Friday, November 23, 2012

PINTERESTing! Solar System

I have decided to change my Friday Favorite Pins to PINTERESTing!  I have so many pins that I want to go through my own boards and repin topics.  The Friday pins will be related to a topic.  I will search my own boards.  I am working on the Solar System and rediscovered many great pins.

Moon Phases Model

Rotation and Revolution

Distance
Printable


Moon Phase Flip Book

Moon Phase Foldable
Persuasive Writing
Revolution
Solar System mat
Sun and Moon
Trading Cards
3d Display
Interactive Moon Phases
Moon Phases
Earth's Cycle
Earth's Rotation
Constellations
Model
Moon Viewer
Great Site
Planet Poem
Oreo Phases

Moon Phases Foldable

Web Quest

Monday, November 12, 2012

More Similes


I love this book!  Very creative use of similes.

I had the children pick someone and write descriptive phrases using similes.







Click here for the form from Teacher's Cauldron.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homophones!

We have covered synonyms, antonyms and homophones.  Here are  a few books that I used this week to review.  The children love this series!


I had the kids make a flip book using the three categories.  On the front of the flip book, they wrote the words, synonym, antonym and homophone and their definitions.  On the inside, they wrote a sentence using a pair of words, with an illustration.

Here are a few examples: