Surviving Spring & Welcome to Summer Blog Hop & Freebie!

We are in the final countdown of the school year {19.5 days, not that I'm counting...}

It's also that time of the year when it starts getting crazy. Schedule changes = crazy kids. Crazy kiddos on top of altered schedules = crazy teacher. This past week was full: a home room day, music practice/ spring program, water festival field trip, and an arbor day presentation. By the end of the week I had several students asking when things would go back to normal; I couldn't have agreed with them more! Although we had a fun week, it was exhausting.

Spring fever has most definitely hit my classroom. After talking to several of my BBBs, it seems to be a rampant fever that has spread across the country. We've come together to share a few survival tips, freebies, and giveaways (TPT Gift Certificates or a Classroom Friendly Pencil Sharpener) along the way to help us all survive until the end of the school year!

Now, I know that food isn't always allowed in schools as a reward. We don't have those restrictions yet... so I'm going to hold an ice cream day for one of my classes. This group was a struggling group at the beginning of the year and have come so far. I want to be able to reward this group while throwing in some review too. {If your school doesn't allow food, maybe your students would still enjoy some summery treat fun in activities you use.}

I created a pack of math and ELA centers with an ice cream theme. If you use an ABC countdown to the end of the school year, this pack could be utilized on an "I is for ice cream day" too. Activities include: Scoops of Synonyms, Dishin' Up Decimals, Equivalent Fraction Sundaes, Parts of Speech Push-Ups, Sentence Shake Up, and Colorful Cones Place Value Scoot.

You can check out the full pack by clicking here or on the pictures below.

The freebie I'm sharing with you comes from this pack. It's a decimal game that can be played with partners or small groups to work with decimals. Students are asked to round or distinguish between odd or even numbers in a certain place value. I hope that you can use this game in your math centers this spring!

After entering my code below in the Rafflecopter, be sure to visit Michele to continue the blog hop!

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Also, be sure to catch more motivating ideas and link up your own at Joanne's Student Motivation Saturdays linky! Just a few more weeks friends and sweet summer time will be here... we can make it!

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Fabulous Day!

Update. I don't know why I said it was Friday in the title. I know it's Thursday, but jeans days always feel like Fridays. (Whoops!)

Today was a great day!

• State Reading Assessments are O-to the V- to the E-R, OVER! (My kiddos pleasantly surprised me as well, so that's a double bonus!)

•  A student who took on a challenge of a book of much greater length, and slightly above her reading range, finally finished her book. No reviewing. Rocked her AR test with confidence and got every question correct (and the 5 points the book was worth too). Such a great moment, seeing a kid realize that they can do it!

• Enjoying the 65* temperatures! Took my small skills group outside for our intervention time to soak up the sun.

• I know we just got off of spring break... but I'm super excited for the 3 day weekend that starts tomorrow. Maybe it's the actual spring weather that was lacking most of last week, but I am super pumped!

• Finally, I have my new spring centers all ready to go! {You could win them too!}

  

Over the last couple of weeks I've enjoyed trying to "Pin it to Win it" so I thought I'd try here too. Just pin one of the pictures here (or from TN or TPT) and copy your pin URL on a comment along with your email address. Tomorrow evening I will use the number generator to pick a winner.

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