summer school: days five, six, and seven in pictures

The last 3 days of summer school were jam packed!  Here's a peek into what happened ...

 

addition Write the Room

 math lesson on the computer

 when struggling to add with a number line, switch to bear counters

 more addition activities

 And then the monsters came!  monster sight word game

 sight word coloring activities

 sight word Write the Room

 monsters roll, add, and cover

  monsters roll, add, and cover

  monsters addition file folder games

  monsters roll, add, and cover

 

On Monday we had one on one math centers.  I had enough games for my 9 firsties to play independently.  They did a fantabulous job!

 

 a peek into next week's lessons ...

 

Be sure to check back next week for a freebie from my new addition and subtraction math centers!

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Monday Made It! {July 8}

Woah!  Two weeks in a row for Monday Made It!  I'm linking up with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics today.

I found several pictures on Pinterest that I liked for READ letters for my classroom.  Click here and here and here to see the original pins.

Michael's had the letters (with a coupon!) and washi tape

 covering the letters

 getting ready to put mod podge on them

 letting them dry

this is what I did with them at school - I glued them to the side of my bookcase

 

 

When I was at Michael's, I found these cute owls on little clothespins that I couldn't resist!  I put thumb tacks on the back of some and mini magnets on the back of the others.

 This is the corkboard covered with fabric and hot glued down.  I added the owls to this one.  Ready to use!

 

Check out other ideas on Tara's linky!

 



July ...

It is hard to believe July is here!  With a new month comes a new currently!  I'm linking up with Farley!



fonts by Jessica Stanford

listening - I love Chris Tomlin's praise and worship music

loving - we are piloting a summer school program - 2 mornings a week for 6 weeks; we are hopeful that the children will retain more by being spread out than previously (4 mornings a week for 3 weeks).  I love that I have days off in between!

thinking - our 10th anniversary is next week and we're heading to DC for a few days; planning now what to see and do while we are there

wanting - when I went into my classroom one morning last week, several of my alphabet cards had fallen and others were curling up, so I want to make new ones to match the color cards I just made

needing - we have had problems with our basement flooding due to the slope in our front yard and lack of a proper drain; we just refinanced our house and are waiting for the contractor to come to regrade our front yard and fix the problems in the basement.  With all of the rain we've had lately, we have kept the shop vac busy!  My husband has been in the front yard with 2 shop vacs running; he posted on Facebook: "You might be a redneck if ... you are shop vac-ing your front yard during a rainstorm!"

tips, tricks, or hints - when what we do is no longer fun, step back to reflect and reevaluate

Monday Made It!

I am linking up {for the first time!} with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics for my Monday Made It.

Project 1:

 

 

I saw this idea on Pinterest, as well as several blogs and decided it was time to try it out.  I found glitter clothespins in the dollar bins at Michael's and then picked up mod podge to cover each.  Then I hot glued thumb tacks to the back of each and they are ready to go into the cork strip outside my classroom.  I know I'll be happy with this when the first activity needs to go up!

 Project 2:

I also found numbers at Michael's and picked up the alphabet washi tape on sale.  The one is covered and mod podged, ready for the first day of school pictures in first grade!

I am pleased with how it turned out!

Would love to see what you're working on this summer!