State Posters & File Folders

My third graders love to learn about states but they are not quite report ready. They will be doing that next year in 4th grade but I want to give them a taste of all our states so I came up with another way to have them do their reports. Last year we just did posters. This year I added in choices. They had three choices.
1. Make a state poster
2. Do a state report
3. Make a state file folder

I gave them the required information they needed and told them to find 5 more facts of their choice.
Take a guess which one no one picked!

There projects came out good. They were all sharing information with each other and having fun. There of course were the few that struggled to complete the project but they struggle to complete everything.

Here are some pictures of the file folders and one poster. I had a lot of neater posters but forget to take pictures of them.

Jobs Chart

 Here is a picture of my jobs chart next to my behavior chart.

On my jobs chart I put a brief description of what they have to do so they can read it and remember. I put in red at the bottom if it is a one person job or a two person job. I use cloth pins with their names on it. If I have to do their job for them because the forgot I put a -1 for each time I have to do their job.

I have done jobs in many ways; posters, pockets, etc. I like this way the best so far. It takes up less room and tell them how to do their job in case they forget.

FB group for Classroom Crafts

Are you on Facebook? Do you want to see crafts that people make for school? It can be any craft that someone has made for an school employee or student.
Come join in and see all the ideas.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/282254971876388/

Oh the Beginning

Every year I forget how hard the beginning of the year is. I can't wait until things settle down and I can post some more on here. I hope all your years are off to a great start. Mine is a bit rocky so far but hopefully it will smooth out.
I moved classrooms and man was that a task! I will have to added some pictures soon. 

Until then here are my station numbers that I hung from my ceiling, well some of them :)

Fraction Flags

Man did my kiddos struggle to make these fraction flags. They did not come out perfectly that is for sure. The idea was good but the execution not so much. That might have to do with their cutting skills as well. The had to pick a denominator and make a flag with that many pieces. They had the country of fourths, the country of eighths, etc