Freebie!!!! February Journal BINGO

Click on the picture below to find February's Journal BINGO. Sorry I'm a few days late..Hope your students are enjoying them!

November and December Journal BINGO

Since November and December seem to be shorter school months I combined them into one BINGO board. Yay for Thanksgiving Break (we get a week!) and Winter Break (2 weeks!) I don't know about everyone else but I'm looking forward to some breaks to rest, relax, and refresh;) Click HERE to download!

Freebie: October Journal BINGO

TADA! Here is October Journal BINGO. Hope your kids are loving them as much as ours;) If you download leave a note or rating. We appreciate it! Click HERE to download.

You can check out the September Journal BINGO too by clicking on the picture below.

BINGO!

A literacy center we both use in our classrooms is journaling. We were finding that students were drawing and writing the same stories over and over again. To solve this problem Journal BINGO was created.

There is one for each month and students glue it to the front of their journal .Students can either do 5 across, diagonal, down or you can have them fill the board. Each time they "won" and we checked to make sure they wrote enough to fulfill the assignment they would get something out of the treasure chest and then they could continue playing on the same board.

 Each month students would get a new board and they absolutely LOVED it and we got some really great writing out of our students. To download your own copy click on the picture below.

Cutting Up :-)

In the past year we have both introduced the Math Journal into our Guided Math program.  This has been a great and innovative way for students to communicate their math knowledge.  However, we both found the same thing; the students were only using a small part of the page, and we felt most of the journal was going to waste.  So we decided we wanted to find a way to cut the journals in half! 

We made a few phone calls, and got a lot of laughs on the other end.  Most of the big hardware stores told us no over the phone.  We called a printing store and they would do it, but charge $1.50 a cut.  Feeling discouraged, we went to the stores in person, composition notebooks in hand.  Our logic was that it would be much harder to turn down a teacher in person.  (I mean it is all in the name of education right!?!?)  We were finally successful at one of the big hardware chain stores.

Ta-Da!  One notebook becomes two!

Each child now has a manageable sized notebook.

Our cart full!  We could not thank them enough!

While we were there we stopped by the paint department.  The employees were kind enough to donate each of us a class set of paint stirrers.  We use these as individual shelf markers for the students in our classroom libraries. The kids decorate them with markers and love using them, and our books stay organized!

All-in-all a successful trip!