nomination and a busy busy day!!

Hello all first I would like to thank Tara @ http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/ for nominating me for this award for The Versatile Blogger there were just a couple of conditions.
1. Thank nominator and provide you with a link to there sight. Thank you Tara your blog is amazing, I can tell you are a great teacher
2. Share 7 things about yourself that your readers may not know
    Alrighty
     1. I played college softball on a scholarship
     2. I was my high schools homecoming queen
     3. I collect DVDs I have over 300 :)
     4. This is my third year teaching
     5. I used to want to be an animal cruelty officer. Like on animal cops on animal planet (my original degree was going to be in criminal justice.
     6. I met my husband the day I moved into my dorm in college
     7. My mom is Filliapina :)
3. Pass along to 15 other blogs. I don't know if I stalk 15 whole other blogs, but here are the one I normally stalk

http://pitnerm.blogspot.com/
http://brittmale.blogspot.com/
http://theteacherwife.blogspot.com/
http://ladybugsteacherfile.blogspot.com/
http://whatteacherswants.blogspot.com/
http://mrsjumpsclass.blogspot.com/
http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/
http://theinspiredapple.blogspot.com/
http://mregilchristclass.blogspot.com/
http://eagerlittlemind.blogspot.com/
http://weeklyhive.blogspot.com/

Well that is eleven pretty close I am new to blogging so sorry if the links do not work :(

Anyways in other happening I did to fun lessons today to share with you!!

First fact families I gave each child a picture frame and had them draw the fact family inside like a family portrait. They turned out pretty cute. They had to put the facts on the side in the frames. :) Check it out.

Pretty cute huh!!

Okay now this next lesson was on adjectives. Each student received three chips and had to use their senses to find adjectives to describe it. Then they wrote them on paper chips colored and we put them on these charts. Our charts say,  "I bet you all my chips that I can use adjective to describes nouns." Looking back on it it should say we. One of my students pointed that out, well I guess at least I must have done a good job on our pronouns unit. Tee Hee!

 I choose Doritos...

Cheetos

 and sour cream and onion lays

 here are some of the words on the chips!! My sweet kiddos did such a good job!

Well everybody it is bedtime thanks again to Tara for the nomination, and thank you all for following. Hope everyone has a great day with their classes tomorrow shaping the youth of America!! WE CAN DO IT!!!

Open House

So we have had open house this past week and I would like to share some of the things my class featured

So above is the door to my classroom, my theme this year is paisley, polka dots and partridges. So I did a "Partridge Family" door (cause we're a family) with the me being the Mama Partridge and a baby partridge for each kid. I also cut out ovals and used scrapbooking scissors to make them look like cracked eggs, and put them over some left over birds nest from those buddy cut outs that you buy at the teacher store. All with the tag line "Get happy in 4th grade"

This week we have been working with nouns. These spiders had a common noun on the body such as, "spider" and then had proper nouns that matched on each of the eight legs, (i.e. Black Widow, Grand Daddy Long Leg) They were placed on a web with a sign that said, "Our class is weaving webs, of common and proper nouns." This web is drawn on chart paper due to time constraints, but it could be made really cut by twisting bulletin board paper and hot glueing it in a web pattern.

In Science we have been doing the Scientific Method, in addition to a rap that I found on youtube.com to Nelly's "Just a Dream," thank you Mr. Lee!! :) love his songs. We did a simple experiment using apples to help the kids understand controls, varibles, hypothesis, etc. Using and apple slicer you simply cut the apple into equal slices. The question is "What is the best way to keep an apple fresh?" With the student we go over Test subject A, the apple being left out is the control the apple they will be comparing the rest of the apples to. You place the other slices in different containers as the varibles. (i.e. cling wrap, tissue, zip-loc bag, foil). The students then make observations and record data on the color, softness of the apples, etc and graph that information. Finally, the students come to a conclusion on which apple slice remained the most fresh, and see how that compares to their hypothesis. These apples were done in addition to a longer sheet were they log the information I spoke about above. It is just an apple that ask for the control, varibles, and conclusion. They were hung up in the hall under a sign that read, "Hey Newton, How do you like these apples?"

Oh and if you look in some of the pictures you'll notice the borders hanging. At our school we have those paper slider hanging things, but they are just gray so my teammates and I put border in them and then some colorful paper to put behind students work just to jazz it up. (Mrs. Dunlaps idea)

Hope you find these thing helpful, have a happy standard driven year...lol!

Mrs. Beas