Oh Boy It's Farley

TAKS... yay ((sarcasm))

SO if you live in Texas...
you know what tomorrow is!!!!
It is the Writing TAKS!!!

For those of you that do NOT know about the TAKS...
it is our FaNtAbULouS
(say fantabulous in a snarky sarcastic tone)
state test.
Tomorrow the 4th graders will be taking the
writing portion of the test
AND being the BESTEST 3rd grade around...
we made them good luck goodies!!!

Are these NOT the cutest little goodies for the

WRITING test!!!

I can't take ALL the credit...

I got the idea from Cookies and Cups when she featured them

as a neat Valentine.

We made ours out of Rolos and Kisses!!!

YUMMY!!!

I'll tell you the truth...

we had parent volunteers

(3 of them)

come in and help us make them.

AND then the kids got to write their messages.

Each 3rd grade classroom

adopted a 4th grade class.

We delivered our goodies today

& the 4th graders loved the surprise!!!

We also made extras for ALL of the teachers

that will be helping with the testing.

LOOK at those surprised SMILEs....

they loved their TAKS goodies!!!

Do you do anything special for your testing days to boost the kids spirits???

Let me know about it!!!

Leave a comment~ I would love to know!!!

Give Away by my new BFF

My NEW BFF
(I am hoping we are now Blog Friends Forever)
has a wonderful give away going on at her blog...
ONE EXTRA DEGREE.
Head on over and check out her give away
and FaNtAbULoUs blog.
& if you are a NEW follower THANKS so much...
I hope you will be able to find some things you can use!!!

Still Doing Van Allsburg

As you might have seen in one of my other posts,
we are in the middle of an Author Study...
Chris Van Allsburg.
to see the previous scroll down about 2 posts and you will see it :)

Anywho...
Here is my Interactive Door
and this is where I have my Strong Verb/ Weak Verb Chart.
We talked about how Van Allsburg uses VERY strong verbs in his writing to make a stronger visual image in your head!!! I usually keep my Interactive Door up for a week BUT

the kids have had so much fun searching for STRONG VERBS in their books...

it will stay up another week.

APOLOGIZING for the sideways pic... too tired to download it to my laptop and it won't switch for me right now... just tilt your head slightly :)

This is a Travel Tracer activity that my kids worked on for 2 days. They "traced" the travels of Ben, in Ben's Dream. Every time a setting changes it must be documented in a travel tracing activity!!! I know the kids LOVED this activity because some of them stayed in at recess and came in early to work on it!!! YAY!!!

Next week, we have 3 more books to look at and discuss!!! My team and I talked about how much fun we have had teaching this unit and it shows in the kids work!!! KUDDOS to us!!! LOL

to do list

If you are like me I have a TON of things I have to get done each week.
I was getting lost in paperwork, meetings, parent contacts, things to do, and the list goes on...&...on
My teaching partner had a cute To Do List that she uses religiously to keep her organized and so
I looked all over Blogland for a To Do List
I finally found one I liked
BUT I had to make it FaRLeYFiEd...aka cute it out with FONTS!!!

I ran off about 20 copies and clipped them into a FaNtAbULouS clipboard.
I started using it about 4 weeks ago and it has really helped me stay on top
of things. My teaching BUDS LOVED mine so much that I started making them
personalized ones...
and for you LUVERLY PEEPs I have one for you too!!!
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/free-to-do-list-free-118549

Hope you like it and good luck staying organized!!!
If you want to see more organization ideas head on over to Growing Kinders!!!