Five for Friday!

So it's Friday, and I'm back again this week with more Five for Friday! I'm linking up again with Doodle Bugs Teaching for another fabulous Friday!

So I am a shop all year, not last minute, Christmas gift shopper.  And my husband has been looking for a particular clock for our recently finished (I'm talking cement walls and floor to drywall and carpet a la husband) basement. All of the clocks that he has found that he really has liked have been running about $150...outrageous!  So earlier this week, I spent a little time on amazon and found an amazing clock present at an amazing price (60% less than all the other clocks we've found!!) plus free shipping. So of course I had to buy it. Well it arrived a day before it was scheduled to arrive, bonus! And I couldn't keep the secret.  Usually I have no problem holding onto gifts until their intended gifting date.  But this one was just too much to hold onto for three months.  So I early gifted the MR. last night!

Teaching Kinder last year, we made an alphabet interactive notebook and both the kids and I loved putting them together and referencing back to them when possible.  But my love for interactive notebooks grew immensely this year when I was switched to fourth grade and came across the WONDERFUL interactive notebooks that Christina Bainbridge from Bunting, Books, and Bright Ideas has in her store...I LOVE THEM! And, to make them even better, my kids love them just as much, if not more, than I do! We are using her grammar, reading, and writing interactive notebooks. Love them!

We've been really focusing on rounding in math. It's been a little bit of a struggle for my kids to remember how to know whether to round up or round down.  And then I came across a wonderful anchor chart on Pinterest (here).  I left a little bit of what I felt was extra and would have made my chart seem cluttered off and the kids loved it!  It was a great tool for the kids and they loved the idea of a roller coaster since most of them have been to Michigan Adventure!

After we had a better grasp on rounding skills, we busted out my newest classroom quest...Is It Round? Of course, I forgot to get pictures of it in action...what can I say, it was Thursday afternoon and we were all a bit tired!  But the kids loved that they got to go around the room and hunt out the questions instead of just sitting at their desk and answering a sheet of rounding questions.  They also really liked the bonus at the bottom! It definitely sold me on making more Quests for my fourth graders.  I already have some Quests in my store with a few lower level topics. Which leads me to...

So yesterday I blogged about an upcoming giveaway...and here it is! I am giving away one of my Classroom Quests...winner's choice, of course! Check out my store and definitely check out this giveaway!

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Happy Friday and good luck! The giveaway runs through the weekend with the winner named Monday!