Writing Workshop Wednesday

We are in the process of Fancying and Fixing up our writing.
This takes a bit of time for firsties.
On Monday they chose their best writing from our unit. I told them it has to be interesting and something that their readers would get excited about.
I had them draw the most detailed illustration they can. This will give them more ideas when we put the finishing touches into our writing. I even let them color these pictures. Forgive me Lucy. :)
For the next couple days we will be working on the illustrations and working on adding more detail and interesting ideas to our writing.
Fancying and Fixing up will take us two weeks. We will be celebrating next Friday.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
On another not, we had our Caring Character Education Celebration the day before our break.
We collected 568 cans for our local food bank.
Our goal was 500!!!


What do you do for Character Education? I would love to hear about all the things people do. 

Have a wonderful day!

0

RAN Strategy Chart Freebie

Hello all!
A colleague of mine is having her formal observation tomorrow. I do not envy her. As a district, I would say the average time we spend on average about 5-15 hours writing our lesson plans for our formal observation. Ridiculous!!! Anyway...My colleague was trying to scan a RAN Strategy chart and it wasn't working very well. We were talking about it. How you couldn't see the print in some parts and it just didn't look "great". So, I ran back and made up one for her with some bees on it. She is doing her observation on bees (non-fiction and fiction). Could you guess?
Then I thought that we all use these and wouldn't they look cute if they had little graphics on them to go with whatever we were working on. 












So, I wanted to share them with you. Head on over to my TpT store to download them.
If you would like any other themes, shoot me an email and I will try to accommodate you.
Enjoy!
Have a wonderful day!

1

Oh My Goodness! Beware... Photo-Bombing!

I feel like I have been gone forever! 
My husband and I went to San Francisco for a mini-vacation. He had business out there so it was a quick, jam-packed visit. 


Our hotel was across the way from ALCATRAZ. This is what we woke up to every morning!


Of course, we had to go on the trolley. 
Rice-a-Roni...the San Francisco Treat.



We trekked to Chinatown. What an amazing place. We had a wonderful meal.


Haight/Ashbury
We couldn't miss this!


Really? So cute! 


This guy caught me taking a picture. :)


Really, how do they stay so white?


This "little" man decided to stretch just as I was clicking.


Tulip-mania!!!!


We had no idea...this was the "Red Bull Youth America's Cup Selection Series". How cool is that?


Upside-down Jellyfish.


One of the highlights. 
Muir Woods
The redwoods are not as wide as the sequoias but they are taller!

Back to teaching on Monday.

Just for being a good sport and humoring me with looking at my pictures...:) If you go to this link, you can checkout my new Piggy Bingo packet.


 Send me an email and I will send you the packet.

Have a wonderful day!!!





15

Winner! Winner! Winner!

Ohhhhhh! I am so excited!!!
Not only am I on February Break (in San Francisco!!!!), but I get to announce the winner of my Mid-Winter Blues Giveaway!!!


The winners are...
Yvonnee, you won the grand prize.
Debbie, Brianne, and Diane you won the extra prizes.
Congratulations!!!
























Thank you so much to all of these WONDERFUL, FABULOUS, GENEROUS, (I could go on and on!!!) teachers!


2
Back to Top