Out of This World Activities!

Happy Monday all!  Hope you've had a FAB weekend!  Hopefully you are enjoying today off or this week off like we are...I promise that's the only time you'll hear about it this week...hehe :)  We've been busy making a ton of fun stuff, of course, with a few freebies!  These are some of the activities we'll be working on when we head back next week.

We have a ton of district wide testing continuing when we head back, so the kiddos are gonna need some fun to supplement!  We'll be making these fact family rocket ships.

We'll also be using this alien craft to do some descriptive writing while also drawing a diagram of our aliens.

This packet is 94 pages long! And is only $1 on TpT.

This activity pack includes:  

Addition Flashcards: pgs. 4-18
Subtraction Flashcards: pgs. 19-28
Alien Addition: pg. 29
Time to Blast Off!: pgs. 30-31
Space Race to 100: pg. 32
Moon Money: pgs. 33-34
Saturn Sums: pg. 35
Earth Even or Odd?: pg. 36
Galaxy Geometry: pg. 37
Fact Family Rocket Ship Craftivity and Directions: pgs. 38-41
Alien craftivity and writing: pgs. 42-48
How to get to space flow map and writing: pgs. 49 - 50
Alien at school multi flow map: pg. 51
Aliens and humans compare/contrast double bubble map: pg. 52
Exploring space multi flow map: pg. 53
Friendly letter to an alien: pgs. 54-55
Rocket Ship Bubble Map: pg. 56
Astronaut Thinking Maps: pg. 57 - 61
Alien Thinking Maps: pgs. 62-66
Out of this World words! - a vocab map: pg. 67
I have, who has?: A spacey contraction Conundrum: PGS. 68-74
The Great Space Race - A Dolch Sight Word Game: Pgs. 75-92
Great Picture Books to Use With This Unit: Pg. 93
THANK YOU AND CREDITS: PG. 94

And we, of course, have some cute freebies for you!  Click the pics below to download them from Google Docs.

We will also be giving the first FIVE friends who leave a comment with their email address a copy of the whole packet for {FREE}!  On a side note, we had the chance to meet up with some other FAB Michigan bloggy buddies yesterday and had soooo much fun!

Here's who was there!

Christina from Mrs. Bainbridge's Class

Amy from The Resource(ful) Room

Holly from Crisscross Applesauce in First Grade

Rachel from Ms. Rachel's Room

Kara from Spedventures

Jessica from Apples and Papers

Andrea from Stepping into First Grade

We had such a nice time meeting everyone!  We spent three hours just laughing, talking YA books, horror stories, and Target finds.  We can't wait to do it again!  Have a FABULOUS start to your week friends!!!

Babbling Abby, Penguins, and Tom Brady...OH MY!

Ok, so this post doesn't have a whole lot to do with teaching, but man have I had a fun weekend!  My husband surprised me with a weekend away...to meet THE Babbling Abby and the fantastic Michelle from Fabulous in First!  I know, AHHHHH!!! :)  I have had a crazy amount of stuff going on lately and really wanted to go to their Ohio Meet Up, but didn't think I was going to be able to.  So, I can't even begin to tell you how excited I was when he said "Pack a bag Lisa!" (of course, I packed four...hehe :)  We drove down to Cincinnati on Friday evening (about a four and half hour drive from South Lyon, MI).  We met at The Cheesecake Factory the next day and there were close to fifty amazing teachers and bloggers there!  It was so awesome to meet the faces behind the blogs I read on a daily basis and everyone was soooo sweet!!! :)  I can't wait to see more of the photos that were taken.

Abby from The Inspired Apple

                                                        Michelle from Fabulous in First


It was awesome to meet so many fab bloggers! But, I have to tell you what happened next.  I GOT TO PET A PENGUIN!  I {puffy heart} penguins, so we headed to the Newport Aquarium for an adventure I won't forget.  The black footed penguins were beyond cute :)  I wish I could tell you I had pics, but I forgot my camera at the hotel :( 

Well, that's it for this evening folks!  Enjoy the Superbowl and GO TOM BRADY...I mean Patriots!!!  See you tomorrow for some more FAB freebies!!! :)