Soaring with Eagles and soon...Leprechauns!

Hello Everyone!
My apologies for not posting for a bit, but spring break is here and I have absolutely been chillin'!  It has been a crazy rainy week and with the hubs working, I have been just been catching up on some reading, cleaning, movies, cleaning, cooking, oh, and more cleaning. Don't feel sorry for me!!! We do have plans to get away this weekend!  So I thought I'd go ahead and share tonight! 
Before break we had our annual Open House!  I posted last time about what our theme was going to be...Bald Eagles!  I can not tell you how much we learned about our National bird!  The kids did a great job of showing off all their knowledge and application to their families!  Here are a couple of pics of finished products.

Life cycle!

If I had eagle wings...

First graders cut out hundreds of their handprints to create this "Handsome" bird!

How does your arm span compare to an eagle's wingspan?

We kept a log of our observations from a live eagle cam!
Throughout the cross curricular unit, the kids kept telling each other things they had learned about eagles, and I couldn't help sharing with them that I was learning right along with them, and loving it!! The kids seemed surprised by that, but I told them that the world is so full of things to learn, and when you are learning, you are growing, and keeping your mind young!! :) They responded with "You must have a really young mind!"
Hahahaha!!! :)  I hope they keep their minds young too!!!

For our Printable Eagle Unit, CLICK HERE!!

If you already have it, please download again, because I have added more fun!  It is 100 pages of math, reading, writing, creating, researching, and more!!!

And now another quick share!  We aren't often in school on St. Patrick's Day because of spring break, but this year we are! I think I've shared this quick little unit before, but I, again, have added more to it, and can't wait to have fun with the kids on Thursday! This unit focuses on the leprechauns and rainbows included in the legends of this fun day.

For this fun unit, CLICK HERE!! :)

The unit is 32 pages of math, writing, creating, etc!

Well, that's it for tonight!  So looking forward to the weekend!!! And looking forward to keeping my mind young next week!! 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Joyfully!

Nancy

Soaring With Eagles and Hopping into Leap Day!

Hello Everyone!
Is it really only Wednesday???  This teacher is already pooped!! We are gearing up for our annual Open House!  It is a ton of work to get ready for the kids to "show off" but it is so worth watching them shine!  We always like to have a little theme going on.  This year we are focusing on our national bird, the bald eagle.  We will cover our ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies objectives with this one bird!  I put together a little unit to help coordinate all the activities. Here are a few pics from the 90+ page unit!  We got started on some things this week!!

For your own free printable unit, CLICK HERE!!

We will start next week with a very quick little Leap Day fun!! Kids will practice graphing, skip counting and more!!

We'll be graphing those little plastic jumping frogs.

If you need a quick print and go leap day unit, CLICK HERE!!

I have so much more to share from the past couple of weeks, but I am runnin' on empty! Anyone else in that same boat???? Spring break is in sight, but... so much to do before then! Hope this post helps to make your days a little easier!  Thanks for stopping by and taking a little peek into our world.  I promise I'll share more very soon!

Joyfully!

Nancy