Tattling Toby

I saw this idea in a Really Good Stuff magazine.  They had a Tattling Turtle with a cute poem.  This is a great idea for K-2.  There is a lot of tattling in the younger grades.  I have used this for 2 years now, and it works great.  The kids know to tell all their tattles to Toby or to write them down on an index card and put it back in the tattle box.  I promise them that I will read the cards at the end of the day.  I make sure they know the difference in what they should tell me and what they should tell Toby.  If they do begin to tell me a "Toby Tattle"  I will just say "Remember you are suppose to tell Toby this one."  It literally cut my tattles in half!! I LOVE Toby!!

The Tattling Toby poem

Dear Students,
Tattling Toby will listen to you,
When you have something to say.

Just talk to him or write it down,
And tell what happened today.

But if you or anyone else is hurt,
Please do not delay.

Come to me so I can help,
And make sure that you're okay.

Your teacher, ______________________

Clipboards

I recently discovered the wonderful world of Mod Podge.  I spent some time looking through different blogs and found really cute altered clipboards made with mod podge.  I thought they were really cute and would be a cute end of the year gift for my wonderful friends/co-workers.  All I did was paint the edges of a clipboard to match the scrapbook paper.  Then I used the mod podge to glue the paper to the clipboard.  Finally, I used 2 coats of mod podge to seal the paper on the clipboards.  For a first attempt on altered clipboards, I think they turned out pretty cute!

Fraction Animals

I gave each student a piece of paper with 6 circles on it.  We reviewed fractions, divided the circles up, and labeled each piece.  After they finished labeling the pieces, they cut out the pieces and arranged them to look like animals.

 A Mouse

  An Elephant

 A squirrel

 A Pig

 Dog

 cat

 A duck playing on the playground.

The Day I Was A Monkey

I got these really cute images from a coworker a few years ago.  She would have her students trace the images to create a picture of themselves.  She had a lot of images to choose from.  Since she taught 4th grade it was too hard for my second graders to do it.  So I chose a few of the images that I thought my students would be able to do.  I also changed the main body parts.  Instead of having them draw themselves, I had them draw themselves as a monkey.  (My classroom is decorated in monkeys!)  Then they have to write about their day as a monkey.  I give them the writing prompt "One day I woke up and I was a monkey..."

How Does That Saying Go

This is just a fun page to have students complete.  You can use this with many different age groups.  They try and guess how the saying goes.  It is really fun and interesting to read some of the responses the kids give.


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Little Baker's Cafe

The students played restaurant to review adding money.  I gave each student a menu and a "waiter/waitress pad".   They took turns being the waiter or waitress and asking what each person wanted for a drink, appetizer, entree, and dessert.  After they were done getting the orders, they switched within their group.  After everyone in their group had their chance to take the orders, they added up how much each person spent on drinks, then they added entrees, and then finally they added the desserts and appetizers together.  Once they had 3 final totals, they added those three amounts together to get a final total.  They really enjoyed being able to do something fun and out of the ordinary for math.  I actually had quite a few want to keep their menus to play at home and some of my girls took them outside to play restaurant at recess! :) You can purchase this activity at TeachersPayTeachers.

Harvesting Nouns

As I mentioned before, our school went to standard based report cards this year.  I have been making file folder games for my students to use as review and for me to use as an assessment.  One of my newest folder games reviews nouns. They have to put the vegetables in the correct wheelbarrows.  You can download this  at my TeachersPayTeachers site.