Scientist for a Day Unit and a Linky!

As I was searching through my blog friends, I ran across this linky by Fern Smith!  If you haven't seen her blog, it has a ton of teacher blogs almost 400 to be exact.  What a great way to find new blogs and new end of the year ideas.

Fern Smith Blog

And speaking of end of the year ideas.  I just finished putting a unit together.  It's called Scientist for a Day!  I have done this in the past with my second graders and will do it again this year with my firsties.  I usually do it for the last week of school, but this year I decided to begin the first week of May.  Every child will choose an experiment from the packet.  They will have to complete the experiment once at home and then perform the experiment in front of his/her peers in class.  Answering any questions that may arise.  In the years past, the kids have really enjoyed doing this!  You can head over to my TpT store and grab you a copy or be the first 5 to comment and it's yours free!

Oh yeah here are some amazing websites that I shared with my parents and thought I would share with you all too.  

Context Clues:  http://www.toonuniversity.com/flash.asp?err=191

Sequence:  http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/storyscramble/scramble.html

Subject/Predicate:  http://www.schooltube.com/search/?term=Mr.+Morton

Contractions:  http://www.schooltube.com/search/?term=contractions+song

Contractions: http://www.brainpopjr.com/readingandwriting/word/contractions/preview.weml

Spelling:  http://www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html

Happy Blogging Everyone!!