for the rest of their days if they didn’t share! :) Ha! Then, they put their picture in the middle of a $100 bill.
During our Mission Possible Math, I changed things up to make it a little more, umm…celebration like? If they made a 100, {for the 100th day} they got to write all of their answers on balloons. Then the fun began and they all got to pop their balloon.
During math, we continued in our study of division and explored the many different ways to divide 100 objects. Here is a little group dividing 100 smarties {since they are now…oh so smart} into 50 equal groups. I mean…honestly…check OUT that feather hat! It cracks me up!
Who is that super stylin’ 100 year old?!? Ha! Our 100th day writing consisted of the students sharing what they predict life will be like in 100 years. Do you see the “Senior Citizen Discount”? I almost FELL OUT in the floor when I heard one of my cuties suggest that they would totally go to all of their favorite restaurants just to get the discount. OH. My. Word!
Here is one of my favorite writings of the day. {My super fab pictures skills should be noted….NOT!}
Then we used our pictures and cotton balls to create a self portrait!
And check out those crazy 100th day glasses!
We did several other activities, but I swear it was a challenge just to get these shots in yesterday. I was steady taking pictures of the winners of the hat parade as they silly stringed our principal…just to find out that my dang memory card was in my computer. Can we say…blonde moment?!? Ha!
If you haven’t celebrated the 100th day of school, you can find all of these resources in my 100th Day Craze unit at my TPT shop!
Well, Happy 101st day! :)
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