Throw me somethin' mister

I LOVE Mardi Gras and I love that my school loves Mardi Gras.  The 2nd grade at my school always puts on a Mardi Gras parade for the whole school.  My firsties were bursting with excitement today to watch the older kids strut their stuff through the school.

They take big boxes and decorate them to be their float.  They throw toys and beads to all the kids.  The parade route is through our gym, cafeteria and all through the halls.  It was SO much fun! It's definitely something for all of the 1st graders to look forward to next year.

Today was another beautiful day of outside learning.  We grabbed our clipboards and headed outside to work on our shapes.  When we finished our workbook they grabbed some sidewalk chalk and practiced drawing their shapes.  They are still having a little trouble drawing hexagons and octagons.

It's almost Friday everyone!

Britney G.

Mardi Gras Mambo

Mardi Gras is in full swing here in Louisiana and our kids are lovin' it!  This week in ELA our skill is main idea and details in informational texts so I wrote up some Mardi Gras pocket books.  They have been busy highlighting those details and being awesome detectives.  Our school has a Mardi Gras Math Night and I wanted to put out some math work in the hallway.  This is what I came up with.

Today was a great day so we went outside to do our Science lesson.  We have been using a balance this week since our lessons have been on mass.  Today I let the kids make their own balances.  They LOVED it.  They measured everything they could once we got back inside.

In math we are in our Geometry unit.  Today we focused on parallel lines but when that was over I let the students make shapes on our Geoboards.  If you are short on cash, try these DIY Geoboards.  My students didn't mind at all.  Infact, they preferred the wooden ones over the plastic.

 

Hope everyone is having a fabulous work week!  I am pretty glad today is over.  Had a kid have diarrhea all over himself about 3 minutes after the bell rang first thing this am!!!! Yuck.

 

Britney G.