Perfectly Primary: March 2015

Friday, March 27, 2015

It's Raining! It's Pouring...and pouring...and pouring...

We might just float away! It seems like it is raining everyday! At least it's washing away some of this lovely yellow pollen! Also, it is a great week to teach my weather unit! We always bring umbrellas for our weather unit, but this week it is a necessity. It's fun to play in the rain with our rain gear and umbrellas too! Our Math lesson was on geometry and sorting.

For our math lesson to day, we made umbrellas and sorted by shape, color or both. I let the kiddos choose which way they wanted to sort.

We got to do work under our umbrellas this week and we go to nap under them too! This is one of their favorite weeks.

I also love this time of the year, because my little ones are getting so independent. They are playing games and doing their activities with their friends and on their own. They don't need me to be hovering right over them the whole time. They are growing so much.

Easter break next week! And then we are coming back to do our planting, vegetables and farm week! I can't wait! I love Spring!

It's a book study at it's best!

Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites by Marcia Tate

I am so lucky! Our school had Marcia as our in-service speaker for the beginning of school! (we had her all to ourselves for a couple of days)
Her book Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites will inspire you to think of new, fun ways to engage your students. She give practical ideas and the reasoning behind it.
For many of us who teach the little ones, we do a lot of it without realizing it --art, music, storytelling, manipulatives, visuals and movement. But it was nice to see that our Jr. High teachers were getting into too and finding ways to incorporate these strategies into their classrooms!

I am super excited to link up to these sites for the book study! It's a great reminder of what we have been working on all year.