Geo Man video

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Can do kinders give away

Can do Kinder website is giving away a gift certificate to D.J. Inkers.

Shoe mini-unit

Check out http://anotherdayinfirstgrade.blogspot.com
She is giving a minishoe unit away as a freebie!

Dr. Seuss pattern cards and patterns to duplicate

Bracelet giveaway!

Check out this bracelet giveaway on 4thGradefrolics blogspot:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/62364516/boutique-fansynancys-books-charm
The bracelets are little books on charms.

Classroom measuring ideas using Steve Jenkin's book

The teacher copied the page with the gorilla's hand that is on the cover and had the kids and teacher paint their hands and apply it on the copy of the large gorilla hand. She also had football players, principal, and other people the kids admired in their town paint their hands and then put them in the hall with a "wall of hands" measuring title.  She said she would see 5th graders come by and put their hand up to compare it to football players etc...  She also got a shoeprint of Shaq O'Neal's tennis shoe from his website and did the same thing with feet.  His foot is sized 22!  It is amazing.  It is a great center for comparing size!

What I have made for my room this week!

I bought the plaid fabric at JoAnn's in their home fabric section because it had all 4 colors of the plastic drawers on wheels organizers I bought at Walmart last year.  I have 4 tables, orange, red, blue, green groups.  I made easy pocket chair covers this week for each group.  A few years ago i made complicated pockets with extra pockets for crayons, pencils, etc... and the kids put so much in them that when they got up their chairs would sometimes fall over! This time I decided to do one pocket for their journal and that's it.  I have  matching plastic table organizers that are put on top of their tables that I bought at Target. They keep their crayons, pencils, erasers and glue in those. I also framed a free print of a teacher's to do list and I plan on using an overhead pen to write and wipe off my tasks each day.  My daughter says I need more lines! I also redid this really ugly desk chair that was putrid green with the extra fabric.  I have two more chairs I redid at school, for my computer desk, and my assistant chair.  I will add those pictures later.  Right now they are waxing etc.,,in our building and who knows where the chairs are stored.  If you sew,the chair pockets are easy peasy and cost so little compared to the ones you buy . I also scanned and copied the fabric with my printer and plan on cutting our "Word Wall" with each page to put on the word wall cabinets.  I just put the fabric under the cover and pushed color copy.  It worked great.  Did you know that you can put "Seam a Seam II" on the back of fabric and cut out your designs and iron them to walls and the fabric decals do not damage your paint or walls and can be peeled off when you are finished.  You can buy the seam a seam II products at Joanns or Hancocks.  I don't know about the rest of you, but I have been busy following Debbie Diller's math book and have been working on making all kinds of centers for math this summer!  I went to a math workshop on measuring last week and the teacher used actual size books to teach measuring.  We received on book for free and I ordered another so that I can cut out the pages and laminate for the kids to measure with. The first book is by Steve Jenkins and only cost $8.00 from Amazon.  I think it is worth it because of all the posters I will be able to laminate and use for measuring.  The second book I ordered is "Life-Size Zoo" by Teruyuki Komiya.  It cost $13.00. It has actual pictures of animals and each page is tabbed with facts about the animals.  We don't live close to a zoo and my students don't get to see zoo animals, so I think these books will help them realize size better in their minds with the pictures.