scento-sational Point of View Writing

I love teaching point of view! This is such a fun topic! There are sooo many amazing storybooks to use when teaching this concept. So for first person point of view I love using interactive storybooks! The two that I used this year are 

And 

These books are amazing! My kids love them and they adore the character, Larry! 

For Don't Push the Button, my kids were asked to identify the point of view it was in as well as make a Larry out of purple paper! They also made a red button snack out of graham crackers, vanilla frosting and a red gummy lifesaver!

For Don't Touch This Book, we discussed point of view again and also discussed first person point of view writing!!!

The kids then did a directed drawing activity of Larry and used Scentos markers to make them into pop art Larrys!!! The smell of these markers are amazing and the kids were so excited to be able to use these markers!!! Then they wrote a story in first person or from Larrys point of view and got to trace their writing with Scentos gel pens!! You would have thought they won the lottery!! Using Scentos made them take their time and take pride in their work because these are special writing tools!!! 

So if you are looking for some tools that will make your kiddos want to write then Scentos is your tool! The great news is that Scentos are now found at Michaels!!!!!! A combination of amazing storybooks and Scentos will make any lesson amazing and one to remember!!! 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 

My Daily Tweet and A Class Dojo Monday Made It!

I am linking up with 4th Grade Frolics for her Monday Made It!  I am so excited about the two items I made today! 

So here is my

Here is my First one! 

My first project I made was my Daily Tweet board! I just love my board! I wanted to make an end of the day writing activity and I wanted to add a little social media in my first grade classroom. So I thought my first graders can tweet about their day.

Here is my Daily Tweet Board!!!

I bought an oil drip pan at Walmart and painted it with yellow Fusion Spray paint.

I bought a wooden bird and a tweet bubble from @michaelstores. I painted the bird blue to match the twitter icon and then I used a chalkboard marker to write Our Daily Tweets #agreatday.

Then I hot glued these to the yellow painted oil pan. I then hot glued mustache ribbon to the back to hang it up. I got the mustache ribbon @michaelsstores

I found the blue bird magnets at the Dollar Tree. they come in packs of three. These are for the kids to write their tweet about their day with a dry erase marker and then add #agreatday!

My next project was my Class Dojo Goal Board!

I took a cookie sheet from the Dollar Tree and I covered it with Monster Duct Tape. I found the Monster Duct Tape at Staples.

Then I printed off my Dojo Board pieces, laminated them and hot glued them to the board. I also hot glued mustache ribbon to the back of sheet to hang it up.

Here is my Dojo store with the board pieces to make your own Class Dojo board!

Click below to see what some other talented educators made for this Monday Made It!