We definitely worked on fine motor skills today! Lots of sorting, cutting and gluing going on in our class!! I always love discussing Groundhog’s day! I love to see the kiddos predictions after reading a few groundhog books. Their predictions are MOST always a vote for the Spring! These babies are ready to get outside and play!!! With all the storms, and yucky weather we have had lately… we have been doing a lot of indoor recess. Thumbs down! So, here is a little look at our graph we made based off our predictions. I am sure you can guess what prediction won in our class 🙂 
After we made our predictions, the kiddos had to write a sentence about their prediction and write a second sentence about what would happen if this prediction were to happen. 
You can get these writing activities and crafts in my Groundhog’s Day Fun packet. It is 20% off until Friday, Feb. 1st! We also made some delicious and colorful jelly beans today for our phonics lesson. We have been working on the two /e/ sounds that {ea} makes. 
I forgot to get pics of the sort we did prior to making our jelly b{ea}ns. You can click {here} to get those word sort freebies as well as the craftivity! We also enjoyed some jelly beans and bears for the 2 different sounds! 
We are off to watch Mr. Hudgeons play soccer. Yes he is 30 and still believes he is 20! The games are always quite the entertainment!!
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While I’m sitting at OT for little P, I thought I’d share a fine motor activity with y’all! 😬 I’ll be doing preschool with him at home next year (his daycare got torn up by a storm🌪) and fine motor + alphabet are two things we’ll be hitting all year. So, I wanted to incorporate as much of both into one activity as I could. 💪 These lacing cards are going to work his little fingers all while learning the alphabet and letter sounds. 🍎 These (+ several other fine motor mats) are available in my store! // Link below 💜💜 www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Activities-Lacing-Letter-Mats-Fine-Motor-Lacing-Card...
A few years ago I used this Friend-Diagram activity with my students to teach compare and contrast! I always love how they turn out! It’s FREE on the blog and I re-shared it in my Weekly Recap (several weeks ago) on the blog, too! Hope you can use it! Link here 👉 // smittenwithfirstblog.com/weekly-recap-3/
Sticky Tables was a class favorite years ago! It gets kiddos up and moving!! 🤩 It works with multiple subject areas/standards and can also be used for informal assessments! 👍 My last post showed how to use it with skip counting and here I show it used with subitizing/number sense, ABC order, and handwriting practice. See previous post for directions on how to play 💜💜
Re-sharing this skip counting number lines activity from years ago! 👉 Skip counting from any given number is such an important skill for our little ones - not just reciting 2,4,6,8,etc! Here's how we did it! Put sticky notes on the table, each student chooses one sticky note to start off with and then they just fill in the boxes using an expo marker on their desk! You could even use washi tape to create the number lines!