I made a poster for the Chubby Little Snowman poem. You can grab a copy of it from my TPT store here.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Winter!
We have been doing everything winter around here! The kids and I thought since mother nature couldn't provide the real deal, we would celebrate snow in our own way. We have been reading and practicing two new winter poems in our fluency mini-lessons. The kids started giggling when we first read the snowball poem. It took a few of the kids a second to figure out why a snowball would pee the bed...but we all got there pretty quickly and enjoyed a good laugh. There is a cute poster for Shel Silverstein's Snowball poem at Teeny Tiny Teacher's Blog. You can download it from her here. She has some great printables to go along with it!
I made a poster for the Chubby Little Snowman poem. You can grab a copy of it from my TPT store here.
I hope everyone is having a good middle of the week...it's all downhill to the weekend!
I made a poster for the Chubby Little Snowman poem. You can grab a copy of it from my TPT store here.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
That was a short week? Surely not!
We had a great time back together this week in class. We shared what we got for Christmas...how we celebrated New Year...it was awesome!
We are working on descriptive writing next week, so I thought I would re-visit the idea of mental images by having the class make Five Senses poems about New Year. It worked great! At one point one of my little monkeys had me laughing so hard I had tears down my cheek. She couldn't come up with a line for "Smells like..." and she came to me to help her get some ideas. I asked her, "Where were you at?" "Gramma's", she replied. So I talked to her about how when I visit certain places I notice that they smell differently...(is it only me, or does anyone else love the way all Hallmarks smell). I explained that because we all use different smelling candles, soaps, cleaners, etc. we get used to our own house and sometimes when we enter someone else's house we notice a floral, fruity, etc. type of scent. So then I ask (and boy did I walk into this one!) "What does Gramma's house smell like?" I expected the response of flowers or cookies, but her prompt reply was "Dog!". I immediately started laughing, as did she, and we decided to simply write "Smells like Gramma's house." and let the reader create their own imagined Gramma's house scent.
On a different note, I am making some new posters and things for around my room. I know I looked every where on the web for a set of cards for my Daily Five Pocket Chart Choice Cards, but I couldn't find any that I absolutely loved, so I made some. I thought I would share for those of you that want them too, so here they are! Click here to be taken to my TPT store for the free download.
We are working on descriptive writing next week, so I thought I would re-visit the idea of mental images by having the class make Five Senses poems about New Year. It worked great! At one point one of my little monkeys had me laughing so hard I had tears down my cheek. She couldn't come up with a line for "Smells like..." and she came to me to help her get some ideas. I asked her, "Where were you at?" "Gramma's", she replied. So I talked to her about how when I visit certain places I notice that they smell differently...(is it only me, or does anyone else love the way all Hallmarks smell). I explained that because we all use different smelling candles, soaps, cleaners, etc. we get used to our own house and sometimes when we enter someone else's house we notice a floral, fruity, etc. type of scent. So then I ask (and boy did I walk into this one!) "What does Gramma's house smell like?" I expected the response of flowers or cookies, but her prompt reply was "Dog!". I immediately started laughing, as did she, and we decided to simply write "Smells like Gramma's house." and let the reader create their own imagined Gramma's house scent.
On a different note, I am making some new posters and things for around my room. I know I looked every where on the web for a set of cards for my Daily Five Pocket Chart Choice Cards, but I couldn't find any that I absolutely loved, so I made some. I thought I would share for those of you that want them too, so here they are! Click here to be taken to my TPT store for the free download.
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