Butterflies, Peanut Butter and Shapes..OH MY...ARRRG and Pirates too, Mateys!

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Read on to see pictures of it in action!

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1. Butterflies

Inflatable life cycle

Look how much they have grown already!

Arrival size

Fiction and nonfiction pair with 

a butterfly story souvenir

and a real painted lady life cycle

for display

Procedural writing & craft:

Life cycle of a butterfly

Edible butterfly life cycle!

Mini marshmallow-egg

1/2 gummy worm-caterpillar

Tootsie Roll-chrysalis

2 candy fruit slices & 1/2 gummy worm- butterfly

Students put the items into the

correct order. After I checked them,

they got to eat the life cycle!

Delicious!!!

2. Peanut Butter

Our fiction and nonfiction pair

 Peanut butter playdough!

Yummy and FUN!

Recipe for whole class:

2 cups peanut butter

2 cups corn syrup

3 cups powdered sugar

3 cups powdered milk

 This made enough for 22 students

with some left over for me to eat!

I gave them a chunk a little bigger 

than a golf ball.

 Word work today!

Of course, they got to eat it after!

Procedural writing:

Whole class

Sorry about my chart...

I just don't spend time making them cute!

I want to...I really do...but I forget...

AND my chart markers are OLD!

Excuses..excuses..excuses..I know!

Procedural writing:

Individual assignment

Dancing to Peanut Butter by Dr. Jean

Students following a partner's

directions on how to make a 

peanut butter and jelly sandwich

This student followed the 

directions from his partner

word for word! It didn't say

spread it around, so he didn't!

It didn't say put the other slice

of bread on top, so he didn't!

3. Geometry- Shapes

I gave students a bag of 3D shapes 

and told them to sort them.

2 groups sorted by shapes,

1 group sorted by color,

and one group sorted by 

shapes that roll/don't roll & 

shapes that stack/don't stack.

Sorted, graphed and recorded 

results using 3D edible shapes!

Check out my newest

2D shape product here!

4. R-controlled vowel -ar

and Pirates

Nonfiction and Fiction Pair

&

Gold Coin Story Souvenir

Pirate Pam and her parrot Polly

came to visit! They read the fiction

and nonfiction pirate books and passed

out the gold coin story souvenir.

This activity is from Babbling Abby's packet.

Scroll down for the link.

I had the kiddos trace the words

in glue and used multi-colored 

glitter to fancy them up.

I wanted to use gold but 

my gold was at home!

Caution: Students MUST lightly trace

their words or this will happen!

Here is the packet from Babbling Abby!

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Click here for this great freebie 

from Rainy Day Learning!

It has poems, songs,

graphic organizers, math sheets

& more!

We found hidden -ar words all

week around the room and added

them to our giant treasure map...

which I forgot to take a picture of...

It led us to this pirate treasure chest

with candy bars and Starburst candy!

5. Indoor Recess with

Adventure To Fitness

(Rainy day fun)

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LOVE!!!!

Funny From a Honey

One of my students who

really struggles, looked up

from the paper he was working

on and said...

"Am I molting? 

Stuff just fell on my paper!"

He REMEMBERED a 

vocabulary word from

OCTOBER!!!

I was so proud of him...

and it cracked me up because

he was so serious! 

The very next day we talked

about caterpillars molting 

and I called on him to answer!

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