Spring Minute to Win It Games

Happy Spring Break!

I'm FINALLY on Spring Break. It seems like it's been 10 years since Christmas break.  We so desperately needed it. 

Well, the day before spring break, we had a lot of fun. 

We got to play with our little duckies that hatched. They are just SO STINKING cute. I love them.

I had a few things I needed to get done (the last lingering assessments), so I let the kids design and paint an egg - they were so excited that it was just for fun! Kids rarely get to do something just for fun anymore...it's amazing what kids can come up with if you let them have some free creative time.

I made some eggs in a nest treats for them since we finished our Oviparous Unit. 

Then we went outside to play some Spring Minute to Win It games!

Here's the Egg Catapult...

Cookie Scoot - with the PEEP flavored Oreos.

Cracked Eggs - make as many matches as you can.

It was rather windy that day, or else they would have been out of the bag so they could see them better to make the matches.

Egg Pong...hehehe

Egg Scoot - with their noses.

Spoon the Eggs...

and, Jelly Bean Tweezers...

They always love doing these games.

You can download these games for free in my TpT store!

I also have Winter Minute to Win It games - check them out HERE. 

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Getting Ready for April!

I'm sitting in my living room with books all around me...books that I own, and books that I'm borrowed from the library. I usually empty out the public library's shelves...lol. I do this as "research" to see if I really want to buy the books, or if the books are too expensive for me to buy. ha! But I decided that I should start showing y'all some of the books that I like to use during each month. This is also for a few reasons....one, so I can remember year to year which books I used and borrowed from the library to get again (lol), but also because I'm sure there are other people out there like me that LOVE to showcase books in their room for each theme that they do. AND because I'm always looking for more books to add to my collection, I'm going to make them linkies! So PLEASE, link up and aid in my (and others') book addiction!

Bees are one of my favorite subjects...They are so amazing too me!

I have a fun idea I hope to do with ants this month, so I've been collecting some ant books!


Here are some of the Earth Day books I'm going to be using...

There are literally TONS of books about Spring, but here are a few for you to check out...

I'll be back later this week to show you some of the fun activities I have planned.  Go ahead and link up your blogposts! I can't wait to see all the new books I need to get!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Printables Freebie!

Happy Thursday!!  Just dropping by to tell you that I'm over at our 2nd/3rd grade collaborative blog, 

Owl-Way be Inspired, for Day 4 of our Spring Fling Freebies!

I posted a freebie from my April Literacy Common Core Center menu pack.

Click the button to head on over there!

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April Common Core Bundle!

It's done! It's uploaded! I'm finished! 

Whew! I finally finished that math pack... AND uploaded it....AND did the bundle...

Are you impressed!?  I am...with one week to spare before April! haha!

Each pack comes with different menus to use with your students, or just for you to plan! Since my centers need to be standard-aligned, when it comes time to write in my planbook, easy peasy!

 Here's what's included in the Literacy pack...

Word Work:
Compound Words
Proper Nouns
Making Words

Grammar:
Adjectives/Adverbs
Prepositions
Past Tense Verbs

Reading:
Paragraph Sorting - Main Idea and Details
April Poem
Sight Words

Writing:
Sentence Scramble
Quotation Marks
Be an Author

Phonics:
Spin-a-Word - Blends/Digraphs with Long Vowel/Silent E
R-Controlled
Word Families -ook and -ool

ADD-INS!
Story Structure
Summarzing (SWBSF)
Summarizing with writing it out
Thematic Writing Paper
Problem and Solution
Evaluate the Story

And here's what's included for the Math centers.

OA:
Roll-a-Problem: Addition 2- and 3-digit Problems
Fact Families
Balancing Act: Addition and Subtraction
Word Problems


NBT:
Place Value Bundles
Spin-a-Number: Adding 10s and 100s
Comparing 3-digit Numbers
Base Ten Numbers up to the Hundreds

MD:
Measurements - deciding which tool to use
Time (to 5 minutes and A.M./P.M.)
Money: adding and comparing
Graphing/Data collecting

G:
Fraction Task Cards
Create a Picture: 2D shapes
Compare/Contrast Shapes
Fraction Grab Bag

Go take a look at my TpT store- they're on sale with all of my other Spring Packs for just a little while longer!

Want to see how I manage my centers?? Read about my literacy centers HERE and my Math centers HERE (although the way I do my math centers has changed just a little bit, but it still similar!)

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March Common Core Centers and Math Small groups

This week, we've been back to our normal schedule! I'm DONE with testing.... my poor kids...so many tests all at once :(  Oh well, we do what we have to do, right?

Well, that means I'm able to find a few seconds in between small groups to check out how my kids are doing in their centers (and to take a few pictures!) We've been working really hard in my March Common Core Menu centers. 

Here are some Math pictures.... the shape within shapes (aka - Tangrams!) lol

Roll-a-Problem...addition AND Subtraction AND even/odd!

Balancing Equations...with 3 and 2 digit numbers and addition AND subtraction!

Data and Graphing...

Adding 10s and 100s

And what am I doing while all these centers are going on?? Why, small group instruction, of course! For this one, I had given an informal assessment on 3 digit addition and subtraction, with AND without regrouping, and I formed my groups that way.  We're using my Math with a Deck of Cards to workout some math problems. They always love working with a deck of cards! I don't actually have a template for my groups for math, because I just use my informal assessments during that day's activities to see who is struggling or who could go on further...and that's how I make my groups! It works for me :)

One of my kids said "Mrs. Ross, we're always in your pictures, you need to be in some too! Can I take a picture of you??" To which I replied...of COURSE! lol I LOVE being in pictures, but I'm always behind the camera...PLUS I can use this picture for my Evidence Binder. SWEET!

For my literacy centers, it's been a little harder to get pictures...

Possessive noun matching

Sight words graphing. I write the words on index cards, because I have a different set of words for some kids...differentiated instruction!

You can find all these activities in my March Common Core Bundle....

Each pack comes with 3 different menus to choose from....

Here are the activities included in the Literacy centers

Plus the Add-Ins!

Here are the Math centers for March...

I realize that we're halfway through with March...but good news!! I just posted my April Common Core Literacy Centers (math with be posted hopefully in another week or so!)

Here are the centers included for the Literacy Centers....

And even more Add-Ins!!

Check it out at my TpT store! It's on sale until Sunday!

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