Thursday, March 19, 2015

Boggle or Bust!

I have hopped on the Boggle Bandwagon and I am loving every minute of it!  My 4th graders are very excited about this new classroom activity and it has gotten pretty competitive in our room! 


I changed it up a bit from what I have seen around and made my own to add more letters, thus creating more columns and rows.  


We start a new Boggle Bash game each week.  Students have all week to fill a sheet with 25 words.  They know I tally the sheets by how many letters they use.  So they need to fill up their sheet with bigger words to win...the three letter words aren't going to get you the win!


When they are finished, the put their sheet in the Boggle Bash Box (a wooden toy mailbox - I think it is Melissa and Doug - that I purchased at a garage sale and painted).  The following Monday, I tally the sheets and declare a winner.


What does the winner get?  


They go crazy over a simple bottle of Powerade!

This week's Flash Freebie is this Boggle Bash game.  It includes the heading, letters, answer sheets, and directions.  

In case you were wondering, I use a Calendar Pocket Chart from Carson-Dellosa which fits everything perfectly.


Click on the picture below to get your Flash Freebie!




Friday, March 13, 2015

Earth and Space Unit

To Infinity and Beyond!

That's where we traveled this past quarter as we rocketed through our Earth and Space Unit!

We covered our Earth, Sun, & Moon!

We learned about shadows...


and the phases of the moon!



We explored our stars and constellations!


We explored eclipses!


We discovered our planets!





And, of course, we did fun projects!
I am always amazed at the effort put into these projects!








So for today's Flash Freebie, you can download this whole unit including the Power Point for note taking!

Enjoy!