4th Monday Made It...perfect for July 4th!

Happy 4th of July, y'all!

I'm not sure how many people will be readin'

blogs on this holiday, but I couldn't

pass up postin' my 4th Monday Made It on the 4th

with my sweet friend Tara from 4th Grade Frolics!

4's all around!

Today we are attendin' a BBQ @ my parents' best friends' home.

Everybody got to choose what they wanted to bring.

I wanted to make somethin' "red, white, and blue" 

for the 4th.

I consulted my good friend, Pinterest, and looked

for some easy to make pins.

There were a lot to sort through and many to help spark 

some inspiration, but this is the one that I choose

as my pinspiration.

Source

Produce in California is BEAUTIFUL and so fresh!
Berries definitely don't look like these do when they finally make
their way to Florida.
I've been enjoyin' all the fruits every day while here!

These were super, duper easy to put together
and a mostly healthy, yet extremely delicious treat!

Red, White, and Blue and scrumptious!

I'm bringin' back a Monday Made it from two years ago...

since you guys like the task cards so much 

from last week's MMI.

I'm gettin' in the 4th of July spirit and wanted

to make somethin' festive.

This could be used any time of the year though.

"Red, White, and Blue...my teacher says I have

to multiply by more than TWO!"

I've got it up for FREE on Monday.

Be sure to leave some feedback love please.

My kids always love any review for multi-digit 

multiplication. 

Even better when it's colorful and has

patriotic clip art.

Some of my fondest memories of summer as a child

was goin' to have tea and popovers at

Jordan Pond House in 

Acadia National Park

when we would go on vacation in Maine.

As an adult, it has become a tradition for my mom

to make popovers whenever I visit my parents

in the summer.

This summer I decided to help make 

this tasty treat.

They were so quick and easy to make and even

yummier to eat!

*Mom uses the Popovers recipe from 

Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book.

Add some butter and jam and you will be in business!

I hope everyone is enjoyin' the day with family and friends.

If anyone needs me...I'll be stuffin' my face!

Happy Monday, friends!

Monday Made It...third time is a charm!

Everybody dance now!

Why?

Because...for the 

THIRD time 

I'm linkin' up with my sweet friend Tara

from 4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made It.

This week I was on the struggle bus on what to make because

I'm in California visitin' my parents.

Aren't they so cute?

I'm sure you can understand...I haven't really

been thinkin' too much about school stuff

other than missin' my Rockstars.

I did get into our private class Instagram account

and started browsin' pictures from all of the things

we accomplished throughout the school year.

Creatin' a private account is a great way to keep

parents involved with what is goin' on in our room.

Anyways...I'll pulled up pics from when

we spent a mornin' full of 

multiplication and a well-known

wizard and I knew I needed to share

with you the results.

I'm bringin' back somethin' that I actually made and wrote about last summer.

"I KNOW

my students are goin' to FLIP over.

No really...they are goin' to squeal when

I give this to them and aren't even goin' to complain

about doin' math.

I am in love, love, love with my 

Wizards, Witches, and Wands

a Multi-Digit Multiplication Task Cards game.

I didn't have any students with me this summer to show

this in action, so I begged bossed

my amazin' mommy and her sweet friend Pris

into playin' the game.

They whined about not bein' able to use

a calculator (sound familiar), 

but they finally agreed to do it 

the old school way."

(I am puttin' Wizards, Witches, and Wands in my TpT store for

50% off for Monday.  Please be kind and leave some

love if you download this product.) 

I was able to test this out in my classroom and I 

was CORRECT...the kids FLIPPED!

Look at all those smiles....those were GENUINE smiles...NOT prompted.
There was tons of excitement and chatter as the kids moved around
to solve the multiplication problem on each character task card.
What a great multiplication motivator!
I will definitely be pullin' this back out after everyone
has mastered their facts and earned their
Fact Family Behavior Beads that I wrote about HERE last week.

Two summers ago I made a lot of recycled wine cork crafts for 

one of my Monday Made Its.

You can read about them HERE from my post

"Monday Made It...A lot of grapes had to be tested for this".

My Daddy Rose grows grapes...grapes for wine.

Lots of grapes have to be tested to make sure they

are okay for the rest of us to consume...well not me...right now.

I took the corks that have been saved for me the past

two years and put them to good use to make some 

decorations for my parents lil' wine storage room.

Source

I just hot glued the corks on to a cardboard letter "R".

I think it turned out perfectly and matches the storage room.

Below are some previous wine cork crafts.

Make an earring holder out of recycled wine corks

I'm lookin' forward to hoppin' over to 4th Grade Frolics to see

 what everyone else has made and 

to get some much needed inspiration!

Happy Monday, friends!

Monday Made It...2 in a row...impressive!

