Whoohooo!! It's finally here! Launch day for my new site! I am so excited about the new look - it was long overdue. I've been working with Becca, from Jumping Jax Designs, and I just canNOT say enough amazing things about her. If you're looking for a blog/site makeover, I highly suggest using her. She's the real deal. Ok, so let me just tell ya'... I was a nervous wreck about switching from Blogger to Wordpress. Like way nervous. I … [Read more...]
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Back to School Icebreakers plus a FREEBIE
Who's already prepping for their back to school week?!? One of my very favorite things about the first few weeks of school is getting to know my students,....and my students getting to know one another. I just love it! They are so eager and excited about their new classroom, teacher, and friends! I put together several fun and interactive icebreaker activities, as well as interactive team building activities and games to use during those first … [Read more...]
Teaching non-fiction text and graphic features
I think we would all agree that teaching non-fiction text features in the younger grades can be quite the struggle! It just doesn't hold their attention. #canigetanamen Last year, I did a few activities with my students that helped make this comprehension skill fun and engaging for them. Throughout the summer I have been adding to those previous activities and put them all in my newest Tying Up Comprehension pack. Let's take a … [Read more...]
Prefix freebies and Adverbs!
After wrapping up suffixes last week, this week was all about prefixes. We kept our focus just on prefixes un- and re-. I wanted to pop in real quick and share a few freebies with you all. Most of our activities were the same as the activities we did with suffixes. We started off by playing Match It. Each student got a base word card or a prefix card. They had to walk around the room to find their match. After finding their … [Read more...]
Earth Day, Dream Houses, and Suiting Up for Summer!
I wanted to share a few Earth Day activities with you all....I know I am late in the game, but maybe you can pin them for next year. Over the past few years, we have read The Lorax and created these 5W poems to summarize one of the characters from The Lorax story. The Once-ler (who) cut down truffla trees (did what) a long time ago (when) in the forrest (where) to get rich. (why) I let them choose if … [Read more...]
R controlled Phonics Friends
Long time no chat friends! Life has been one crazy party around here, but I'm back and ready to catch up with you all. As you know, phonics is a huge skill in first grade and most of the time, it is pretty boring for most of our kiddos. Last year I knew I had to jazz things up in my phonics instruction and create something meaningful, engaging, and something that helped the sounds stick with my students. That's when … [Read more...]
Verb Tenses and a Long A Freebie!
I wanted to hop on real quick and share a quick, cute, and simple long a freebie with you all. Last week we worked on long a. On Friday we sorted snowballs by long a and short a. We used all the long a snowballs to create a winter scene. I usually do these every year and always love to see what scenes my students come up with. Here's a few from this year. Some days we just run out of time. Friday was one of those days! Otherwise, … [Read more...]
Bossy E and Long A!
Ok, who else is wiped out after this first week back? I swear I feel like I've been sleep walking the past 3 days! #thestruggleisrealyall This week we started Bossy E and long vowels. Whew. We started our learning off by meeting Bossy E. We talked about how he jumps over the consonant, hits the vowel on the head and says, "HEY, SAY YOUR NAME!" They always think this is hilarious! Next, we made these quick and simple Bossy E hats and … [Read more...]
Sight Word Party!
Hi friends. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and spending lots of time with your families. We just got back from Disney World and I am all sorts of exhausted.... bones that I never knew could hurt - HURT! Do you have a word wall in your room that you put your sight words on? For years my word wall was just a wall...with words....looking all pretty...with cute font....on pretty little laminated cards. We used it to help us … [Read more...]
Grinch Day!
This week has been nothing short of busy. Between school and getting packed for Disney I think I may or may not have had more than the average caffeine intake! Today was one of my favorite Christmas celebration days.... Grinch Day! The Grinch is just loads of fun! He left streamers, green glitter and foot prints all over the room! I used a sponge to make the Grinch's feet by cutting the sponge into the shape of his … [Read more...]
Frying up FRY words!
I don't know about y'all, but I am always trying to brainstorm ways to get my students motivated and excited about increasing their sight word fluency. I have been trying something new this year with my class that I shared over at Blog Hoppin', and I wanted to share with you all here too! My district uses Fry's sight words. Each grade level is given a particular set to assess each student on. Our goal is that each child will … [Read more...]
Shapes!
It's time for some catching up! Last week we reviewed shapes and worked on identifying their attributes. We started off with these posters that I made from last year. Afterwards, we listened to the book The Shape of Things on You Tube. We made each shape on our geo boards and played Guess My Shape. This game is nothing fancy. To play, I told my students "I was thinking of a shape that had ___ sides and ___ vertices". They had to … [Read more...]
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