Thanksgiving

Is it November already?? Where is this year going?  I can't believe I am already planning for November lessons.
I am excited to share my new creation The Murky Turkey.
It's an original story that is great for reading to whole class.  I included some retell strips and pictures as well as a bundle of other activities including SCOOT.  The new classroom craze.

How cute is this writing and craft activity for your November bulletin board?

You can find it at my TpT store, just click on the pic!

Hope you enjoy!

Elementary Library Centers

Today is the day!  Ready to begin some collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and communication among my students.

As you may know I teach a fixed schedule (second year teaching a fully fixed schedule).

Today I started my library centers with 3rd-5th grade.  Usually I like to keep them around a theme like fall, or October.  I started out centers this year with things that are surrounded with the 4C's as stated above.

I am fortunate to have 28 iPads and 11 computers so most of my centers involve those tech tools.
I whipped up some center signs with "I Can" statements.

I am jumping on the #flipgridfever train and including it as a center as well. If you haven't checked out flipgrid, you must.  I think it is going to be a great tool!
I posted two flipgrid boards, one is a book review board and one is "If I had to choose a button" board where students choose a button based on what power they would like and why. "Critical Thinking!!"  I found the button pic on Pinterest when searching for flipgrid.
Here are two friends working together on their flipgrid.

So what's going on in your library this year?

New Year New Look

Here we are, another school year and with it my blog has a great new look!

Anybody do something awesome with International Dot Day?

Since I am on a fixed schedule for the second year, the specialist and I combined all our classes for the day and did some activities. 

Check out the pics on twitter.
We watched the video of Peter Reynolds reading The Dot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CHBrRyPb2I

Our wonderful music teacher handed out some dots "drums" and the kids clapped and played to the "dots" music notes as she pointed to them.

Then we played musical dots where students walked around in a circle and when the music stopped, they stood on a dot!

Fun Fun!

What do you do?