Today we made these bugs to inspire some fun writing that we are going to do tomorrow. They are already in love with their bug and I told them that they had to come up with their bug’s name tonight. This is what we are going to do tomorrow. It is a way to help them connect the difference between fiction and non- fiction. We wrote insect facts and now we get to write insect fiction! We will chart our ideas for each area and they will be strongly encouraged to go crazy with the fiction thinking. So we might say my bug is cranky or a pop star. I am looking forward to getting them to giggle with their funny ideas. Click the picture for your own copy.
Also I have to give a shout out to Keep Calm and Teach On for these brain break sticks! Click her blog name to get yourself a free download.
…and finally…as you know I am dealing with having breakfast in the classroom much to my dismay. I have to say the class is 93 percent wonderful about it at this point. But I still have stragglers that come in hungry and need to be fed…guess what today was? YUP…check out the picture.
Bulletin Boards for Winter!
Making Writing Portfolios
Writing Mini-Lessons for the Year
Totally Bugged.
Teresa says
September 14, 2011 at 1:21 pmLove the critters. The worksheet doesn't seem to want to download. Can you fix? Thanks a bunch.
Reagan Tunstall says
September 14, 2011 at 5:36 pmok I never linked it up!!! I fixed it. Thanks for letting me know.
Miss Homola says
September 14, 2011 at 9:46 pmWe do breakfast in our rooms too! We used to do cereal, but not anymore. However, when we did cereal we didn't let the kids pour the milk into the cereal. That way it created less of a mess in the garbage can. Just something to think about…
Reagan Tunstall says
September 14, 2011 at 10:33 pmI know cereal is only one day every two weeks, but still! 🙂 We have a special trash in the hall for it. But getting them to that trash can is the scary part!!! Thanks for the idea!
mtompkins says
September 15, 2011 at 4:16 amGreat ideas!! Thanks for sharing! I'm glad we don't have breakfast in our rooms…for now. 🙂
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Tanya says
September 24, 2011 at 8:28 pmOk, we just started breakfast in the classroom this year. I can't stand it! It's a massive mess, and the breakfast itself is not very healthy. Yesterday the breakfast was chocolate, chocolate chip muffins and juice. Ewww. The muffins were huge, and were all over the floor.
☺ Tanya
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Mary Pitner says
September 28, 2011 at 12:31 amI love the bug idea!
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The Johnson's says
October 15, 2011 at 5:31 pmSuch a fun idea! I love the download, thank you so much. Can I possibly get your help with something? I have tried to upload a document picture, like your bug worksheet, to my personal blog and have it linked to google docs, but I cannot figure out how to do it! I thought maybe I'd ask an expert like yourself If you have a minute, could you please reply to this comment and tell me how to do it? I'd be so grateful. Thank you!
Michelle Harbold says
April 27, 2018 at 5:33 amAre you able to fix the link for the bug worksheet? I wasn’t able to open it. 🙂