Friday Fun Finds

Today’s “Fun Finds” are all about Cool Science Experiments…

But first I want to announce a HUGE SALE!!!!

   

Ok… on with our “Fun Finds” for this week:

This looks like SO.MUCH.FUN!!!! I would love to do this (with or without my students! haha)!

Glitter playdough! This would be awesome when teaching about the stars (I’m teaching this right now so I am definitely thinking about doing this one!!!)

This would also be great for teaching about stars! We did this in our class, except we used ziploc bags instead of jars.

how cool!

This is a soda bottle lung model! This would be so neat when teaching about the body not matter what grade you teach!!!

Making clouds… this would be cute during a weather unit.

Instant snow! WOW! I definitely want to do this ‘cause I live in GA and we rarely see snow!

I know it’s only growing plants, but how cute would this be???

Alrighty, I’m sure you guys have tons of other fun science experiments so please share :)

Have a GREAT weekend!!! We have 5 more weeks!!! YAY!

Love,

Amy 

P.S. I added some Safari Themed Literacy Centers to my Tpt store and my TN store :)

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Contractions

This week we've been talking about contractions.  I saw a great idea somewhere about using caterpillars to make contractions so we made some ourselves.  They turned out really cute so I thought I'd share. 

We took two words, wrote them on the legs, then made the contraction on the body.  They did such a great job!!!

We also played KABOOM this week with money.  I hot glued plastic coins to Popsicle sticks, wrote KABOOM on about 6 sticks, then we played KABOOM in small groups.  First the kids just had to tell me the name and value of the coins, the 2nd game the kids had to count the coins and tell me how much they had.  You have the students pick a stick, tell you how much money you have.  If they get the answer right they get to keep the stick, if they get it wrong they put it back in the bucket.  If they draw KABOOM, they have to put all their sticks back in the bucket.  The kids absolutely LOVE it!!! I made KABOOM games with types of sentences and I'm going to do it with nouns, verbs, and adjectives next week! I LOVE this game too!!! :)

Goodnight!!! TOMORROW'S FRIDAY! :)
~Amy

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Halloween

Well, Halloween is coming fast! I just finished my Set of Halloween Math and Literacy centers!!! I can't wait to use this stuff in my own classroom this year :)  It's so great because it is full of math and literacy games that can be used from Kindergarten through 3rd grade.  I have included some activities to do with the book "Stellaluna", some fun Halloween snacks that the kids can make, and even a witch glyph that I created.  I hope you like it!!!

Download it here at my TpT store:

Tomorrow's Monday, so I need to get some sleep now... Have a WONDERFUL week!!! :)

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Types of Sentences Activity Set

Wow, this week has been long already!!! Here a little sentences activity set that I made for my classroom.  It has labels to put on envelopes for telling, asking, and exclamatory sentences.  Students will sort the sentences then use the activity sheet to record two of each sentence type.  There is also a short test included.

Hope you like it :)

Have a WONDERFUL WEDNESDAY!!!! :)

-Amy

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Flashcards Race

So I'm always looking for EASY centers that I can put out that are a lot of fun for my students.  Well, my school is really STRESSING math facts this year, so I thought I would create a little center for my flashcards and have them do this OFTEN.  I could also use this as a time filler activity if I only have a few minutes to kill.  So I created a center where students will have to actually write the fact down when they get it right and they will race to fill up all of their squares first.  You can actually use it for any subject.  Just give your students some type of flashcards that they must study and play the game! You can download it here at my TpT store :)

Have a great weekend!

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