Well, we have been some busy little bees in my room today. We have our STAAR testing tomorrow, so I will be out administering the test for the next two days. sigh We had lots of new objectives to cover today and no time to waist!! Here’s a little peek at our day today. After using The Teacher Wife’s adorable ed and ing posters, we brainstormed a list of verbs and made them *old* by adding ed and *young* by adding ing. I just love her adorable posters. After we created our lists I sent the kids off to make these little diddies! Meet Sunny Suffix. Isn’t he just the most handsome little sun you’ve seen?! You can click {here} or on the pictures to grab him up for FREE! 
We are also working on comparing and contrasting this week in our basal. To summarize our story by comparing and contrasting how the character changed from the beginning to the end we whipped up these story pyramids. Sorry about the terrible pics…left my Nikon at home. Bummer. 
These are a super, easy and creative way to summarize any story. Here’s the details: Line 1: name of a character Line 2: two words that describe the character Line 3: three words that describe the setting Line 4: four words in a sentence that describe one event from the story Line 5: five words in a sentence that describe another even from the story Line 6: six words describing the end I just gave my kiddos a large piece of manilla paper. They wrote their lines first, then went back and added the pyramid. And…I just had to share this picture of one of my team members and I from our Harlem Shake video! That’s me rocking some pink hair! Some of the teachers from my school got together and did the harlem shake to pump up our kiddos for STAAR. We are totally shaking the STAAR! You can find our video over at my fabulous friend Sweet-n-Sassy in 2nd! 
Well friends, that is all I have for y’all tonight. I have a date with my Rapunzel. We are watching the Voice on the couch in our fanciest gowns. I can’t wait!
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While I’m sitting at OT for little P, I thought I’d share a fine motor activity with y’all! 😬 I’ll be doing preschool with him at home next year (his daycare got torn up by a storm🌪) and fine motor + alphabet are two things we’ll be hitting all year. So, I wanted to incorporate as much of both into one activity as I could. 💪 These lacing cards are going to work his little fingers all while learning the alphabet and letter sounds. 🍎 These (+ several other fine motor mats) are available in my store! // Link below 💜💜 www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Activities-Lacing-Letter-Mats-Fine-Motor-Lacing-Card...
A few years ago I used this Friend-Diagram activity with my students to teach compare and contrast! I always love how they turn out! It’s FREE on the blog and I re-shared it in my Weekly Recap (several weeks ago) on the blog, too! Hope you can use it! Link here 👉 // smittenwithfirstblog.com/weekly-recap-3/
Sticky Tables was a class favorite years ago! It gets kiddos up and moving!! 🤩 It works with multiple subject areas/standards and can also be used for informal assessments! 👍 My last post showed how to use it with skip counting and here I show it used with subitizing/number sense, ABC order, and handwriting practice. See previous post for directions on how to play 💜💜
Re-sharing this skip counting number lines activity from years ago! 👉 Skip counting from any given number is such an important skill for our little ones - not just reciting 2,4,6,8,etc! Here's how we did it! Put sticky notes on the table, each student chooses one sticky note to start off with and then they just fill in the boxes using an expo marker on their desk! You could even use washi tape to create the number lines!