5 for Friday { fun 1st week back }

I had the best FIRST week back my friends!!!!  I love my firsties this year so much!!!!  I missed them and it was great to be back together.  We had a busy week though that’s for sure.    Be sure to hook up with Doodle Bugs to join in on the fun!!

So we were working on doubles this week and I finished this unit JUST IN TIME to use.  The kids love how interactive and hands on it was…

The kids loved spinning and seeing what fact they landed on…then they had to decide if it was a doubles fact or not…they circled yes or no after solving it.

This can easily be used as a worksheet but I used it in our math journals instead.

Next we worked on ‘Academic Conversations’…our principal trained us on this our first day back { staff dev }.  I had fun making an anchor chart and getting them started on what it looks like.

I had the principal’s son { very bright boy } model with me what this looked like.  It was fun but we still needs lots more modeling and practice.

Also I used my first poem from my new poetry for the year pack…the kids enjoyed doing this and adding it to their anthology.

We did a craftivity – first we brainstormed ideas of how we would spend a day with a snowman friend…

FIRST – have the kids paint bubble wrap white

Then have them gently place it on top of the background paper

LIFT and see the magical ‘snow’ appear.

It was so FUN to see how creative they were in their writing…for once a semi unstructured writing activity.  They thought up the most clever ideas for how they would spend a day with their ‘snowman friend’.

Our phonics skill for the week is MAGIC e…so I whipped out my old faithful magic e unit and my long vowel bundle and my kids had a blast!

My long vowel bundle comes in handy…I wrote a poem for each long vowel and have printables for each long vowel.

This is totally NOT teacher related but I finally washed that gray right outta my hair…now my kids can’t tell me they see gray hair when they get all in my grill…. LOL

Hope your first week back was as good as mine…I know some of you didn’t really have a first week back because of snow days.  Since I had such a GREAT first week back I would like to give away either my doubles unit or my huge long vowel bundle…leave a comment below { with email } and I will pick one before next week.  xoxox

Oh and for those of you that missed it…I posted this FREEBIE last weekend…check it out!