Five For Friday

Aloha! Who's happy it's Friday?

It's been a pretty good week, but who can't be happy about Friday!!!

I haven't linked up in awhile with Kasey from Doodle Bugs Teaching and thought it would be fun to share a few pics from my week.

We started off the week with a fun writing activity using M&M's and Skittles.  

I gave each student 5 M&M's and 5 Skittles. They tasted each and

had to decide which was their favorite.  Of course they loved it!

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We also started our Magnet unit this week.  

We experimented with different items

and then sorted them into Magnetic and Non-Magnetic 

pockets in our science journals.

Magnet Unit

In social studies we are working on Economics.  

We learned about Natural, Capital and Human resources.  

This activity was great for students to see how 

producers use all of these resources to make and sell their products.

Economics Unit

This week I also went to a 2 day training on the other side of the island.

This is a view from the Pali Highway.  So beautiful! 

Kaneohe is where our training was, which is about an hour from where I live.  

It's always nice to get to other parts of the island.

I spent Thursday and Friday in a Thinking Maps training geared for K-2.

I gained lots of ideas and will be taking them back to my team to share out.

There are so many ways to use them in all areas.  

I look forward to implementing some new ideas right away.

 My youngest daughter is in 6th grade.  This is her last year with me at my school before she heads up to the middle school.  We pulled over on our way home one day to watch some whales spouting.  We actually couldn't see them once we got on the beach because the waves were pretty big.  We still had some fun taking selfies and snapping some pics of the waves.

I am really going to hate driving alone to school next year.  

Who will listen to me ramble on about waves, surfers, whales and tourist traffic?!

I hope you had a fantastic week as well. Head on over to Kasey's blog to check

out some of her cute February activities.