Plans for a very short week!

It's true.
God spake saying all teachers deserve a break this Halloween...
at least the teachers in my district!
Woot!
I don't even care that my "fall break" is only two days...
because one of those days is Halloween and the other is the day before Halloween!
Can you hear the angels trumpeting?!
PTL People!!

But we still have 3 days, so here's what we're up to! You'll see lots of practice with rulers...because we really need lots of practice holding and using them! I always forget how hard it is for 7 year olds to handle rulers!

This year I stuck strictly to pumpkins-no bats, no owls, no spiders... not that I didn't want to teach those things, we just have no leeway in our day this year! Right now the only reading instruction is during groups and we have required programs for that time, so pumpkins it is! Which is perfectly ok! I have used the heck out of my Pumpkin No Prep printables!
But you can see I am throwing in a little Frankenstein tomorrow for some extra measurement practice! I snagged a pile of paint chips tonight at Lowe's to make these little guys and figured I could fit some more measuring in!

(source http://parentables.howstuffworks.com/slideshows/nesting/13-frightfully-fun-halloween-crafts-make-kids/page/10/)

I'm also using an activity from my Nightsong book companion tomorrow in science. I love this game! I partner the kids up-one's the bat, the other is the moth. The bat is blindfolded and the moth makes clicking sounds. The bat has to guess the direction the sound is coming from...it really is fun, and hard!
These peter pumpkin eater activities were a hit and hilarious! If you follow me on Instagram, you've seen the interesting writing! haha!

and this work of art as well! Wow! 

I'd love to see what you're doing, so link up with Deedee too!

Visual Plans-Apples for Big Kids

So I may not be able to keep posting these, but they do help me out each week!
This week we are doing a scaled back apple week. My kids have had apple weeks in PreK, Kinder, and First grade, so I do not go overboard with it. They've done the taste testing...and the apple floating, so we READ a lot about apples and life cycles! I also made a fun math activities with apply riddles. My kids love jokes! I just snagged A Year of Many Firsts' Apple of My Eye unit and I think it will go nicely with my Applicious Printables!
Another reason I made that pack was I will have my first sub on Wednesday. I am nervous y'all. bad. They were slightly crazed children today. I may have used the word "heathens"...so I am hoping if the sub can keep them so busy they cannot talk, all will be ok!
So here's a rundown of our week!

We are reading Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night from the basal and working on retelling. I use the other Henry and Mudge books as read alouds to do the crafts, too. We also always watch the Mastiffs on Animal Planet's Dogs 101. Most of the kids have no idea how big those dogs are! Today we used the retelling cards that come with reading street to write a retelling using only 6 sentences...yes, poor babies had to write/copy 5 whole sentences! Bless!
We also start our Sound Energy unit. Tomorrow we will go on a sound field trip with clipboard in hand, then return to the room to discuss volume. I posted about it on Blog Hoppin' yesterday!
I STILL have not introduced Work on Words...I feel like I am really getting behind, but we have 160 more days and I know I cannot shove everything in half-assed! So here's to hoping tomorrow is the day!
Activities pictured above include:
Common Core Morning Work from Second Story Window
A Boy and His Dog from Amy Lemons
Word Work Trio from 3rd Grade Thoughts
Apple of My Eye from Lyndsey Kuster
Applicious No Prep Printables for big kids from me
Good Vibrations Sound unit from me
Sound field trip freebie from me

Other activities I have and would love to do! It's a 4 day week! 

Amelia Bedelia's First Apple Pie from Leslie Ann

Happy Birthday Johnny Appleseed from Bubbly-I will make this fit in! I love these!

and Johnny Appleseed unit from Bubbly

there is seriously so much apply goodness out there. Maybe next year I will extend it a little!

Happy Monday!

five for friday and giveaway winner!

I'll be fast and furious today! I have a talent show to prep for...insert pain in stomach here!
Not a bad week for this teacher! We finished up weather and will be starting sound next week! That's the hardest unit to teach! Ugh! Luckily I have this little baby up my sleeve! And I'm guessing it's tough for others too because this has become one of my top sellers!

It definitely makes my life a little easier!

I love weather and I tried out a new snack this week to finish out the unit. Cause food makes learning permanent, right!? haha!

and I just got this posted a few days ago! I used several of the passages to intro some new concepts before experimenting with them! And the notebooking templates were a perfect assessment!

 I used a writing template from Mrs. Cupcake's Whimsical Weather unit and a story frame from Traci Claussen's Fabulous Weather unit to make these! They write about what they would like it to rain and drew it in the clouds! I love how they turned out! We also made the cloud recipe with our snack! I'm still working on poufing those chef hats though!

I got two beautiful packages in the mail! I got my mystery box from Katie! and a little melonheadz addicts surprise from Nikki! Love them!

and if you don't follow me on Instagram @tattooedteacherblog ...then you may not know I'm a new-ish aunt! yay!

well, that obviously calls for a new Alex and Ani bangle! Thanks for having a baby sis!

happy friday! and I also need to announce the winner of my giveaway! I love reading your comments and I really read each and every one of them! Comments are few and far between on blogs these days with instagram and facebook, so I love them!

and you still have a few hours to squeeze in some shopping!