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Pop over to my TPT shop for some treats:) (Thank you Krista for the adorbs banner)
I have a fun (late) activity to share with you:) (sorry, I just can't seem to get my act together this year..lol) This is another fun activity we learned about at a writing training. A few posts ago I talked about our descriptive writing. Well, this is another activity and I put my own little spin on it.
We started with this. I put it up on my ELMO and gave everybody dice. I covered each column so they didn't get ahead of me or themselves. They rolled and drew, then I uncovered the next column and so on until they were done with their monster. I don't have a copy of this on my computer but if you want to do it, you could maybe do a screen shot and save it????? It may already be out there in Pinterest land......
The monsters turned out super cute....they looked like friendly monsters:)
This time instead of writing a little card with the monster description on it, I turned it into a writing prompt and had them write about the monster under their bed:) The stories turned out really cute and they need practice with narratives so we killed a few birds with one stone:)
This one cracks me up.....Delilah!!!! What a monster name:) Love the creativity of some of my kiddos:)
The other thing I wanted to share was the FAB idea I got from Head Over Heels for Teaching. Joanne blogged a few weeks ago (link here) about Flashlight Friday and it got my attention. Well, I'm glad it did. I ran right out and got a class set of little flashlights for my kids from the Dollar Tree.
So last Friday was our first Flashlight Friday......I put a sign on the door that morning that said "Are you ready for Flashlight Friday?" That got their attention.....then during our Read to Self time I handed out the little flashlights......laid down the law.....you know, no shining in eyes, no horsing around.....they all grabbed a reading spot and I shut off the lights and they turned on the flashlights.
Is that cool or what? Little lights everywhere and it was AS QUIET AS A MOUSE.....NO LIE!!!! They didn't make a peep! It was the neatest:) Can't wait to do it again this Friday! Thanks Joanne for sharing this wonderful idea:))