Turkeys and limes

 Yesterday my students made fact family turkeys.  They were each given a domino and they had to use the two numbers as factors, then multiply and divide the fact family.

A turkey leg got severed and my desk was the turkey hospital.  I made a cast and then everyone wanted one.

(The cast clearly didn't do much for the math.  Please believe me when I say I am trying.)

They also wrote things they were grateful for on leaves.  I stapled them to a bulletin board.  No surface is safe.

I particularly liked these:

I am imagining there are multiple ways to spell it....

On another topic, do you remember in Little Women when Amy desperately wants to take limes to school, because they're all the rage?

Well, let me tell you, Mini Brands are the most exciting thing in the young lives of my students.  Yesterday was 27 school days until Christmas break so we started our advent calendar.  They were beyond thrilled with the little door and the fact that they are all going to get a turn eventually.  

I get a little excited about the door too.  It's cute!

They asked many clarifying questions like, "What if I'm absent, but my picture is behind the door.  What happens then?"

I told them that I'd choose someone else and we'd do theirs another day.  

They asked over and over, "So we all get one?!?"

Yes.

My little English learner exclaimed, "I LOVE you Teacher!"

I said, "I love you too, now sit down.