Doubling the Final Consonant

This week, we have been learning about the double the final consonant rule! I made a cute Christmas themed flipchart with activities for each day to get into the holiday spirit!!

After we learned about the rule, we pulled a word out of Santa's bag in the flipchart and students had to spin their spinners to see which ending to add to the word! Then, they had to make the word with the ending they landed on on their white boards. We discussed how some endings don't make sense on certain words, so if that happened, they had to spin again. It was so much more exciting that just adding an ending that I tell them to. Plus, spinners just make everything more exciting! This also lent itself to a little lesson on probability!

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I am also giving you the flipchart I made to go along with the activity!! 

Disclaimer: This is a flipchart and you must have Activ Inspire software downloaded on your computer for this to open. You must also have certain fonts installed for it to look like this. Just google the fonts in the flipchart.

Let me know if you like it! 

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If I lived in a Snow Globe

Jennifer over at First Grade Blue Skies did this cute writing activity for Winter. I have adapted it just a bit to accommodate upper elementary students. Students respond to the prompt, "If I lived in a snow globe..."

Students create their own snow globe illustrations and then put the writing on the base of the globe!

(Picture taken from Deanna Jump's website who originally posted this adorable activity.)

You can use glitter spray to finish each globe after students have done their pictures. I am so excited to try this on Wednesday!

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Giveaway Winner!

Congratulations to Mindy Wells at Well's of a 4th Grade Nothing for winning the 400 followers giveaway!

I couldn't figure out the whole number generator thing, so I just asked my boyfriend to pick a number between 1 and 19, since that's how many entries there were and he just happened to choose 13!  

Mindy won all of the items for sale in my TN store! 

Congratulations Mindy!

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Elf Race Math Game

We are working on division this week and I wanted to create something fun for the Christmas season! I made this fun division fact practice game! Students race to be the first elf to put their toys in Santa's bag!

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Earth's Land Unit

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