Oceans of Fun!

Before I start my post, I want to say that I hope all the mothers out there had a wonderful Mother's Day. I stayed off the computer all day and just enjoyed time with my family. We planted some flowers, fruit, and veggies plants, and I was able to even sneak in a nap. It was wonderful!!

We are finishing up our two week Ocean Animal Unit this week. Boy have we learned a lot about different ocean animals.

We start every day with a chit-chat message. Here is an example:

My students have become fantastic authors and illustrators. Just check out some of their writing and a few directed drawings we completed.

We have been using the math centers from my Ocean Math Centers. You can grab those {here}.

One of my favorite activities we did last week was a reading response activity with the story "The Pout-Pout Fish" by Deborah Diesen.

I asked my students to complete the sentence, "To make the pout pout fish smile, I would...." They had to also illustrate their idea. I LOVED what they came up with.

"give candy" "do a joke"

"make silly faces" "give him a hug"

What did I tell you adorable or what?? Now I have a quick funny story to share with you. A couple of weeks ago my class was working on persuasive writing. I wanted to model this to my class so I chose something I was going to have to talk the hubby into letting me get or do. I chose a pedicure. Here is my example:

I told my class how my hubby teases me about my toes. I also told them that it was o.k. because I tease my hubby about his toes as well. Anyways, it must have really stuck with one particular student because look what I got as a teacher appreciation gift.

This same student also brought me these beautiful daisies. :)

I showed him the picture of the daisies so he could see where I put them in my house. {The water immediately turned that weird color......I think it is from the dye they use for the flowers or something.} We decided we needed a picture together. :)