Surfin' Through Second: timelines

Aloha Friends! I am enjoying my 3 day weekend and loving an extra day to catch up and lounge around. I am having a BBQ with some friends this evening to celebrate my birthday (a little late) and to enjoy our beautiful weather that we have been having!!

I went for a long walk this morning with my hubby and my new phone that I got for my birthday :)

I had intended on getting my very first iPhone. Everyone loves their iPhones. I ended up getting the Galaxy S5!

I love the camera and it has this fun little feature to take a selfie and a picture at the same time! It also has a pedometer that automatically counts my steps wherever I go. I think it's like a FitBit.

It's also water resistant which is great since I plan to walk/jog with it and we are at the beach a lot. It is amazing what phones can do these days. It's like carrying around a mini computer in your pocket.

Which brings me to the topic of this post! Phones? Nope!

Our class started learning about the Past, Present and Future this week. We talked about how things change over time. (Just like our phones)

We started the week with our Birthday Timeline.

We also learned about inflectional endings -ed/ing in our reading series and how a verb can change to show past, or present.

Click on the picture to grab this freebie in Google Docs.

We started our interactive notebooks and had a lesson on what history means.

We will continue with learning about modern times and the future. We are also going to be creating our own timelines. I have shared before how I have students make Personal Timelines.

This is a template from Really Good Stuff that I had used previously.

This year I made a template for my students to use. I am sending home a letter to parents asking them to help their child write about what they could do at each stage of their life. I am also asking them to bring in pictures at each age of their lives (if they have them).

Students will glue in their pictures and write about each year. If they don't have pictures they will just draw themselves. I plan to also have them write the year at the top of each picture. I am going to hang them up in our classroom, but they can also place them right into their notebooks.

These always turn out really cute! I can't wait to share our finished products.

If you are interested in checking out my Timeline Unit it is available in my TpT store.

Thanks so much for popping in. I am off to prepare for my future events.

Enjoy your long weekend!!

I know many of you started back to work this week, but it was my 4th week in and this week we had Open House. I was a bit stressed about it, because I really didn't have much up on my walls and didn't want my parents to come into an empty class.

So we buckled down this week and finished all kind of fun projects.

We finally finished all of our Surf Buddies!!

They came out so cute. I love the way they all have their unique flair.

They all got their reward necklaces. These are what the girls received...

and these are what the boys got.

I am using them for their behavior clip chart, AR, and other assorted recognition.

We did another timeline of what we do in a day.

I love this one

He has a smiley face all through the day...

until he goes home, lol. His mom told me he loves coming to school:)

I personally know this little guy and he has a pretty happy home life in case you were worried;)

I had students write clues about themselves so their families could guess which was their paper.

I told them to just fill up the page with as many clues as they could think of.

Then they drew a little cover to hide who it was.

They were so excited to have their parents find their pictures.

We also finished our plant lifecycles for Science.

We started our Surfer Of The Week, (formerly Star Of The Week) which was little old me:)

I brought in lots of items to share with the students and they oohed and aaahed over my treasures:)

My only Barbie left from my collection

Ribbons from Track and Cross Country in High School

Pictures of my pets and sketches I do for fun.

Then they all wrote me letters telling me what they liked about what I shared and the class.

I love getting these letters every year!! I put them all into a book and place it in our class library. I pick a new Surfer at the end of the week and they are so excited to share and receive all the wonderful letters from their classmates.

Open House was a success and I enjoyed talking with all of the families. I was so happy to receive such sweet compliments about how much their child loved the class and how bright and colorful our room was. They also loved the Surf Theme and the Clip Chart which they have heard so much about at home.

The highlight of Open House however was another timeline of sorts. The parents loved this and thought it was a hoot. Well, the ones who had kids with close guesses anyway:)

The students knew my Birthday was coming up because of my cupcake on the timeline.

So I had them guess how old they thought I would be turning today.

Okay, I'm liking these answers...A+

Still okay:)

Good Guesses

Okay these kids are right on, but more to the left please...

Okay this is pushing it...70, and 71??

Whaaat?? I didn't think I looked that old, hahahaha!!

I love doing this activity, it really gives you an idea of what kids have number sense or at least relate who you are to what they know in their own life. The kids who have close guesses usually tell me they just wrote how old their mom was:)

I love these little guys and we celebrated with a licorice treat:)

Aren't they just the cutest:)

So today I am officially 44 years old!! Yikes, I'm getting up there. What am I doing for my birthday?? If you follow me then I think you probably can guess. I am headed to Waikiki today to surf. Here on the North Shore waves have been non-existant for weeks. So I told the family I wanted to go to Diamond Head, one of my favorite surf spots in town, and the only place with waves right now. My hubby surprised me by getting a hotel room in town so we can stay and play all weekend:)) So I am unplugging for the weekend and going to enjoy the surf and sun.

I hope everyone had a fantastic week, especially those of you who just started back, and that the weekend is wonderful as well:)