Easy Peasy Jesse Tree...Ready to Go!

In case you haven't noticed, Christmas is just around the corner!  Are you ready????

One of my favorite December activities is the Jesse Tree.  

Check out this very simple Jesse Tree that we do each year!

The tree itself is easy to make!  See the instructions below!

Then simply add Jesse Tree symbols each day.

Click below to download the Jesse Tree unit which includes tree instructions and templates, Jesse Tree symbols, and correlating Bible Stories.

Enjoy!

1,000 Followers Celebration!

Can I get a Woot! Woot!?

has reached 1,000 followers so we are having a celebration!

For a limited time, you can get the following freebies!

AUTHOR STUDY UNIT

This author study is for upper elementary level classrooms and includes a banner heading and multiple posters depicting some of our most famous authors!  

Check it out and leave some feedback!

ART  NOTEBOOK

This art unit was created as a way to teach the basics of art to my 4th, 5th, & 6th graders.  It covers the basic elements of art and includes a student interactive notebook and a corresponding Power Point presentation.

Check it out and leave some feedback!

MUNCHING THROUGH MATH FACTS

This is a year long set of math facts - one for each day of the school year!

On each page is 25 math facts that included a mixture of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division!  Give students a minute to finish or have them time themselves to see how long they finish the set! 

Check it out and leave some feedback!

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!

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!

Think Green!

St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner!  Do you have your green ready?????

Here is a quick and easy art activity that the kids can do independently and have fun with.

Students get to choose any art supply that is green to randomly fill in squares.

In our classroom, students were able to choose from paint, water colors, markers, crayons, colored pencils, glitter, and oil pastels.

 

We then punched holes in the top and added green pipe cleaners for easy hanging.  Ribbon would work too!

 

For the FREEBIE printable, click below!

 

Enjoy!

Great Graphing Projects

We have been graphing stars this week!

This is the first time I have ever done this project with 4th graders.  In the past,I had done it with 5th and 6th graders.   So, I simplified the project just a bit and the kiddos did a super job!

We spent about a week planning our surveys, completing our surveys, and then creating graphs for our results.   

The final result is a bulletin board of Graphing Greatness!

Here are a few examples!  

They were asked to make a cover for their project.

 

They needed to create a Frequency Table with their survey results.

Then they were asked to create a bar graph...

 

a Circle graph...

 a Line graph...

and a Pictograph.

These 4th Graders are Graph Experts now! 

This weeks Friday Flash Freebie is this Graphing Unit.  

This is a printable project activity for your students to complete after they are finished studying about Graphs. It includes 11 pages:

Page 1 - Student Instructional Sheet

Page 2 - Survey

Page 3 - Frequency Table Template

Page 4 - Line Plot Template

Page 5 - Pictograph Template

Page 6 - Bar Graph Template

Page 7 - Circle (Pie) Graph Template

Page 8 - Line Graph Template

Page 9 - Stem and Leaf Plot Template

Page 10 - Histogram Template

Page 11 - Grading Rubric

I put all these pages together in this order into a packet that I handed out and explained to the students. I then displayed their final projects. Great Final Graphing Project. I also have a PowerPoint presentation that I used that covers all these graphs.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Graphs-Power-Point

Some People are Worth Melting For

Oh the weather outside is frightful, 

but Olaf will make it delightful...

 

We all love Olaf!  So how about combining a little winter writing with a fun Olaf craft to brighten your bulletin boards!

 Olaf's most meaningful line from FROZEN (in my humble opinion) is "Some people are worth melting for."  Who in your life is worth melting for?  This is the theme of the writing activity we did.

My kiddos had a blast making these Olafs which they told me they cannot wait to take home and hang up in their rooms!

 

This week's Friday Flash Freebie is this Olaf Writing Craftivity! 

Power through to winter...spring is only weeks away!