Review week(s) and Laura Numeroff

My firsties have finished a Theme!  Theme 4 to be exact.  We use Harcourt Trophies - I have a love/hate relationship with it right now.  An I am sooooooo excited, because now we get to have REVIEW WEEK!

I like really like love LOVE review week.  We get to go over ALL of the spelling words from the whole last theme, 8 weeks.  This is always so interesting to me because my kids almost always get ALL 100%s on their weekly 10 word tests.  But then, sneaky Mr. Review week comes along, and we have the kids practice with ALL of the words they already previously had, and they get closer to a 60% average.  What, the?????  But that's not what I love, in fact, I totally HATE that they don't do so good on the test.  I love review week because.....

REVIEW WEEK = AUTHOR STUDY = all kinds of fun stuff I never get to do because I don't have time

This week, we are going to use a Laura Numeroff Circle Story Unit from Made for First Grade.  See that here:
Laura Numeroff Circle Story Unit

So cute!  It has many fun centers (math & Language Arts) and writing activities.

I will get to pull my little firsties to work in a small group with me, which I hardly ever get to do, while the rest of 'em are working on these fun activities.

We have a short student week because of Parent-Teacher conferences (groan) on Friday and Monday.  And just in time, I have mostly lost my voice.  Perfect time to have to talk for hours and hours straight, right?

Oh, by the way, did you know I am totally WHOLE BRAIN GUNG-HO these days?  Separate blog.....  Check that out here:
My Whole Brain Teaching Blog