Crazy May-ness!

As many of you teachers out there know.. MAY is such a crazy month. The students start to get antsy, the teachers start to get antsy.. and Summer fever hits hard. ESPECIALLY when next thursday was SUPPOSE to be your last day…. until the polar vortex decided otherwise this winter. But we are toughing through it!

The last week of school, I always try to make to make it fun, hands on, but still keep as much content as possible! So I do a travel unit with the students. Our mornings are our literacy block, so we will read a read aloud about it, some informational text, fill out some story maps, and even work with vocabulary. In the afternoons for math, I introduce a little multiplication work, then of course review review review from the school year! And of course writing is included! Writing about their trip, about where they visited, and even making their own stories. Since our last week is usually 3-4 days with field day and assemblies, I plan 3 days of travel.

So of course they get their own "passports"

And we load a "plane". 

After we get off the plane we go through "customs" and they get their stamp from the country.

Then we start the day with fun activities from that country!

In Egypt, we read about Egypt and the pyramids. In guided reading groups I will pull non-fiction books about Egypt and work with the students on them. Then we will read the informational text provided and solve the mystery words using the facts we learned to find out even more!

There are even fun hieroglyphic writing activities.

For math we work with Egyptian "multiplication" where students work with arrays and writing both multiplication problems and repeated addition problems.

In Australia there is a lot of fun to be had as well! Learn about kangaroos with Marsupial Sue! (can be found on Tumble books! With great comprehension activities included. Also read informational text and answer questions. For math there is a year in review with place value, addition/subtraction problem, basic 2nd grade fractions, telling time, and more! The of course a post card to write home with!

Then for my last day we finish it off with Big Anthony in Italy! Read Big Anthony, His Story by Tomie DePaola! (not included) work on comprehension as well as work on new Italian Vocabulary from the book! Read informational text about Italy! And for math, play BINGO with place value and addition/subtraction facts!

Then of course, end each day with some journal writing and reflecting!

These great items can be bought separately if you would like to make it a one day adventure!

Egypt

Australia

Italy

Passport

(travel journal is included in each individual pack)

Or you can get them ALL in a bundle HERE!

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Happy May-ness! Hang in there we're almost done!

Changing it uppp!

I have previously been posting a bunch of math things, however, today, I am changing it up!
Today I will be sharing a little goodie for writing workshop!

My district has just implemented writing workshop this last year! We just revamped out launching unit and made some changes for next year. However, throughout the year, I have made so many changes myself to writing workshop, because I am learning as I am doing, especially with my second graders. However, over all, I have really enjoyed teaching it!

So as I am redoing my writing workshop area of my room, I have made some cute posters to go along with it. So that is what I am sharing here today, the 6 writing traits are very important, and sometimes can be hard for kids to understand.

These pencils each have a writing trait on it, as well has some points that students can use to check their work and check to see if they have the trait.

There are 2 versions! There is the Polka dot version:

 

These can be found HERE on my TPT store!

I also have a more neutral version that looks like they were drawn with chalk! check them out below:

You can find this version HERE in my TPT store!

I also have a bunch of other great writing workshop goodies that I will be sharing coming up! So keep coming back to check!

Also, if I do get my 100 followers on TPT all of this will be on sale!

I will be back soon to share more! Thanks for stopping in! Come back soon!