"Grenade" Candy Writing, & Building Sounds and Numbers

Christian, our leader of the day, is holding up our Popping Candy. We used our taste buds to discover words that described what Popping Candy felt like in our mouth.

How would you describe the pop candy?
Tantilizing, Fruitie, Poppy, Noisy, Sweet, Tingled, Stingy, Tiny, lemony, colourful, sizzling, bits, spicey, rock-shaped, bouncey, peppy, flavory...



Here are our brainstormed words to describe Popping Candy:

Of course, I couldn't resist taking some pics of these halarious faces! LOL

We did some WORD WORK using Our New Spelling Words for Monday October 17th. I have alphabet letters made out of foam that the students manipulate to create our spelling words. This saves time printing them when I am assessing their ability to hear the beginning, middle and end sound in each word.

I will also ask to purchase these for our classroom for WORD WORK -
http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/seo/ca%7CsearchResults~~p%7C2534374302106821~~.jsp


I found some terrific Resources for Halloween on the PRIMARY SUCCESS ad:
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=bc38979010f0bac904113dba7&id=62e476bc0c&e=aa9f20ad72

This Freeebie is available on the PRIMARY SUCCESS page. It's a great SPIDER adding manipulative that tells a number story, so the students can "act out" the sum.

Students enjoy the many characters found in these FREEBIES from PRIMARY SUCCESS. They are levelled for beginning readers and can be copied as sets.

Too Many Anchor Charts!
Have you ever looked around your classroom and wondered where in the world you were going to hang another anchor chart? I have! There's only so much space in the classroom. Let me first say, I don't believe a classroom should be papered with anchor charts. When you have too many up, they sort of lose their meaning. Your little friends stop really seeing them. They just blend after a while. This is why I like to keep them up for a while and then rotate them out. I also keep my anchor charts posted in the same spot in my room so my friends' little eyes always know where to look for that information.

The problem is the skills we teach on those anchor charts can never be put away. They're skills we want out friends to keep using all year long, and sometimes they do need a reminder. That's where my anchor chart binder comes in handy.