Happy Butterfly Awareness Day! Celebrate every day by grabbing your binoculars and engaging in a fun day of butterfly watching. Find out how!
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Read along to learn how to attract monarch butterflies to your garden, safely raise monarch caterpillars in an enclosure, and release them as butterflies!
Read along to learn how to attract monarch butterflies to your garden, safely raise monarch caterpillars in an enclosure, and release them as butterflies!
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A few butterfly photos from a recent visit to a butterfly house. My first photos of the new year. Happy new year all.
Get the bundle... Or purchase individually... Let's talk guided math. We started implementing guided math in my school about 2 years ago. Prior to my guided math awakening I was making 4 math centers per day. I found myself stressed about not only the excruciating prep of creating so many activities each day, but I also struggled to get finished with the centers. When the idea of guided math was introduced, I greeted the change with open arms. So here's what works for me. I implement guided math by creating 5 math centers per week. I group my students heterogeneously and they rotate to a new center each day. During this time, I pull students who struggled during the math lesson and provide a reteach lesson individually. This means that most of my math centers are completed independently by the students. I'm lucky enough to have a full-time assistant in my classroom who is able to take a math center are help others while I'm with my reteach group. Here's how I organize my group rotations each week... I write student names on each group. I laminated stars and write the weekly center on each star with dry-erase and attach a magnet. When I rotate groups, I simply move the stars over 1 place. This way, students know which center to go to. I organize centers in numbered buckets shown below. See? Easy breezy! Currently, I'm working with my students on addition and subtraction. I'd love to share some resources I've found to be useful in my guided math groups. First, I made a Guided Math Center Bundle. You can get it HERE. This week, we used the Spin and Subtract center. Here, students spin subtraction sentences. This is great because I was actually able to use it 2 weeks in a row. Because they spin different combinations of numbers, the possibilities are endless! I also used a similar Spin & Add center. Here, students build number sentences. Addition & Subtraction I made some lower-maintenance addition math worksheets which require no-prep! Hellloooo sanity-saver! Here are some of the activities I'll be using! Shapes geometry math worksheets Download it HERE Measurement Measurement Worksheets
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This symmetrical butterfly craft is the prettiest and easiest butterfly craft out there. The best part? Even toddlers and preschoolers can make it.
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So, your little insect lover finds butterflies fascinating! She probably chases them around. Pique her interest with some butterfly crafts for preschoolers.
Read along to learn how to attract monarch butterflies to your garden, safely raise monarch caterpillars in an enclosure, and release them as butterflies!
Looking for a fun butterfly sun catcher craft for kids? This printable art will have you enjoying hours of fun making decorative butterfly suncatcher art for your home windows. With my simple stained glass paper butterfly template, you can work with your kids to complete this DIY butterfly suncatcher! What is so great about this
April Round Up 2 comments Freebies, Monthly Round Up, Social Studies April is just around the corner. Can you believe it? How is time flying by so quickly? Well, if you are in the market for some fun activities for the month of April, you've come to the right place! When I think of April, I think of spring and all things earthy. Did you know that Arbor Day takes place in April? Celebrating the importance of trees ties in perfectly with Earth Day, which also takes place in April! This quick and easy bulletin board idea would be a great extension activity when learning about Arbor Day (or Earth Day). This craft can be assembled using only two pieces and the students write directly on the craft, talk about easy peasy! You could have your students write a cinquain, list poem (that's what the sample shows), or an acrostic poem. Don't forget, April is also poetry month! You can grab the templates for this quick and easy craft HERE. I love directed drawings. A lot. I try to do at least one or two a month. It's a great way to help students develop confidence in their drawing skills, and it's also a great way to work on those listening and reasoning skills. And even though everyone is following the same directions, the drawings always come out different and unique. This month, we'll be drawing some butterflies. It just wouldn't be spring without butterflies! This drawing would be a great way to incorporate some art into a butterfly life cycle unit too. When the drawing part is done, you can let your students dress up their drawings with watercolors, oil pastels, crayons, or whatever! The example shown above was done using watercolor. You could encourage your students to paint a scenic background, or let them choose one solid color. They are the artists, let them decide! You can grab the directions for this drawing HERE. I don't know that I could go through the month of April without covering Earth Day. It's a great way to remind the students of ways that they can help take care of our planet. I've used this mini book the past few years to introduce Earth Day. I love that it's interactive and tasks the students with responding in a variety of ways. After reading various books about Earth Day and learning about ways to take care of our our planet, I love playing a game of I Spy where the students evaluate the sentences printed on each card. This version gives the students practice with critical thinking as they determine whether a sentence is fact or opinion. I love that I Spy engages students and gets them moving around while they learn. You can read more about I Spy here. One of my favorite things to do with Earth Day is to take my students on a nature walk. What better way to gain an appreciation of nature than to spend some time out in nature. It's like a mini field trip. Hehe. Seriously though, the kids always love this. Any time they get to head outdoors, they are happy campers. This little journal is fun way to keep them focused as we explore the outdoors. You can find these, and other activities in my Earth Day unit on TPT. I'm a huge fan of class books. We make them all.the.time. in my classroom. My class recently made a class book with a twist. What's that you ask? It's a super cute class coloring book! Each student created a page to be included. I made each student a copy of the coloring book and sent it home for them to color over Spring Break (but, you could send it home any time you want, of course). We made these back in November too and they were a hit! You can read all about it HERE. You can grab the templates to make your very own class coloring book HERE (you can also use these templates to make a traditional class book). I truly hope you were able to use an idea or two today. Thanks for stopping by! DON'T FORGET IT: PIN IT! Share It:
