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Monday Made It & Ready for Fall
It’s been a wonderful Monday! No school because of the Columbus Day holiday so I checked a ton off my To Do list! I’m sharing my recent projects with Tara’s Monday Made It, which is one of my favorite linky parties! I bought several of these Back to School printed cardstock packages at Michaels and created a Class Photo Album! I used a little 4×6 photo album from the Dollar Store and simply inserted the printed cardstock pages in the plastic sleeves. I included a picture of each child along with their name. The Class Photo Album is kept in the writing center so my students can use it for reference whenever they want to write a classmate’s name. …
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Five for Friday – Pumpkin Spice & Names Are Nice
Time to join Five for Friday and to catch up with everyone after a busy 2nd week of school! The temperature in Georgia is 89 and the humidity is off the charts but I started my Friday feeling like there’s FALL in the air! All it took was a dash of delicious Coffee-mate Pumpkin Spice creamer in my morning coffee! This big bottle costs less than one cup of that ol’ expensive Starbucks pumpkin latte, too! We worked hard on our names this week at school. From rainbow writing to name puzzles and graphing how many letters to magically appearing names…these kids know their names well! We also practiced our handwriting in a wonderful…
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Wordless Wednesday – Name Graph
I always enjoy seeing the wide variety of Wordless Wednesday pictures at the linky party hosted by Miss DeCarbo of Second Grade Sugar & Spice. This week I’d like to share the “How many letters are in your name?” graph my Young 5’s class did as part of our All About Me activities. I wrote the letters of each student’s name on Post-it notes and had the children place their letters on the graph paper. We then counted how many letters each chld had in their name as well as who had the least letters and the most letters. Of course, any name graphing activity must include a reading…