What We've Been Up to and {Product Updates}!

So, here's a few things we have done the last couple of days.

Here is my practicum student giving a lesson on then/now with venn diagram sorting.

This is a sorting page with letters p and j.  The students sort pictures and then write the letter with Fundations lines. 

This child is working on some of my Sight Word Practice pages. 

Here the kiddos are making numbers with their base ten blocks. It was our first experience with them. 

And finally, this is a whole group math lesson I did during my enrichment time on Tuesday. We learned what base ten blocks were and what they are used for. I gave them about 5 minutes on the timer to "play" with them and then we would work with them to help learn our math concepts. Overall, this worked very well. They loved making numbers. I showed them on the brightlinks and they made the number with their manipulatives. I then used manipulatives on the brightlinks to show the "answer." It was a lot of fun!!

I also just wanted to let you know that I have made a few updates to the following products. Please go back and re-download if you have already purchased. More sight word practice will be coming over the weekend (I hope!).

I have updated the recording page for the pumpkin puzzles 1-10.  And I also added a recording page for the pumpkin puzzles 11-20 (in case you wanted to use only have of the set at at a time).

And for this pack, I have added 18 more words which means 18 more pages!!!!  If you haven't gotten it yet, go get it now for half off (originally $3.00).  If you have gotten it, be sure to re-download for the updates!!  

Hope you are having a nice week!!

Peek at my Week {Pilgrims} 11-18

I'm here to link up with Deedee and Mrs. Laffin's Laughings for a Peek at My Week! 

 Here are my plans.  They are kind of small, so you can click on my plans to open the PDF in Google Docs.

This week will be all about pilgrims.  We will talk about a pilgrim girl (Sarah Morton) and pilgrim boy (Samuel Eaton).  The students will compare and contrast the time of pilgrims and the time of our lives today.  

I have a practicum student who will be teaching a math mini lesson and my introduction lesson to pilgrims.  Both lessons are on Monday.  She is only in college, but is doing an amazing job!   Everyday she comes to work with my students, she immediately engages with what they are working on.  I love not having to tell someone what to do every 2 seconds.  She takes initiative and seems very comfortable working with the kids.  I am very excited to see her teach on Monday!!

We will be making our pilgrim costumes this week.  Every child gets to make both the indian and pilgrim costumes.  Then we will draw characters from a hat to see which they will be in our thanksgiving production next week.  More on that will be coming!!!

In math, we will continue to work on numbers 11-20 and simple addition.  Since using this fundations program, my students have an amazing grasp of letters and letter sounds.   I am now challenging them to put the sounds/letters together to make words.  They have impressed me this past week with their writing.  I made each of them a special journal to use during our small group reading time so they could practice their writing.  I got this idea from a colleague and LOVE it!  My kids did such a nice job last week writing about their friends and family.  I let them pick what they want to write about and their ideas are wonderful!!!  

So I hope you are finishing up your turkey/thanksgiving plans this week.  We have 2 days next week too.  But for now, hop on over and check out these great linky parties to see what others are doing this week.  

   Have a wonderful week!!