Rocks & Student Led Conferences

I think all weeks will be hectic crazy from here on out!!!!  But 29 more days but whose counting right??!!!  This week we did Student Led Conferences.  My kids did such a great job!!!!  They filled out a personal report card Tuesday morning, we had an agenda, where they showed their Daily 5 book bin, writing folder, math journal, Sci-Fri Journal & our plant experiments.  I had filled out a progress report stating what their reading & AR level was at the beginning of the year & what it is now.  Their parents were so amazed with mostly their reading & writing improvements.  Also at the beginning of the year, every students filled out a message in a bottle about what they wanted to learn this year.  The big day came & they got to open them....which was exciting because everyone learned what they had hoped to this year!!!!  Once they showed their parents everything, they filled out a paper where the student had to write 2 stars from the school year & 1 wish to work on over the summer.  Here are some pictures of what went on.

Thanks to all the parents & students who came out!!!!!


This week in Science we did MANY Rock activities.  We read the book Rock Basics, which is an easy to understand rock's book.  Students had to complete a Rock Scavenger Hunt at home.  Then at school, they shared the rocks they found with their classmates.  They picked three rocks from their hunt & completed a Rock Exploration page.  We were suppose to do many other activities on Friday after our field trip to the Mines but rain, thunder, & a tornado warning closed the mines.  So all we did was took a bus ride.  The sky fell as soon as we got their.  We did reschedule & Wednesday, if the weather cooperates, we are off for try number 2!!!!!  We did though complete a Chocolate Chip Cookie Excavation activity.  All you need is cookie & toothpicks.  They used the toothpicks to count the chocolate chips & had a recording page.  Here are some pictures of what we did!!!

Sharing Rocks

Page sent home

More sharing

After picking their 3 rocks, they completed the activities.

Does it sink or float???

All you need for Chocolate Chip Excavation

Recording sheet

Chocolate Chip Excavation

Digging out our "rocks"

Lastly I found this great idea on Pinterest.  Count down to the end of the school year.  I am doing it for the last 15 days of school.  I have come up with 15 fun cheap & easy ideas to do with your  students each day.  Such as eat outside, sidewalk chalk, popsicles, extra outside time, etc.  You can click here for the page.  Put each slip of paper in balloons.  Blow up the balloons & put through out your room.  You can number them or not.  Then count down the days by popping 1 balloon each day.  Fun way to count down the days!!!!

Stay tuned for teacher appreciation ideas if you have your own personal children who you need to come up with ideas for their teachers.  I have all my sayings printed out, I just need to attach everything with ribbon.  But today is the 1st nice day so it's lake time with the man!!!!!!  Have a great rest of the weekend or what is left of it:)