Today I did something that I haven't done

in a long time...

I went back and read over all of my posts

that I have ever written.

I never really considered my blog

to be an online diary, but that

is exactly what it is.

I laughed, I cried, and I smiled.

If you are a blogger and you haven't done this

in a while...do it!

If you are a blog follower and you haven't

done this with your favorite blogs...do it!

It's inspirational.

I'm pretty proud of myself for makin' it to 

Monday Made It with 4th Grade Frolics once again.

This week I'm writin' about somethin' that I actually made in the past,

but never blogged about how I display and store my 

Fact Family Behavior Beads.

Fact Family Behavior Beads original post

I used Fact Family Behavior Beads to motivate my students to 

become fluent in their multiplication facts at the beginnin'

of the school year. 

This could be used with addition, subtraction

and division as well.

The followin' pictures I posted on my Instagram 
as we were workin' on our facts.

This year EVERY.SINGLE.ONE of my students

successfully mastered all of their

multiplication math facts in less 

than a month after school started.

Each day I would present the students 

with a facts quiz starting with 0's

and ending with 12's. 

I printed quizzes off of Math-Drills.com.

As students completed each quiz, I would give

them the Fact Family Behavior Bead to keep.

It's amazin' what a little piece of laminated

paper can do to get students excited about their

multiplication facts!

Each Fact Family Behavior Bead has a different

graphic for a surprise Ice Cream Sundae party

at the end.

These sweet parents brought in all the supplies and helped with our 

Ice Cream Sundae party.

As you can tell, my awesome students enjoyed their yummy reward!

Behavior Beads are kept on binder rings and displayed

usin' Command Hooks that are attached to a white board.

I ordered a box of binder rings on Amazon, but picked up the

little Command Hooks at Walmart.

I attached the hooks and the numbers to the board

usin' Blue Sticky tack (it's the only kind that I use).

The numbers are from my 

Behavior Bucks, Rewards, Numbers and Titles

that I wrote about HERE.

They are FREE..so scoop them up...like ice cream!

I use clear, plastic thread organizers to store all Behavior Beads

that I have created and hand out in my classroom.

You can find these at most craft stores for fairly inexpensive.

I can't wait to meet my new group of kiddos

to start Fact Family Behavior Beads with them.

Tomorrow I head out to California for my yearly summer

trip to visit the parental unit.

I haven't seen them since Christmas break.

I'm ECSTATIC! 

Happy Monday, friends!

What?! I'm postin' again on a MONDAY!!!

 I have been spendin' countless hours up at school to get 

ready for Orientation and the First Day of School 

this week, but I'm takin' some time out

to share some made-its that have popped up in my room

because I'm crushin' on them big time!

What better way to show them off than to link up

with my sweet friend Tara from 4th Grade Frolics

for Monday Made It!

My podmate, Jeanne, came up with this fabulous idea

 to display student work in our hallways and I get

giddy every time I walk out into our hallways.

I can't wait to hang some stuff up their 

to show off my kiddos' creations.

My sweet friend Elizabeth from Hodges Herald

also did somethin' else similar 

last week for her Monday Made It.

They are laminated pieces of 12 x 12 scrapbook paper.

Clothespins are hidin' under the 4 inch circles

that are also made out of scrapbook paper.

The three different colors match each of our classrooms.

Mine: The bright colors with black circles. 

I will place rockstar pictures of my kids on the circles.

Jeanne's:  The blues, greens, oranges, and grays.

Anna Catherine's: The reds, grays and blacks.

*I wish I would've taken a close-up photo of their

circles, they are all differnet colors of scrapbook paper also.

 This year my 5th grade team has chosen to have

Learning Goals & Scales boards.

We put up ELA, Math and Science/Social Studies.

After we have discussed the standard and learning goals

that are in an "I Can" stament, the kiddos

will move their number to reflect their

level of understanding.

Students are able to move their numbers as

we become more familiar with each standard until

they have mastered them.

Standards and progression scales are printed on Astrobrights paper

and displayed 

in sheet protectors.  

Numbers are backed with adhesive Glue Dots

to stick on the fabric that covers the board.

This is my favorite part of my room this year.

ELA: Fireball Fuschia paper

Math: Lunar Blue paper

Science: Terra Green paper

Social Studies: Solar Yellow paper

*5th Grade Florida Standards
(ELA, Math, Science & Social Studies)
 by Teaching Ambrosia
 and Math Vocabulary
by Alyssha Tomphson-
Teaching and Tapas
are also hangin' on binder rings
for students to pull down and use.

  

 My biggest question I was askin' myself when we started 

printin' all our standards was how in the world 

was I goin' to store all of the papers? 

The lightbulb went off when I was in Walmart.

