Science Safety Tips Poster(freebie)

I created a poster to hang on my science bulleting board of safety tips.  I

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Friday's Five Fabulous Finds (on Pinterest)

 I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for my five favorites of the week!

T-chart for elapsed time

Snickers Salad…YUM!!! 

Keep track of Teacher Pencils 

Clever idea for using conjuctions 

Gallon Man with real life objects

Posting Learning Targets

Our school implemented a "push" to post and articulate our learning goals for each lesson this year.  Teaching all subjects, can make planning a very overwhelming task.  I posted my agenda daily on the white board with at least one standard next to each item on our agenda.  I found it easier writing them out then digging through the printed ones that I had made up.  I wish I took a picture of my daily agenda.

Here are a few boards that I like from Pinterest

I found this beneficial for me and my students.  It gave focus to my lessons.  It allowed the students to know what they were going to learn and the outcomes of the lessons.  

I have evidence that posting and talking about learning objectives is helpful.  My students wrote essays about why they deserve to go to fifth grade. (I am changing to fifith grade next year too) A group of the girls got together and wrote an essay about why I deserve to go to fifth grade.   One of their reasons reassured the importance of "Framing their Learning."

Friday's Five Fabulous Finds (on Pinterest)

I have not posted any finds on Pinterest in a long time.  I am moving to a new grade next year and I have gone to my favorite place for "Pinspiration".  Here are my five favorite pins of the week!  I'm linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching.

Great site for room arrangement ideas 

Add a pop of color 

I love black background paper! 

Love the poster and sticky note idea!

Great Management Tool for Collecting Papers and Grades

Fabulous in Fifth!

I am moving up to fifth grade next year.  I am so excited!!!  I will be teamed up with one teacher and my subjects will be math and science.  Can't wait to start looking for new lessons and activities for fifth graders!!!  I hope to get back to my weekly bloggging.

Wonder, Point of View(Freebie), Magnets

I am currently reading "Wonder" as our read aloud to my class.  They are LOVING it!!!  It has prompted some great questions, thoughts and discussions.  I started a "Wonder Wall",  where each day I pick 4-5 children to write down their thoughts.  We are also working on points of view and this book uses character's perspectives.

We have been learning about the differences of writing in first and third person.  We charted out clue words that help us to identify. We then continued that author's can also write from different points of view.  We read two versions of "Little Red Riding Hood".  One is told in first person and the other is told in third person.  It also demonstrates Red's version and the Wolf's version.  I wanted to do a mini-lesson in writing from different points of view.  I had the kids brainstorm things that they love and hate about spring.  They wrote two paragraphs practicing the author's craft of "Show Don't Tell".   My camera was acting weird and I was in a hurry Friday…I will add more examples.

Spring Hate It and Love It

Magnet Madness (Check out an older post)

I set up several stations on Friday that included:

magnetic fields

magnetite
different types of magnets
magnetic needles
compass
repel and attract
objects sort