Candy Land Magic

It was the week before testing and what better way to review than... a Candy Land transformed classroom.  Oh my lollipop!  The students definitely had visions of sugar plums, but also worked with standards like vocabulary context clues, making inferences, creative writing, reading fluency, multiplication, and more!

One of the students' favorite Candy Land reading activities was a fluency exercise.  With a fluency partner, students were given different nonfiction cards.  The students read the cards three times with their partners focusing on accuracy, rate, and expression.  When they were done with fluency readings, the students had to answer a question from the text.  Then, the partners traded cards for a new piece of text.

In math, the students also had several activities in the theme.  Students played Candy Land with a multiplication twist.  Each color on the game board represented a count by, for instance, a blue card meant count by 3's.  Before students could move their gingerbread man they had to skip count by that number.  Students got a lot of practice and they thought they were playing a game!  We also had candy themed word problems.  

Check out SeeSaw for some more of our Candy Land posts! Also, on Wednesday, your child will bring home a folder with more of their Candy Land work.  The students really got into the creative writing.  They were begging for more time to write!  We wrote a descriptive piece about their favorite sweet treat.  They also made up stories about Gingerbread Men and being lost in Candy Land.  You'll have to check out their imaginative ideas!