Five For Friday

On Wednesdays, our school has "B.Y.O.D. Day".  Our planned activity Wednesday was a review of time, which we recently finished.  We got these QR Codes on Time as a freebie from Teaching With Heart in Texas.  My kiddos loved that the QR codes were posted around the room so they could hunt for them!  In the beginning we were low-tech; students had to simply read the clocks and record the time shown, on their answer sheet.  After all answers were written, I exchanged their pencils for pens, to ensure no answers would be changed.  Then they moved around the room with a partner and used their devices to check their answers.  They were all so engaged and loved it!

 

We have been learning how to measure.  Here you can see students working in pairs to measure a length of tape on the floor.  Earlier I put down 8 different length pieces of colored tape.  I numbered them 1-8.  We folded a piece of blank paper into quarters for each student. The students wrote an answer for each length of tape in a square. They measured using traced cut-outs of their own feet.  We leaned the importance of lining each foot up so that they were touching, but avoiding overlapping and space between.  We also discussed the importance of using the same size object to measure.   Therefore, they did not share their feet cut-outs, since that would mean using different size objects to measure.  We have some "t-niney" (tiny) feet and some great BIG feet in our classroom this year!

To prepare for next week's Read Across America day, I just finished making 20 QR codes for 20 different Dr. Seuss books.  I wanted my kiddos not to just hear the words read to them, but to also see the words as well.  These videos show the words in them so the students can read as they listen.  I'm super excited to share them with my kiddos next week!  I know they'll love them.

If you want to pick up your own set, click on the title below.  

It's basically like getting 20 books for only $5.00.  

You just can't beat that!

QR Codes:  20 Dr. Seuss Stories for Read Across America Day

In reading, we've been reading from Readers' Theaters.  I have several printed already and in folders for them to use with their reading partners. Each day we had a lesson that involved reading a script.  The lesson were fluency focused - noticing punctuation, reading rate, voice inflection, reading with expression, deciding on what emotion was needed for certain phrases, etc.  At the start of the week, I pulled my lowest readers to my group and we read through scripts together, giving them the needed support to decode and understand what they were reading.  My students were so engaged and on task the entire time they were reading with their partners.  They just loved these scripts!

My last event photographed was at the end of the day today.  At our school, when students are caught doing good, exhibiting the desired behavior expectations, they will often earn and Eagle Buck (our mascot is an eagle).  They put their name on their Eagle Buck and put it in the Eagle Buck Jar.  They earn many throughout the week.  On Fridays, I pull 5 names from the Eagle Buck Jar to choose a treasure from the treasure box.  They do not let me forget to pull these names!  

These were 4 of our proud treasure winners!