Recipes - Tried It Tuesday and SALE!!

Have you ever gotten free recipe cards in the mail, and not know what to do them?

Well take them to school, and use them to teach sequencing, reading directions, and a whole bowlful of other yummy things!

 

I got these recipe in the mail multiple times years ago, and they always came with an opportunity to purchase a cookbook or monthly cards - you know, kind of like a birchbox for the chef of the family.

 

I decide to take them to school to use them for a literacy center.

 

As you can see in the picture below, the students choose a recipe, write about the steps, and illustrate it.

They love it!

The pictures on the recipe cards just make your mouth water!

I also let them choose one recipe that they want copied to take home.
It often makes me laugh at the ones they choose - some are quite complicated but sure look delicious.

I got a nice surprise this year when one of my families sent me a picture on a Sunday of dad and daughter making the pie from our recipe collection.

She even brought in a piece for me to try on the Monday after.
Just one of the perks of the job!
 

Is that not the cutest picture?  It made my day.

Be sure to stop by Holly's blog to get some other great ideas from her Tried It Tuesday linky.

 

And check out my Teachers Pay Teachers store this Thursday and Friday for the big sale!

This is my newest product!

 

 

 

 

I'm Having A Sale, and Tried It Tuesday

Yes, my tiny store of items on TpT on are on sale today and tomorrow!  Hope you'll check it out!

Clip Art from Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs

I am also joining Holly at Fourth Grade Flippers for her Tried It Tuesday linky.

 

Since February I have been using a responsibility board to encourage proper behavior.  In the winter I had a snowflake with each students' name on the board, and the students had to earn the right to keep their snowflake on the board.  They earned  this through remembering to put supplies away, taking home their lunch box, marking their lunch choice in the morning, having assignment notebooks signed,etc.If they were responsible enough to keep their snowflake on the board until Friday, they earned a Berry Buck (our reward dollars) and some other small reward, like a homework pass.

 

 

Since Spring Break the students have had a flower or butterfly with their name on it posted on the responsiblity board.  I've been looking for new things to use as rewards, and found one last week on Diane's blog at Fifth in the Middle.  She was giving away sheets of tickets for trading desks.  I gave these out on Friday and the tickets have been a big hit!  Those who didn't earn one are now sorry they didn't. You can check out Diane's post and download the tickets here.

 

And make sure you enter Holly's Fourth Grade Flippers giveaway.