Transportation Centers

Hey y'all!  Well, I have 3 more days until my Spring Break officially begins...what about you?  I'm so excited...mainly because that gives me a week to hopefully catch up on some house cleaning and organizing plus I hope to do a few fun things with the fam!  

I wanted to show you our transportation centers that we worked on some last week and finishing them up this week.  I couldn't get in all of my themes for this time of year so I just squeezed transportation into my morning baskets.  :)  You can find them HERE.  My literacy and math baskets have community helpers centers that I hope to blog about later in the week.  And you can find those HERE. 

This one we've done before with a different theme.  I still have a few kiddos that have trouble looking at these double digit numbers and ordering them by 5's.  So, we are still practicing.

My kids are getting SO good at addition that they really don't need me at all.  Some are simply recognizing the facts and knowing them without using manipulatives.

I shared this at my presentation a few weeks ago because it is one of my student's favorites.

I made these little roads and color coded them with a dot.  They use the little car manipulative to drive and read the word.  How fun is that?!

Here, they had to read all of the words and pick out the rhyming words.  I started doing some rhyming games like this last school year so they were having to read more words and listen for rhymes. 

Unscrambling sight words...

More subtraction...

teen number words...

What comes next?...

ordering numbers...

and counting by 10's.

That pretty much sums up our transportation centers.

You can find all of these games HERE in my Transportation Pack.

I haven't given away my Transportation Unit yet, so leave a comment below and I'll choose a winner tomorrow.  :)

St. Patrick's Day Centers!

Wow!  I can't believe I am actually making a post mid-week.  That usually does not happen with 3 kids at home and #singlelife since my hubby is smack in the middle of baseball season.  Boo!  I so miss him when he's not here to help, but enough about that!  

So, we are working on our St. Patrick's Day centers this week.  I can see so much growth right now and I am lovin' it!  I love how independent they are working in their little centers and looking more and more like first graders every day.  Speaking of, I am having some first grade teachers from our district come visit my classroom this Thursday to watch guided reading.  Eeek!  But, I get to go watch them on Monday!  Yay!

On with it...All of these centers can be found in my St. Patrick's Day Centers Pack Here.

My students are doing really well with ordering words to build complete sentences.  We will have one of these centers for just about the remainder of the year.  :)

 Working on a new sound /ck/ with word families

 This one is super fun!  I don't know what it is about races, but kids are all over them!

They spin the boy/girl spinner & the ending sound center.  Who will win...Irish boy or girl?

I also included a teen number race in the unit.

 Rhyming Rainbows...they had to read the words and match the clouds to the rhyming rainbow.

 Unscrambling Sight Words...

 Subtraction using dice and manipulatives.

 And....addition using manipulatives

 Counting dots by 10's...

 Not gonna lie....this was one a little tricky...this one is filling in missing numbers to 50.

 Matching teen numbers to number words...

 I do this every year.  I love how bright and colorful they always look, plus it's great to hang from the ceiling and leave up for a WHILE!  :)

As always, thanks for reading my blog!  I hope you find an idea you can use!  :)

Silly Willy Centers!!

We are knee deep in Dr. Silly, silly centers, and spring activities!  Plus, our annual Jack Hartmann concert was yesterday.  Whew!  It's been that kind of week.  I've never blogged about our silly centers before now, so I wanted to show some of them because they are all kinds of fun!  Who doesn't love silly?!?!  (well, most of the time)  You can find all of the centers shown in my Silly Center Pack Here.  And, even though these were created for my classroom to use during Read Across America week, these would be great for anytime!  They're just fun with lots of learning!

So.....I love to hang "stuff" from my ceiling that goes along with our centers.

This week, we have these cute little balloons floating...

and, this is where they get their addition sentence.

Still working hard on subtraction...I totally forgot the Goldfish Crackers that we were supposed to use with this game...so we used the trusty ol' unifix cubes.

Math & Literacy integrated into one center!  Ding!

Were the number sequences in the correct order?  Well, they had to record in the yes/no boxes to let me know.  :)

They had a fit over this one...not sure why, but they loved matching the candles to the cupcakes.  Notice the candles are white...this was not a self-correcting game.  At this point in the year, they really have to know their "stuff" or figure it out by using resources in our room.  

This is about the time of year that I really have my students begin practicing reading sight word phrases...they did really well.  They had to read 12 phrases and color code their dots, but they chose only 6 to record.

Word families...

Blends...

Vowels...

Beginning and Ending Sounds...

And, finally...our version of "The Hat on the Cat" and the -at family.

My First SDE Presentation is Under my Belt! And, the TPT Sale!

Hello!  Some of you may remember that I just presented at my first ever SDE conference this past Monday.  Oh my word...let's just say I was wee-bit sick nervous...just a little (wink).  I'm SO very glad my sis and mom could make it with me just to be there for me...plus they brought donuts and Pepto!  

Okay, so it wasn't as nerve-racking as I thought it would be.  Once I got going I was good!  Of course, if I ever get the opportunity to present again it will be even better, now that I know what to expect!  My attendees were awesome and so sweet...all 79 of you.  I had some of the sweetest feedback in person and through e-mail, so, THANKS!

Here's me and Kim and shoot!  I forgot to snap a pic of me and Deanna!  

(Don't ya just love that purple ribbon that screams "I'm a first-timer!"  ;)

Really!  I'm blessed to have had the opportunity!

Anywho, enough about me...Are you ready for the TPT sale?!?!?!?!  I am!  Can't wait to fill my cart later on tonight!  You can click the image below to go to my store to browse.

These first 3 are FREEBIES in my TPT store.  Grab, print, and use!  :)

Finally, these are some of the units I use during the spring.  Just click the image if you wanna know more about it!

Of course, my store will be on sale.  Don't forget the promo code to save even more!  

Thanks for stoppin' by!

100th day fun and a NEW 100th day CRAFT!

We celebrated our 100th day of school a few days ago and I have had NO time to blog here lately!  My life is super busy right now…did I mention before that I am getting ready to present at my first (hopefully not last) SDE conference in a couple of weeks!!  Oh. My. Word!  I'm super excited, but nervous…this is WAY out of my comfort zone, but I felt like it was something God was wanting me to do so I'm going for it!  I will be there with the fabulous Kim Adsit and Deanna Jump and lots of others that I can't wait to meet!  Fun times!  :)  And, my twinsie is coming along for moral support!  Have I said before that we do not do much without each other…that includes my first ever presentation!  I'm so excited she is coming with me.  :)  

Here are some pictures of our 100th day fun!  And, we didn't get as much done as usual b/c we had a snow day that week!

Fruit Loop Necklaces…They have to group the colors in sets of 10, then count to 100 by 10's before I tie them off.  :)

 Group Murals….This one will become a gum ball machine...

 And, the cutest idea from Cara Carroll…a giant chocolate chip cookie with 100 chocolate chips!

The end products…You can find the Chocolate Chip Cookie idea HERE in Cara's packet.  LOVE!

 And, my newest 100th day idea/craft began like this…

I let some students write a number on a small piece of paper then their partner glued it to the big colored rectangle.  

 Next, we gathered at the run to put them in order from 10-100 counting by 10's.  This was super quick!

Later, we made these little "smartie candies" and wrote about what makes us feel smart!

Um, probably one of the cutest things we've done!!

 I LOVE the way they look hanging on our door and in our hallway!  So bright and cheery!

I have added this craft to my 100th day pack that you can find HERE.  If you own it, you can re-download to find the craft. 

OH, and congrats to Vonda for winning both of my Weather Packs.  :)  I already sent it to you!  :)