I wanted to share a quick math freebie with you all that I shared over at Blog Hoppin'. All you need is dice and construction paper! Let your students know that some very hungry turkeys are coming to your room today and they are going to gobble up numbers!!! Give each student two dice and have them roll the dice to generate a number to build. The two dice will be their number for the tens place and ones … [Read more...]
Catching up and beginning blends!
Y'all! October came and went. For real. Between fall parent conferences and life itself....blogging just didn't happen. So, I am going to do some MAJOR catching up today! There's a lot, so let's get started. In math, we learned about time to the hour and made these fun little sunflowers to display analog, digital, and word form. In writing, we learned about complete and incomplete sentences and created these free … [Read more...]
Bat Research FREEBIE
Bat Research FREEBIE Last week, we covered our research TEK, by researching bats. Between wearing costumes to school and having our Bat Museum, I failed at snapping pictures of us completing our research. #bummerinthesummer While completing our research, students recorded their learning in these bat foldables. We worked on gathering information for these foldables all throughout the week. We used non-fiction books as well as Epic to complete … [Read more...]
Apple and Pumpkin Freebie!!
Hey y'all! I wanted to stop in real quick and share an apple freebie that I made several years ago in case you missed it. You can read more about how we used this apple craft (2 years ago) to describe apples and sequencing applesauce here. We have also used this apple craft when learning about pumpkins. We wrote adjectives to describe pumpkins using this writing paper. I printed the face on orange paper … [Read more...]
Building Numbers FREEBIES!!!
Last week in math we worked on building numbers to 20. I have several freebies that I wanted to share with you all. I'll link them all at the very end of the post :) We spent the whole week as construction workers while we "built" our number sense. I found construction hats for 99 cents at Hobby Lobby as well as the construction cones. I'm tellin' ya....throw in some real hats and accessories....and your kids attention … [Read more...]
Interactive Character Traits
In reading last week we identified character traits. I absolutely LOVE teaching character traits...especially when we have activities that get us moving! We started our week off watching this Brain Pop Jr video. After watching the video we generated a list of words that describe different characters in books we have read throughout the year. Afterwards, I had my students tell me words that described the outside of me and the inside of me for … [Read more...]
Scaredy Cat A
Last week we learned about the short a sound with our very first Phonics Friend, Scaredy Cat A. I told the class that we had a new friend coming to hang out with us for the week. They were immediately so excited. After showing them our new friend, I told them that Scaredy Cat A was here to teach us all about the short a sound. I told them that Scaredy Cat A says "aaaaaa" (as in the short a sound) because she is scared when she … [Read more...]
What’s the Scoop? (Main Idea and details)
This week in reading we are learning about identifying main idea and details. Main idea and details can be one of those concepts that is tough for little learners annnnd not so exciting to teach. To get my students excited, I packed our reading time with lots of hands on and interactive learning. We started off watching this Brain Pop Jr video about Main Idea. Next, I gave each of my table groups different picture cards … [Read more...]
Handwriting Sort FREEBIE
We hit the ground running with handwriting expectations at the beginning of the school year. After spending the first few weeks reviewing our letters and how they are formed, we then move on to discuss the expectations for our handwriting.We started off creating an anchor chart together. I told my students that we were going to make a chart with the same word...written 3 different ways. I also let them know that every letter in the word has to … [Read more...]
Back to School Read Alouds (Part 2)
Who's excited about their 3 day weekend!??!?! Me too! There's just nothing better than a 3 day weekend after the back to school hustle! Last week I shared several of our first week read alouds. If you missed it, you can read about those here. Today, I want to share a few more of my favorite back to school read alouds with you all. First up, Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun by Maria Dismondy. It is such an amazing book … [Read more...]
Graphing on the MOVE!
This week we wrapped up our graphing unit. If you missed our bowling graphing activity from last week, you can read about it here. Our math time falls right after lunch, so getting my students up and moving is a must! This week we became detectives, grocery shoppers, and we even went fishing. Monday, we started off using our magnifying glasses to find all the missing crayons. You can find magnifying glasses here. I placed these … [Read more...]
Back to School Read Alouds (Part 1)
Last week we hit the ground running with back to school read alouds. I am a huge believer in making time to read aloud books to our students. It is such a special moment for them. Seeing the excitement and expressions on their face is one of my very favorite times of our day. Just think...the read aloud that you provide to your students might just be the only book they have read to them all day. We started off listening to You're Finally Here … [Read more...]
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