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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Bunny Week!

We started our week off with my April Graph Pack.

This week I put the voting cards in a bag and made them choose cards because I KNEW who would win in the graph, and I wanted to change it up a bit.

So they wrote their question for the graph and did the tally chart.

Then they did the bar graph and wrote about the data.

The next page was the different ways they could solve the problems that I gave them.  Same questions, so many different ways to answer them!

One of my favorite stories to do this during this week is the Knuffle Bunny series

We used some graphic organizers from my April Literacy center pack (the Add-Ins section)

Then, I kind of combined my idea with Hope's idea from her Knuffle Bunny pack. I bought her pack a few years ago and have used it every year. This year I did something different though. I took the pictures that she included in her pack then I drew a Knuffle Bunny and printed them up for the kids to color, cut, and paste onto the picture.  Then using one of my graphic organizers in my April Literacy pack, they planned out their Knuffle Bunny FOUR! haha.

They just wrote about their characters, setting, and problem and solution.

Then we also did another favorite bunny book, The Easter Bunny's Assistant.

I used some of the activities from Deanna and Deedee's Guiding Readers pack.

We did some cause and effect...

and sequencing activities. We used my Spelling Journals A LOT this week...in the Easter section.

They loved doing the application....many of them are such good assistants!

Then we turned the application into a letter and did the bunny craft from A Cupcake for the Teacher.

Click the pictures below to grab your application freebie!

THEN we did the directed drawing from Jennifer over at First Grade Blue Skies. I LOOOOVE doing directed drawings as it is, but then when I saw Alisha's measurement addition to the activity, GENIUS!  Nothing like last minute changes to my plans...all for the greater good!

I mean, honestly.... where would I be without all these wonderful teachers who blog about all their wonderful ideas?! I am so thankful for this blogging world!

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