I found these expandable files and have separated

out the standards by sections so they each have their own pocket inside.

Example:  Math

1) Numbers and Operations in Base Ten

2) Operations & Algebraic Thinking

3) Number and Operations: Fractions

4) Measurement

5) Geometry

 My last made-it isn't somethin' I actually made, but

I had to share because they are cute!

I am notorius for checkin' Jane.com's daily mornin' email...

sometimes before I'm actually fully awake.

This display is the result of one of those early mornin'

email browsin' sessions.

I bought 4 packs (pink, yellow, green, blue)

I have my very own Flutterby Butterflies flyin' on my wall!

This just makes me smile!

Happy Monday, friends!

*Insert Witty Title*...Monday Made It

Here I am again on a Monday...
Sadly this might be my last Monday Made It of the summer
to link up with my sweet friend Tara from 4th Grade Frolics.
I am headin' back to my classroom
shortly and when that happens...I don't
even know what day of the week it is.
For today...I'm happy for Monday.
This post has Math, ELA, and Science all-in-one.
Boom...educational!

My first Monday Made It is a 

FREEBIE...but you HAVE

to read my big long post to get it.

I know...oh...the torture!

 If you've been around for awhile...you KNOW

I love to SLEEP.

I nap
ALL.THE.TIME.

I feel no guilt about sleepin' in the afternoons.

None whatsoever.

I can lay my head down at night and sleep just fine...

even if I've had an afternoon nap.

That's what you do at night...you tuck yourself into

bed and you go night-night.

Well guess what...the stuff in my classroom...

it likes to go catch some Zzzz's too.

"Everything" has a home and "Everything" likes to sleep there.

*I don't really know if it likes to sleep or not...that's just

the lines I feed my kiddos because it sounds good and less

creepy than "Everything" runnin' around in our class

in the middle of the night.

So..."Behavior Bucks"
now have a home that 

I made for them this week.

"Behavior Bucks'" first home was

a bank bag that was too dark and had no

windows to peek out of.

"Behavior Bucks'" second home was a Ziploc bag

that got dirty and grimey and often fell on the floor.

Meet "Behavior Bucks" new home....a jewelry holder

that is bein' recycled...I'm so genius!

There are windows...and all the little "Behavior Bucks"

get their very own bed to sleep in and they fit...just right.
*Jewelry Holder purchased at T.J. Maxx awhile ago.
It also has pockets on the back...not shown.
This is goin' to match perfectly in my classroom
with all my bright decor!

How are Behavior Bucks used in the classroom?

That's easy...for lots of stuff.
It's Math.

You got your agenda signed...get a buck.

You sat down on the carpet quietly for read aloud...get a buck.

You were thinkin' outside the box...get a buck.

You taught me somethin' new on the 'puter...get a buck.

You understood the idea of what I'm talkin' about here...

GET A BUCK!

Can you lose bucks?

YEP!

Don't have any bucks?  

You should probably find a friend to borrow one from because

you are not allowed to owe ME any bucks.

Nope, nope, NOPE!

What do I do with my bucks?

Be responsible for them, count them...and
spend them...of course!

What do I spend my bucks on?

Whatever you little heart desires...as long
as it's on the chart.

What chart?

This FREEBIE CHART right HERE that
also has the numbers, behavior bucks and titles included.

Why?
Because I love you.

I also made a Book Buzz that my sweet friend Kelli from

Tales of a Tenacious Teacher created a few weeks ago.  

Don't you just love her vibrant colors she uses?

This is so good that Tara ALSO made this for one

of her Monday Made Its this summer.

So...of course I had to make one TOO!

It's ELA.

I printed out my Book Buzz Tabs on Astrobright paper

usin' my NEW printer that you might have seen on 

my Instagram.

I scooped up a cutie green basket, some lil' owl stickers, 

and some pretty curlies from Dollar General.

Love how it turned out!

I am so excited to implement this with my readin' Nerd Herd!

I already made sure to tuck in my first book suggestion for them.

I wonder who will find it first.  

They are goin' to...get a buck!

I was surfin' through my phone

(I uploaded the Snapfish app and can 

now get 100 free prints a month for a year!)

and stumbled upon some photos from this past year

of my students presentin' their Science Newspapers.

They worked together to design their own Science newspapers

to showcase their learnin' at the end of all of their Science units.
It's Science.

My students worked for a little over a week on these durin' 

our Literacy Center time.

I decided to take my idea official and created

Design a Science Newspaper to put into my TpT store.

This packet includes questions the students may

have, student response pages and a rubric for gradin'.

Be sure to scoop this up in the TpT sale if this fancies you.

Don't forget to use the code: BTS15 to receive up to 28% off!

As always...super excited to see what everyone else has created.

Happy Monday, friends!