Rainy Days in Texas

Hello Everyone!

     It has been raining like crazy here in Texas the last couple days. Our back yard just a couple days ago had nice cut grass, and is now a muddy puddle. But at least it is going to cool everything down so summer doesn't come so  soon! And we got to wear our rain boots this week!!!! 

    I love my rain boots, well not the part where they make my feet look 2 times bigger. I actually got them in New York City, we went there a couple years ago in the winter and didn't realize that are feet were going to get soaking wet and freeze from walking around so much! So on day 2 I picked up some rain boots =] 

     Rainy days though always make me want to go through old things, and I was looking through Monkey's brain book I made her last year, it has a bunch of different games for her to play covering a ton of different things. And since everything I am currently working on is not complete yet I figured I would give you one of the games I made her for vowel sounds. It just covers Vowel sound "a" long and short. But if you like it I'll look at making more for the rest of the sounds!

The game is called Shoot for the Stars:
This game is to help students have fun learning the different sounds the letter "a". It could be used in centers or groups. 

Game is for 2 - 4 players. Similar idea to the bump it number games with words. all words focus on the vowel "a" sounds. Students must read the words aloud with the proper vowel sound, long vs short. 

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Hope you enjoy it, please let me know how you are liking it, and how you are using it! I'd love to hear from you all!

Thanks Bunches for stopping by.

Hannah 

Phonics Chart and More Summer Planning

Good Afternoon, 

     Are you having a Sunday fun day? Or a lazy one like me? I love staying in all day and not having to deal with the outside word. What have yenz been up to this weekend? I have been trying to find printable's to take with us on our vacation over the summer. It's never to early to start planning!

To help any of you looking for some good websites to find activities these are a couple really good ones: 

If you are looking for:

• Dot to dot 
• Hidden pictures
• Mazes
• Cross words
• Word searches 
• Find the difference 
• + tons more

both Activity Village  and All Kids are great resources for you!

However what I am most excited about Tangrams!

If you have never heard of them before this is what they are:

http://www.tangram-channel.com/

      You are given a silhouette of something and then you have one box of shapes and using one complete box you try and make the picture. The website Tangram Channel is amazing because it has so many different silhouettes and then it shows you the answer, and after you see the answer you can print them out for personal use. I'm so excited for Monkey play, she LOVES puzzles! I excited to do it too though!    

      To make the Tangram box you can just print it out and laminate or print it out on card stock. What I did was used some foam I got from the Dollar tree and cut out the shape, one down side was my foam was rectangular, It took 2 sheets to get a full box, but I did 9 sheets of different colors only. They definitely are not perfectly cut, but I like that they will last long. 

     But while I was doing all this I have been trying to think of a way to get some Phonics into Monkey's day to day, we don't always have time for games. So I made a Phonic Chart, it has 100 different Vowel sounds, Consonant Blends, Silent letters, Endings. It is all on one page with one or two examples for each one. I'm hoping Monkey can go over the page either Daily or Weekly just to refresh on them. She can also refer to the chart while reading independently and is stuck on a word. Lastly I can take sections of it when we focus on certain vowels or blends, so we have something to refer to. 

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Hope you enjoy it, please let me know how you are liking it, and how you are using it! I'd love to hear from you all!

Thanks Bunches for Stopping by,

Hannah

It's My Friday... But Why Does it Feel Like a Monday?

Good Afternoon All!!

     I did not want to get out of bed this morning, I just wanted to sleep, sleep, sleep! Not only is my Husband awesome and lets me use him as my pillow, we sleep in an awkward upside down L shape way ( the way we sleep is never on those "What your sleeping position tells you about your relationship" articles). But I also have the cutest puppy (50lb puppy) that sleeps right next to me, and my senior citizen puppy (11 years old) who sleeps by my feet!

Meet, Zack, Senior on the left, Zoe, Puppy on the right

     Who would want to leave these 2 in the morning and go to school?!? (NOT I, yet I did :-/) But the best part is our "gardener" (Lawn man) came over this morning to cut our grass for the first time since October! I cannot wait to go home and see the nice cut grass!! Me and Zoe are going to play for hours! Who else loves the first grass cut of the year? 

     However, until I get home I wanted to give yenz ("Yenz" means "you all", I grew up close to Pittsburgh, yenz is slang from that region of the country, and it is etched into my sole!) the Number of the Day for the middle elementary levels. This is the number of the day I put together for Monkey for over the summer.

In Number of the day there are 40 day worth of problems. 

Each day there is:

A new Number, that is 4 digits

A subtraction problem with that number

An addition problem with that number

Multiplication 

Place Value

Rounding

Expanded form 

Expanded Notation 

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Hope you enjoy it, please let me know how you are liking it, and if you would be interested in more number of the day activities!

Thanks Bunches For Stopping By,

Hannah

Getting ready for SUMMER!

Hello hello hello,

     I hope everyone had a great weekend! Monday is over and we are on to Tuesday, one more day and we will be halfway through the week! I can see Friday already. Though I go to UTA (University of Texas at Arlington) and only have classes on Tuesday and Thursday so today is my Monday and Thursday is my Friday. Which makes it really tough because ever morning I wake up and don't want to go because I either just had a nice long weekend or am about to! (I have only missed one class and I was sick :-)

     But SUMMER is in the plans! I'm so excited for our trip to be soon. Monkey does not know when or where we are going so I am going to keep the destination on the DL, but round trip we will be driving for 52 hours!!!! and we only have a week to do it! With all the driving though I still want to keep Monkey learning, and her cousin is coming with us. She is is 5th grade this year, and I didn't think it would be fair to Monkey to have to do some school work when she didn't. So I am now putting together 5/6th grade activities as well. (I am so out of my league!) But I think it is coming along well. (I promise I am not working them to hard! Just keeping them fresh!)

     I started with some basics Number of the Day and Word of the Day 5/6/7th grade edition. So far I have completed the Number of the Day, working on the Word of the day. 

     The basic outline is to multiple a four digit number and also divide it. Then use either the number of the day or word of the day to create a word problem. There are 27 different numbers, so 27 days worth.

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