Fire Drills...Loathing. Unadulterated Loathing....

Fire drills are the worst thing ever!  (Even though they are practical and necessary!)  My kids think it is an extra recess.  After assuring that everyone is out of the building, I need a recording that repeats, "Face away from the building"...."Now is not a good time for picking flowers."..."Walking feet"...
No amount of bribery rewarding or practicing works.  But like Pollyanna, I will be GLAD that nothing truly is on fire and it was a beautiful day to practice.

On another note...I LOVE my blog makeover.  It makes me smile (unlike fire drills) and my chickadees finally finished a bunch of projects and got them up on the walls.

Bulletin Board Titled:  Chickadees by the Numbers and the Books

We glued our Important Numbers to one side.  The other side is a picture of us reading.  We colored, just the book.  (We were imitating Mo Willems.)  And added a speech bubble for the prompt, "Reading Makes Me Feel _____________ because _________________."  (Imitating a Todd Parr book.)

"Reading makes me feel awesome because it makes me go places."

"Reading makes me feel excited because it is fun.  You can use your imagination."

"Reading makes me feel somewhere else because it there's a book about Japan, I feel like I am in Japan."

"Reading makes me feel good because it inspires me to read more books."

"Reading makes me feel outstanding and excited because it's good for my brain."

Slowly, adding what we are reading to the board.

We all colored the first initial of our names.

Happy Monday,

Math About Me

I started thinking about this math idea in August.  Most of us finished it up today and I have been entertained reading their final products.

First we learned about folding vertically and horizontally.

Then we used the lines from the creases to make eight boxes.

Next we chose eight of the numbers we liked from our brainstorm/practice page and put them in each box.

We colored the background of the boxes.

Today we worked on the information page.  We had to make sure the box with the number matched the box with the information about why that number was an important piece of our lives.  The first one is mine...always have an example of what you expect...bonus points to anyone who can figure out why I picked 42:-)

And a student example

And finally do any of you have a brilliant way to keep desks together and where they belong...that doesn't involve duct taping the carpet?

Happy Tuesday,