Five For Friday May 23, 2014

This week has been so much better than last week!  I told you about the crazy week I had last week when I found out that my grade level was reducing one position and I would have to move grade levels again!  Originally I was supposed to move to first or second, but luckily one of my co-workers made a trade for me so that I will end up in third which is where I was last year, so I won't be starting completely new! YEAH!  There is a chance that I will roll up again with my class like I did with this current group.  I will also have Luke (my son) in my class as well.  I am excited and nervous about that!  And now, without further ado, time to link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday!

With all of the craziness of last week, I forgot to tell you the most crazy part of last week which happened on Friday, so I will share this week.  One of my students has a guinea pig who had 2 babies, and he wanted to bring them to class for show and tell.  I told his mom to let me know if she wanted to bring them in the morning or afternoon (assuming a 15 minute or so visit).  They ended up staying the whole day.  I had run to the copy room and when I got back to class the cage was sitting in my room and mom never came back (despite the 100 calls we made).

And while that may seem crazy enough... it wasn't.  Another student showed up that morning with a box of 5 rabbits!  Again, we couldn't get a parent to answer the phone, so my class was officially a petting zoo!

I got the opportunity to spend some time with a few of my students outside of school this weekend because I was invited to a baptism/communion for a family of students at my school.  They have a large extended family of cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. that all attend school together. I have one of the boys in my regular class and several of the girls are in my cross stitch club.

Do you ever attend your students' outside activities?

Wednesday was our end of the year trip to the swimming pool.  Our school is about 3 blocks away from the city pool, so we walk down there for our field trip.  About 20 minutes before we were set to leave, it started raining heavily.  Luckily it cleared up just in time for our trek to the pool and the sun was out and shining by the time our soaked kiddos left the pool.

Thursday was our county's Special Olympics.  A few of my students competed and our class was on hand for the opening ceremonies to cheer them on!  I also had a few students who helped out as volunteers.  It was a great time for all!

I am currently working on this book study for 100 Minutes to Balanced Literacy by Lisa Donohue hosted by Thinking of Teaching. 

 I am hosting chapter 3 on May 31, but you can read about chapter 1 here.  I will be posting my chapter 1 thoughts tomorrow.

English Test 5th grade (Christmas time) Teste de Inglês 5º ano (Natal)

Hi every one!

Here you have your Christmas treat from Teaching Frenzy :) 

It's a 5th grade test that focuses on these topics.

Vocabulary:

• Family
• Colours
• Numbers
• Animals

Grammar:

• Verb to be
• Verb Have Got
• Can / Can't
• Personal Pronouns

(C) Info:

Pictures were taken from: www.morguefile.com

Clip arts are Philip Martin's.

Crossword puzzle was made on: http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp

The text and questions are "Teaching Frenzy originals".

English Test 5th grade / Ficha de avaliação de Inglês 5ºano

Once again I've adapted a test from "Way to go" to make this one. It focus on:

• Animals
• Verb to Have got
• Plurals
• a / an / 0 article

I hope it's useful.

Wild Animals wordsearch - Quick activity

This is the first activity of set that I'm developing. They are especially designed to be quick and easy in order to work as holiday activities. The aim of these short worksheets / word games is that the students practice the vocabulary they learned during the year.

Birdies video.

I've made this video so that I can make a revision about the names of some birds with my students.

During the video you'll see: Pigeons, Eagles, Peacoks, Roosters, Robins, Turkeys and Owls. These may not be the kind of animals we usually teach to 1st graders but as I've seen they liked them so much at the cartoon, why not?

Birds Worksheet

This is a matching about birds. I'll use it with my little students (1st grade). Last lesson they've seen a bit of the Cartoon "Elmo's World". In that Cartoon, they've seen all these birds and -I hope- they'll still remember some of them!!

I'll write how it went!

Activity - Animals

This is how the blackboard of my 4th grade class looked like yesterday.

I've made a kind of a guessing game with my students. I just wrote these sentences and asked them to copy. They had to complete the sentences as they wished, without knowing the meaning of what was written there.

After they've finished, we had a blast with some of the sentences. "The rabbit flies", "The snake is sweet" etc.

Students knew that this was the purpose of the activity. Having some fun.

At the end I explained the meaning of the sentences ad they wrote the words in the correct places.

Activity - My favourite pet

I've used this activity with all my classes and it worked really well!
First you must have flashcards (A4 if possible) and quite a lot of adhesive gum.
Then you ask the students to take a pencil or a pen cap (the lighter the better).
You ask them individually, "What's your favourite animal?" They will answer your question and then mark the animal with their pencil.
When all class has finished marking the animals, you can explore the results.

• Which one is the champion?
• How many students voted for the snake?
• How many votes did the dog get?
• Which is the animal with zero votes?
• ... and a whole lot more of questions....

Pets - Worksheet

Here you have one more worksheet.

This one was used with my 1st grade students.

If you want to use it with elder students, you can erase the name of the animals and ask them to write them down.

I used this worksheet as the last task of a lesson dedicated to pets. During all the lesson we explored the vocabulary, played some games and talked about the class' favourite pets.

Inglês 5º ano - animais

Começo por publicar um dos testes de inglês que elaborei para o 5º ano. Actualmente trabalho num A.T.L. As minhas funções passam muito pelo apoio ao estudo e preparação dos testes. Tenho dedicado muito do meu tempo a construir fichas de trabalho. Espero que possam ajudar!