Showing posts with label chinese new year. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chinese new year. Show all posts

five for friday linky Feb 15 edition

It's Friday...can we say Thank the Lord?!
It's not just me, is it??
Phew, action packed week!
So here goes.
I'm linking up with DBT again for Five for Friday.



On Tuesday we made our monster v-day pockets. Last year I put them on bags, but I didn't have time or want to go pick some up...so we improvised. I love the colors! Check out Lindsay's All you need is love pack for these! And I may have spent 30 minutes writing their names on them...
 

today took the cake...right out of me! We had our annual Itty Bitty City event. You can read more about it here and see tons of pictures from years past here, but here's a shot of one of my kiddos doing nails. See her "smock". Her mom let her put paint on it the night before so she'd look professional! And yes, a pack to purchase is on the way...just a few peeps have asked!




On Wednesday night, Little Lamb and I prepped the Minute to Win It games from Sarah Cooley's pack. They LOVED it to say the least! I loved that the same ol' kids didn't win! It was a hoot! I found it funny my 4-year old could do them and some 8-year olds could not...



below is the straw blowing game


 I'm moving in reverse this week. Here's a part of our Chinese New Year festivities on Monday. I snatched up 2 12-packs of fortune cookies at the Dollar Tree {holla} and knew we could come up with something educational! I decided to introduce our graphing unit with a tally chart and convert to this pictograph. I'm on the NO side... We also used our lucky numbers to practice addition and had lots of fun trying to infer what the fortunes meant!
We also did our math hunt (and some still aren't finished!), watched Ruby's Wish on Tumblebooks and did a comparison with GWC, and learned some fast facts about China.


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chinese new year SUPER giveaway


Katie from Teacher to the Core and I have teamed up to giveaway our Chinese New Year units right in time for the big day! {it's 2-10-2013 in case you need to know!}

We both love teaching about this time of year. Mainly because we love Chinese food!
But we also find the customs amazing!
Imagine haircuts, clean homes, and money in envelopes! yay!
I love all those!
Our units are great complements to one another. And guess what? they meet common core standards in 1st and 2nd grade Math, ELA {plus our states' SS standards} AND they can be used year after year since they are not based on just the year of the snake. Oh, and we happen to think they are awesome too!

Mine includes: 

  • What's you sign? chart and Venn
  • a Fun Facts about China foldable mini book
  • Make a New Year Banner craft (I included all the animals so you can use any year)
  • Math word problem scavenger hunt
  • Chinese New Year booklist and story map to use with any book
  • Make a red envelope activity-includes color/bw coupons
  • double bubble for comparing our new year celebrations with China's
Katie's includes:

  • Social Studies Test on Chinese New Year
  • ABC Order
  • Synonyms and Antonyms Activity
  • Panda Science Fluency
  • Panda Science Test
  • Writing- Word of the Day “China”
  • Writing- Word of the day “Pandas”
  • “I love Rice” Math Graphing 
  • Chinese New Year Poem and Rubric
  • Bulletin Board / Vocabulary Wall images
  • Panda Smart Art
  • Dragon Hats
  • Chinese Lanterns 
  • student fact book all about the New Year

and speaking of Super-everything in my store is on sale starting Saturday thru Monday!

thank you Ashley for the precious squirrel signage!!
I'm offering 20% off, plus use SUPER code to get another 8%! 
I'm so excited, my cart overfloweth!

Good Luck! Our Giveaway ends Saturday night at midnight!


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