I can’t believe it’s already Sunday morning! I spent yesterday in my second home……
If my classroom is my home away from home, then my car wins as my second home. I spent 3 and 1/2 hours driving yesterday to get my daughters where they needed to be. God bless my busy teenagers, and PTL I drive a small Honda that gets great gas mileage!
So, here are my plans for the week, I’m linking up for the “Peek at My Week Linky!”
All of the pictures and links are clickable and lots of them will take you to FREE stuff, but you have to download them from Google Docs first. Just click on any of the pics to do that!
ELA
In ELA this week, we are taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming of main idea to go back and review describing a character. It’s time for our annual pumpkin book character project, and we will be working on that this week. You can check out last year’s pumpkins HERE.
On Monday, we will review character traits by using the “Costumed Characters,” from my Halloween literacy centers. During our writing time they will work to describe themselves using character traits and I am going to have them make face frames that I saw on Pinterest.
Tuesday, we will review describing characters with Lilly from Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse. We will use an anchor chart to brainstorm character traits that describe Lilly. They will then work with a partner to find evidence from the text and write their evidence on sticky notes to add under the traits on our chart.
Wednesday, we will review yet again, but they will be doing most of the work this time! We will read A Bad Case of Stripes or maybe we will watch it….I love listening to Sean Astin read it, he does such a great job using accents for the specialists! Check out Storyline Online by the Screen Actor’s Guild!
The rest of the week will be spent getting our own character descriptions finished for our pumpkin projects. The link to my project freebie can found in my visual lesson plans.
Our grammar this week will come from my favorite pack….Jivey’s Mentor Sentence pack. I am still IN.LOVE. with this and I just saw that the story our mentor sentence comes from is on Storyline Online! So excited. I am telling you, if you haven’t checked out her mentor sentence stuff yet, get on it! The link is in my plans!
Math
We will spend our time in math this week on addition with regrouping. First, we will work on using addition properties and we will make a flap book in our interactive notebooks. You can grab the flap books for free by clicking the link in my plans. I copy two on a page to conserve paper. We go through paper like C.R.A.Z.Y. at our school and are encouraged to conserve whenever we can. I have them cut out the rectangle and then cut the flaps. We put glue down the strip on the side and glue it in their notebooks. They use the lines on the notebook page to write their notes. It saves paper and using the notebook page with lines helps them be neater! Reading it back, those directions are slightly confusing….I will take a picture of their notebook this week and post!
Our math workstations this week will all come from my Halloween themed workstation pack. I always put review skills in workstations. I plan on blogging more about how my math workstations operate later this week, including what I do for my gifted kids who need to be challenged during station time! You can click on the link above or the pictures in my plans to check out the Halloween workstations. For the next 4 days, everything Halloween themed in my store will be 20% off! Click the pic below to check it out!
Have a great Sunday everyone!
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