Feelin' The Love

Happy Valentine's Day! We know, we are a day late and a dollar short. But we think you'll be okay with it once you click here. It's our Valentine's Day Graphing Activities free! They are for purchase at our TpT store but we love our readers and want you to have them. So print them off and stash them in your file for next year.

Love <3
-Amy, Tina, and Lindsay

Shower, Graphs, Custard and Bounce Houses!

End of the year craziness is in full swing!

Sister 2 and I hosted a bridal shower for Sister 1 on Tuesday. We had an ice cream sundae bar...it was a huge hit. She loves hockey and the Red Wings. When we were out shopping for her gifts we found a Stanley Cup popcorn popper, we couldn't resist!

We have a few more units to get too but the kids are checking out and I have to admit... so are we! We've been really drilling subtraction with regrouping. We've also been working on graphing. It's one of my favorite units!

It's getting harder and harder to get the kids to focus on learning. Especially because today was our end of the year celebration [even though we go until June 12!].

We had a frozen custard firetruck swing by today!

We also had 5 bounces houses, obstacle courses, and slides!

Why did I wear a dress today?!? I would have totally raced the kids in the obstacle course!

We also had yearbook signing. We couldn't have asked for a better afternoon.

It's time to head home and snuggle my little girl... who's 2 MONTHS old. Ugh, how is it possible??? Time's going by tooooo fast.

-Sister 3-

Five for Friday Fun!



We're back for this week's Five for Friday!  It has been a loooooong week and before you ask...yes it was only 4 days!  We only have one more Friday and are as anxious as the kiddos for summer vacation.

1.  Sister 2 took a day off this week to go on a field trip with her son.  They went to a historical building in their community to see how school used to be "back in the day."  The kids dressed up in period clothing and had a great time!  Boy was it a wake-up call when they had to write on slate boards with chalk instead of typing on their ipads.  The most disturbing  funniest part of the experience was when the "teacher" of the schoolhouse called up one of the boys for being disruptive and showed them what would have happened to him "back then" by pretend beating him with a ruler.  Seriously...it sounds bad but was hilarious because of who the boy was....trust us on this!  Just ask his real teacher....check her out here.  She's new to TPT!

2.  We are whipping up some fun measurement activities to wind down our last math unit of the year.  Sister 3 came up with this "brilliant" idea to cut construction paper in all different lengths and then have the students work in partners to plot the measurements.  Great activity.....really great.  Well....except that Sister 1 needed RtI for the cutting instructions.  Took her about 20 minutes longer than Sister 3....and Sister 3 did 2 class sets worth!  Look for this to be included in our upcoming graphing unit on TPT!  It's almost finished and worth the wait. 

3.  Movie review time!  Since the weekend is upon us (thank goodness) we know many of you may be heading out to the movies!  Sister 1 saw 2 movies over the past week.....two thumbs up on both!  First, she saw Fast and the Furious 6.  Yes don't judge her, she loved it....who wouldn't love a movie with Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, The Rock, Tyrese, and Ludacris?!? 

She also saw "The Hangover 3."  Hilarious....another 2 thumbs up...although for different reasons....and Bradley Cooper....yum.

4.  We had a great assembly at our school today!  Our whole school went outside to see a BMX show....and they were silent....quietest assembly we've ever had!  Yes, it was educational somehow, although we didn't get to that part because a storm rolled in.   A dark, rainy storm...so we rushed 960 students back inside.  Such a bummer but a great time....hoping they come back to finish!

5.  Okay...here is a disclaimer for our #5.  If you are easily offended or won't find some of what kids "shouldn't know" funny then stop reading here.  However we HAD To share this because it is just one of those moments where teachers can laugh together...."kids say write the darndest things!"

AND that's how our week ended!! :) lol

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!



Bubble Gum and Research Books

Hey, I thought I'd take a break from my homework to update you on our classroom happenings.

Today we did a Babbling Abby special! "Yum! Yum! What's your favorite flavored gum?" It fit perfectly with our graphing unit. First we made our choices, then we predicted what the class favorite would be, we made a class graph, analyzed our results, and did a quick write.

One guess as to their favorite part. YES! Chewing the gum! 

We love reading informational text. We made cute research booklets that you can grab here for free!  Unfortunately, we sent them all home without snapping a picture!  We used them as a whole class research assignment.  Next year we plan on using this earlier in the year so we can fit in some small group research and individual research projects too. 

When I was checking papers today I found this cute little answer... How darling? I felt a little bad for having to mark it incorrect. 

- Sister 3 -

A Busy Weekend

Do you ever feel like you need a weekend after your weekend? The last two days have been a whirlwind!

Last summer my boyfriend bought a house! Being the amazing girlfriend that I am [ ;) ] I spend a lot of time helping him paint, fix things, build furniture and lately cleaning up the landscaping.  The yard was totally neglected for the last 5-8 years so we have some MAJOR work to do.  It's taken us 3 weekends so far and we finally have the front yard under control!  Now on to the back... where the majority of the work is.

We went to the Tim McGraw concert and scored these free t-shirts!  Any country fans out there?

I've also been "training" for my 5K. Thank you for all your support! I'm at a walk-run right now... I'll get there eventually.

This morning at school we started working on local government.  We made these cute craftivities.

Tomorrow we're going to start a definitions flap book!  

We also began our graphing unit, nothing like squeezing it all in!  Today we talked about bar graphs and made a classroom birthday graph.  We have a bunch of cute activities lined up, stay tuned. 

- Sister 3 -