Grab the Egg FREEBIE

If your kids are still talking about hunting eggs then I've got another freebie for you!

I mean, who gets tired of egg hunts anyways!?

So if you still have a bucket of eggs laying around, grab them and fill them!

First find this FREE activity in my TpT store!

Second, fill the eggs with the double digit addition and subtraction problems. 

Next, hide the eggs and unleash the hunters.

Last, have them open the egg, solve the problem and record it on the included recording sheet.

You can used this as practice or a pre/post assessment.

In case you missed my last post, it had A N O T H E R free egg hunt activity.

Find it HERE!

Got Eggs? Turn them into a Game with this FREEBIE!

Do you have a few extra eggs floating around your room now that Easter is over?

Great! That's all you need to throw together this quick and easy grammar review game.

I'm sure your kids have perfected their egg hunt strategies and will love this activity.

First you will need to download this FREEBIE <------click here

Then you will need to find 3 buckets/baskets/cups (whatever you have) and label them: noun/verb/adjective

Cut out each word and stuff it inside an egg.

Hide the eggs around your room.

Students will have to find one egg, open it and read the word inside.

Gather together as a class once everyone has found an egg and read their word.

Students will take turn reading their word and placing it into the correct "Easter basket".

If their word is a noun...it goes in the noun basket.

If their word is a verb....it goes in the verb basket.

If their word is an adjective...it goes in the adjective basket. 

We are going to use this as a review before we take an assessment for report cards.

I have also attached the assessment if you would like to use it as well.

Hope you have some hippity-hoppity fun!

Flashback Friday: Look at That Cute Bunny!

FLASHBACK FRIDAY:

We are hopping into a lot of fun learning next week!

The cute story, Bunny Trouble, lends itself greatly to the discussion of plot, specifically problem and solution. 

We got a little creative with our response to reading, because who doesn't love to decorate eggs!?

Especially when it was such an important part to the story.

What you need:

1 sheet of manila

1 sheet of white paper

How to make:

Fold manila into fourths and trace one egg.

With paper still folded, cut on traced line, making 4 eggs.

Fold the white paper like a book.

Add title to the cover.

Write problem and solution on 2 manila eggs and glue inside the white paper.

Students will summarize the problem and solution from the story under the correct egg heading.

Just like the bunnies decorated eggs in the book, students will get to decorate the 2 remaining eggs and glue them to the cover.

Monitor comprehension and allow creativity at the same time!

This Week in Phonics, OUCH and a FREEBIE!

I love when learning lends itself to cute little memory tricks like this one we learned last week.

In phonics, we learned about the sound 'OU' and called them our "ouch words".

I was astonished at all the words they came up with....on their own...on day 1!

We recorded our brainstorm on a band-aid anchor chart to anchor our learning.

I found a cute poem in Shel Silverstein's book of poems called Band-Aids.

Precious poem that talks about a boy who uses band-aids just because he likes them.

We wrote down why we use band-aids on our 'What Makes You Say OUCH!' paper.

**Download this for FREE {HERE}**

The following day, I had them choose 4 things from their paper that made them say ouch, and we turned them into an 'OUCH' poem...the the shape of a band-aid of course!

To top of our week of OU words, students will go on a word search with the books in their book box and find as many words as they can that follow the phonics pattern. 

This helps me to understand who grasped the phonics pattern and who doesn't.

Students who find words such as "should, could, would, trouble" obviously need a re-teach.
I'm hoping all the connections made to the real world really anchored their learning!