Five For Friday

Aloha! Who's happy it's Friday?

It's been a pretty good week, but who can't be happy about Friday!!!

I haven't linked up in awhile with Kasey from Doodle Bugs Teaching and thought it would be fun to share a few pics from my week.

We started off the week with a fun writing activity using M&M's and Skittles.  

I gave each student 5 M&M's and 5 Skittles. They tasted each and

had to decide which was their favorite.  Of course they loved it!

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We also started our Magnet unit this week.  

We experimented with different items

and then sorted them into Magnetic and Non-Magnetic 

pockets in our science journals.

Magnet Unit

In social studies we are working on Economics.  

We learned about Natural, Capital and Human resources.  

This activity was great for students to see how 

producers use all of these resources to make and sell their products.

Economics Unit

This week I also went to a 2 day training on the other side of the island.

This is a view from the Pali Highway.  So beautiful! 

Kaneohe is where our training was, which is about an hour from where I live.  

It's always nice to get to other parts of the island.

I spent Thursday and Friday in a Thinking Maps training geared for K-2.

I gained lots of ideas and will be taking them back to my team to share out.

There are so many ways to use them in all areas.  

I look forward to implementing some new ideas right away.

 My youngest daughter is in 6th grade.  This is her last year with me at my school before she heads up to the middle school.  We pulled over on our way home one day to watch some whales spouting.  We actually couldn't see them once we got on the beach because the waves were pretty big.  We still had some fun taking selfies and snapping some pics of the waves.

I am really going to hate driving alone to school next year.  

Who will listen to me ramble on about waves, surfers, whales and tourist traffic?!

I hope you had a fantastic week as well. Head on over to Kasey's blog to check

out some of her cute February activities.

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Five For Friday-Summer Vacation!!

What!! I am actually blogging?  Aloha friends it's been so long since I have blogged and I look forward to some much needed down time and sharing.

I am linking up today with the fabulous Kacey for  her 5 For Friday post.

I had a busy last week at school, but we had a lot of fun.  We worked on our memory books and they came out really cute.

I took  class pictures and then took pictures with each of the students.

They loved putting it all together in their books.

My sweet girl received some awards this week for Honors Math.  I was a proud mama!

I packed up my room and brought all of these books home for some light summer reading.

Not sure what to do with all of these mugs I received this year!

Spent a little beach time with my girls.

And finally received this from a seller on Etsy just in time for summer :)

Hope you all are enjoying some down time and looking forward to a relaxing break!

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Five For Friday 1-23-15

Aloha Friday!! This week was fast and furious and we ended the week with a fun field trip.  Where did we go?  We walked across the street.

Our school is right across the street from the beach, and I thought it would be fun to go across and have a picnic.

Well it is winter here and that means BIG waves.  The waves this week have been huge and it draws crowds of people who want to see the surfers who ride them.

Today was absolutely gorgeous and the waves were about 10-12 feet!

My class was oohing and ahhing at the waves.  My pictures don't do it justice!

After about a minute of watching waves they started collecting shells and coconuts.

I asked a tourist (he was from Australia and the kids loved his accent) to take our picture.

The sun was in our eyes and it's not the best, but I think it's a pretty cool class pic.

How was your week?

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Five For Friday-Graduation Edition

Aloha Friday!! My favorite day of the week!!

Mahalo to Graphics From The Pond for this cute graphic :)

Well it was our last week of school and it was a whirlwind of craziness.  What made this year different was that my oldest daughter graduated from the 6th grade.

She has been with me at school since she started in preschool at 3 years old.  If you have followed my blog you know that this girl is her own person and marches to the beat of her own drum.  If you met her she wouldn't say much, but if you had any sort animal or story about how you helped an animal she would become your best friend:)

Her 6th grade teachers really go all out and they had a dance along with their graduation ceremony this week.

This girl lives in t-shirts and shorts and wanted to wear jeans to the dance.  Since her teachers told her she had to dress up she settled for a skirt. I thought she looked perfect.

She was front row and right center at the ceremony which was perfect for me.  You have to understand this girl wants no attention at all!!  All the girls in her class gave tear filled speeches of how much they would miss the school.  Her teachers were great and had her read a story that she had written in class.

I think everyone was thrilled that she was a comic relief after all the tears.

Her teachers and principals presenting their leis and certificates.

Leis are then given from family and friends.

Pictures with the principal

Her fun and wonderful teacher

The fun starts when all the kids give each other leis of candy, flowers and any other goodies that can be worn around your neck!

The graduation was over  at 10:00 and I still had my kids in my class to pass out goodies to!  At noon I said goodbye to my class, cleaned up a bit and quickly headed to the beach for a 6th grade party put on by the parents.  It was a gorgeous day and I may or may not have napped most of the afternoon.

We left around sunset just as a bit of rain was sneaking over the mountains.

We arrived home at around 8 pm after a long, but fun filled day.  My girls were exhausted and went to bed on their own!

After a long and busy week it was nice to be home and just kick back and relax.

So happy to be on summer break for 2 months!!  How was your week?  Go link up!

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