Five for Friday Linky Party

Hi Friends!  Happy Friday to you!  I’m linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for a Five for Friday Linky!  Here’s five random (and I mean random, folks) things that went on this week!

1. Mother’s Day was fabulous as always.  We went to visit my second mom (Brian’s mom).  What a fun weekend!  Since we planned to visit during Mother’s Day weekend,   Brian and the boys let me have my own Mother’s Day the weekend before.  Of course, I did a little shopping at my favorite stores and we topped it all off by going out to dinner.  My youngest a little preoccupied with eating ketchup to jump in the picture! :)

2. During Work on Writing, one of my sweeties decided to write me a letter.  It made my day!  My favorite part is “I know you have been having tough times with us”…Hilarious!

3. We are wrapping up our money unit!  It’s one of my favorite math concepts to teach.  I am compiling a list of activities that we have done and I’m in the process of creating a unit.  It should be up in our TpT store soon!  Be sure to check it out.

4. I’m kind of  embarrassed to say that I am not a big water drinker, but I think that’s about to change.  I have been drinking a lot of it this week…..thanks to my new water bottle!  I love this thing.  The entire top part of the bottle comes off so you can add ice or a slice of fruit if you will.  And it’s pink too!   So convenient!  I picked it up at Wal-Mart.  Please don’t tell anybody that I am this excited about a water bottle. :)

   

5. This week our School Leadership Team met to discuss the book The Leader in Me by Stephen R. Covey. 

We did a “jigsaw” (everyone pick a chapter to read and tell the group about).   Even though I haven’t read the entire book yet, the one chapter that I did read made me reflect on my life and my teaching.  It’s an easy read and I highly recommend it.  Is anyone reading this book or using it at your school?  I would love to hear your thoughts.
Enjoy your weekend.
18 days and counting down,
~Mrs. Holland

Mother’s Day Book List & Last Week at a Glance

Hello Everyone!  I hope you are having a great Sunday.  Mother’s Day will be here before you know it, so I thought I would share a few books that I will be reading to my class in honor of the big day. 
    

     
Last week was very busy in second grade!  I must say my kiddos came back from spring break rested and ready to learn.  Here’s a peek of what we did.
We had many discussions about taking care of the Earth throughout the week.  We  completed some writing and craftivity after reading the book Michael Recycle by Ellie Bethel.  The activities are from my Hooray for Earth Day! pack.



We also created these cute Earth Day books by Amy Lemons over at Step into Second Grade.  Love!

It was all things money this week.  We worked on mostly coin recognition and values.

I must say that I think magnets might be my new best friend.  These coins came from Jamie Rector over at Second Grade Stuff.  I love her common core math activities.  I laminated these coins, cut them out and put a magnet on the back.  Great for whole group lessons!

I also used magnets for studying prefixes.  My kiddos loved making words with these. 

In social studies, we dived into some economics with some help from Barnard Island.  We were all into goods and services.  We had a discussion about what we spend money on using our Smartboard.  Then we did some goods and services sorting.


Finally, my students and I are loving ClassDojo.  Have you heard of it?  If not I would definitely check it out.  It’s a class management system that might just make life a little easier for you now that we are down to the last days.  A teacher friend told me about it and now I am HOOKED!
That’s our week in a nutshell! I will be posting some cute little activities and gifts for Mother’s Day this week.  I think  I’m smellin’ a giveaway too! :)  Have a great week, friends!

Mrs. Holland