This year being a new mom I have set some new goals for myself so that I can better provide for my family and have some more creative outlets. I am privileged to have my assistant teacher serving as a student teacher in my classroom this semester! Since I'm not having to plan lessons it's opened up time for me to:
1. Upload my original games, lessons, printables, etc. to TpT (Teachers pay teachers)
2. Blog about what's going on in my classroom
So here's to new beginnings... I am now in charge of the bulletin boards and had a lot of fun with these. My assistant has had some great, fresh ideas to go along with lessons I've done in the past!
I used a poster board cut in half to make the giant popper. Then I just stapled it on the board and stuffed wads of butcher paper in it. My assistant had the cute idea to add curled pipe cleaners to it.
This is our outside bulletin board. It goes along with our Journey's Lesson 16 story Let's Go to the Moon! I made the rocket out of butcher paper and put my face and my assistant's face on it. I drew this picture of an astronaut last year and had the students draw their own faces inside the helmet. It wasn't very cute that way! So my assistant had the idea to add the aluminum foil around their faces to look like a helmet! Each of the students used actual pictures of their to make their astronaut's faces but I've covered them up with apples for privacy sake. Way cuter. The story is about Moon facts so they wrote a list of Moon facts on the blue construction paper next to their astronaut.
We now have a classroom set of iPads for small groups (5 iPads) so we've all been racking our brains on how to use them! I found a great FREE app to help with understanding place value and using longs, cubes, and flats. It's called Number Pieces. I wrote numbers on cards and had each student draw a card, build the number with the longs, cubes, or flats, and then write the word. Then they circled the tens place and underlined the ones place. It was an awesome way to easily assess if the child understood place value... plus it was tons of fun! It worked well with my struggling students and the more advanced ones because they could move at their own pace.
Lastly, I just uploaded BAM! for Unit 4 to TpT!
I hope everyone enjoys their long weekend! I've been able to create the BAM! game and add photos to the blog in between Miles napping. He just started crawling so we have been scrambling to baby proof all the extra places we had forgotten. Ahhh... the glamorous life of a new mom! :)
-Libby
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